Like Jeffery Amherst, George Washington, Ethan Allen and Jefferson, just to name a few racist bastards (self made, to avoid confusion with those who are born to an unwed mother.) and were accomplices with each other to use germ warfare against Chief Pontiac and his allies during the 7 Years War. Which was a global conflict. Winston Churchill referred to it as THE first world war. With such a hooplah raised in Europe, where the most bloody and savage fighting took place, it's no wonder "Historians" (All hail Official History, and none may dare to gainsay it!) have an easy time oh my brothers such a very easy time of dismissing the deliberate unleashing of smallpox on Americans who just happened to be Native. As a "myth". or slander to the mighty White English Race, all hail the mighty White English Race. This is the issue for which Ward Churchill got fired and had to endure most of a decade fighting that decision in court. Some of the local racist historians have spoken much vehement talk about Mr Churchill and mostly about the facts he tirelessly states. Why would they spend so much effort to smear him, if the Smallpox Blankets had not been real? Why would they preach such hatred to the point of declaring that Ward Churchill should only be allowed to teach history on Death Row. A thinly veiled threat, really. These "historians" have some ties to the Klan and Minutemen and other racial hatred mongers. Who themselves have used hanging to silence people who dared question their version of historic accuracy. Nowadays they just shoot them in the desert. In the back. In counties where the Sheriffs, coroners and judges can be reliably willing to call such killings "suicide" or "natural causes". One fellow in El Paso Texas was shot several times with a bolt action rifle, any of the shots would have killed him instantly. County Coroner ruled it a suicide. God Damn show off suicides, always trying to make the cops look stupid... the same office but not same Coroner who ruled Bobby Fullers death to be "natural causes". ahem.... He was found dead in his car soaked in gasoline.... that's the guy who had the hit song "I fought the law, and the law won" Now you can understand why such Pigs attack me every time they get me into their custody. I don't spare their non-existent consciences. I got started on this post because I went up the street to Territory Days yesterday. Strong native presence there this time. Some in the past have been so dizzyingly anti-Indian it .. well, it made one dizzy to hear that kind of crap. No matter how they slice it, though, it's still going to be a massive celebration of 523 years of Invasion and violent Occupation.
Tag: Founding Fathers
Founding Fathers dumped Bill of Rights
Religious freedom was passed by popular vote but only after the Official Founding Fathers rejected the entire Bill of Rights, which is why they (ten out of 13, not complete) are the first Amendments to the constitution. Now we have neo-fascist pigs like , well, the entire Republican party wanting to make Muslims wear identification, be registered and monitored like Megan's Law, all dark skinned persons denied immigrant or refugee status etc. So much for freedom, respect of the constitution and the "Clearly Defined Original Intent" of the so called foundering (sic) (or maybe just "sick" (I get a little weird about midnight and isn't it the last night of the full moon?) Of course the unfounded fatherhood who are supposed to be all knowing made up less of the population than just any others. People who didn't own land were excluded from any vote. Black people in slavery including those who were owned (and fathered) by such benign leaders as Jefferson. You would think such a great man would at least grant freedom and the vote to his own descendents but no... Name 40 of the "founding fathers" whose intentions are to be the basis of all our law. Why that number, you may ask. well, I might answer, there were 4 million people in the bounds of the original United States so 40 would be 1 percent OF one percent of the total population, counting everybody who were on the census... Yeah, I made an arbitrary statistical standard. Sue me, it would cost more to haul away my chattel than you'll get paid for it. But I would bet the moot question won't be answered unless the Wrong Wing learn how to use Wikipedia. Maybe they could just lift the names of the Rich Bastards who signed the Declaration of Independence. Paupers, Indians, slaves, women of any race or social status, etc. were denied the voted. Maybe "protected from the brutal duties of suffrage and civic involvement" A quick guess would put it that a Ten Percent minority elected the representatives. And we still have the proud symbol of Fascism on our state seal.
Tripoli and the Original Intent of the Founding Great White Fathers.
You know the first line of the Marine Corps Hymn, ends with "to the shores of Tripoli" So, why, exactly, was Tripoli so important? Well, since American Capitalism was and still is heavily dependent on goods and services produced by Slavery, an important slave-shipping region like the Barbary Coast (North Africa from western Egypt to the Gibraltar Straits) was the "Raw Material" source for American, British and French Capitalism. Slaves. Human cargo. The Bush family and the Harvard trust and the Yale trust got simultaneously Fantastically Wealthy through the 'necessary evil'. Capital can only work if the Richest make other HUMAN BEINGS poorer. The "rising tide lifts all boats" bullshit is simply that. In a system of finite resources, and there is no resource which isn't... the Rich can only gain and maintain their wealth at the expense of everybody else. Just as with Roman Capitalism, the foundation of that wealth has to come from conquest. The "free" market = the Slave Market. The Barbary Pirates as they're usually called in American History also made huge amounts of money selling captive Africans to White European-stock Americans like Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson. Those who didn't own slaves, benefited by transporting, selling and providing the "seed money" Capital to the Slave Industry. They rode the whip-shredded backs of African slaves to "freedom" and wealth. For a short while the Barbary Coast slave traders worked it in both directions. Not that the American and British and French "christian" Slavers were averse to white people being enslaved, heck no. They had plenty of white slaves themselves, just held in bond through chains of debt. Get the Suckers to believe that if they work really hard for really low wages and then turn around and re-invest part of their meager fortune into the Corporations of Their Masters, like a 401-k plan, and they too might become wealthy. It was a lie then and a lie now. But the "pirates" perhaps by mistake sold some of the Aristocrats into slavery. OOPS. So, the Marines were sent in. Actually, the Marines lost. It would be considered humiliating, if they couldn't spin it somehow. While they were busily trying to arrange a coup-d'etat, which failed, The "pirates" renegotiated their supply contract with the American envoys, with a clause that they should refrain from taking White Aristocrats as slaves. So the Marines, to save face, have to say that their machinations, which failed, and cost Marine lives, must have frightened the "pirates" into compliance. When instead it was just (slave) business as usual. A miscommunication between divisions of essentially the Same Corporate Entity. Nothing to see here, SLAVE Citizen, keep moving, get the Hell back to work, nothing to see...
The Census and Original Intent of the Founding Aristocrats
Since we have a lot of loudmouth Know-it-all know-nothings running their collective head, in chorus, paid by the richest men in America to cement the notion of an American Aristocracy based on personal wealth, Who tell us every hour of every day that they, and ONLY They, know the original intent of a group of arbitrarily assigned White Aristocrats they call the "Founding Fathers", a group which includes up to ... actually less than, 100 of the richest men in America. Out of the 3,929,326 MEN and only MEN counted in the first census in 1790. Never mind that even the very tiny INSIGNIFICANT representative sample they define as the "Founding Fathers" never unanimously agreed on any single issue, and that John Adams, one of the Richest of the bunch, granted himself arbitrary powers in a definition of the Sedition Acts to jail people who disagreed with his personal agenda. Or that there wasn't a Majority Consensus on the Bill of Rights, which wasn't included in the Original Constitution. Or that of those 3,929,326 MEN more than half weren't allowed to VOTE for who got to represent them... No Taxation without representation? How about "No REPRESENTATIVE DICTATORSHIP without Representation"? Their "original intent" is considered irrelevant by the Pompous Ass Pseudo-Intellectuals who are trying to force their Elitist (just not actually "elite") agenda on the rest of us. What of the OTHERS who had to bear the burdens of the conflicted and contradictory mandates from the Tiny Minority Even Of The Landed Aristocracy who are arbitrarily assigned the title "Founding Fathers" but not only weren't given the Vote, they weren't even COUNTED. Women, Children, Bonded (slavery through debt) and people Born Slaves weren't counted. Nor were the Native Americans in the territories claimed by the White Aristocratic Tiny Minority. Actually, slaves were counted as "Property" not as human population. Wonderful group of Role Models you Right Wing Extremists have there. In 1860 American Indians were counted, but only those who had "renounced" tribal affiliations, and of course, the sovereignty CONSTITUTIONALLY defined by Treaty (Article VI) which was recognized on paper but virtually never at gunpoint. Nor were these Americans who had given up their tribal rights accorded any citizenship rights until 1911, more than a half century later. The United States in 1790 consisted of the 13 original states and the territories that later became the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Maine, Vermont, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama. Notice that save for Maine and Vermont, (two French words actually) the other territories have American Indian names. There's a reason for that. Actually "Indiana" was designated as an entirely Indian territory, hence the name. Then number of American Indians IN WHAT WAS THE UNITED STATES at the time was far greater than the number of those Americans counted as "citizens" and a HUGE difference between their population and the fewer than 100 Rich Bitches who are said to be the Last and Only deciders of American Law. So, are we to join their Rush to turn