Ah yes...the most free nation in the world....that happens to have the highest ratio of people in prison per capita in the WORLD.
You say crimes across the globe far outweigh what has been done here???
Bullshit....name me one event in history that comes close to the genocide of 95 million people and the total and complete cultural rape and destruction of an entire hemisphere.
Umm....the founding fathers and their heirs were not "fighting and defending the land they wanted"....they were slaughtering Indians wholesale, feeding them diseases and alcohol while destroying the basis of their lifestyle.
And just for the record, I do not collect welfare, never do, and never plan to. Nor do I plan to work at Macdonalds anytime soon.
I do however, plan to eventually live a lifestyle where I can provide for myself and my family with the minimum amount of money possible, so I can avoid participating the malignancy we call modern economics.[/quote/]
The romans persecuted the christians, kings of europe persecuted their own people, the Russians have been persecuting eastern Europe for hundreds of years, the holocaust, civil wars around the world, China killing children, Saddam persecuting shi'ites and Kurds and christians, I can go on and on. Your talking about a 400 year period keep in mind.
They fought for the land just like every other culture has. Do the Romans remind you of anything. Do you think there were set borders in europe or anywhere else. Most nations are still fighting for land to call their own.