Within 25 years, the Taino Indians on the island that Columbus first settled would be reduced by 95% from 300,000 in 1492 to 12,000 by 1517, a pattern which was to be repeated throughout the Americas.

  Those that remained were at first evaluated as potential slaves by Columbus. Writing about the fierce Carib's who likely wiped out his first settlement of 39 men on the north coast of Haiti Columbus said, 

"a wild people fit for any work, well proportioned, and very intelligent, and who when they got rid of their cruel habits to which they have become accustomed, will be better than any kind of slaves."

Columbus has metamorphosed from a grand crusader into a genocidal maniac and a precursor to Hitler. American Indians are now beyond reproach, canonized as moral and ecological saints.

Domination through Brutality: 
"As Adam Smith observed, European success was a tribute to its mastery of the means and immersion in the culture of violence. "Warfare in India was still a sport," John Keay observes: "in Europe it had become a science." From a European perspective, the global conquests were "small wars," and were so considered by military authorities, Geoffrey Parker writes, pointing out that "Cortés conquered Mexico with perhaps 500 Spaniards; Pizarro overthrew the Inca empire with less than 200; and the entire Portuguese empire [from Japan to southern Africa] was administered and defended by less than 10,000 Europeans."

"The savage injustice of the Europeans rendered an event that ought to  have been beneficial to all, ruinous and destructive to several of those unfortunate countries," Adam Smith wrote in 1776, proving him to be an early practitioner of the crime of political correctness to borrow some rhetoric of contemporary cultural management."

"While modalities have changed the fundamental themes of the conquest retain their vitality and resilience and will continue to do so until the reality and causes of the "savage injustice" are honestly addressed."

 

"The Savage Injustice of the Europeans" Year 501 Copyright © 1993  by Noam Chomsky

"Multiculturalism is better understood as a civil conflict within the Western academy over contrasting approaches to learning about the world..... Consequently multiculturalism in practice is distinguished by an effort to establish cultural parity by attacking the historical and contemporary hegemony of Western civilization. To do it, activists draw heavily on such leftist movements as Marxism, deconstructionism, and anticolonial or Third World nationalism...........

Because of his defense of the West, Vargas Llosa has been criticized for advancing a reactionary position. Yet in a similar vein the left-wing Mexican novelist and diplomat Carlos Fuentes argues that the Europeans prevailed over the Indians because their empirical approach to knowledge gave them enormous civilizational confidence. By contrast, the Indians relied on a combination of direct perception, dreams, hallucination, and appeals to the spirits. Fuentes writes in The Buried Mirror, "The so-called discovery of America, whatever one might ideologically think about it, was a great triumph of scientific hypothesis over physical perception."

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"The major long-term significance of Columbus' voyage is that it led to the mixing of the people of the world on an unprecedented scale and set in motion the process of making what would become the United States the most ethnically diverse society the world has known.

The key question about the sort of society that issued from the mixing of people following Columbus' voyage has always been whether diversity is a blessing or a curse."

" It is against the centrifugal forces inevitable in such a society that the Pledge of Allegiance speaks. If such a nation is to survive, special efforts must be made to bring different people together and make them understand that they are one nation.

Robert S. McElvaine

Buddy Dano, Pastor Divine Viewpoint www.mylinuxisp.com/~appelomega/HBC/  Hautey the Hero 

On a tiny island at the entrance to New York harbor stands the majestic statue of a woman facing the sea. In her right hand, stretched toward the skies, she holds a lighted torch to light the way and guide the millions seeking refuge to the land of freedom and opportunity. In her left hand she holds a book of laws. That is the Statue of Liberty - - a statue which, once seen, can never be forgotten; a statue which exemplifies liberty under the law- - truly the spirit of America.

On a tablet inside the pedestal upon which it stands the world is invited in these passionate and dramatic words:  

That the poor, the tired, and those who yearned to breathe free heeded that call is attested by one of the greatest migrations of peoples the world has ever known. The statue was erected in 1886. From 1886 to 1914, a period of 28 years, 17 million immigrants from every corner of the globe sought and found a haven in this wonderful land. Between 1820 and 1958, 41 million - - equal to the population of France - - came from every nation on earth, from every walk of life, each contributing his bit in his own way to the American life and culture which we now enjoy. Among this vast multitude was the poor, often illiterate, but industrious, hard-working, patient, intelligent and talented Italian immigrant.

In order to understand what is meant by Italian immigrant, it is necessary to be reminded that the political unity of the people of the Italian peninsula and of Sicily was not realized until 1860, and then only in part. For centuries prior to 1860, the southern part of Italy and Sicily were ruled by foreign governments which oppressed and exploited the people. The medieval feudal system of land tenure under those governments was in force until after 1815. Under such a system, no matter how industrious and ambitious the people were, they were unable to rise above the condition of sharecroppers, comparable to the sharecroppers of our own south. Even after 1860 the feudal estates were kept intact. There was no land which the landless peasants could work and produce food badly needed, except on the oppressive terms of the owner or of the lessee of the feudal state.

These conditions were not much improved by the newly formed Italian state. On the contrary, in some instances, they became even worse. more

Checking Out Chavez’s Venezuela Berkeley Daily Planet, CA - Dec 29, 2006

Chavez Calls Bush "The Devil"

Hugo Chavez Speech at the UN on September 20th,2006 broadcast on Fox

"Representatives of the governments of the world, good morning to all of you. First of all, I would like to invite you, very respectfully, to those who have not read this book, to read it.
Noam Chomsky, one of the most prestigious American and world intellectuals, Noam Chomsky, and this is one of his most recent books, Hegemony or Survival: The Imperialist Strategy of the United States.  It’s an excellent book to help us understand what has been happening in the world throughout the 20th century, and what’s happening now, and the greatest threat looming over our planet.
The hegemonic pretensions of the American empire are placing at risk the very survival of the human species. We continue to warn you about this danger and we appeal to the people of the United States and the world to halt this threat, which is like a sword hanging over our heads....We want ideas to save our planet, to save the planet from the imperialist threat. And hopefully in this very century, in not too long a time, we will see this, we will see this new era, and for our children and our grandchildren a world of peace based on the fundamental principles of the United Nations, but a renewed United Nations.
And maybe we have to change location. Maybe we have to put the United Nations somewhere else; maybe a city of the south. We’ve proposed Venezuela.

In an interview later with CNN en Español, Chavez said he had good relations with President Clinton, but of Bush he said, "With this cowboy you can't even talk ... the Texan who walks around shooting from the hip."

When in January cartoons by a few previously obscure Danish cartoonists were published, some of which lampooned the Prophet Muhammad, complaints were not enough for some Islamic enthusiasts. Instead there were riots in the Middle East and threats in Denmark, purposely orchestrated by ambitious mullahs. Later in the year, when Pope Benedict XVI quoted a 14th-century pope who was critical of Islam – in the context of a nuanced discussion of the difficulty of reconciling faith and reason – churches were burned, and a nun was shot in the back.

Furthermore, restive Muslims rioted in France, and native-born Britons planted bombs on the subway. Europe has little experience with cultural assimilation, but it will have to get up to speed quickly. Moderate Muslims – still the vast majority – need to step up and serve as bridges between cultures. And if the U.S. ever hopes to neutralize "Islamofascist" terrorism it will have to learn a lot more about Islam and how to talk with sincere but reasonable believers.

• While many in the United States of America generally refer to the country as America and themselves as Americans,[1] many people elsewhere in the Americas resent what they perceive as appropriation of the term in this context and, thus, this usage is frequently avoided. In Canada, their southern neighbour is seldom referred to as "America" with "the United States", "the U.S.", or (informally) "the States" The most common way to distinguish is singular/plural or America/Americas and adding "the" with the plural "s" is even more clear.
• A hemispheric free-trade agreement, long a goal of U.S. policy, seems like a long shot as "populist" rulers love to blame the poverty of their countries on the very activity – international trade – that stands the best chance of relieving it.