From: Portugal
To: Spain, United States, All whom it may concern
We believe this situation has gotten out of control and, not because we are in an alliance with Spain, we agree with Spain in this situation. Also if a country that is 'ruled by the people' can't manage and control themselves then perhaps the United States should think of turning to a different method of government?
Portugal sees it in the best interest for everyone involved that the United States doesn't get into Spain's business. We would be disappointed to see violence stem from these verbal altercations, we may not agree completely with how Spain operates but it is their nation to do with how they feel is needed and that's their business and nobody else's.
Okay, so its divided by color. Red:
...Perhaps Portugal is unfamiliar with the concept of Democracy. King Minh Mang, as in myself, is also slightly unfamiliar with it since it is not instituted yet in the great country of Vietnam. Yet, it does not take a Genius, nor a lifetime studying and experiencing democracy to understand how idiotic that last statement by your country was. Vietnam may try to be neutral in this 'crisis', but your talk was merely...idiotic.
The government DOES NOT exist to control the people. That would be a dictatorship, no? Not only that, but the 'people' in question were not even in their country at the time. They were living in the Spanish colony of Florida. And yet still, you fail to recognize that Humans are independent beings capable and willing to act for themselves. Talking of a government controlling its people would require the burning of the american constitution and bill of rights. Perhaps in Portugal and Spain, you may wish to control what your citizens do and deny them vital rights, but I can assure you, that most countries do not follow this barbaric policy of yours.
Tell Ming Mang, how would you propose the american governm,ent, within the confines of its laws and the documents it was founded upon and dependent on the sovereignty of Spain, control the actions of its citizens within the borders of Spain?
Yet not only did Spain fail to even give them a trial in Spain, let alone in their home country of america, they failed to give them a trial PERIOD, then continued to execute them. Tell me, King Minh Mang of Vietnam, what kind of emperor, especially one that follows the albeit heretic faith, yet loving faith, of Catholicism, orders the execution of an entire town?
As to the blue:
It is also the business of the USA because of the fact that their nationals, or in other words, citizens of the United States of America, were the ones executed for an act that should barely warrant a few arrests, a trial, and a few months in jail, if that. Instead, Spain committed
GENOCIDE of American citizens. How is that NOT the business of the country those people came from?