Britishreparations.org - Are They Having A Laugh? a guy wants to fine Britain a great sum of money for empirical damage

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The owner of the website called BritishReparations.org has found that Great Britain's empire is to blame for most of the world's problems today. Guess how much they estimate the damage at? A few hundred billion quid would be a modest sum seeing as none of his proof directly links us to any of the problems, but not for him; his sum is a little less generous:

 

£31,960,000,000,000

32 TRILLION POUNDS

Surely he must have valid reason for making such a claim?

 

Well, no. In fact you have to search very hard to find any facts in the section marked The Facts and, those which you do find are ludicrously weak. Let's start from the beginning:

 

Yes. Any student of world history will tell you that if he had to pick a single nation to pin all the world's troubles on, Britain is far and away the obvious choice. There is plenty of precedent of countries paying off their victims in cash. The Nazis had to pay off the Jews. The U.S. government has settled with many Indian tribes, offering them land, lucrative casino rights, and in some cases, cash. We, the International Coalition for British Reparations, are asking that the greatest criminal nation on earththe Britishpay up as well.

NO INFORMATION there - just a long paragraph stirring up racial hatred against the Brits. Good to get the crowd against the British in the first place so the "proof" will sink in more easily.

 

Sure, Britain isn't behind all of the world's problemsat least not directly. The old Soviet Union, for example, is estimated to be responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of its own citizens, to say nothing of the havoc its aggressive foreign policy wreaked abroad. But most of these deaths happened by way of prison camps (a British invention) or machine guns (another British invention). All roads of human suffering, particularly in the 20th century, lead back to Britain.

Although the British did invent the machine gun, it was never actually adopted or produced. It was 150 years later that Richard Gatling, an American inventor, created the first successful machine gun. Proof:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Gatling

 

As for prison camps, Britain may have invented them but if she hadn't, either other countries would have or the Soviets would have simply used another method. If the USSR wanted to execute or torture people then they would have done regardless if prison camps very invented or not.

 

 

No. We don't believe this is due to any inherent defect in the character of the British people. Stretching more than a millennium to the crowning of Alfred the Great in 871, the British Monarchy is simply one of the oldest continuous governmental bodies on earth. For centuries, its power over its citizens was nearly absolute. By the dawn of the 20th century, it controlled nearly one third of the globe. But while other totalitarian reigns have been put on trial and forced to make amends, the British crown has maintained its grip on power, and so avoided being called to account for its numerous crimes against humanity.

Britain is not the only power who had an empire and remained unpunished. How did the French or Romans get punished for their empire? Why pick on us over the French or the Romans? Because they're racists.

 

I still need more proof that they're racists!

 

I'll provide it. Let's take some of the things that were "Britain's fault" and try to twist the situation so the USA is to blame:

 

The deaths caused by all the major wars of the 19th and early 20th century could have been prevented, or at least lessened, if the British hadn't waited until their backs were up against the wall before getting into the action.

USA + WW2 -> USA waited until Japan attacked them rather than helping out its allies. Before then, it capitalised on the Allies' desperatey.

 

Most of the worst tyrants in power through the end of the 20th century were put there by the British, or came to power by filling the power vacuum the British Empire left behind.

USA + Osama Bin Laden -> Osama was put into power by the USA. We put a few in power but guess who assisted us?

Doesn't that make you feel bad about the USA? That's exactly what this site is doing to the British!

 

But surely their Maths isn't flawed?

 

First Iraq War: £36 ($71) billion (As estimated by the Department of Defense. The need for U.S. intervention in the Middle East is a direct consequence of Britain's early support of the House of Saud and conflicting promises made to the Israelis and Palestinians).

 

Second Iraq War: £144 ($282) billion+ (As calculated by Congressional Appropriations. The irrational anger of radical Islam as embodied in Saddam Hussein's rogue state, is the expression of a deep grudge that started with the slaughter's inflicted by the British crown during the Crusades and later, Britain's ruthless treatment of the old Ottoman Empire.)

 

Opium War Refund: £17 ($32.6) trillion (£11 ($21) million that Britain extorted from China through the Treaty of Nanking in 1842, with interest, compounded annually. Strange that China should have to pay up after it was Britain who got millions of her citizens hooked on opium.)

 

Versailles Refund £13 ($25) trillion (£13 ($26) billion that Britain extorted from defeated German government after World War I, with interest, compounded annually, an unfair and punitive settlement that was one of the primary causes of World War II.)

Oh, yes it is. Strangely despite the fact that the site says that Britain is "at least not directly" behind all the problems, Britain is meant to fork out 100% of the bill. Strange. Dare I mention cocaine and the US.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine

 

 

[hr=shade]And right at the bottom of the page in innocently blue and bold capital letters "GET PAID", which is linked to the petition page. Clearly all these people are interested in is the money and not equality and justice as they came. Using cheap tricks like this to win people over and putting the petition at the bottom of the page after text that is intended to anger the blood, they are falsifying the seemingly innocent reasons behind the campaign.[/hr]

 

Participate if you will but I can't see this ending anywhere relevant; after all a small island didn't get to where it was today by being co-operative and friendly*

 

* or so they claim.

 

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