Do you believe the Native Americans to be savages?

At this point, there seems no hope that anything approaching the truth about Amerindians and Americans of European descent will ever be again taught in schools.

Do you believe the Native Americans to be savages?

Most people I've met whose heritage is indigenous to this continent seem to refer to themselves as 'Indians' quite cheerfully.

I was born in Queens County, New York; that makes me a Native American.

I don 't believe myself to be a savage.

Yeah but why so many Americans still respect him so?

It was made at a time when America had some bigoted perceptions of other races.

Thomas Jefferson called them savages and Jefferson is who most Americans respect so why can he call them savage but old American westerns can't then?

Yeah but why so many Americans still respect him so?

Rank stupidity.

I was born in Queens County, New York; that makes me a Native American.

No, it does not, Om. It makes you a native American. Logic is really not your log suit, is it?

I don 't believe myself to be a savage.

Oh, but you are most definitely a savage.
You relish in the fact that you were able to help destroy people's lives based on rumor and innuendo.

That makes you a savage without equal.

OmSigSavage: "I used to be a spy for the US HUAC against the commies."

"with hopelessly disorganized thinking"

be careful with those big rocks around your glass house, dave...

I'm not in the business of editing other folks thoughts dave.

feel free to steamroll forward as always...

I'm not in the business of editing other folks thoughts dave.

feel free to steamroll forward as always...

Well, if I were to write a book called The American Empire for Dummies, page one would say: Don't ever look for the moral factor. US foreign policy has no moral factor built into its DNA. Clear your mind of that baggage which only gets in the way of seeing beyond the clichés and the platitudes. I know it's not easy for most Americans to take what I say at face value. It's not easy to swallow my message. They see our leaders on TV and their photos in the press, they see them smiling or laughing, telling jokes; see them with their families, hear them speak of God and love, of peace and law, of democracy and freedom, of human rights and justice and even baseball ... How can such people be moral monsters, how can they be called immoral? They have names like George and Dick and Donald, not a single Mohammed or Abdullah in the bunch. And they even speak English. Well, George almost does. People named Mohammed or Abdullah cut off arms or legs as punishment for theft. We know that that's horrible. We're too civilized for that. But people named George and Dick and Donald drop cluster bombs on cities and villages, and the many unexploded ones become land mines, and before very long a child picks one up or steps on one of them and loses an arm or leg, or both arms or both legs, and sometimes their eyesight. And the cluster bombs which actually explode do their own kind of horror. But our leaders are perhaps not so much immoral as they are amoral. It's not that they take pleasure in causing so much death and suffering. It's that they just don't care ... if that's a distinction worth making. As long as the death and suffering advance the agenda of the Empire, as long as the right people and the right corporations gain wealth and power and privilege and prestige, as long as the death and suffering aren't happening to them or people close to them ... then they just don't care about it happening to other people, including the American soldiers whom they throw into wars and who come home - the ones who make it back - with Agent Orange or Gulf War Syndrome eating away at their bodies. Our leaders would not be in the positions they hold if they were bothered by such things. It must be great fun to be one of the leaders of an empire, glorious in fact ... intoxicating ... the feeling that you can do whatever you want to whomever you want for as long as you want for any reason you care to give ... because you have the power ... for theirs is the power and the glory.

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So that's how people who are wedded to American foreign policy are able to live with it - they conclude, and proclaim, and may even believe, that our foreign policy is a benevolent force, an enlightened empire, bringing order, prosperity and civilized behavior to all parts of the globe, and if we're forced to go to war we conduct a humanitarian war. Well, inasmuch as I've devoted much of my adult life to documenting in minute detail the exact opposite, to showing the remarkable cruelty and horrific effects of US interventions on people in every corner of the world, you can understand, I think, that my reaction to such claims is ... Huh?

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