Dear Mr Grasse,
May I first of all congratulate on your work to expose the truth behind the evils perpetrated by centuries of English Imperialism. I haven't yet read your book (The Evil Empire) but I'm sure I'll agree with most of what you've written.
The English have commited so many crimes against humanity, perpetrated so many acts of mass murder, terror, pillage, deception, collusion that not even an encyclopaedia would be able to catalogue them all. What the English owe India alone in economic reparations would run into hundreds of trillions of dollars even before we count the cost of human suffering and misery (at least 29 million Indian deaths in the latter half of the 19th century are as a direct result of English rule).
You mention the fact that Britain were responsible for WW1 and WW2. This is correct. One of the major reasons for WW1 was the fact that Germany wanted to challenge the hegemony of the English Empire through economic and military (naval) development and acquisition of colonies. Of course, Britain didn't like this and declared war (with France and Russia) on Germany to preserve their status quo.
After Germany was defeated, England (with France) imposed the most outrageous, punitive treaty on Germany which led directly to the rise of Nazism and WW2.
These are just a few of drops in the ocean of English misdeeds and crimes throughout the centuries of imperial rule.
BUT WHAT IS EVEN MORE ASTONISHING IS THE FACT THE ENGLISH PEOPLE ALWAYS TAKE THE MORAL HIGH GROUND, THAT THEY TRULY BELIEVE THEY DID GOOD TO THE WORLD, THAT THEY HAVE NOTHING TO ANSWER FOR, THAT THEY ARE AND ALWAYS HAVE BEEN RIGHTEOUS.
In case, Mr Grasse, you are called for an interview on British TV or radio again, you could perhaps mention the mass murders of Boer women and children by the English in South Africa during the Boer War of 1900-1902 in concentration camps. A higher proportion of Boer women and children were murdered than were Jewish women and children by the Nazis in WW2. All this after the English had INVADED Transvaal and Orange Free State to plunder her gold and diamond. For more information you might like to go to http://www.zundelsite.org/english/zgrams/zg1997/zg9711/971103.html. Or perhaps you could mention that it was the English who invented mass terror bombing of civilians (bombing of Jalalabad, Dacca and Kabul in 1919 by the RAF) and the use of napalm, shrapnel and delay-fused bombs all before 1920.
Or that the English also used napalm (according to latest German/ Russian research) in their bombing of Dresden, Germany in WW2. They also used phosporous (which is a burning agent) in their bombing of German cities.
Or indeed, it was the British, not the Germans, who initiated the bombing of civilians (with respect to the war between Germany and Britain) in WW2. This may come as a shock to many Americans but the evidence is indisputable.
And yet, not a single apology has been made to Germany nor to anyone else for that matter. Indeed, the English to this day villify the Germans for the bombing of England and for WW2 as a whole.
I could go on and on... the list of English crimes around the world is almost endless.
But there's one thing they've overlooked: God. If the English do not start addressing their past and start repenting, then the wrath of God will be
wrought upon them. Evil will never go unpunished and the more they procrastinate, the longer they are in denial of their past, the greater will God's retribution be.
In this sense, I believe your work has a special merit: to give an opprtunity to the English people a chance to redeem themselves in the eyes
of God.
Thank you again and keep up your great work.
Yours sincerely,
Young Lee (London)
P.S. I believe the reparation sum of $58 trillion is too modest- I think it should be at least double this figure.
Dear Mr. Lee,
Thank you very much for your kind letter and uplifting words of encouragement. You can count yourself as one of the millions of people from around the globe who wholeheartedly believe and support the ICBR and our work towards receiving reparations from the British government on behalf of the world’s populace. You make several good points in your letter; it sounds like you are an expert on British misrule and we greatly value your opinion. If you have not yet done so, please visit www.britishreparatoions.org and join the millions of people who have signed our petition. We also ask that you purchase a copy of The Evil Empire by Steven Grasse. Not only will you find the text enlightening and informative, but proceeds from the book’s sales also help fund the ICBR’s global campaign for British reparations. Again, thank you very much for your support and ask that you continue to stand in solidarity with the ICBR.
Thank You,
The ICBR