On 04/29/2010 05:51 PM, Earl Croasmun -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 RS>>> Ask any Native American about illegal immigrants.

 ~>> They didn't have any immigration laws in effect. In fact, they weren't a
 EC> single
 ~>> nation. They were several small nations that fought viciously among
 EC> themselves.

 EC> Of course they had laws, just as they had systems of governance. They
 EC> didn't have WRITTEN laws prior to 1808 when the Cherokee were the first
 EC> tribe to set up written laws, but they had tribal laws nonetheless. I
 EC> doubt that the presence or absence of any such laws would have made any
 EC> difference to those who pushed them westward.

I didn't say they didn't have ANY laws, I said they had no immigration
laws. Immigration was a foreign concept to them as, until Europeans started
showing up, they had no idea there were any other peoples on earth. Nothing
I said above is in error.

Now, I'm not excusing in any way the treatment they received from those
European immigrants. In fact, I think that treatment was abhorrent. I think
the worst was how they were rounded up and put on reservations.

I was making a point to RS that his silly comment has no base in reality.
The Europeans were not illegal aliens because there was no law against
Europeans or anyone else immigrating to North America.

Ed

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