As it is Thanksgiving Weekend, I think it is important for all of us to remember how our grand government consciously practiced genocide on the original settlers of North America over the past 300 years. I imagine such activities are continuing in foreign countries so to fed Mammon’s rich in America and Europe, directly or indirectly. Activities our citizens refuse to oppose or even care about (with a few exceptions).
Reviewing the websites below, I think we all must concede that nearly all humans lack anything Divine within their hearts and have not earned heaven or even hell for repentance. Clearly, human quality is not related to any one religion.
Those superior persons who opposed genocide from our earliest days are to be thanked for keeping some semblance of Divinity within our species. I believe that the earliest Christians and martyrs and the desert fathers of the first three centuries CE had such.
Personally, I am deeply ashamed to have been a member of our species once upon a time.
Mankind has been continually warned about violating the Holy Laws, generally without sufficient response. The time is soon to come when our species will pay once and for all for listening to Ahriman rather than Ahura Mazda (to use a Zoroastrian concept). The first elimination by water, the last by fire.
The Good Doctor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genocides_by_death_toll
https://ourworldindata.org/genocides
https://www.businessinsider.com/genocides-still-going-on-today-bosnia-2017-11
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_in_history#United_States
United States[edit]
President Abraham Lincoln ordered the mass execution of 38 Native Americans in Minnesota for revolt against the government in 1862
During the American Indian Wars, the United States Army carried out a number of massacres and forced relocations of Indigenous peoples, acts that some scholars say constitute genocide. The Sand Creek Massacre, which caused outrage in its own time, has been called genocide. General John Chivington led a 700-man force of Colorado Territory militia in a massacre of 70–163 peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho, about two-thirds of whom were women, children, and infants. Chivington and his men took scalps and other body parts as trophies, including human fetuses and male and female genitalia.[85] In defense of his actions Chivington stated,
Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians! … I have come to kill Indians, and believe it is right and honorable to use any means under God’s heaven to kill Indians. … Kill and scalp all, big and little; nits make lice.
— Col. John Milton Chivington, U.S. Army[86]
A study by Gregory Michno concluded that of 21,586 tabulated casualties in a selected 672 battles and skirmishes, military personnel and settlers accounted for 6,596 (31%), while indigenous casualties totaled about 14,990 (69%) for the period 1850–90. Michno’s study almost exclusively uses Army estimates. His follow-up book “Forgotten Battles and Skirmishes” covers over 300 additional fights not included in these statistics.[87]
According to the U.S. Bureau of the Census (1894), between 1789 and 1846, “The Indian wars under the government of the United States have been more than 40 in number. They have cost the lives of about 19,000 white men, women, and children, including those killed in individual combats, and the lives of about 30,000 Indians. The actual number of killed and wounded Indians must be very much higher than the given… Fifty percent additional would be a safe estimate…”[88] In the same 1894 report, the Census Bureau dismissed assertions that millions of Native Americans once inhabited what is now the United States, insisting instead that North America in 1492 was an almost empty continent, and “guesstimating” that aboriginal populations “could not have exceeded much over 500,000”, whereas modern scholarship now estimates more than 10 million.[89][90]
Chalk and Jonassohn argued that the deportation of the Cherokee tribe along the Trail of Tears would almost certainly be considered an act of genocide today.[91] The Indian Removal Act of 1830 led to the exodus. About 17,000 Cherokees—along with approximately 2,000 Cherokee-owned black slaves—were removed from their homes.[92] The number of people who died as a result of the Trail of Tears has been variously estimated. American doctor and missionary Elizur Butler, who made the journey with one party, estimated 4,000 deaths.[93] Historians David Stannard[94] and Barbara Mann[95] have noted that the army deliberately routed the march of the Cherokee to pass through areas of a known cholera epidemic, such as Vicksburg. Stannard estimates that during the forced removal from their homelands, following the Indian Removal Act signed into law by President Andrew Jackson in 1830, 8000 Cherokee died, about half the total population.[94]
Archaeologist and anthropologist Ann F. Ramenofsky writes, “Variola Major can be transmitted through contaminated articles such as clothing or blankets. In the nineteenth century, the U. S. Army sent contaminated blankets to Native Americans, especially Plains groups, to control the Indian problem.”[96] While specific responsibility for the 1836-40 smallpox epidemic remains in question, scholars have asserted that the Great Plains epidemic was “started among the tribes of the upper Missouri River by failure to quarantine steamboats on the river”,[51] and Captain Pratt of the St. Peter “was guilty of contributing to the deaths of thousands of innocent people. The law calls his offense criminal negligence. Yet in light of all the deaths, the almost complete annihilation of the Mandans, and the terrible suffering the region endured, the label criminal negligence is benign, hardly befitting an action that had such horrendous consequences.”[97] Leading genocide expert Dirk Moses attributes “the genocide of many Native American tribes” including the Mandans, to governmental assimilationist policies that coexisted with officially or unofficially sanctioned efforts “to eradicate, diminish, or forcibly evict the ‘savages'”.[98]
The U.S. colonization of California started in earnest in 1849, and it resulted in a large number of state-subsidized massacres of Native Americans by colonists in the territory, causing several ethnic groups to be entirely wiped out. In one such series of conflicts, the so-called Mendocino War and the subsequent Round Valley War, the entirety of the Yuki people were brought to the brink of extinction, from a previous population of some 3,500 people to fewer than 100. According to Russell Thornton, estimates of the pre-Columbian population of California were at least 310,000, and perhaps as high as 705,000. By 1849, due to Spanish and Mexican colonization and epidemics, this number had decreased to 100,000. But from 1849 and up until 1890 the Indigenous population of California had fallen below 20,000, primarily because of the killings.[99] In An American Genocide, The United States and the California Catastrophe, 1846-1873, Historian Benjamin Madley recorded the number of killings of California Indians that occurred between 1846 and 1873. He found evidence that during this period, at least 9,400 to 16,000 California Indians were killed by non-Indians. Most of these killings occurred in more than 370 massacres (defined as the “intentional killing of five or more disarmed combatants or largely unarmed noncombatants, including women, children, and prisoners, whether in the context of a battle or otherwise”).[100] 10,000 Indians were also kidnapped and sold as slaves.[101]