America has never been "great." We have a sad history of ideals we never achieved, and of many horrible human rights and war crimes.
Many American "Christians" are not true Christians in the spiritual sense, or even the biblical sense where true Christians do unto others as you would have them do unto you, or love thy neighbor, or judge not lest ye be judged. Many Evangelicals choose to be "christianic" (Satanic) hypocrites, haters, and liars.
Yes we have freedom, but we abuse that freedom continuously, never using it for as much good as the potential freedom has offered us.
This movie tells a story that makes me sick of America's treatment of Indians who first inhabited America. The movie is real.
"Missing and Murdered: No One Knows How Many Native Women Have Disappeared"
“Native women are not often seen as worthy victims. We have to first prove our innocence, that we weren’t drunk or out partying“
Mary Annette Pember • April 11, 2016
"This piece was published in partnership with Rewire. This is the first installment of a three-part series about the missing and murdered Native women in the United States and Canada.
Although Trudi Lee was only 7 when her big sister went missing back in 1971, she wept when she talked about that traumatic event 45 years later. “Sometimes I would catch our mom crying alone,” Lee said. “She would never tell me why, but I knew it was over Janice.”"
More.
"“It happens all the time in Indian country,” said Carmen O’Leary, coordinator of the Native Women’s Society of the Great Plains in South Dakota, a coalition of Native programs that provide services to women who experience violence. “When Native women go missing, they are very likely to be dead.”
Indeed, on some reservations, Native women are murdered at more than 10 times the national average, according to U.S. Associate Attorney General Thomas Perrelli, who presented that gruesome statistic while addressing the Committee on Indian Affairs on Violence Against Women in 2011."
By the way, did someone give native Americans diseased blankets?
"Jeffrey1 Amherst and Smallpox Blankets"
Lord Jeffrey Amherst's letters discussing germ warfare against American Indians
https://www.umass.edu/legal/derrico/amherst/lord_jeff.html
"Smallpox blankets
Despite his fame, Jeffrey Amherst's name became tarnished by stories of smallpox-infected blankets used as germ warfare against American Indians. These stories are reported, for example, in Carl Waldman's Atlas of the North American Indian [NY: Facts on File, 1985]. Waldman writes, in reference to a siege of Fort Pitt (Pittsburgh) by Chief Pontiac's forces during the summer of 1763:
... Captain Simeon Ecuyer had bought time by sending smallpox-infected blankets and handkerchiefs to the Indians surrounding the fort -- an early example of biological warfare -- which started an epidemic among them. Amherst himself had encouraged this tactic in a letter to Ecuyer. [p. 108]
Some people have doubted these stories; other people, believing the stories, nevertheless assert that the infected blankets were not intentionally distributed to the Indians, or that Lord Jeff himself is not to blame for the germ warfare tactic."
"American History Myths Debunked: The Indians Weren’t Defeated by White Settlers"
A plague named smallpox did the most damage, not the American history myth of settlers
ICMN Staff • August 18, 2017
"Cracked.com sited a PBS series titled Guns, Germs and Steel based on the book by Jared Diamond that details how Europeans brought that disease and others like the flu and measles with them, killing some 90 percent of the Native American population between the time Columbus showed up and the Mayflower landed.
“More victims of colonization were killed by Eurasian germs, than by either the gun or the sword, making germs the deadliest agent of conquest,” says PBS.org."
"Colonial Germ Warfare"
by Harold B. Gill Jr.
The humanizing of War! You might as well talk of the humanizing of Hell...As if war could be civilized! If I'm in command when war breaks out I shall issue my order—"The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility. Hit first, hit hard, and hit everywhere!""
—Sir Reginald Bacon, The Life of Lord Fisher
of Kilverstone, Admiral of the Fleet
http://www.history.org/foundation/journal/spring04/warfare.cfm
"It is not known who conceived the plan, but there's no doubt it met with the approval of the British military in America and may have been common practice. Sir Jeffery Amherst, commander of British forces in North America, wrote July 7, 1763, probably unaware of the events at Fort Pitt: "Could it not be contrived to Send the Small Pox among those Disaffected Tribes of Indians? We must, on this occasion, Use Every Stratagem in our power to Reduce them." He ordered the extirpation of the Indians and said no prisoners should be taken. About a week later, he wrote to Bouquet: "You will Do well to try to Innoculate the Indians by means of Blanketts as well as to try Every other method that can serve to Extirpate this Execrable Race."
Though a connection cannot be proven, a smallpox epidemic erupted in the Ohio Valley that may have been the result of the distribution of the infected articles at Fort Pitt. Whatever its origins, the outbreak devastated the Indians. Such tactics appear atrocious and barbaric to modern readers, but at the time anything was alright to use against "savages." Nor was all-out war foreign to the Indians. During Pontiac's Rebellion the Indian warriors killed about 2,000 civilian settlers and about 400 soldiers. They, too, tried to "extirpate" the enemy."
