Reply to Re: Back off our neighbours maaaate!
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I actually find it sad people still assume Aussy is still a nation of criminals and rat finks because of how it was orginally colonised and the worst thing is Aussy seems to feel that way too. They appear over zealous to prove they are good at everything they try and this seems to stem from an inbuilt and generational lack of esteem and over developed sense of "we are not still bad" giving the impression they still have something to prove because of their history.
I mean what actually defined a criminal in those days - during the Highland clearances if you wore Tartan or had a patch of it on your person (part of your actual heritage for so many generations you were born with tartan skin almost heh) you were jailed or killed or deported as a criminal - it may have been an offence to steal to feed your family - I find it more of an offensive to let people die from lack of sustanance when your forests were filled with food just running around begging to get in someones belly.
Is it an offence to fight and kill to protect your family when some snot nosed Laird was wanting to have his way with your new wife before you did, because he passed a law saying he could, or maybe he wanted your land so he trumped up charges to get rid of you and get it. Sure there was those that were guilty as sin, but blanket judgement is totally wrong. I dont see degrees of sin - its either black OR white, right or wrong - no in between, but I can understand why people broke laws back then, they were made by those with power and meant to subjugate and exploit the weak.
Its a shame people still arent taken on face value and not prejudged because of something that happened in the past, I noticed this when I was overseas last year, if people thought I was Australian I was treated vastly different to if they thought I was a New Zealander. But the thing is that when I needed help it was without fail the aussie tourists that stood up and offered it - noone else!
I mean what actually defined a criminal in those days - during the Highland clearances if you wore Tartan or had a patch of it on your person (part of your actual heritage for so many generations you were born with tartan skin almost heh) you were jailed or killed or deported as a criminal - it may have been an offence to steal to feed your family - I find it more of an offensive to let people die from lack of sustanance when your forests were filled with food just running around begging to get in someones belly.
Is it an offence to fight and kill to protect your family when some snot nosed Laird was wanting to have his way with your new wife before you did, because he passed a law saying he could, or maybe he wanted your land so he trumped up charges to get rid of you and get it. Sure there was those that were guilty as sin, but blanket judgement is totally wrong. I dont see degrees of sin - its either black OR white, right or wrong - no in between, but I can understand why people broke laws back then, they were made by those with power and meant to subjugate and exploit the weak.
Its a shame people still arent taken on face value and not prejudged because of something that happened in the past, I noticed this when I was overseas last year, if people thought I was Australian I was treated vastly different to if they thought I was a New Zealander. But the thing is that when I needed help it was without fail the aussie tourists that stood up and offered it - noone else!
