British Reparations

[Black Beauty]

A gentleman in Philadelphia has started an organization seeking reparations from the British Government as compensation for damages arising from its wrongful actions worldwide; dating back from the founding of the British monarchy in 871.

How much, you ask? £ 32 trillion.

Of course, the entire gross domestic product of the UK is only £ 2 trillion. So he's willing to take payments over 50 or 75 years.

website is here: http://www.britishreparations.org/

I'll take my share in $100 bills, please !

[TheRedBaron]

I'm not really up on british politics, but I'm assuming the government there already gives both financial, edible, and physical aid to countries all over the place (like the us). The things people will do for money. I don't see any parallel between this and the slavery reparations talked about on this side of the pond.

[Black Beauty]

Don't make the mistake of taking this too seriously.

[unkleG'sif]

could i just take a second to point out that without the birtish monarchy and the empire etc.. there would be no philedelphia in which this guy to live in the first place

ditto, dont take me to seriously either
G

[djtaylor]

it also seems a bit unfair to be asking the United Kingdom to pay for issues related to British policy!

David.

[SaabJim]

Oh no, another tax hike coming!!

[Orca]

Originally Posted by SaabJim

Oh no, another tax hike coming!!

Avoidance could be made by petitioning for the creation of a new QUANGO to counter-sue the US; the final balance can be paid to us in GBP

[Naranto]

I understand we have only just paid back the final instalment on the 'lease/lend' (?) figure to the US. What was this for?

World War II

[ShadowWorks]

LOL, I wish him all the luck in the world, but even thats not enough

[Rob in Atlanta]

The whole issue of reparations is extraordinarily silly. There isn't a single person in the world who can't point to ancestors who weren't mistreated by some people or group at some point in the past. It is a never ending cycle and is really only an exercise in political power, ie, which group has enough political power to force another group to pay it. Should the germanic peoples not seek reparations from modern day Italy for the actions of the Roman Empire? How about the Koreans and Vietnamese for actions by the Chinese Empire - the Chinese for actions by the Mongols? Where would it end?? Counterproductive and extraordinarily silly. IMHO we should be concentrating on respecting others in the present.

[i want an aero]

the iraqi wars were our fault?. lets sue the italians for building roads as people die on them, just loved the bit about the industrial revolution causing global warming our fault too he's had too many herbal fags at university

[klarking1075]

That guy is a danger to himself and the rest of the world. His only intention is to get rich.

Originally Posted by britishreparations.org

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Put another way, I don't give a stuff about your rights you've visited my site, you'll do as your told.

Yes over our history some of the things that britain has done, were not the nicest. However, he lives a comfortable life and wants power over the british people. £31 trillion would decimate the british economy, returning us to a backwater country, or a country so in debt as to be financially enslaved to the US. He's a relative of GWB, so I wonder if this is the US policy via other means?

Then again, maybe britain should send a bill for every man, woman and child that died during the second world war to Germany, as well as unfreezing WWI loans which were greater than WWII. Maybe that would help a struggling British economy.

Sometimes it's best to keep the past in the past. Yes we did wrong 300 years ago. Then again, the US's recent record isn't too great. As for blaming the UK for Iraq, why not blame us for Vietnam while your at it?

Kenneth

[Black Beauty]

Originally Posted by klarking1075

As for blaming the UK for Iraq, why not blame us for Vietnam while your at it?

Thanks for the offer, but we already have the French to blame for Vietnam.

/joke

[Albert Trout]

I love the bit about mind control through the invention of modern Universities, and what people say, through the "global master language"

[Black Beauty]

Originally Posted by Rob in Atlanta

The whole issue of reparations is extraordinarily silly. There isn't a single person in the world who can't point to ancestors who weren't mistreated by some people or group at some point in the past.

Although my geneaological background is mostly English, I have some French, German, and Czech ancestry as well. Perhaps I can sue myself for compensation. !!

Of course, my English ancestors emigrated to America about 1650. The post-1650 American part of me can sue the pre-1650 English part of me for compensation as well.

In all seriousness, there is no way to sort out who owes what to who, because if you go back far enough, we're all related to each other in one way or another.

[ShadowWorks]

Originally Posted by Black Beauty

American part of me can sue the pre-1650 English part of me for compensation as well.
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Thats what birthdays are for

You know UK just finished in 2006 paying back the USA for a huge loan dating from WWII, if the US had not done this the UK was done for!

I do believe in reparations, I would say the Jewish, Polish and Russians in WW2 deserve reperations from the German state and the Germans agree or they would not have paid up.

I believe the Africans used by the British/Americans for some 500 years deserve huge reperations, after all they made America the richest nation in the world, the Native Indians too and the Australian Aborigines who lets face it were genocided Nazi style should get something.

The Iraqi should get reparations in the form of money from the oil the US steels from them, or is that too radical.

[TheRedBaron]

Originally Posted by ShadowWorks

I believe the Africans used by the British/Americans for some 500 years deserve huge reperations, after all they made America the richest nation in the world, the Native Indians too and the Australian Aborigines who lets face it were genocided Nazi style should get something.

I agree with this somewhat - I wouldn't say that slavery "made" america the richest nation in the world, but it probably helped. The reason I would agree with it though is that Black people today experience economic difficulties as an indirect result of slavery. These economic desparities and being stuck in low income areas where schools are terrible keep people from being able to "catch up" with everyone else.

[Si]

That is probably one of the most idiotic thing's i've seen in a long time, closley ranked by Celebrity Big Brother (which i have had the enormous pleasure of completely ignoring).

What about the Dutch, Spanish, French, Portugese empires, the current US corperate empire, Germany, France and GB all had colonies in Africa, not to mention the Spanish in South America, what about the european wide Roman Catholic Empire, as it was the Pope who exersized control over most of Medieval Europe.

His argument is so flawed it's not even an argument, it's about as nonsensical as the rambling of some drunk in a park.

[Rob in Atlanta]

Originally Posted by ShadowWorks

The Iraqi should get reparations in the form of money from the oil the US steels from them, or is that too radical.

Your argument is clouded by only one issue - it is not factually correct. How do you expect to be taken seriously when you use hyperbole and blatantly false facts?

[omegajb]

Originally Posted by Naranto

I understand we have only just paid back the final instalment on the 'lease/lend' (?) figure to the US. What was this for?

World War II

I think I head somewhere it was WWI that you guys paid back, I think you guys still owe for WWII.