On Fri, 19 Feb 2021 21:00:22 -0400, Lucretia Borgia
> wrote:

>On Fri, 19 Feb 2021 16:27:07 -0800, Taxed and Spent
> wrote:
>
>>On 2/19/2021 4:23 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>>> On Friday, February 19, 2021 at 1:43:25 PM UTC-10, Lucretia Borgia wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 20 Feb 2021 10:25:53 +1100, Bruce > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, 19 Feb 2021 18:49:41 -0400, Lucretia Borgia
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sat, 20 Feb 2021 06:14:58 +1100, Bruce > wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, 19 Feb 2021 08:04:16 -0400, Lucretia Borgia
>>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Fri, 19 Feb 2021 12:55:08 +1100, Bruce > wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> And if a historical figure is a mixed bag of good and bad, in today's
>>>>>>>>> views, we can also choose to neither honour them nor vilify them.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It isn't always clear cut. We had to take down a statue of the
>>>>>>>> Halifax founder, Cornwallis. The indigenous people didn't like it
>>>>>>>> because he put head money on them. On looking further, the reason for
>>>>>>>> that was one night they had swept down and killed a few hundred
>>>>>>>> settlers in their beds across the harbour in Dartmouth (paid by the
>>>>>>>> French to do it) So neither were to be admired. I vote, leave the
>>>>>>>> statue, his actions are recorded, no statue and he can melt into
>>>>>>>> history. As Santayana said 'Those who forget their history are doomed
>>>>>>>> to repeat it'
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If he was a murderer, remove the statue. Put it in a historical
>>>>>>> museum. Who wants a statue of a murderer?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> He didn't personally murder anyone.
>>>>>
>>>>> You said he put head money on indigenous people. That makes him a
>>>>> murderer.
>>>> Only after they murdered a couple of hundred settlers in their beds,
>>>> men, women and children.
>>>
>>> You might do that too, if you had strangers stealing your homes and gardens. Nobody would fault you if you murdered people that broke into your home.
>>>
>>
>>
>>But why did the French have to pay them? Nope, they were just paid
>>assassins.
>
>Precisely. It was the French who wanted to get their hands on Halifax
>and the great harbour without having to do their own dirty work.

So the Canadians did it for them. Were they already bludgeoning baby
seals to death at that stage? Does that still happen?