Re: the flag of america

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Matnoodle wrote:

<<God would HATE america for all it's done, for it's hypocritical use of christianity as a pretext to opress the natives!!!! And your use of christianity to justify your part in the enslavement of africa! Do you think God loves a country that did THAT!!!!???? >

Apart from the numerous other idiocies in your recent e-mails, this passage alone displays your remarkable ignorance of your own country's history.  Oppressing the natives?  At one time Britain had by far the largest empire in the world, and ruled millions of Asians and Africans.  American slavery began under the British flag, and the British Empire abolished slavery only thirty years before the United States did.  American slavery was disgraceful, but you are hardly innocent of the same crime.  Perhaps you should expend a little less energy in foaming at the mouth and a little more in actually reading and learning about the subjects on which you write undeterred by your complete lack of knowledge.

I speak as one who admires Britain and most of its history, and is deeply grateful for its support in the present crisis.  But there are juvenile imbeciles in every country, yours and ours.  

     Keith Allen