On Sun, 18 May 2014 04:36:13 -0400, "Robert Green"
wrote in
The one enduring rule seems
to be the land belongs to whomever can grab it and hold it.

Exactly. That has been true for about 2 million years and I don't
expect it to change; not even in the American southwest where over 50%
of the population in many areas are illegal Mexicans.
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