On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:20:12 -0800, The Starmaker
wrote:
>Mason Barge wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:36:16 GMT, Howard Brazee
>> wrote:
>>
>> >The Starmaker wrote:
>> >>> >> Also - the AmerIndian population was decimated by European diseases
>> >before
>> >>> >> Jamestown, much less the United States.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > The diseases you're refering to were *purposely* planted in American
>> >Indians
>> >>> > tribes. The Americans soaked the blankets with small pox and other
>> >diseases
>> >>> to kill
>> >>> > off the Indians.
>>
>> IIRC, this was primarily British/French, not "Americans".
>>
>> The only accurately documented account I could find was Jeffery
>> Amherst, who only planned to do it. But his letters had a rather
>> chilling statement:
>>
>> "I wish we could make use of the Spaniard's Method, and hunt them with
>> English Dogs. "
>>
>> Sorry, Howard, I realize I'm responding to a previous posting. Blaming
>> "Americans" is such a knee-jerk response for some people.
>>
>> >>> It was their form of weapons of mass destruction (wmd).
>> >>>
>> >>> Not before the founding of Jamestown.
>> >>
>>
>> Oh for Pete's sake. Nobody slaughtered Indians like the Spanish in
>> the 16th century, when the English settlers were not even born. Except
>> maybe the Russians, who were even more vicious but on a much smaller
>> scale.
>>
>> >>
>> >> I don't get it. Why don't you just say not before the invention of the
>> >> wheel?
>> >
>> >Because I was pointing out that the biggest epidemics brought over by
>> >Europeans occurred soon, before many settlements, and certainly before the
>> >instance of the blankets.
>>
>> Right-o, although the epidemics that killed off masses of Indians in
>> the western side of North and South America came later.
>
>If Custer wasn't shooting indians he was giving them blankets...soaked with diseases, cause
>he was order to by whoever was President of the United States then.
In fact, Custer was issued a bottle of disease to use on the
blankets.
>It was U.S. policy.
And noe of thei soutside disease stuff.
>And there was only one reason for it.
>There was only one reason why they wanted the indians dead..
>it wasn't because they thought they were savages or they wanted the land...
>It's probably the best kept secret.
Ooooh, I love a secret. Tell, tell....
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