When a powerful group of Europeans sent sailors, soldiers, settlers and spies to what is now called North America they mostly destroyed the lives, the land, the homes, and cultures of indigenous peoples in an aggressive imperial campaign of colonization through wars of invasion and occupation. The European invaders waged campaigns of genocide and holocaust against the indigenous North Americans. The Spaniards thought nothing of knifing Indians by tens and twenties and of cutting slices off them to test the sharpness of their blades. (de Las Casas) The Indians attempts to defend themselves from invaders like Columbus and his soldiers failed. The invaders stole the land for plunder and profit and later forced those natives who survived onto reservations. At the same time the invaders proceeded to wage a second holocaust campaign which entailed killing, kidnapping and enslaving Africans to build what they called a civil society for land owning white men. This was and is the basic program of British and US domestic and foreign policy that is still operating today around the world. The basic strategies are to invade, steal the land, water, gold, silver, minerals, oil and kill or enslave the indigenous populations. They then proceed to “settle”, thus they occupy and eventually claim to “own” the country.
Posted on: Sun, 06 Apr 2014 13:52:49 +0000
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