America Was Founded On Genocide And Theft

There is nothing more evil than someone who would annihilate a person, destroy their identity, then use the victim’s resources to build their own fortune, which is exactly what happened in the New World, from 1492 right up to the present day, which is exactly what is happening in the Middle East in Iraq. Someone has to ask the question, for what reason is America, the richest, most powerful nation on earth, destroying defenseless, little Iraq? For the same reasons the US wanted to kill all the Indians and seize their land and resources. It’s the same thing, over and over. Americans have always turned the other cheek to atrocities and genocide when it meant worldly gains. All done with the blessings of Christianity, which I guess makes murder okey dokey because Jesus has come to wipe away your sin and even wipe away the memory that you sinned. When Columbus came to America, he brought with him all the ugliness of Christianity and capitalism from Europe. Like Standard said, “The Spain that Christopher Columbus and his crews left behind before dawn on August 3, 1492, as they sailed forth from Palos and out into the Atlantic, was for most of its people a land of violence, squalor, treachery, and intolerance. In this respect Spain was no different from the rest of Europe.” This was not an empty land, America. It was inhabited with millions of Indians. By 1890, there were only 250,000 Indians left!! As an American, what do you think happened to all those Indians? Never in the whole history of the world was there ever a bigger genocide or one more vicious. But what is most astounding about this, is the fact that Americans know nothing about this. Lakotas and other Native Americans recoil in horror, when they hear of Fallujah being sealed off, of Mosques being sealed off, and US soldiers once again, gunning down innocent brown skinned people while they are praying. This is a first hand account as given to Dahr Jamail* www.jahrjamailiraq.com from a man who was actually in the Mosque when the US soldiers opened fire: November 19,2004 Terrorizing those who are praying… Abu Talat calls me frantic. The deafening roar of hundreds of people in a confined area yelling, “Allahu Akbar” (God is Greatest) reverberate behind his panicked voice. “I am being held at gunpoint by American soldiers inside Abu Hanifa mosque Dahr,” he yells, “Everyone is praying to God because the Americans are raiding our mosque during Friday prayer!” He makes short calls, updating me on the atrocity. After a few sentences of information he hangs up because he is trapped inside the mosque and trying to let me know what is happening. Being Friday, the day of prayer and holiday, this was supposed to be an off day for us. I just finish typing what he told me before he calls back. “They have shot and killed at least 4 of the people while they were praying, and at least 20 are wounded now! I cannot believe this! I can’t let them see me calling you. I am on my stomach now and they have our guns on everyone, there are at least 1,500 people inside the mosque and it is sealed. We are on our bellies and in a very bad situation.” Several Humvees and Iraqi National Guard (ING) vehicles showed up and 50 soldiers and well over 50 ING sealed and entered the mosque with the goal of detaining the Imam, Shaikh Muayid al-Adhami. Abu Talat calls back, “We were here praying and now there are over 50 here with their guns on us,” he said. ”They are holding our heads to the ground, and everyone is in chaos. This is the worst situation possible. They cannot see me talking to you. They are roughing up a blind man now.” The soldiers eventually released women and children along with men who were related to them. Abu Talat was only released because a boy approached him and told him to pretend to be his father. Shortly thereafter he phones me from his home in tears. “Dahr I cannot believe what has happened,” pausing to collect himself, “I will go back to see what is happening now.” I urge him not to go, but he insists. “This is my mosque and my people. I must go see what is happening to them.” It is now 2:15pm and the mosque is still sealed. We begin to interview people he is with via the mobile as he describes the scene. “People were praying and the Americans invaded the mosque,” Abdulla Ra'ad Aziz said, who had been released along with his wife and children. “Why are they killing people for praying? After the forces entered they went to the back doors and we heard so many bullets of the guns. There were wounded and dead, I saw them myself.” Some of the people who had been at prayer were ordered by soldiers to carry the dead and wounded out of the mosque. “One Iraqi National Guardsmen held his gun on people and yelled, ‘I will kill you if you don't shut up’,” said Rana Aziz, a mother who had been trapped in the mosque. She was now waiting outside for her brother, who was still inside. Hammad Mohammed, a 20 year-old man, said, “My uncle’s coffin was taken inside the mosque to be prayed on, and the Americans raided the mosque and went to the Imams’ room. Then they went to the back doors and we heard so many bullets of the guns-it was a gun bigger than a Kalashnikov. There were wounded and dead, as I saw them myself. I saw 4 killed and 9 wounded.” Abu Talat then breaks the interview and tells me, “Doctors and staff are standing outside but the Americans refuse to let them inside. They can do nothing, and the Americans are not letting them inside while there are wounded people inside the mosque.” Just like in Fallujah, soldiers denied Iraqi Red Crescent ambulances and medical teams access to the mosque. As doctors negotiated with U.S. soldiers outside, more gunfire was heard from inside the mosque. About 30 men were led out with hoods over their heads and their hands tied behind them. Soldiers loaded them into a military vehicle and took them away around 3.15 pm. A doctor with the Iraqi Red Crescent confirmed four dead and nine wounded worshippers. Pieces of brain were splattered on one of the walls inside the mosque while large blood stains covered carpets in several places. Later Abu Talat comes to my hotel to see me. He is distraught, crying while he recounts the story. After listening to the tape he recorded inside the mosque during the atrocity, he says… “I am in a very sad position. I do not see any freedom or any democracy. If this could lead into a freedom, it is a freedom with blood. It is a freedom of emotions of sadness. It is a freedom of killing. You cannot gain democracy through blood or killing. You do not find the freedom that way. People are going to pray to God and they were killed and wounded. There were 1,500 people praying to God and they went on a holiday were people go every Friday for prayers. And they were shot and killed. There were so many women and kids lying on the ground. This is not democracy, neither freedom.” After several weeks of relative calm in Adhamiya, the detention of the Imam of Abu Hanifa and killing of worshippers inside their mosque is sure to ignite the fires of revenge in this area, which is already known as the Fallujah of Baghdad. ______________________________________________ The only question to ask is, how can you sit there and permit this to happen? George Bush didn’t accomplish this on his own. He needed the consent of the American public. That’s you. When history asks where were you when this happened, what will you say? Let me give you a few examples of what you have said in the past. "The bulk of California's Indians were conquered, and died, in innumerable little episodes rather than in large campaigns ... it serves to indict not a group of cruel leaders, or a few squads of rough soldiers, but in effect, an entire people; for the conquest of the Native Californian was above all else a popular, mass, enterprise" -- Jack Forbes, contemporary native historian. In 1860 the Alta California reported a massacre conducted by a Captain Jarboe among the Achomawi peoples of the north-east. "The attacking party rushed upon them, blowing out their brains, and splitting their heads open with tomahawks. Little children in baskets, and even babes, had their heads smashed to pieces or cut open. Mothers and infants shared the same phenomenon ... Many of the fugitives were chased and shot as they ran ... The children, scarcely able to run, toddled towards the squaw for protection, crying with fright, but were overtaken, slaughtered like wild animals, and thrown into piles. ... One woman got into a pond hole, where she hid herself under the grass, with her head above water, and concealed her papoose on the bank in a basket. She was discovered and her head blown to pieces, the muzzle of the gun being placed against her skull and the child was drowned in the pond." Americans were always God fearing Christian capitalists. They let nothing stand in the way of making a profit. How did they get by with it? Just don’t report it, don’t talk about it, and if you do, just lie about it. That’s the American way. Out of sight, out of mind. Simple. “The population of North America prior to the first sustained European contact in 1492 CE is a matter of active debate. Various estimates of the pre-contact Native population of the continental U.S. and Canada range from 1.8 to over 12 million. 4 Over the next four centuries, their numbers were reduced to about 237,000 as Natives were almost wiped out. Author Carmen Bernand estimates that the Native population of what is now Mexico was reduced from 30 million to only 3 million over four decades. 13 Peter Montague estimates that Europeans once ruled over 100 million Natives throughout the Americas.” What happened to all those Indians? According to Americans, this pristine land, this Garden of Eden was waiting here for the white Christian male to come and show the heathen savages the true religion, Christianity. And when the infidel ran and hid, rejecting Christianity as something the Indians didn’t want or need, the Christians not only murdered them, they tortured them to death, killing even innocent little babes. Then they washed themselves in the blood of Jesus and congratulated themselves on a job well done, calling it Manifest Destiny just like Bush calls his massacre in Iraq, Operation Freedom. Now that you have conquered the whole world, America, with the help of the willing, the millions of frightened, flag waving Americans who are just doing their job, are you satisfied? Now that you have murdered millions of innocents; people, birds, animals, plants, even an innocent tiger in a cage, is that enough? So, all you Americans hiding under the bed, saying your prayers to Bush that he will rid the world of evil, guess who is next? * I have Dahr Jamail's written permission to quote from his story. Janis Schmidt