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Letter To The ICBR: Re: Highly concerned

03.27.2007

Having been shown a link to your site I must say I am disappointed and concerned that such a thing could even be brought into existence.
First on your facts page you make many claims which are blatantly incorrect.
Where on earth did you get the idea that the Machine gun was a British invention? I mean WHAT???
The GATTLING GUN was invented by an AMERICAN. The gun was designed by the American inventor Richard Gattling, in 1861 and patented in 1862.
The first Machine gun, the MAXIM GUN was invented by Hiram Stevens maxim... WHO WAS AMERICAN.

When we are talking about inventions which have changed the world for the worse, lets have a look at America's record shall we?
Atomic weapons anyone? You invented it, you dropped it, and you nearly destroyed the whole world with it in your pathetic cold war with Russia.

You invaded Vietnam to prevent the spread of communism, a war which caused millions of deaths, both for Americans and for Vietnamese military personnel and civilians. All to slow down an ideas which YOU feared would harm YOUR nation. yet another case of America trying to inflict its ideas upon the rest of the world.
While we are talking about nations who have caused pain and suffering why not bring ROME into this? A nation which ruled a vast empire, and which once exterminated 1 million 100,000 civilians in just 3 DAYS when it sacked Jerusalem.
Why not start a site asking the Italians to pay reparations to all the nations in western Europe and many in Africa and the near east too?
Lets start a site asking the Chinese to pay reparations for inventing ROCKETS.
CHRISTIANITY has caused VAST amounts of suffering and war.. Crusades anyone?

You also say on your website:
"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."
really? How very interesting. I find this very difficult to believe, most students of world history are far more intelligent than to make such a ridiculous and unqualified statement such as this.

Overall I am frankly amazed at your site and everything it is campaigning for. Perhaps you don't know what this looks like to people with brains?
it looks like a bunch of Disgruntled Americans, desperate to pin the worlds problems on another nation. In fact some of your claims on the FACTS page on your website almost made me laugh, such was their stupidity.

I highly doubt that anyone will read this, because you will all be too busy making up more "facts" to put on your website to try and fool people who have IQs of less than 20 into thinking that what you are saying makes ANY sense whatsoever.
Yours
Joe Riddiford

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