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Monday 4th October 2004 :
TORTURE AND GENOCIDE, AN AMERICAN TRADITION
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by Janis Schmidt
Surprise! Surprise! Surprise! America caught red handed torturing civilians! What an outrage! What a lie! Are you in denial?
Suppose you woke up one morning and discovered that your parents were serial killers? Would you be in a state of denial?
America was founded on the blood, torture, and genocide of MILLIONS!! of Indians! America was founded on theft of Indian lands, deception, fraud, and dishonesty. Why does this newly discovered round of tortures perpetuated by Americans on their helpless victims, the Iraqis, come as such a surprise?
My friend, Lucy Bull Bear, full blood Lakota Sioux from the Pine Ridge Reservation wanted me to tell you that "We donât know why it is such a surprise to you white people that Americans enjoy depraved killings and torture. At the Smithsonian they have the skulls and bones of our chiefs and head men, along with women and children. They used to cut off the heads and send them East to discover our secret, our spirituality, our sixth sense. They couldnât discover it, but they put the bones in a drawer in the Smithsonian. For a fee, you can go in and look at the bones, like a dinosaur.
"Who are you to say you are so shocked by one beheading? And a set-up at that. How many millions (MILLIONS) of Indians were murdered so that you could inhabit this land?
"This Skull and Bones secret society that your political leaders partake of. Who do you think are those skull and bones that they take out and mock in a ghoulish ritual? None other than Geronamo. Not that we would want any part of him, but how would you feel if we beheaded your precious Bush, and conducted some outlandish ceremony with his bones that we would hand down from generation to generation? Your leaders conduct this debauchery all the time and really think they are something, like they are still trying to steal the power of a great man.
"What a bunch of simpletons you are! Yes, our leaders, Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Geronamo, they all had power. They kind of power that you will never have, cannot steal, and will never understand.
"Who are you to say you are shocked by the recent round of tortures of the innocent Iraqis? We Lakotas pray for them, because we know what they are going through because that is how our ancestors were treated.â
Kinda makes Hitler look like a boy scout, doesnât it? Thereâs a great, big dirty rug that America has been shoving this huge pile of crap under for the past 500 years. This is just a tiny tip of the iceberg.
Take for example, the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890. We all learned in school that this was a battle, part of the Indian wars. That over 300 unarmed Lakotas; men, women and children, were murdered was never a part of U.S. history. We were not told how the governor of South Dakota armed the ranchers and settlers who then formed vigilante groups who routinely raided Indian camps, killing Indians, while the Interior Department was busy giving reservation land away to settlers under the Homestead Act. Indians were labeled as uncivilized savages and hostiles, much like Iraqis are called terrorists and insurgents.
What was the thinking of the average American at this time? It could be summed up in the words of L. Frank Baum, editor of South Dakotaâs Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer newspaper, and author of The Wizard of Oz, who, juat a week prior to the slaughter a Wounded Knee, advocated the extermination of all Americaâs Indians. He said:
âThe nobility of the Redskin is extinguished and what few are left are a pack of whining curs who lick the hand that smites them. The whites by law of conquest, by justice of civilization, are masters of the American continent, and the best safety of the frontier settlements will be secured by the total annihilation of the few remaining Indians. Why not annihilation? Their glory has fled, their spirit broken, their manhood effaced, better they should die than live the miserable wretches that they are.â
I think this attitude has not changed from the very beginning. The anglo-Europeons have always had a superiority complex. Just look at what Americans are doing in the Middle East to the Arabs. The ones they donât kill, they torture them. That certainly seems to be the American way of doing things. Baum and Bush have a lot in common, except Baum was more honest.
One week later, after Baum made his outrageous statement, the U.S. military, under orders, opened fire on over 300 Lakotas, killing most of them. These were the Lakotas of Big Footâs band. The place was called Wounded Knee.
A Lakota by the name of Running Horse spoke about the slaughter. âThey turned their guns, Hotchkiss guns upon the women who were in the lodges standing there under a flag of truce, and of course as soon as they were fired upon, they fled....There was a women with an infant in her arms who was killed as she almost touched the flag of truce, and the women and children were strewn all along the circular village until they were dispatched. Right near the flag of truce, a mother was shot down with her infant; the child not knowing that itâs mother was dead was still nursing, and that especially was a very sad sight. The women, as they were fleeing with their babies , were killed together, shot right through, and the women who were heavy with child were also killed....After most of them had been killed , a cry was made that all those who were not killed or wounded should come forth and they would be safe. Little boys who were not wounded came out of their places of refuge, and as soon as they came in sight, a number of soldiers surrounded them and butchered them there... Of course it would have been all right if only the men were killed; we would feel almost grateful for it. But the fact of the killing of the women and more especially of the young boys and girls who are to go to make up the future of the Indian people, is the saddest part of the whole affair and we feel it very sorely.â
Today, America is looking with shock and awe at the tortures and murders taking place in Abu Ghraib prison, as American soldiers and American mercenaries torture and degrade the Iraqis, who never did anything to even threaten one American. And Americans are dumbfounded as to how this could happen when America is there in Iraq to demonstrate the meaning of human rights in a democratic way. I think the examination should start right in our own back yard. What is happening to prisoners right here in American. How many detainees do we have in our prisons? How many prisoners are Native American, innocent men like Leonard Peltier and Arlo Looking Cloud? What kinds of abuses are going on behind prison walls? There is nothing to learn from the past because the truth of the past has been shoved under a huge dirty rug.
What can I say? I think we should make Abu Ghraib a national holiday, celebrated kind of like Halloween or Columbus Day, except that Americans would be permitted to commit sexual depredations on each other, abuse each other, torture their neighbor, all with out fear of reprisal All done with total abandonment and with merriment. Think of all the jobs created by the new factories producing instruments of torture. There would be a law, of course, that no one could be prosecuted for any obscene or pernicious act committed on that day. Maybe it could be expanded to become some type of national sport. And everyone could run around with panties on their heads. It could be bigger than Christmas.
Having killed off most the Native Americans by 1890, and forced the rest into concentration camps, the US decided it was time to finish the job. This is very similar to the sanctions the US imposed on Iraq for 12 years, that so crippled that nation, that even Luxembourg could have invaded and defeated Iraq, not that they had any desire to do so.
The US stripped the Lakotas of their weapons, horses, food, and even their culture and then went in for the final assault. According to Brigadier General L. W. Colby in command of The Nebraska National Guard which was sent to defend the Nebraska border at this time, âOn November 19th, the telegraph dispatches contained rumors of fighting. [There was no fighting, not in the past 10 years] On the 20th, [1890] some of the newspapers had reports of an important battle with the Indians, the sole function of which, however, was the imaginative brain of the reporter. General Brooke immediately left Omaha for the Pine Ridge Agency, taking command in person.â
âOn November 27th, General Colby continued, âthere was an issue of beef to the Indians at Pine Ridge. The issue was made to about 2,600 Indians. The steers were all lean and in poor condition. Twelve hundred soldiers were moved in near the agency, and four guns were planted in a position to command the main avenues of approach to the agency, during the afternoon of the same day.â
Elaine Goodale Eastman, Supervisor of Education in the two Dakotas at that time, said, âThe large Oglala boarding school became a virtual prison, the doors were kept locked by day as well as by nights and the ground, surrounded by a high fence of barbed wire, constantly patrolled by armed guards. These boys and girls were held partly as hostages for the good behavior of their parents.â
The U.S. government used the Ghost Dance as an excuse to massacre the Lakotas and steal their land and resources. Today, the U.S. government uses terrorists as an excuse to murder thousands of innocent Afghan and Iraqis to steal their oil, and subjugate the population by imposing the new BIA, Bureau of Iraqi Affairs, upon the hapless people.
Dr. Sally Wagner, who testified at the Wounded Knee hearings, said, âOn December 15, what they all feared became reality. Sitting Bull was killed, in what General Colby, characterized as a âgentlemanâs agreementâ to assassinate him.â
This is what Colby wrote, âunderstanding between the officers of the Indian and military departments that it would be impossible to bring Sitting Butt to Standing Rock alive, and even if successfully captured, it would be difficult to tell what to do with him. It is therefore believed that there was a tacit arrangement between the commanding officers and the Indian police, that the death of the famous old Medicine man was much preferred to his capture, and that the slightest attempt to rescue him should be the signal for his destruction.â
The U.S. is applying this same kind of justice in Iraq, kill off all the leaders, install a puppet government, coerce and torture dissenters, starve and subjugate the people. Now thatâs what America calls liberating Iraq, to bring them freedom and democracy. I can understand the Bush cartel and the diabolical corporations he represents, murdering and torturing with total abandonment in order to dominate the Middle East and to gobble up all the oil; what I canât understand is millions of Americans who cowardly hide behind their jobs or fears or insecurities rather than lift their voices in protest. I would just like to ask, who is holding a gun to your head that you canât even utter a word of protest at this great obscenity committed in your name.
But the Lakotas were not turbulent and violent in 1890. They were disarmed prisoners of war stuck in concentration camps, stripped of everything that made life beautiful for them, stripped of their land, their freedom, their way of life, their self-sufficiency, their children, their health, their pride, their culture, and much more. Itâs a dagger to the heart to think of what all these people endured. At the beginning of the 17th century, they numbered in the millions. Now, on the Pine Ridge, there were only 2600 Lakotas left. The diabolical plan was to eliminate the Indians, wipe them off the face of the earth, and then lie about the reasons for doing so.
So what do Indians really want? The same thing Iraqis want. They want you to stop lying about the past. They would like you to get out of their life, live up to Treaty obligations, do not steal any more land.
I have heard all kinds of ridiculous reasons for why we need to stay the course in Iraq, like (1) We need to finish the job we started, (2) we need to bring democracy to Iraq, (3) we need to stabilize the region, and so on. Itâs a little like saying the bank robbers are already in the process of committing armed robbery. Might as well let them finish the job.
http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article.php/20040926075956517
by : Janis Schmidt
Monday 4th October 2004
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> TORTURE AND GENOCIDE, AN AMERICAN TRADITION
4th October 2004 - 15h30
what an utter piece of garbage
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> TORTURE AND GENOCIDE, AN AMERICAN TRADITION
4th October 2004 - 16h41
Before claiming it is garbage, one should examine the historical facts. It is true the American has committed genocide towards the native Indian and so too was all other Europeans. Only then, it was accepted as the norm. It was accepted too to kill the blacks and others. Nothing new in what the reader is claiming. Maybe you should read the definition of genocide and then look at yourself in the mirror. Man is bound to repeat the mistake of the past, if he cannot be critical and true to himself.
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> TORTURE AND GENOCIDE, AN AMERICAN TRADITION
4th October 2004 - 17h04
TORTURE AND HUMAN SACRIFICE from the PINE RIDGE RESERVATION and a Lakota Sioux!
I was shocked to hear of any criticism regarding torture and sacrifice of human lives coming from the Pine Ridge Res in SD. One of the most dangerous Satanists at large in America today, with many of his extended Pine Ridge family members also involved, is none other than Lakota Sioux TONY RICHARDS. I was personally stalked by him and his Satanist coven in 1992, began to work with law enforcement, and through seven years of extensive nationwide travel to investigate and uncover this person (I am an investigative journalist among other things) I uncovered the full truth about this deadly human sacrificing, child raping Satanist. He is from the Pine Ridge Reservation, but also has a home in ASHEVILLE, NC, TAMPA, FL, and CUSTER, SD. So dangerous is this Lakota Satanist, that his previous wife, JoAnne Wilkinson, had to flee to California with their newborn child, "Chepaw" because he was going to SACRIFICE HIS NEWBORN CHILD TO SATAN on Halloween of 1992.
I have visited and volunteered at many reservations across America, the most recent being the CROW RES in Montana, and have discovered the presence of hard core Satanism influence and involvement at every reservation, confirmed by locals in each area.
Torture and human sacrifice of innocents is always a part of the practice of Satanism. So letâs be totally honest about this aspect of the dark side of human nature. It is found EVERYWHERE, among every race, and is the result of SIN, and NOT whether one is an American or anything else.
Russian communists were infamous for their brutal slaughter and torture of innocent Afghani women and children during the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, as I discovered through interviewing both Afghani refugees in Washington DC, and former Russian soldiers who fought in that battle. They admitted much horror to me as well, that the Russian soldiers practiced on innocent civilians, including the torture of women and men in the infamous prison in Kabul, Pulli Charki. In fact, communist torture of CHRISTIANS and religious dissidents is known throughout the world! For years I have worked with Christians from former Soviet Russia and Eastern Europe under communism, and their tales of communist oppression, torture and murder are horrenduous.
- Pam Schuffert www.AmericanHolocaust.homstead.com
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> TORTURE AND GENOCIDE, AN AMERICAN TRADITION
4th October 2004 - 21h40
"Kinda makes Hitler look like a boy scout" What a moron you are, to bad you were not in France in World War II, I wonder what France would be today without the Americans.
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> TORTURE AND GENOCIDE, AN AMERICAN TRADITION
5th October 2004 - 12h21
Regards the comment "Kinda makes Hitler Look Like A Boy Scout" and the responce that the writer is a moron, and should thank his/her lucky stars they werenât in France during WW 2. and wondering what France would be like today if not for the American help. What a facetous self serving pompus attitude. It may have escaped the reader/writer that the Vichy French Government at the time, was a PRECURSOR of exactly what the U.S. has done today in Iraq. That Government was installed by the Germans and answered to the Germans and ran France. In fact many French lasses married Germans at the time, and seemed to get on quiet well with them. The stories we hear for the resistance were NOT as prevalent as we are led to believe today. Conversly, today such resistance is catergorised as TERRORISM, so that means these people were in those days, nothing less then TERRORISTS, right ? My, My, what funny word games we play these days.
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> TORTURE AND GENOCIDE, AN AMERICAN TRADITION
5th October 2004 - 15h50
I just simply wanted to say, although the way this country was founded in hindsight was wrong, look at all the good that has come from it. We now have a world economy the U.S. no longer stays locked within its boundaries and Europe is not all spaking German and there is not an entire race of people facing Genocide(the Jewish for those of you in Rio Linda).
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> TORTURE AND GENOCIDE, AN AMERICAN TRADITION
5th October 2004 - 03h03
Many years ago the white people slaughtered the Indians and stole their land....I am only part Indian but the majority of my ancestors were white. Today I can only be ashamed of what my country has done to the native Americans, today I can speak out about what my country is doing to Iraqi people. I do what I can to protest in the street and on line and by writing to my "representatives", but of course they do not listen to me.
History shows us that representative government does NOT work. The people elected are funded by special interests and choosen by the two party system. There is no such thing as democracy or government by the people. In my local community too the people gather speak their wishes and the "representatives" turn a deaf ear and continue to represent special interests.
Each citizen should be assigned random jobs of service to perform for 2 years each by lottery which would give everyone a chance to do something for their country. We need to get rid of "representative" government. Government does not represent the people now or has it ever it only represents the corporation or weapons manufacturer who buys them their position. And until this changes we are trapped in this kind of murderous disgusting form of government.
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