natureluvr

The following is an editorial that appears on the Ayn Rand Institute
website. The author, Thomas Bowden is a pro-Columbus Day advocate and
feels that diversity and multiculturalism are the "new racism", etc.
If you would like to respond to this article, please do so by sending
them a fax or going directly to their website at www.aynrand.org

Taino'ti,
Roberto Mucaro Borrero,
President and Chairman,
UCTP U.S. Regional Coordinating Office
http://www.uctp.org/
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The Ayn Rand Institute
The Center for the Advancement of Objectivism

No Apology to Indians
Monday, June 27, 2005
By: Thomas Bowden

Dear Editor:

The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs is debating whether the United
States should formally apologize to Indians for a "long history of
official depredations and ill-conceived policies." This proposal
should be rejected.

Before Europeans arrived, the scattered tribes occupying North America
lived in abject poverty, ignorance, and superstition--not due to any
racial inferiority, but because that is how all mankind starts out
(Europeans included). The transfer of Western civilization to this
continent was one of the great cultural gifts in recorded history,
affording Indians almost effortless access to centuries of European
accomplishments in philosophy, science, technology, and government. As
a result, today's Indians enjoy a capacity for generating health,
wealth, and happiness that their Stone Age ancestors could never have
conceived.

From a historical perspective, the proper response to such a gift is
not resentment but gratitude. America's policies toward the Indians
were generally benign, aimed at protecting them from undeserved harm
while providing significant material support and encouragement to
become civilized. When those policies erred, it was usually by
treating Indians collectively, as "nations" entitled to permanent
occupancy of semi-sovereign reservations. Instead, Indians should have
been treated as individuals deserving full and equal American
citizenship in exchange for embracing individual rights, including
private ownership of land.

If the United States government were demanding that Indians apologize
for the frontier terrorism of their ancestors, as if living members of
a particular race could be guilty of their forebears' misdeeds, the
demand would (properly) be rejected as racist. For the same reason,
American Indians should refuse to be regarded as a race of helpless
victims entitled to a collective apology from their fellow citizens.

Thomas A. Bowden
Ayn Rand Institute
http://ari.convio.net/site/PageServe...me=media_opeds

* Thomas A. Bowden is an attorney and a senior writer for Ayn Rand
Institute and the author of "The Enemies of Christopher Columbus." The
Ayn Rand Institute promotes the ideas of Ayn Rand-- author of Atlas
Shrugged and The Fountainhead and originator of the philosophy she
called "Objectivism."

Mailing address:
The Ayn Rand Institute
2121 Alton Parkway, Suite 250
Irvine, California, 92606-4926
Phone: (949) 222-6550
FAX: (949) 222-6558

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natureluvr

This ignorant fool acts like the Europeans did our ancestors a favor; like our ancestors were nothing more than helpless, need I say it? Savages?? He must have learned his history from the back of a cereal box. I guess he forgot that our ancestors were already knowlegeable in trade, agriculture, architecture, math, craftsmanship, etc. etc.

What a moron......................

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Lerf1950

Look, you gotta keep in mind that Rand was nuts.

She once said that lung cancer was a small price to pay for keeping the economy going.

And her followers are just as bad.

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Every Act of Creation is an Act of Faith.

Dawgwhisperer

I apology for not knowing who "Rand" is....maybe someone can enlighten me. The other degenerate.....well, all I can say is I wish I had taken my blood pressure as I read what you posted, NL b/cuz I became more incensed as I read. Typical.........

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“People once believed that when someone dies a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead, but sometimes something so bad happens that a terrible sadness is carried with it and the soul can’t rest. Then sometimes, just sometimes the Crow can bring the soul back and put the wrong things right.”

I WISH.............

alamosaurus

"Ayn Rand" is the pen name of Alice Goldblum, an embittered
Russian-Jewish emigree writer who wrote Atlas Shrugged,
The Fountainhead, and other philosophical novels. Her idea
was that the ultimate virtue is selfishness; that is the only
way the human race will ever advance. Two of her famous
sayings:

"I swear by my life and my love of it I will never live for the
sake of another man nor ask another man to live for mine".

(John Galt in Atlas Shrugged)

"The public interest be damned--I will have no part of it!"

("The Fountainhead"--not sure which character spoke this
line.)

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alamosaurus

Dawgwhisperer

Thanks for the info. That's what I like about this site...the opportunity to "talk" to people and to learn new things. I really appreciate you taking the time to explain it.

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“People once believed that when someone dies a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead, but sometimes something so bad happens that a terrible sadness is carried with it and the soul can’t rest. Then sometimes, just sometimes the Crow can bring the soul back and put the wrong things right.”

I WISH.............