The tale of the slaughter at Wounded Knee in South Dakota is [an] example too well known to require detailed repeating here, but what is less well known about that massacre is that, a week and a half before it happened, the editor of the South Dakota's Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer - - a gentle soul named L. Frank Baum, who later became famous as the author of The Wizard of Oz - - urged the wholesale extermination of all America's native peoples:
"The 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 that they should die than live the miserable wretches that they are." ~~ Suz-Q ~~ (wat-chu talkin bout, white boy? chu betta dan dem red o black o yellow folk'?) * I am a thinking human being; I am not a BushBot ( Ya just gotsta love the bungling bureaucracy!!! ) * click here: http://tinyurl.com/9f7xk * Only 1,001 days remaining until Inaugural Day 1/20/09 * Excellent Music Video: http://tinyurl.com/hvyhw * Funny & Interactive! Use your mouse to move the falling figure if he gets stuck (or, anytime): http://tinyurl.com/cc3du * It's a secret!: http://tinyurl.com/obh35 * click here: http://tinyurl.com/ewc2x * Mark Twain: “The only time the children are safe is when Congress is not in session.” * Jeff Foxworthy: http://tinyurl.com/jm96g * "If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." GWBush, 43rdPresident,CNN.com, December 18, 2000 * IMPORTANT!! http://tinyurl.com/cfsrc --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ [RobsList] A progressive group that is part of http://robwire.com You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RobsList" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Robslist -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
