From: Russell Pearson <r.pearson-AT-art.derby.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 16:27:37 +0100
Subject: Re: M-TH: Ecology and the American Indian



>Pearson, you are an ignorant sot. This "famine and plague" assertion is not
>based on a history of Indian societies, just 3rd hand rumors from the LM
>propaganda mill. There were 8 million Indians in Hispanolia at the time of
>Columbus's arrival, a remarkable number. They became ill from the invaders
>or died from their bayonets. None are left. Was this an act of "nature"?

In my sottish ignorance (and I hope you didn't mean to call me an ingorant
scot, that would have been unforgiveable), I merely wondered whether you
thought that the pre-European Americas were free of plague and famine, or
whether these were remedied by the American Indian's mythologies.


>>Now I'm all for the rights of indigenous peoples...


>No, you LM creep, you are for their extermination. That's why LM crusades
>against Survival International and any other group fighting genocide, you
>right-wing scum.

Now for the record, and before Louis gets too carried away with his
projective fantasies, I am not for the extermination of indigenous peoples.
As to LM, I was not aware that they were running a crusade against Survival
International. I expect however, that an article was published by them once
which Louis then misunderstood.
Get a grip old boy, you're losing it rapidly.






Russ







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