(OT) Re: PsychoBitch Sunday Exclusive VIP Invitation

From: Chris Widman (chriswidman@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Oct 05 2001 - 00:37:59 CEST

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    Many American's have the day off on Monday in celebration of a particularly
    twisted US holiday: Columbus Day.

    Columbus had this to say of the natives he encountered:
    "They...brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other
    things, which they exchanged for the glass beads and hawks' bells. They
    willingly traded everything they owned...They were well-built, with good
    bodies and handsome features....They do not bear arms, and do not know them,
    for I showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out
    of ignorance. They have no iron. Their spears are made of cane...They would
    make fine servants....With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make
    them do whatever we want."

    For more info on Columbus' genocide, check out the first chapter of
    howard zinn's brilliant "People's History of the United States"

    http://www.horizons.k12.mi.us/~aim/papers/zinncolumbus.html

    peace,
    chris widman
    wluw-chicago

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