[geeks] 4th Amendment Gone

[Phil Stracchino]

On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 11:18:35AM +0100, Mike Meredith wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 21:21:23 -0500, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> > The Britain I remember was perfectly willing to commit genocide
> > whenever they had the power to do so.
> 
> The closest thing I can think of was the Irish Potatoe Famine, but that
> was a natural disaster combined with gross negligence ... hardly
> proactive genocide.

The scourging of the glens after Culloden in 1725 would be closer, when
the English army went through as much of Scotland as it could reasonably
get to, killing everything that moved -- men, women, children, sheep...


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