Posted on 02/20/2016 5:33:52 AM PST by Citizen Zed
Donald Trump on Friday cited an apocryphal story about a U.S. general who purportedly dipped bullets in pigs' blood to execute Muslim prisoners a century ago in an effort to deter Islamic terrorism.
Speaking at a rally in North Charleston, South Carolina, Trump reiterated his claim that the U.S. should "go much further" than waterboarding suspected terrorists, telling the story of Gen. John Pershing in the Philippines, who Trump said captured 50 Muslim prisoners a century ago and dipped 50 bullets in blood.
"And he lined up the 50 people and they shot 49 of those 50 people, and he said to the 50th, you go back to your people and you tell them what happened -- and in 25 years there wasn't a problem," Trump said to the audience, which grew quiet as he told the story.
Coming in contact with swine is forbidden under Islamic law.
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment about what Trump was suggesting in referencing the story, which Snopes, a website that investigates urban myths and legends, was unable to corroborate a year ago.
The story took place during a rally in which Trump reflected on his campaign's unanticipated success.
"This all began June 16. Who knew this was going to happen? I figured maybe I'd be in the pack," a subdued Trump said as he began his final rally before South Carolina's Republican primary on Saturday, which could hand Trump his second consecutive electoral victory. "I thought it was going to be like a horse race. I'd be in the middle of the pack and at the very end I'd inch it out."
But Trump isn't in the middle of the pack, ready to inch out a victory in South Carolina. He's leading it, with CNN's average of South Carolina polling showing Trump with a double-digit lead over his closest competitor, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. The victory would be a momentous one for Trump and a blow to several of his opponents, including Cruz, who has positioned himself as the conservative capable of rallying the South to capture the nomination.
At Friday's rally, Trump ripped Cruz as someone "who lies more than any other human being I have ever seen" and slammed politicians broadly as "all taken care of by every industry."
And while Trump touted his 20-point victory just a week earlier in the New Hampshire primary, he also sought to undercut his supporters' -- and the media's expectations -- urging them not to look at the polling showing him poised to clutch a decisive victory, but instead to get out and vote like they were preparing for a nail-biter.
"Who knows what the numbers are. The polls are very nice. Who knows? We can't take a chance," Trump said in comments starkly in contrast with his predictions of a "tremendous victory" in Iowa the day he ultimately faltered with a second-place finish.
"It's crunch time, folks. It's crunch time," he reminded the audience.
But Trump ended the night on a reflective note, reminding his supporters that they are part of a movement of which he is simply the "messenger" -- and urging them to get out and vote.
"You're going to say to yourselves this was one of the greatest evenings and one of the great days of your lives," Trump said.
"We're going to make America great again. Thank you, everybody. I love you."
Now he’s just playing with the media.
HOORAY Trump
hell just spray a swath of pig blood around like garlic for vampires...lol
pig blood bombs..cheap one size fits all
Like a cat with a mouse.
Pretty sure this is covered in Max Boot’s “Savage Wars of Peace.”
Let's see if Obama will ban him for visiting White House or the Attorney General will charge him with hate speech.
A good way to get accurate information is before it has been skewed to what they want us to hear. Anything current says it's "urban legend" without mentioning those original articles. Considering the era and the brutality of the war in the Philipines, I suspect the story has at least some truth to it.
Trump is correct, again, so it seems. But that bit of history will probably disappear. I wonder if someone is in a position to actually check the archives for those original newspaper stories about WW1 in the Philipines.
So, how good is lard as a bore lube?
It was a great rally.
Buried Moros dead wrapped in hog carcasses too. But the new M1911 pistol and Springfield Rifle’s M1903 Mauser clone (and its clumsy predecessor the Krag) were probably more responsible for success in that long and vicious guerilla war.
Philippines 1911, when Gen. “Black” Jack Pershing was in command of the garrison. There had been numerous Islamic terrorist attacks, so “Black Jack” told his men to capture a group of the terrorists and force them to dig their own graves. The terrorists were then tied to posts around a large pit. Soldiers then brought in pigs and slaughtered them, rubbing their bullets in the blood and fat. The terrorists were terrorized; they saw that they would be contaminated with pigs’ blood. This would mean that they could not enter Heaven, even if they died as terrorist martyrs. Pershing had all but one shot and told the last one to tell what he’d seen.
Just the news flash to the Muslim world that from this day forward you will meet your end in pigs blood from a bomb or bullet will get thier attention
Thanks. I’m familiar with that history about the greatest anti-truth, anti-freedom, anti-individual, anti-life collective in the history of civilization.
Fislam
I even like the Democrat Truman. (GPS Mecca, Medina)
It doesn’t matter if its historical fact imho. Its a good idea to try for the future
Its also a good torture technique, feed them pork. How dare he!
Probably not true, but it should be:
HOW TO STOP ISLAMIC TERRORISTS . . . it worked once in our History . . .
Once in US history an episode of Islamic terrorism was very quickly stopped. It happened in the Philippines about 1911, when Gen. John J. Pershing was in command of the garrison. There had been numerous Islamic terrorist attacks, so “Black Jack” told his boys to catch the perps and teach them a lesson.
Forced to dig their own graves, the terrorists were all tied to posts, execution style. The US soldiers then brought in pigs and slaughtered them, rubbing their bullets in the blood and fat. Thus, the terrorists were terrorized; they saw that they would be contaminated with hogs’ blood. This would mean that they could not enter Heaven, even if they died as terrorist martyrs.
All but one was shot, their bodies dumped into the grave, and the hog guts dumped atop the bodies. The lone survivor was allowed to escape back to the terrorist camp and tell his brethren what happened to the others. This brought a stop to terrorism in the Philippines for the next 50 years.
Maybe....maybe not.....
...but it’s a good play!
We need a manufacturer to make ‘filled’ pork lard bullets and arm our troops with this ammo in Muslim countries. Additionally, it needs to be widely publicized, that domestically we are arming up with packed pork lard hollow points.
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