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Callung a legitimate endeavor a nation untook to start their own colony, better their destiny, feed their impoverished people, where brave volunteers died horrible deaths, a 'scam", is hard to interpret otherwise.


Something can be both a national tragedy and a scam.

The Darien scheme, for example, was both.


No part of it was a scam. The fact that the endeavor was made, validates this.

Next you'll call US bonds a scam, because scam artists take advantage, and use them in some scammy way.




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