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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1262161, member: 66&quot;]The fact is that the Americans took over large areas of North America, slaughtered men, women and children, disrupted families and stole the natives&#039; treasures. They took the gold and silver artifacts, melted them down and created bullion and coinage from the loot. There are no orphans alive today resulting from these actions but 200+ years ago there were plenty.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you don&#039;t consider that North american bullion and coinage to be &quot;blood money&quot; then you don&#039;t understand the definition. The recovery of this treasure and subsequent profiteering in its sale is giving acceptance to the way it was collected in the first place. Ideally, it should be returned to the survivors of the civilizations from which it was taken.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Different country, still fits.&nbsp; And with slight modification could probably be made to fit any location and era.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Nice to know someone besides me believes the South had the legal right to secede.&nbsp; But the Norths war on the South may also have been legal.&nbsp; Remember they did fire on a Union Fort first.&nbsp; I often wonder what would have happened if the South had not provoked the initial fighting?&nbsp; Would the Union have started the war?&nbsp; What if they tried but the south didn&#039;t take the bait and called for peace negotiations instead?&nbsp; The south started seceding in 1860, but it wasn&#039;t until April 1861 that the South to start the shooting.&nbsp; If they had waited long enough there might not have been a Civil War at all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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