Saturday, October 13, 2012

To the Dishonor of Christopher Columbus

Every time I listen to FreeSpeech TV and the Thom Hartmann show in particular, I learn something new.  Yesterday was October 12 and  the original date of Christopher Columbus day.  Now I know just how diabolical Columbus really was.

He sailed for the New World in search of gold and had told the king & queen of Spain that gold was so precious it could even "lift souls to paradise".  However, when he arrived on the island now known as Hispaniola,  (which is now composed of two nations; Haiti and the Dominican Republic), it was then populated by Taino indians, who welcomed Columbus' ships when they arrived there.  Apparently they had no iron and accidentally cut themselves when examining the Spanish swords.    Columbus found no gold on the island but something just as valuable: people - people whom he could enslave and sell. According to the writings of his own men,  Columbus reported that with as few as fifty men he could subject all the Tainos to do whatever he wanted them to do.  According to a letter in 1500 written by one of his men,  Columbus rewarded him with his own teen-aged Taino girl.   She fought him off so fiercely that he no choice but to "thrash her severely and rape her".  Columbus had started an international child sex slave trade.   He raped, pillaged, enslaved, and massacered many, many Tainos.  On his second trip to Hispaniola, Columbus and his men gathered 1600 indians as slaves, including sex slaves and it was reported that girls from "9 to 10years were in the greatest demand".   Tainos subsequently resorted to mass suicide to avoid being stolen by Columbus' men.

Christopher Columbus Day would more appropriately be called Taino Genocide Day.  

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