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Boooooooooootliiiiiiiiiickerrrrrrrrrrr, no one is illegal on stolen land.
How does one just steal land? I've heard of adverse possession, and that's legal all over the world to various degrees.
I think the word you want is conquer, though. That's a debt typically paid in blood.
Cheers.
LOL 'conquer' and 'paid in blood'
That is pompous nonsense and totally not applicable.
There wasn't a great battle heroically fought between armies where the victor takes the land.
No, it was vast empty land where you could encounter some peaceful indians now and then.
americans just put a fence up and called it theirs, nothing was conquered.
Lying to the natives and slaughtering them with superior weapons doesn't count.
The same cowardly way the US fights now, bombing defenseless brown people from a distance and then walk in to plunder it.
The John Wayne heroic fights were just as much BS as the Iraq, Afghanistan propaganda movies now.
The US is a nation of thieves, and worse mass-murderers.
Cheers
Unfortunately, if it works it works. There was no great battle, correct, but if there was it would not have gone well for the original inhabitants, for the colonists had superior weaponry and tactics. They were able to just take the land because no one stopped them, like Trump today. He is getting away with it because no one is stopping him.
What gave them the right anyways, first come first serve? Well then it was first take, first claim, because the concept of owning land was foreign to a nomadic people that made their homes all over their regions. They migrated with the herds and with the weather following food and generational wisdom. Colonists came from the land of castles and lines in the sand, and this was all free real estate to them. We can rehash the past all day, where does it end because all lands today across the globe once belonged to different people's than the current "owners"? I don't know the answer to that, nor does anyone. Where does it start, where does it stop?