PC Police Strike Again (1 Viewer)

[drummer]

Following his arrival, Columbus established ruthless slavery, including sexual slavery, of the natives. He wrote to a friend in 1500: "A hundred castellanoes (a Spanish coin) are as easily obtained for a woman as for a farm, and it is very general and there are plenty of dealers who go about looking for girls; those from nine to ten (years old) are now in demand." His enslavement of the natives in his gold mines was so brutal that within 2 years, 125,000 natives (half the population) were dead. Columbus himself wrote: "We shall take you and your wives, and your children, and shall make slaves of them, and we shall take away your goods, and shall do you all the mischief and damage that we can, and we protest that the deaths and losses which shall accrue from this are your fault."

Bartolome de las Casas, a Catholic priest wrote, in the "History of the Indies" published in 1875, "... Slaves were the primary source of income for the Admiral (Columbus) with that income he intended to repay the money the Kings were spending in support of Spaniards on the Island. They provide profit and income to the Kings. (The Spaniards were driven by) insatiable greed ... killing, terrorizing, afflicting, and torturing the native peoples ... with the strangest and most varied new methods of cruelty."

Also documenting Columbus' cruel legacy, Father Fray Antonio de Montesino, a Dominican preacher, in December 1511 said this in a sermon that implicated Christopher Columbus and the colonists in the genocide of the native peoples: "Tell me by what right of justice do you hold these Indians in such a cruel and horrible servitude? On what authority have you waged such detestable wars against these people who dealt quietly and peacefully on their own lands? Wars in which you have destroyed such an infinite number of them by homicides and slaughters never heard of before..."

Local inhabitants who resisted Columbus and his crew had their ears or noses cut off, were mauled by attack dogs, skewered with pikes and shot. Reprisals were so severe that many of the natives committed mass suicide and women began practicing abortions in order not to leave children enslaved. The population of Haiti at the time of Columbus's arrival was between 1.5 million and 3 million. Sixty years later, every single native had been murdered.

Elsewhere in his book "History of the Indies," De las Cases detailed the reasons for the population decrease: "Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides. . . they ceased to procreate. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and famished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desperation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk . . . and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fertile ... was depopulated.... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write...."

For his cruelty, Christopher Columbus and his brothers were sent back to Spain (on August 23, 1500) in chains by Spanish Governor Francesco de Bobadilla for mistreating Natives in the section of Hispaniola now known as Haiti. They were imprisoned for six weeks in Spain but King Ferdinand released them, seizing their profits from enslavement of the natives.

http://www.conservapedia.com/Christopher_Columbus

even "Conservapedia" is on board....didn't think anybody would be to the right of that

Maybe next election they'll remember stuff like this.

http://forums.footballguys.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=706057&p=16754487

 

[Johnny Rock]

Call it whatever you want. It ain't a Holiday if 9-5'ers don't get off work.

We can't all work for banks or the gubment. Somebody's got to work.

 

[TxBuckeye]

Call it whatever you want. It ain't a Holiday if 9-5'ers don't get off work.

We can't all work for banks or the gubment. Somebody's got to work.

I work for a bank. I don't get that day off.

 

[Mr Capicollo]

Are the PC police taking applications? Sounds like a sweet gig.

I donate to the PC Policeman's Ball every year. I got a sticker that I put in my back window that stops them from pulling me over when I drop N-bombs.

 

[spOOfy]

they've been calling it "Explorer's Day" at my work for years.

My work calls it the second Monday in October.

As long as they imply "don't bother coming into work today," i don't give a #### what they call it.

 

[Guest]

Call it whatever you want. It ain't a Holiday if 9-5'ers don't get off work.

We can't all work for banks or the gubment. Somebody's got to work.

Worked for a bank that had a branch on a reservation. We didn't take the day off because of that.

 

[Mr Capicollo]

Let's just go ahead and call it, "We Won, You Lost - Here, Have Some More Blankets Day".

 

[MaxThreshold]

Call it whatever you want. It ain't a Holiday if 9-5'ers don't get off work.

We can't all work for banks or the gubment. Somebody's got to work.

What if I work 7 - 3? Is it still a Holiday?

 

[Long Ball Larry]

honestly, who gives two ####s about Columbus? He's so ####### important, we don't even say his name right. Go #### in your hat, ****.