bs2> In 1899.. compelled to defend ourselves against.. Filipinos, who “assailed our sovereignty”.. #PresidentMcKinley announced angrily... The Filipinos were not fighting for independence, but “to control the #Philippines so they could loot them,” #GeneralOtis told Congress, while the #NewYorkTimes applauded his resort to force after the natives rejected “our kindness and indulgence”; the Times also commended Colonel Jacob Smith for using the brutal tactics of the #IndianWars.. #TurningTheTide
> ... the real ruler of Haiti was Col. L.W.T. Waller of the US Marines, fresh from atrocities in the conquest of the Philippines; he was acquitted in #CourtMartial proceedings on grounds that he had merely been following higher orders to take no prisoners and to kill every male Filipino over age 10... everyone over 10 was ordered killed by Waller’s commander #GeneralSmith, who was “admonished” in a court-martial proceeding and retired a year and a half early by.. #Roosevelt, in punishment.
skuaLucky that "we don't solve disputes with bullets" isn't it.
@skua
It's crazy isn't it? It's exhausting reading these Chomsky books, horror movies stuff but for real. _Salvador_, _El Norte_, _Innocent Voices_ : movies do what they can but the brutality on the page can't be on screen, I guess. Paul Goodman wrote about "Pacifist Films" that a dry documentary tone is better, scenes of graphic violence just make us feel like we all deserve to die. I'm getting a feel for what he meant reading Turning the Tide while reading about Trump's agenda/program...
It's crazy isn't it? It's exhausting reading these Chomsky books, horror movies stuff but for real. _Salvador_, _El Norte_, _Innocent Voices_ : movies do what they can but the brutality on the page can't be on screen, I guess. Paul Goodman wrote about "Pacifist Films" that a dry documentary tone is better, scenes of graphic violence just make us feel like we all deserve to die. I'm getting a feel for what he meant reading Turning the Tide while reading about Trump's agenda/program...
@bsmall2
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So I'm probably not going to engage often around US involvement in Sth American slaughter
Though it's been eye-popping to hear Biden's "pure as the driven snow" bullshit around bullets and how America works.
If you have the energy pls keep posting though.
You're helping put US fascism in context and folk need that.
And I'll be reading some of it.