Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 10:38:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Third Friday Minutes
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Mike B. wrote:

> At 07:56 PM 4/22/05 -0400, Robert MacIntosh wrote:
> >Right, but those take decades to work their effect. What the Europeans
> >brought to the Americas halved or worse the local population in one
> >generation. For the want of anything else, the scales of equality favored
> >the Europeans.
>
> Showing just how important border control and a well thought out
> immigration policy can be...

This urban (I guess you would say) legend has been running around for
about twenty years now -- that North America had some 50 million hunter-
gatherers but they all died of European diseases and that's why there's no
evidence that they were here.

It's probably as phony as the Mormon "history" which has North America
populated by _two_ high civilizations, each of which managed to commit
genocide on itself before the next showed up, the last one leaving only
the handful of surviving folks whom the Europeans found when _they_
arrived.  Each of these civilizations, BTW, being founded by a single
shipload of refugees from Palestine...

-- Dick Eney