A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY TO THINK
ABOUT.......
December 29, 2015 marks the 125th Anniversary of the murder of 297
Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
in South Dakota. These 297 people, in their winter camp, were murdered by
federal agents and members of the 7th Cavalry who had come to confiscate their
firearms “for their own safety and protection”. The slaughter began after the majority
of the Sioux had peacefully turned in their firearms. The Calvary began
shooting, and managed to wipe out the entire camp. 200 of the 297 victims were
women and children. About 40 members of the 7th Cavalry were killed, but over
half of them were victims of fratricide from the Hotchkiss guns of their
overzealous comrades-in-arms.
TWENTY members of the 7th Cavalry's death
squad, were deemed “National Heroes” and were awarded the Medal of Honor for
their acts of [cowardice] heroism.
We hear very little of Wounded Knee today. It
is usually not mentioned in our history classes or books. What little that does
exist about Wounded Knee is normally a sanitized “Official Government
Explanation”. And there are several historically inaccurate depictions of the
events leading up to the massacre, which appear in movie scripts and are not
the least bit representative of the actual events that took place that day.
Wounded Knee was among the first federally
backed gun confiscation attempts in United States history. It ended in the
senseless murder of 297 people.
Evil does exist in our world. It always has
and always will. Throughout history evil people have committed evil acts. In
the Bible one of the first stories is that of Cain killing Abel. We can not
legislate “evil” into extinction. Good people will abide by the law, and the criminal
element will always find a way around it.
Evil exists all around us, but looking back at
the historical record of the past 200 years, across the globe, where is “evil”
and “malevolence” most often found? In the hands of those with the power, the
governments. That greatest human tragedies on record and the largest loss of
innocent human life can be attributed to governments. Who do the governments
always target? “Scapegoats” and “enemies” within their own borders…but only
after they have been disarmed to the point where they are no longer a threat.
Ask any Native American, and they will tell you it was inferior technology and
lack of arms that contributed to their demise. Ask any Armenian why it was so
easy for the Turks to exterminate millions of them, and they will answer “We
were disarmed before it happened”. Ask any Jew what Hitler’s first step prior
to the mass murders of the Holocaust was- confiscation of firearms from the
people.
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