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 Or is it all right to murder for the Plunderbund and dub it "patriotism" and "manifest destiny" and "benevolent assimilation" and all the other polite names that are coined to make bloodshed a holy act?

Let me tell you that murder is murder, no matter how you try to veneer the accursed crime.

A Wave of Horror—have you ever read the story of the Irish famine and how British royalty, nobility, gentility and lordly land pirates all took enough grain rent that awful year from Irish peasants to have fed the thousands who died there of starvation?