Our Savage Neighbours

This isn't a pleasant entry. Until almost a hundred years ago, Britain was the world's leading murderer and plunderer. So it's no surprise to learn that the British immigrants to what would become the U.S. conducted extraordinary mass murder to steal land from the aboriginal people - and slaughtering men, women and children - yes, even babies - in their centuries of wars. It happened in Canada with the French and the British, too, of course, and that was brutal enough - though the intensity of the slaughter was much greater in the U.S. As well, Canada put an end to its fighting in the nineteenth century - except for the brutality of the residential schools run by the Catholic churches. But the U.S. killing of native peoples was non-stop all the way to 1923 as, along the way, the U.S. conducted mass murder of women, children and babies. Canada was bad; but the U.S. conducted mass murder on a complete scale. Aboriginal survivors have been very few. Then they turned their attention to murdering Mexicans in what is now Texas, California and other regions. In all of these murders, the killing was of all genders and ages. It was rather like Hitler's death camps - though on a very much larger scale. That took time and money. As a mass murderer the U.S. was very much in the class of the British Empire at its worst. These years of mass murder demanded 9 years out of every ten. The U.S. also tried several invasions of Canada - though without luck. (However, it did manage to steal that strip of land down the Pacific coast called the Alaska panhandle. And this cut off Canada's only river to the Yukon.) In general, the U.S. carried out major killing for 9 years out of ten. Then it got worse. From 1900 or so, the U.S. murdered and plundered it's way over Latin America. Countries like Cuba got stuffed for American plunder. One of the early losses was Cuba's Guantanamo. The U.S stole it, and now uses it as a torture and murder base for prisoners taken as much as twenty years ago. (No. Their sin was not evil. It was having the nerve to defend their own countries when the U.S. attacked them. Afghanistan is a good example). As for the people of Latin America, they (including millions of children) have been enslaved in brutal work for almost no pay - and no education. Most recently (starting in the 195O's) the U.S.hired mercenaries (murderers) to kill uncountable numbers of priests, nuns, and missionaries, including a missionary from New Brunswick. The commander of this wretched army was the church-going father of George W. Bush who would become an ardent church goer too. As president the son would become the man who attempted the mass murder of Afghanistan. Praise the Lord. And note that none of your news media ever reported any of the above. No. The purpose of our news media is to keep us dumbed down. Oh, a missionary who was murdered in the attacks on Guatemala was, years after, buried in his home town in New Brunswick, which was also the home town of the billionaire Irvings. So it never made any news medium. However, if you ever are down there, it's just a short walk to the Irving Chapel where anybody who goes to that church is a damn hypocrite and fool. (And the minister must have no sense of any faith of any sort.) Except for a short time after Christ's crucificion, the Christian churches have blessed the warriors of their own side. So it was that Britain was blessed in 1939 - and Hitler was blessed in 1939. That still happens. And I really don't think that was what Jesus had in mind. The U.S. fought World Wars One and Two in the normal way of fighting against soldiers on the other side. But then the U.S. went back to it's old ways in 1944 when it bombed Dresden, a German city of very little military importance. And that was a bombing deliberately focussing on civilians, on children.... Ever since then, almost all American murdering has been of civilians, children even babies. It was no secret. The U.S. even bragged about it's mass murdering of civilians and children. It has also made a specialty of using "stealth bombers" to kill civilians of countries it was not at war with. In short, the U.S.military is centuries of mass murder and plunder for the benefit of the wealthy. If anything, it beats the behaviour of a Hitler. And that opens up a huge question for Canadians. Do we want to be the allies of America's Hitlers? Or worse - are we already the allies of America's Hitlers? Where does the Canadian Legion stand on this? It has supported our murderous American neighbours every step of the way. Do our Canadian armies murder civilians and children on the style of the American Hitlers? I don't know. However, I don't see how we could avoid murdering in the same style. After all, we were fighting along with the Americans in most of the wars since 1949 against countries none of whom had ever attacked Canada. (I can't even guess at the number of wars we have fought. That's because our lying news media have never told us.) And our Legion jumps at every command it gets from our American masters. Thus our 12 years with American mass killers in Afghanistan - a country that neither Canada nor the U.S. had any business in killing and plundering. And thus our news media that don't even tell we are at war with some nations. And do we kill with the same inhuman slaughter as the U.S. does? Almost certainly. Give some thought, too, to this. In 1945, Canadians fought in British wars. Then, abruptly, it turned to fighting American wars. Why? Try this. The British empire died in World War 1. So Canadian billionaires leaped into the arms of the American empire. They needed that to get into the arms of American capitalists. And the Canadian Legion joined that leap. Do we really want an army as vicious as that of the U.S.? Do we already have such an army? Are our top brass in the arms of the U.S.? Are our billionaires in the arms of American mass murderers?