the webmaster notes: we signed this treaty with tripoli in the late 1700's or early 1800's. the treaty was about piracy or something like that. in later versions of the treaty the part about the usa not being a christian nation was removed
    From: Tavares@alum.mit.edu ("C. D. Tavares")
    To: lpaz-discuss@yahoogroups.com
    Subject: Re: [lpaz-discuss] The Barbary Pirates
    Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 17:22:26 -0700

The full text of the treaty is availalable at http://members.tripod.com/~candst/tripoli1.htm

At 5:13 PM -0400 4/7/01, you wrote:

> We also signed a peace treaty with saying "we are not a Christian nation". > > They claimed that there had never been a peace treaty between them > and the Christian armies of Europe going back to the crusades. > > We said we were not a part of Europe, not a part of their wars, not a >part of the > Roman Church, and not a Christian nation. That all are welomed to worship > as they see fit. > > They signed a statement that they wrongfully included us in their >European war > and agreed to pay damages to the US government and all US merchant ships > they had attacked. -- Tavares@alum.mit.edu | http://home.earthlink.net/~cdtavares | RKBA!

You don't want to mess with world peace -- all you want to do is be peaceful. --STUART WILDE

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