Friday, March 28, 2008
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Americans have many reasons to ignore history
Another great letter in today's Times-News by MARK SCHUCKERT from Twin Falls, Idaho
Here is the link:
"Mr. Akagi: Excellent! But you forgot some tidbits.
We all know, during early American colonial times, Puritans were killing witches. Witchcraft was considered such a heinous crime because, when the government confiscated the condemned's property and resold it to well-connected families, it proved rather profitable. When this gainful employment tool for the judgmental jerks of the community proved a lethal fraud, leaders didn't change the game - they changed the target group and killed the next white female Quaker off the boat.
With this witch-hunt mentality pervading everything we did - and do today - we carved out the wilderness with whiskey and muskets, butchered every tribe we couldn't pacify, kept the British busy until they went home and initiated not one but more than 50 trails of tears.
The newly elected President Lincoln, a ruthless ex-railroad corporate lawyer, supported massive tax increases to sustain the federal government's excesses. No longer able to nullify, the South seceded - which it had every right to do. In response, Honest Abe plunged the nation into four years of bloody fratricide. Then, the Yankee scum, minus Lincoln, refined the crime with 12 long years of theft and murder called "Reconstruction."
Soon, it was the Indians again, the fabricated Spanish-American War, the Boxer Rebellion and the Philippine Insurrection, where concentration camps were used to slaughter thousands. The carnage was so horrible Mark Twain wrote, "Our flag should be the Jolly Roger."
Afterward, it was Pancho Villa, couldn't find him either, but the United States gained control of Mexican oil and it was save the banks in World War I. Next, there was the machine-gunning of labor union camps by corporate gunmen, the pitiless brutalization of our World War I veterans in Washington, D.C., on July 28, 1932, and the Great starvation, sorry, Depression.
No wonder Americans don't study their history. More later."
We all know, during early American colonial times, Puritans were killing witches. Witchcraft was considered such a heinous crime because, when the government confiscated the condemned's property and resold it to well-connected families, it proved rather profitable. When this gainful employment tool for the judgmental jerks of the community proved a lethal fraud, leaders didn't change the game - they changed the target group and killed the next white female Quaker off the boat.
With this witch-hunt mentality pervading everything we did - and do today - we carved out the wilderness with whiskey and muskets, butchered every tribe we couldn't pacify, kept the British busy until they went home and initiated not one but more than 50 trails of tears.
The newly elected President Lincoln, a ruthless ex-railroad corporate lawyer, supported massive tax increases to sustain the federal government's excesses. No longer able to nullify, the South seceded - which it had every right to do. In response, Honest Abe plunged the nation into four years of bloody fratricide. Then, the Yankee scum, minus Lincoln, refined the crime with 12 long years of theft and murder called "Reconstruction."
Soon, it was the Indians again, the fabricated Spanish-American War, the Boxer Rebellion and the Philippine Insurrection, where concentration camps were used to slaughter thousands. The carnage was so horrible Mark Twain wrote, "Our flag should be the Jolly Roger."
Afterward, it was Pancho Villa, couldn't find him either, but the United States gained control of Mexican oil and it was save the banks in World War I. Next, there was the machine-gunning of labor union camps by corporate gunmen, the pitiless brutalization of our World War I veterans in Washington, D.C., on July 28, 1932, and the Great starvation, sorry, Depression.
No wonder Americans don't study their history. More later."
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