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I guess Haiti would qualify as a real 'fix-it-up' opportunity?

Or maybe not...

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On Mon, 2/1/16, Knapp <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Understanding World Domination.
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
 Date: Monday, February 1, 2016, 8:51 AM

 On Mon,
 Feb 1, 2016 at 4:30 PM, Bruce  Johnson <xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu>
 wrote:

 > On Feb 1, 2016, at 6:30 AM, Knapp <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
 wrote:

 >

 > . Why not just buy a country from its people? I mean go
 in and say to everyone in Cuba, we will give each person
 20,000$ USD and the top people even more, if they agree to
 become a state of the United states. Why do the war
 thing?

 The Spanish American war thing was somewhat anomalous.

 Most empires simply took the countries they annexed without
 paying for it. See, for example, Belgium’s colonization of
 the Congo, or pretty much every European power everywhere
 they went; or what the US did when it embarked on the great
 socialist experiment known as ‘opening the west’, which
 some of our dumber would-be revolutionaries are whinging
 about now in Oregon.

 The US Government embarked on a military campaign to remove
 the existing landowners, then gave the land away to US
 citizens. Who are now bitching that they’re not being
 given MORE land, for free.

 --

 Bruce Johnson

 Yes, the just took it. But why not
 just buy it from the people? Why use mill power when you
 could use economic and free choice power? The power of a
 rich land to buy a poor one with the promise of fixing them
 up and giving them cash in the meantime?
 --
 Douglas E Knapp, MSAOM,
 LAc.

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