Exterminate the Aborigines

[MrMofo]

From the website, Letters of Note

This shocking 1907 telegram was sent by a Charles Morgan to Henry Prinsep, a man seemingly based 2200km away in Perth who at the time was, surprisingly, Chief Protector of Aborigines for Western Australia. Following the arrival of British settlers in the 18th century, Australia's indigenous population were slowly faced with disease, loss of land, stolen generations and general violence. Sadly, the introduction of arsenic to their water and flour supplies wasn't uncommon.

If anyone can enlighten me as to the specifics of this particular telegram, please do.




Transcript

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
POSTMASTER-GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT, WESTERN AUSTRALIA

20 JUL 07

TELEGRAM from Broome Station
Addressed to H. Princep Esq, prot. of aborigines

Send cask arsenic exterminate aborigines letter will follow

Chas Morgan

[alhoon]

It can't be real... Nobody would have the audacity in that age to write such a telegram. Even the Nazi were not open about the "Final Solution".

[Moorish guy]

oh my european colonist trying to wipe out the natives.... what a surprise.

[Visarion]

I heard that until the second half of the 20th century they were considered part of the fauna!

Can you belive it? They were forced to jump off cliffs and such...

I saw a documentary a long time ago...

[Dr. Croccer]

oh my european colonist trying to wipe out the natives.... what a surprise.

This is qute disturbing though. Few other colonist actually ordered the extermination of the natives.

[RomanSoldier9001]

oh my european colonist trying to wipe out the natives.... what a surprise.

Indeed.

It can't be real... Nobody would have the audacity in that age to write such a telegram. Even the Nazi were not open about the "Final Solution".

If you dont count the thousands of letters,documents and other type of info that was actualy used to prove Holocaust as actualy happening no...

[Burnum]

Bad luck.

I'm stilling for the sources, Boofhead. Back up your claims about the stolen generation.

No, it wasn't.

Yes, it was. In the words of the two of the biggest architects of the Stolen generation.

Here's a quote from a speech from A O Neville, Chief Protector of Aborigines, 1937:

"We have power under the act to take any child from its mother at any stage of its life... Are we going to have a population of one million blacks in the Commonwealth or are we going to merge them into our white community and eventually forget that there were ever any Aborigines [sic?] in Australia?"

Dr. Cecil Cook, NT Chief Protector 1927-39:

"Generally by the fifth and invariably by the sixth generation, all native characteristics of the Australian aborigine are eradicated. The problem of our half-castes will quickly be eliminated by the complete disappearance of the black race, and the swift submergence of progeny in the white."

You have a victim complex.

Ad hominen argument, you insult me because you can't address my points.

If they wanted to wipe out the natives then you would never have been born, because they could have easily accomplished it.

Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Stop talking, and believing, misguided martyrdom racist .

I've provided evidence that their intent was to destroy the Aboriginal race, instead of just insulting me, provide evidence that the Stolen generation had no racial element.

Typical ing martyr-seeking historical revisionism.

You're the one engaging in historical revisionism.

It's an amazing fact, but sometimes people who lie around sniffing and drinking in hovels until the day they die are mostly to blame for their own predicaments.

Instead of engaging in frankly pathetic strawman and ad homimen fallacies, how about addressing my points?

To repeat, I'm waiting for your evidence about your assertions on the Stolen generation, which is contradictory to any evidence presented.

[Argeus the Paladin]

No wonder the Rudd administration just had to apologize.

[white-wolf]

I do not comment on this genocidal document.

I am just waiting for burnum.

[Ishoss]

Didn't Australia have a "White Australia" policy 'till 1970?

[Nikos]

Didn't Australia have a "White Australia" policy 'till 1970?

Yep
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Australia

[Exarch]

ing disgusting
as much as i love australia, i cant ignore its disturbing past

[El Brujo]

From what I know Aborigines at the time were not considered to be truly human, yet even if that belief were correct they are obviously close enough to make extermination morally wrong. But Australians of that era were a very grim and hard-bitten people, similar to voortrekkers and American frontiersmen, so they probably didn't care.

[Pious Agnost]

From what I know Aborigines at the time were not considered to be truly human, yet even if that belief were correct they are obviously close enough to make extermination morally wrong. But Australians of that era were a very grim and hard-bitten people, similar to voortrekkers and American frontiersmen, so they probably didn't care.

Australian Aborigines weren't legally human until the 1960s.

[Legio XIV]

yeah its pretty ing sick.

we harp on about how civillised we are, but we treat our own indigenous population like 2nd class.

"there are no aboriginals left in tasmania" was one topic of discussion around the bonfire one night. then one muppet piped up with "pity they didn't do the same job here, they did over there" (referring to the systematic cleansing of the indigenous population). It really beggars belief.

That telegram more than likely did exist. all these bigoted anglo s here are in constant permarage about the govt apologising to the indigenous people because of the stolen generation e.t.c

though the rise of anglo/white british nationalism in australia certainly plays a part i believe, the aboriginal flag is almost treated as if it is foreign aswell as it's people. because they are of a "different complexion" than the whiteys.

this country is ed, when it comes to indigenous human rights. useless useless in govt every single er.

[♔Goodguy1066♔]

ing disgusting
as much as i love australia, i cant ignore its disturbing past

Don't beat yourselves up about it, it's the Brits, modern Aussies wouldn't harm a fly.

[Dr. Croccer]

Don't beat yourselves up about it, it's the Brits, modern Aussies wouldn't harm a fly.

Australia became a Dominion in 1901, i.e. all Australian laws ever since were created by Australians, without British involvement. The Brits actually tried to protect the Aboriginals, appointing Aboriginal Protectors during the 19th century to make sure that Aboriginals weren't exterminated throughout Australia, like they were in Van Diemens' Land.

[Lord Tomyris]

The Brits actually tried to protect the Aboriginals, appointing Aboriginal Protectors during the 19th century to make sure that Aboriginals weren't exterminated throughout Australia, like they were in Van Diemens' Land.

True, it's the same with British America - Parliament attempt to exercise restraint, but the colonists on the ground, engaged in frontier conflict, saw differently. To be honest, even in Van Diemen's Land the Aborigines were removed to Flinders Island in an attempt to protect them - convieniently that also allowed the colonists to take the land unopposed!

[Burnum]

True, it's the same with British America - Parliament attempt to exercise restraint, but the colonists on the ground, engaged in frontier conflict, saw differently. To be honest, even in Van Diemen's Land the Aborigines were removed to Flinders Island in an attempt to protect them - convieniently that also allowed the colonists to take the land unopposed!

Tasmania is a bit different, the population of Tasmanian Aboriginals were seriously depleted by the time European settlers came around. Due accidental transmission of diseases. Also Tasmanian tribes involved in Slave trading (or rather forced prostitution of Mainland Aboriginals), so them.

Also the Number of atrocities was exaggerated by the Tasmanian Government so that could go after the pirates committing the atrocities without significant outcry by Britain and the colonies.

Pious Agnost aren't you a Kiwi? I think it's probably only in NZ where colonizers were out brutalized by the Colonized, The Genocide of the Moriori was an incredibly brutal act.

[Dr. Croccer]

To be honest, even in Van Diemen's Land the Aborigines were removed to Flinders Island in an attempt to protect them - convieniently that also allowed the colonists to take the land unopposed!

Well, better to relocate them than let the colonists exterminate them.