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The belief that early settlers intentionally spread smallpox among the American Indians comes from the same mindset that believes John Lennon was killed by the CIA. One thing George Carlin was right about, you can come up with the most outrageous crap, and some schmuck will buy it.
1 posted on 10/19/2014 9:49:24 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
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To: Impala64ssa

George Carlin? ................... A master of common sense humor.


2 posted on 10/19/2014 9:52:56 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft
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To: Impala64ssa

It’s from American Thinker, not the Spectator.


3 posted on 10/19/2014 9:53:10 AM PDT by Sparklite
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To: Impala64ssa

President Obola probably regards an influx of Ebola-infected Africans into the U.S. as sweet revenge for past injustices.

Watch for Melissa Harris-Perry to say exactly that.


4 posted on 10/19/2014 9:54:48 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("I am a radicalized infidel.")
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To: Impala64ssa

There is documentary evidence that spreading smallpox intentionally to the Indians was at minimum discussed and probably carried out.

http://www.nativeweb.org/pages/legal/amherst/lord_jeff.html

However, this was during the French and Indian War and was under the British Army, not the American Army.


6 posted on 10/19/2014 10:02:37 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Impala64ssa; narses; Nachum; SunkenCiv; cogitator

That myth is widely (wildly ?) taught as “fact” in today’s communist-liberal-socialist colleges, but it is based on a single letter PROPOSING such a scheme by ONE British officer in ONE far-western fort ONE time ...

With NO subsequent evidence it was ever implemented by ANY group or official at ANY other time or ANY other location....

yet, today’s youth are thus corrupted. “But it’s in the (government’s) book” daddy! My teacher said so - You’re a liar!”


7 posted on 10/19/2014 10:05:11 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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I think about my mother would feel to know that the virus that crippled her is being intentionally brought into her country.

Ignoring the incoherence of this sentence, the author is assuming that the present outbreak of enterovirus is USA is caused by the influx of Central American children immigrants. Also that American officials knew these children were infected and dispersed them across the country intentionally.

I realize there's a correlation in time between this disease and the immigrants showing up. But, as every scientist knows, correlation is not causation.

If anybody has evidence of an actual link between the enterovirus and the immigrant "children," I'd really like to see it.

8 posted on 10/19/2014 10:06:02 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Impala64ssa

Racial revenge for dragging their ungrateful butts out of the stone age and giving them the gifts of longer lives and modern conveniences.


9 posted on 10/19/2014 10:26:59 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Impala64ssa

The Iroquois were my tribe’s mortal enemies and while I’m not an expert on their culture I a bit surprised that they didn’t have a written language by the time the Constitution was written. (I’m looking it up, but it doesn’t look like they developed one by that time, if ever.) My tribe had a written language within a few years of contact with Europeans (and I should note it has been a great blessing to my people since it has preserved much of our history that otherwise would have been lost).


10 posted on 10/19/2014 10:27:51 AM PDT by Bill93
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And, I might add, the idea that the Iroquois wrote the constitution is absurd. Certain aspects of the Constitution were inspired by the Iroquois confederacy, but even then the influence doesn’t extend to the Constitution’s specifics.


12 posted on 10/19/2014 10:30:28 AM PDT by Bill93
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***The belief that early settlers intentionally spread smallpox among the American Indians ***

Especially since the early settlers thought sickness came from bad air, even the London Plague was believed to be caused by bad air. They called that air...Miasma.
We today refer to it as asthma.

Microbiology was unknown back then as was virus.


15 posted on 10/19/2014 11:27:28 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Impala64ssa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Fort_Pitt

Sadly, I think there is historical evidence that this did happen. Please note the primary source references in the article.


23 posted on 10/19/2014 12:59:28 PM PDT by Madam Theophilus (iI)
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This is likely part of the nifty, new Common Core curriculum.

Home school your kids or enroll them in a quality, conservative private school.


24 posted on 10/19/2014 1:04:34 PM PDT by upchuck (The language of government now is word-spew. ~ h/t Peggy Noonan)
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To: Impala64ssa

The Howard Zinn School of anti-American history seems to be taking over. The key is to rationalize a sinister interpretation for every event.


33 posted on 10/19/2014 3:21:02 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Things are only going to get worse.)
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