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From: mck@ratex.UUCP (Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Libertarianism and the American Indian -- A Brief Note
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Date: Mon, 18-Feb-85 15:28:53 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 18 15:28:53 1985
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     An aspiring sophomore has suggested that Libertarians are hypocrites
for not turning the land that they possess over to American Indians.
     Should I ever possess a piece of land such that an Indian can
reasonably demonstrate that (s)he is legitimate heir to a legitimate owner
who had the property wrested from h(im|er), I will turn it over.
     Merely being descended from an oppressed people does not entitle
anybody to anything (if it did, then I -- being desended from Irishmen,
Indians, and undoubtably other victims of oppression -- would be owed a
great deal of something by somebody).

     It would be a major improvement in this newsgroup if certain users
would spend more time in an earnest attempt to get at the truth, and less
time practicing demagoguery.

                                        Disappointed,
                                        Mc Kiernan