Hatunen wrote:
>
> 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....
According to the web address you cited...
http://www.nativeweb.org/pages/legal/amherst/lord_jeff.html
"2. The depiction of Indians as wild beasts was quite common among early American leaders,
including George Washington and Thomas Jefferson."
You don't actually believe that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson really believed that
Indians were wild beasts do you? That is what they want others to think...
you won't believe what they were really thinking. |
