The Briefing Room
General Category => Editorial/Opinion/Blogs => Topic started by: rangerrebew on January 15, 2019, 02:47:15 pm
-
Want To Know What The Worst Mass Shooting In America Was? Hint: It Was Carried Out By The U.S. Government
Posted on January 14, 2019 by DCWhispers
Nearly 300 dead—most of them women and children.
It took place on December 29th, 1890. The U.S. government had arrived to confiscate rifles from the Lakota Sioux tribe “for their own safety and protection.†(Sound familiar?) One of the few remaining armed Sioux left, an elderly member of the tribe, refused to give up his weapon, claiming he had lawfully purchased it. A struggle ensued, the gun went off, and a massacre followed. The bodies of hundreds of Sioux were thrown into a mass grave.
This is the true history of gun confiscation in America. Every time it happens, tyranny rules and innocent lives are lost. (see: Chicago) Keep this story in mind the next time a politician or some media figure attempts to shame you into giving up your 2nd Amendment rights.
Read more at http://dcwhispers.com/want-to-know-what-the-worst-mass-shooting-in-america-was-hint-it-was-carried-out-by-the-u-s-government/#9r2zht6RmrGfuIKd.99 (http://dcwhispers.com/want-to-know-what-the-worst-mass-shooting-in-america-was-hint-it-was-carried-out-by-the-u-s-government/#9r2zht6RmrGfuIKd.99)
-
Do not classify acts of war against hostile tribes with mass shootings by civilians.
-
Do not classify acts of war against hostile tribes with mass shootings by civilians.
Hostile tribes? IE, people being forcibly relocated from their own property, with their private property and firearms being confiscated, and being forced to march across the country to government internment camps (aka reservations).
More like free people standing up to acts of oppression of government atrocities.
If these were just some country folks now with the same thing happening, Conservatives would call it an act of war against citizens. But those people had a darker complexion so we dismiss it.
-
Hostile tribes? IE, people being forcibly relocated from their own property, with their private property and firearms being confiscated, and being forced to march across the country to government internment camps (aka reservations).
More like free people standing up to acts of oppression of government atrocities.
If these were just some country folks now with the same thing happening, Conservatives would call it an act of war against citizens. But those people had a darker complexion so we dismiss it.
*****rollingeyes***** THEY WERE NEVER U.S. CITIZENS. That didn't come until 1924. And don't get me started on property. Natives had no concept of property: most were nomads, controlling territory only by force. Besides, most were wiped out in plagues centuries earlier. That's how we had so much room on this continent to settle to begin with.
-
*****rollingeyes***** THEY WERE NEVER U.S. CITIZENS. That didn't come until 1924. And don't get me started on property. Natives had no concept of property: most were nomads, controlling territory only by force. Besides, most were wiped out in plagues centuries earlier. That's how we had so much room on this continent to settle to begin with.
They were free people with rights inherent to all men, not bestowed by our government on those it deems worthy. In many areas, they were considered citizens. The 1924 act granted citizenship across the board, but from the founding of our country, many were given full rights and privileges. In 1817, for example, the Cherokee Nation was granted full citizenship recognition. It was that wonderful(sic) Democrat, Andrew Jackson, in 1830, who revoked all citizenship and land rights in the Indian Removal Act which led to atrocities like the Trail of Tears. But their rights were originally recognized first.
We need to face up to this as our first act of a 'progressive' government oppressing citizens and others in this nation. We can't whitewash this away.
-
I thought this was gonna be about the Branch Dravidians in Waco.
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vJiX_WAZJ24/S5GcH50hy2I/AAAAAAAAADs/FesnlgcZ94A/s400/Waco%20Siege.png)
-
True, the Indians deserved rights at least not to be slaughtered, but even when the fed. gov. was slaughtering Indians they at times had help in their killings.
In 1833 the fed. gov. cornered the Sac Indians led by Chief Black Hawk near the Bad Axe River about thirty miles south of La Crosse, Wis. my hometown. A fierce engagement of hostilities began.
After being forced out of Illinois, the starving Sac had left their reservation in Iowa looking for food. They wandered back across the Mississippi into Illinois and then into Wisconsin chased by fed. troops. The gov. caught them near the mouth of the Bad Axe River. Many Sac women and children were killed as well as male warriors.
During the battle some Sac Indians tried to escape back across the Mississippi where they were met by their old enemies, the Sioux, who were more than glad to help the gov. slaughter the Sac.
No excuses for the senseless slaughter of the Sac by our gov., but other Indian tribes were equally guilty of senseless slaughter even of other Indian tribes.