Posted on 12/05/2002 4:54:44 PM PST by Sabertooth
Both of which are generally honed to bone-cutting sharpness.
This article is just another propaganda broadside in the war against Western Civilization, expounded by the many "Lets hate America" groups.
The coastal Indian populations of the Pacific Northwest was decimated prior to 1830 by German Measles brought by ship's crews. This was not germ warfare, an act purposefully committed, but the way in wich infectious diseases, as vectors, spread. This was true not just for North America but for China, Japan, southeast Asia, North Africa, the Middle East, Ancient Rome and Greece - the list encompasses many cultures and peoples across history.
As for the Papal Wars, this article discusses North America and smallpox, not the internecine wars among city states on the Italian Penninsula. Yes, there corpses were catapulted over city walls. That doesn't mean the attackers knew about and understood how bacteria and viruses spread. The most commonly believed protection used then, against such diseases as plague and smallpox, was to wear a garlic bulb on a string around the neck! This article poses that Europeans systematically used bioweapons in a sophisticated manner that was actually beyond their abilities and knowledge. It heavily implies a conspiracy to eliminate non-whites on the part of Europeans.
You want to sign-on to that?
The facts are actually quite different.
"In 1520, Captain Panfilo de Narvaez landed on the east coast of what is now Mexico, near Vera Cruz. His plan was to investigate the Aztec Empire, which was centered in great and powerful inland cities. One of the members of Captain Narvaez's landing party was an African slave who was sick with smallpox. Variola hatched from tiny spots on the man's mouth and amplified itself into a biological shockwave that ran from the seacoast back into the Aztec empire, ultimately killing roughly half of the human population of Mexico." From The Demon in the Freezer, by Richard Preston.
Unfortunately Mr. Preston repeats the slander against the English and Sir Jeffrey Amherst, ignoring the fact that smallpox already existed among the native populations. No one had to give Indian Chiefs blankets seeded with smallpox to spread the disease, it already existed among the native populations due to a tribal peoples'normal behavior; to take what they wanted as victory spoils from the belongings of dead enemies.
And that, stand watie, is how disease spreads.
If you want to read about truly evil intents on biowarfare I suggest Richard Preston's book. He does an excellent job of describing smallpox, how it spreads and how the Russians purposefully in the post-Soviet collapse, created 200 tons of weapons grade smallpox AND a missile delivery system enabling them to attack and wipe out the U.S. population, all at a time in which we were trying to help that nation. The Evil Empire still lives!
MY people, the american indians, were INTENTIONALLY infected with those diseases by the hatefilled representives of the government.
when i was an NBC officer in the less-PC ;60s & early 70s,, our OFFICIAL textbooks at 7th Army NBC school used the infectious blankets as a PERFECT example opf how well "biological warfare" worked in earlier times. sorry, but that is FACT!
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I'm not only part American Indian but Irish, and brother, if any peoples on god's green earth have a reason to hate the English, it is the Irish. But no one can redress the past and I'm not going to hold a grudge over stupid and vicious acts from centuries past. And I can tell I'm not going change your mind anymore than you're going to change mine.
But hate over something that happenned centuries ago, and your posts seethes with it, is a waste of energy AND precious time. There are clear and present dangers NOW that threaten us ALL.
it is high time for TRUTH, however unpleasant.
AND i get REALLY tired of folks who want to sweep every hatefilled, arrogant, statist act of US history under the rug.like whisky papa, x, ditto and others of that sort, who seem to think that EVERYONE here on FR is so stupid as to believe their hatefilled/arrogant/self-righteous lies about the nation's past, despite plenty of public records to the contrary.one of them actually stated some time ago on the FR forum that the official records at the US ARCHIVES could NOT be believed, because the "damned rebels are in charge up there"!
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Later read BUMP!
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