9th August 2005, 1:38 PM
It may not have been "nice", and taking of their land wasn't right, but when they made that law, they literally gave them permission to do it.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)