{"id":67147,"date":"2011-10-09T13:32:49","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T17:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/67147\/annual-columbus-day-entry\/"},"modified":"2011-10-09T13:32:49","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T17:32:49","slug":"annual-columbus-day-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/67147\/annual-columbus-day-entry\/","title":{"rendered":"My annual Columbus Day entry."},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Columbus Day weekend and as usual, most folks are pretty happy about it.\u00a0 I don’t care much for Columbus Day.\u00a0 To be completely honest, I think Columbus was a twatwaffle of epic proportions.<\/font><\/p>\n

Here are some quotes from various sources (linked in below) dealing with some of the evil shit that Columbus and his men did:<\/font><\/p>\n

“Spain was not a slave-trading country until Columbus, desperate to prove the value of his voyage, hauled away Native Americans to be sold as slaves in Seville. (Queen Isabella initially was infuriated, and had the Indians returned, but later acquiesced to this practice). Columbus initiated the practice of chopping off the hands of adults who failed to provide a certain amount of gold each month (as depicted in the plate by Bartolom\u00e9 de las Casas, right). And he was also responsible for setting up slave operations where he literally worked entire tribes of people to death.”<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

“One of Columbus’ men, Bartolome De Las Casas<\/a>, was so mortified by Columbus’ brutal atrocities against the native peoples, that he quit working for Columbus and became a Catholic priest. He described how the Spaniards under Columbus’ command cut off the legs of children who ran from them, to test the sharpness of their blades. According to De Las Casas, the men made bets<\/a> as to who, with one sweep of his sword, could cut a person in half. He says that Columbus’ men poured people full of boiling soap. In a single day, De Las Casas was an eye witness as the Spanish soldiers dismembered, beheaded, or raped 3000 native people. “Such inhumanities and barbarisms were committed in my sight as no age can parallel,” De Las Casas wrote. “My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature that now I tremble as I write<\/a>.””<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

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I don’t usually spend much time worrying over tradition, but a few years ago I got in the habit of reposting this on Columbus Day.<\/font><\/p>\n

Death Game
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For all you smiling Christians, your Columbus is in hell.<\/font><\/p>\n

The murder, rape, dismemberment, and merriment wrought by your slavery will be remembered.<\/font><\/p>\n

Smiling European faces.<\/font><\/p>\n

Little men playing with the lives and deaths of a peace loving people.<\/font><\/p>\n

How many fun ways can you think of to terrorize and kill a people?<\/font><\/p>\n

All modern fingers point to the face of Hitler watermarked with an eagle atop a swastika.<\/font><\/p>\n

But none of these happy black and white faces remember the terror that was unleashed in their own back yards.<\/font><\/p>\n

The land that we take pride in owning is the previous stage of a horrifying murder drama.<\/font><\/p>\n

You feign disappointment and quietly, sneakily, ask if it will lower your property values.<\/font><\/p>\n

Will betrayal and genocide of centuries past, affect your property values?<\/font><\/p>\n

This land is a mirror of your TRUE values.<\/font><\/p>\n

You snatch this land from a proud people who loved and respected it.<\/font><\/p>\n

Then you rape it as your forefathers did their wives and daughters.<\/font><\/p>\n

All make way for the strutting genitalia of noble European conquistadors.<\/font><\/p>\n

While the truly noble people are victimized on the receiving end of those same bloody lances.<\/font><\/p>\n

Evil men making terror and suffering an artform.<\/font><\/p>\n

And here we stand today on a land that is remanufactured upon a lie.<\/font><\/p>\n

What fate is bought for this land by the blood and pain of our indigenous forefathers?<\/font><\/p>\n

It is a fate of suffocation.<\/font><\/p>\n

Mother Earth bound in chains of concrete and asphalt.<\/font><\/p>\n

Choked by the fumes of burned petroleum.<\/font><\/p>\n

Poisoned by isotopes from an unforeseen technology.<\/font><\/p>\n

Weighted down and sucked dry by overwhelming populations.<\/font><\/p>\n

Where are the buffalo and the wolf?<\/font><\/p>\n

Noble brothers who exist forever in the crosshairs.<\/font><\/p>\n

All eyes are blinded and all reality is shut out by the color of green.<\/font><\/p>\n

Not the green of life that is found in the leaves of trees,<\/font><\/p>\n

But the green of death that is printed on their processed carcasses.<\/font><\/p>\n

Is there one good reason for any of this that is not originally founded upon a lie?<\/font><\/p>\n

Is any good reason justification for suicide?<\/font><\/p>\n

Give me one good reason why beauty has to die.<\/font><\/p>\n

Columbus is in hell.<\/font><\/p>\n

And here our hell is perpetuated by textbooks full of lies, that are printed on reprocessed carcasses.<\/font><\/p>\n

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For more info on truth behind the actions of Columbus and his men,<\/font><\/p>\n

check out these links<\/font><\/p>\n

Here<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

and Here<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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