- How a blind person picked up poop in a bag from their dog, left it on a stoop before going in because she couldn’t find a trash can, and the media had a headline calling it a racial crime thinking it was the KKK or something
- U.S & Israel are settler-colonial nation
- All nations were established by settler and colonizers
- 1980: US Supreme Court rules US Government had illegal taken the Blackhill of South Dakota (Site of Mount Rushmore) from the Lakota people ^a0ada9
- US ordered to pay $106 million
- 1868: Treaty of Fort Laramie
- Ending Red Clouds War setting the land apart
- 6 years later: General Custard entered the Black Hills found gold; settlers came on the news of gold
- Military tried to initially stop the settlers and honor the treaty; but they kept coming
- President Grant told Military to stand down
- US decided best to buy the land from Lakota; negotiations broke down
- General Custard led a charge and failed; defeated at Little Big Horn
- US quickly defeated the Lakota
- Lakota refused to surrender; but didn’t have means to survive; stripped of horses and weapons
- 1876: Congress made aid to Lakota people contingent on them seeding the land to the US
- Some agreed but not enough to satisfy the treaty
- The court DID NOT say to give the land back.
- Impracticable
- .25 million Americans lived on the land
- Lakota people did NOT accept the Courts decision
- Blood money for stolen land
- 2011: Settlement valued at 1 Billion; Lakota still would not accept it
- Lakota did not magically sprout out of the Blackhills of the Dakotas
- The right of conquest has been a universally recognized principle of policies until 70 years ago when liberal utopians pretended that a couple UN declarations could fundamentally change politics and human nature and freeze history in place.
- We should not disavow our political ancestors like you wouldn’t your family ancestors
- Great men that didn’t become wealthy for their troubles
- Christopher Columbus
- Never paid what he was owed by Spanish crown; was accused of bogus crimes to get out of paying
- Wanted to fund a crusade to retake the holy land
- Pilgrams
- Gave up two lives of comfort; Liden in Netherlands and England
- George Washington; lost half his net worth
- John Adams; major financial problems throughout war
- Thomas Jefferson died a debtor due to public service
- The men that the left call thieves and plunders are all motivated by higher ideals
- Christopher Columbus
- 5 Years before the supposedly evil colonizer Christopher Columbus arrived; the Aztecs sacrificed 80,000+ at Temple over course of 4 days
- Cortez conquered the Aztecs, stopped the demon worship and the sacrifices; introduced Christianity
- Unlike many other religions, Christianity has almost never spread by the sword (Except Charlemagne & Spain) — Conversions must be made freely
- Christian’s treating conquered people well, demanded by the Pope to Conquistadors
- West has been uniquely innocent compared to other conquers.
- Would you rather be conquested by the West or Aztecs? West or ISIS?
- If you believe the Western type of conquest are bad, wait until you see all the other types of conquests
- Someday somebody is going to correct our errors as well and we should hope for the same grace that we might afford to our forebearers.
From the notebook