Ward Churchill

[Hampton]

Anyone ever read or listen to any of his stuff? I recently read A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas, 1492 to the Present and I am currently reading The Cointelpro Papers: Documents from the Fbi's Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States.

Both are pretty eye opening. Genocide is an amazing account of how the European invaders slaughtered the native population, eliminating about 95% of their population and how the Cold War had an effect on them.

Cointelpro papers tells how facist Hoover and the FBI was willing to murder and ruin peoples lives in the name of national security.

(Edited by Hampton at 9:45 am on Feb. 9, 2003)

[Larissa]

European conquerors not only slaughtered native populations of america but also stole everything they found on this continent, so IMO they OWE us an incredibly large sum of money since 1492, and still, (how come?) the World Bank, the IMF and many exploting european corporations claim that american countries owe them!!!

(Edited by Larissa at 9:55 pm on Feb. 8, 2003)

[Hampton]

Here's an account of the Chivington Massacre from "Little Matter of Genocide" to show the depths of European savegery, taken from a lieutenant in the New Mexico Volunteers who had ridden along with the murderers:

"Of from five to six hundred souls [who were killed], the majority of which were women and children...I did not see a body of man, woman, or child but was scalped, and in many instances their bodies were mutilated in a most horrible manner-men, women, and children's privates cut out, &c; I heard one man say that he had cut out a woman's private parts and had them for exhibition on a stick; I heard another man say he had cut off the fingers of an Indian to get the rings on the hand...I also heard of numerous instances in which men had cut out the private parts of females and stretched them over the saddle bows and wore them over hats while riding in the ranks...I heard one man say that he had cut a squaw's heart out, and he had stuck up on a stick."