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More on September 11, 2001: American Jihad

"Worst act of terrorism in American history?"
Ah, don't think so.
Several times today I heard on television some news weasel, including Terry Moran on ABC, intone that the September 11, 2001 attacks were the "worst acts of terrorism on American soil," or in "our history." [They all use the pronoun "our" today so as to encourage everyone to take ownership of their biased bloviating.]

They would further erase from collective memory earlier, far more deadly acts of terror, even near genocide, on these lands of fruited plains and purple mountain majesty.

* Native American population estimated to have been several million at the time of the European invasion, nearly annihilated by warfare, deliberately introduced disease in some cases, slavery, dislocation, starvation, and destruction of native culture in the name of "civilization."

* African slaves died by the thousands in the holds of ships being transported to American and other shores for free labor on farms, cities and later in the massively labor intensive cotton production in the would-be slave republic, the Confederate States of America. Many also died early deaths due to the back breaking labor into which they were forced and kept by violence.

* African-Americans continued to die by the thousands, some at the hands of racist thugs who lynched to enforce an American apartheid or "Jim Crow." Others died due to non-existent or second rate medical care and substandard housing. Second-class African-American citizenship continues apace as demonstrated in the wake of Hurricane
Katrina.

* Mexican civilians along with soldiers defending their country were killed in a war begun by US President James Polk who said he was seeking "our" "manifest destiny" to rule from coast to coast. I don't have a figure on Mexican dead,since an earlier Collin Powell probably didn't bother to keep statistics on foreign beneficiaries of US liberation.

Actually, to be fair, these Mexican deaths didn't occur in the US, but in parts of Mexico including their former province of Texas grabbed to be civilized, but after the war. In other words, when they were killed, they died in Mexico. A generous US government allowed the Mexicans to keep about one-half of their original country.

Are most Americans even aware of the terror being committed in their name today, as well as the criminal behavior of US governments in the past?
 
 

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