cross Fri Oct 27 18:11:14 2006 Dan Cross,,, cross Fri Oct 27 18:11:14 2006 cross Fri Oct 27 18:11:14 2006 Dan Cross,,, cross Fri Oct 27 18:11:14 2006 cross Fri Oct 27 18:16 responses total.
i blame portugal. some more cut&paste for the fans: Zinn cites Columbus' journal entries many times, including his reaction to the initial encounter with the Arawaks: 'They would make fine servants....With 50 men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want (Zinn, 1).' This attitude led to enslavement, highjacking, murder and rape. The Spaniards main goal was to prove to the royalty back home that the islands were rich and loaded with resources, mainly gold. Columbus took some natives back to show the queen (they died en route), and when he came back with many more men and many more ships, they began a regimented system of slavery and punishment on the natives of the West Indies. All reports speak of the friendliness of the Arawaks, of their genuine kindness and hospitality, and of their generosity. On his second voyage back home, Columbus took 500 slaves to Spain, saying in a letter, 'Let us in the name of the Holy Trinity go on sending all the slaves that can be sold (Zinn, 4)'; two-hundred died en route. Columbus and his men were excited over the gold earrings some of the Arawaks wore. This is what escalated the rapid, excited mad dash for gold in the islands (they had to make money for Spanish investors). The men took slaves and enforced mandatory mining on the natives, who, if found without the proper coin around their necks to prove they had brought in enough gold, were then murdered. A young priest named Bartolome de las Casas came along with this new 'exploration' to the West Indies, and he noticed all the attrocities that were happening - and he documented them. In his book History of the Indies, he says '..our work was to exasperate, ravage, kill, mangle and destroy,(Zinn, 6)' certainly a far cry from Columbus' many religious quotations claiming his groups following of 'His [God's] way.' de las Casas' writings conclude that in the years 1494-1508, over three million native lives were extinguished on the island of Hispaniola from slavery, war, and mining. The invasion of the West Indies resulted in a complete genocide.
I didn't think one of those islands could accommodate 3 million people at the native people's tech level.
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Regarding in All Hospitality Two: People get born: Repopulation?
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The British. Played Divide and rule all across Asia. Created too much trouble that go on to this day.
It's all the fault of the English.. (but of course I'd say that -- my last name *is* McNally..)
It *is* all the fault of the English. If the English had got their fingers out and beat the colonials in the Revolutionary War, America would only be a (probably small) part of the UK/British Empire, everyone would agree with the Irish, and 9/11 would have been called 11/9 and would have happened in London. Oh, and Dubya would have remained an obscure Prime Minister of the Province of Texas.
Nah. It's all the fault of Sumeria.
(No, he wouldn't have, because Texas would still be part of Mexico.)
(Plus, he isn't from Texas in the first place.)
Ok, so where's he from then? Florida?
Maine, I think. At least, the 'family home' seems to be in Kennebunkport.
I *think* they're actually from Connecticut, but they might be from Maine.
The only ones I'm sure of are the Kennedys, from Massachusetts, and the Rockefellers, from New York (e'en though one of them has been the Governor of West Virginia).
RE #15 Don't forget Winthrop Rockefeller, governor of Arkansas in the 1960's.
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