Nat'l Geo: "The Real Story" of Jamestown (or Iraq)

[JGeropoulas]

Below is the cover of the May National Geographic. The cover story, based upon new archeological finds, is a refreshingly honest depiction of the first "Americans" ravaging the land worse than malaria.

This issue could just as easily be the "real story" of America's destruction of the "native empire" of Iraq, complete with the MAP SUPPLEMENT "A World Transformed" (in the PNAC's dreams), and featuring a photo-documentary of "America's Border Wall" on page 140!

The issue includes a map of the U.S. locating all the many Indian tribes, which is fascinating when one considers the C's mentioning that the Native Americans were one the racial groups surviving the Atlantis cataclysm.

After seeing the North Carolina Algonquians spear and trap fish, an English naturalist in 1585 admired how they "live in perfect contentment with their present state, in friendship with each other." How "quaint" (as Cheney would've said, as he did about the Geneva Conventions), but certainly nothing that should stand in the way of "Democracy" and "Manifest Destiny"!

This article discusses the obvious question: "Why didn't the Native Americans, with a "home field advantage" decimate the settlers?"

The answer is a classic example of the weakness of our STS-dominated human nature: wishful thinking--
Chief Powhatan thought the problem would just take care of itself through the periodic epidemics that thinned their ranks.

 

[alwyn]

This article discusses the obvious question: "Why didn't the Native Americans, with a "home field advantage" decimate the settlers?"

The answer is a classic example of the weakness of our STS-dominated human nature: wishful thinking--
Chief Powhatan thought the problem would just take care of itself through the periodic epidemics that thinned their ranks.

To hear some Native American folks talk about it, the answer may be a little more complicated than that...How does a culture that long ago decided on peace create war? Would they, knowing full well what it entailed? Some of the old Hopi stories tell of migrating up from South America, and leaving behind a period of cannibalism in the dominant culture they migrated from. They left because they decided not to join the war ,to starve or eat no meat and to live in peace. How does a culture (ours) with no way to measure peaceful intent even begin to report on this?

Then again, how does a culture of tribes with stone-age weapons fight bullets and modern armaments? How does a culture with no natural immunities to the carried diseases of the incoming settlers live through the plagues? Live they did; maybe not as many, but the Native Americans are still here. They may not be the dominant culture, but they are alive, and, again, keeping their traditions. Perhaps STO is like that. Their voices are just not heard, and that's how STS perpetuates the ignorance and insanity. Complicated question, how DOES one fight a war without using the weapons of destruction? One of the great STO mysteries, one we all need to contemplate, and solve...

 

[JGeropoulas]

Complicated question, how DOES one fight a war without using the weapons of destruction? One of the great STO mysteries, one we all need to contemplate, and solve...

I think it has to do with transcendence via increased objective knowledge. I've often pointed out to conservative Christians in recent years: Jesus lived in Israel while occupied by foreign Roman troops, yet he never focused on that very real injustice. Instead, he directed followers to discover and develop the "kingdom of Heaven...within" them, claiming that the "truth would set (them) free."