Comments on Pro Libertate: "Liberation," Then and Now

New lies for old. That tired phrase "white man sp...

2007-09-25T22:43:00.000-06:00

New lies for old. That tired phrase "white man speaks with forked tongue" is more true than people realize. Not only did it happen in the past but it has continued on up to the present. The names may have changed but the guilty and their evil spawn are all around us spewing their lies and propaganda. Chief Joseph may not have been "schooled" by the government machine but he's an example of something far more dangerous to that kind of mind control, someone who has "wisdom".

After years of getting our ears tickled,we have in...

2007-09-20T00:01:00.000-06:00

After years of getting our ears tickled,we have inherited that same wind that has emenated from White-washing-tons my friends.
Good spending time with you Sunday Will.

A number of years ago I read "On The Border With C...

2007-09-19T23:03:00.000-06:00

A number of years ago I read "On The Border With Crook", a book covering the "Indian Wars" between 1865 and the official closing of "the frontier" in the early 1890's.
The military was apparently as fond of slaughtering animals considered vital to Indian survival as Indians themselves. Some of the same generals who implemented scorched earth policy in The War of Northern Aggression Against the South ordered it to be used it against Indian villages. The gorgeous painting depicting a single exhausted and half-starved pony as the only mount is probably due to the fact that the entire Nez Perce herd of fabled and treasured horses was corralled and slaughtered during the early phases of resistance. Similarly, thousands of still free ranging buffalo met an early end as part of a strategy to eliminate the (non-government) food supply relied upon by various tribes or factions within tribes that might become unwilling to knuckle under to the treachery and brute force of Uncle Scam.
In many respects Americans have forsaken liberty to live timidly within a vast government reservation known as the United States. Actually, it's worse than that - more like a feudal fiefdom with the population comprised of IRS serfs toiling for depreciating government issued paper and growing political class that fancies itself as plantation overseers.
While a few of the superficial trappings of freedom haven't yet been trampled away, we have become spiritually and psychologically similar to those people who accepted violated treaties and reservation life without seriously considering resistance. The western Native Americans certainly had a far better excuse for eventually surrendering. They lacked political clout and sympathy in Washington and were, after all, hopelessly outnumbered from the start. The modern American serf, however, has been carefully indoctrinated (conned) in Prussian factory schools to gratefully accept his heavy chains as a form of good citizenship and civic responsibility. Rand correctly referred to this phenomenon as "the sanction of the victim".

William,Great article as usual. I did a research ...

2007-09-19T21:20:00.000-06:00

William,

Great article as usual. I did a research paper for Command & General Staff College on the Nez Perce campaign, as the Battle of White Bird Canyon was the second greatest defeat inflicted on the Army (Little Big Horn being the biggest) by the "savages". Chief Joseph ranks up there with Nathaniel Bedford Forest as one of the greatest uneducated military geniuses.

It is hard studying the campaign without coming away with a deep respect for these people and a revulsion for the injustices visited upon them, especially those done in the name of the US government.

Joseph's final speech, which you quote, is an American classic. The story should be told, and the speech read, to the next generation.

Isn't it ironic that Washington arrogantly regards...

2007-09-19T21:00:00.000-06:00

Isn't it ironic that Washington arrogantly regards itself as some kind of global anti-ethnic cleansing force? Just don't look too closely at the historical record, or the mountains of corpses piling up in Iraq. What genocide will our leaders perpetrate next in the name of never again?