I love this country, America, because we allow people to say what they feel
even to the point of putting a hateful spin on the truth. If anyone needs
some examples as to why we love and respect the United States there is no
better place than with the long list of US commeratives starting with the
Colombian Issue of 1893. One must truly live in an alternative reality not
to find something in there to like.

-a



"Rodney" wrote in message
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Bravo! for that piece Bob,
This behaviour was consistent around the globe,
South Africa, Australia, Tasmania
I believe I recently read where the US was the first country to ever use
chemical weapons when US soldiers handed beef
to the starving Indians that was infected purposefully with cholera.



| Stretching the point somewhat, and not very much if you happen to be a
| native American, the U.S. Army engaged in "foreign wars" when it set
about
| exterminating several Indian tribes on land that the Indians "owned" in
the
| sense they had always had full freedom of movement upon it,
notwithstanding
| the ongoing conflicts between various Indian tribes.
|
| In signing treaties with Indians, the American government certainly
appeared
| to acknowledge the existence of aboriginal nations. But of course, most
of
| the treaties were resulted from shameful pretense, and the Indians were
| doomed from the start, despite Custer's Last Stand. (I visited the site
of
| the Battle of the Little Bighorn a few years ago. It's an incredibly
moving
| place. It's not too hard to imagine yourself there on that sunny
morning,
| with death a near certainty for the U.S. troopers. Small markers point
out
| the exact spots where many individual Indians and soldiers died.
Altogether
| it's a quiet, beautiful, and eerie place.)
|
| I recently watched a documentary about the last of the Indian resistance
and
| was reminded that it seemed very much like a preview of the Second World
War
| when the Germans were exterminating Jews in Eastern Europe. There's not
much
| difference between Lidice, where Germans destroyed an entire Czech
| community, and the "Battle" of Wounded Knee, where Americans virtually
| murdered hundreds of natives, most of them women and children who were
ill
| and trying to seek aid from the soldiers.