PoliticalChic
Diamond Member
1.It is hard to say, with specificity, but Iāll bet it was by the political Left. After all, without lies to advance their narratives, theyād be practically mute. Since Trumpās election alone there have been nearly 40 major lies and hoaxes by that sort.
2. It was a birthday that brought this to mind: Jeffrey Amherst, who was useful in advancing the tale that the āNoble Savagesā that lived peacefully, husbanding the land, were slaughtered by those horrid white, Christian, heterosexual pre-America settlers, was born on this date.
January 29th, 1717, Jeffery Amherst born.
He was appointed by William Pitt (E) as English Governor-General of America 1758-1763.
Town of Amherst named in his honor (see 4/10) but involved the first germ warfare when he gave smallpox infected blankets to Indians.
3. None of those slanders of the first colonists, nor the claim that Amherst gave smallpox infected blankets to those wonderful Indians, is true.
4. This is the often repeated story of Lord Jeffrey Amherst ordering the distribution of smallpox-infected blankets to the Indians, as an example of āgerm warfareā used by Europeans. The story is not documented, except as a āpossibility.ā See the study of Professor dāErrico:
Historian Francis Parkman, in his book The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada [Boston: Little, Brown, 1886] refers to a postscript in an earlier letter from Amherst to Bouquet wondering whether smallpox could not be spread among the Indians:
āCould 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 themā. [Vol. II, p. 39 (6th edition)]
I have not found this letter, but there is a letter from Bouquet to Amherst, dated 23 June 1763, [189k] three weeks before the discussion of blankets to the Indians, stating that Captain Ecuyer at Fort Pitt (to which Bouquet would be heading with reinforcements) has reported smallpox in the Fort. This indicates at least that the writers knew the plan could be carried out.
It is curious that the specific plans to spread smallpox were relegated to postscripts.
"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."
Amherst and Smallpox
Did you note that Parkman "never found the letter"?
5. Many of the lies have a great deal of meaning when they can be put, uncontested, out into the public. That, of course, is exactly what the Left, the destroyers of civilization, have made possible due to control of the means of dissemination of information:
"Over the past several decades, the progressive Left has successfully fulfilled Antonio Gramsciās famed admonition of a ālong march through the institutionsā. In almost every Western country, its adherents now dominate the education system, media, cultural institutions, and financial behemoths." Is this the end of progressive America?
I will provide several other broadly accepted lies that have no basis in fact.
2. It was a birthday that brought this to mind: Jeffrey Amherst, who was useful in advancing the tale that the āNoble Savagesā that lived peacefully, husbanding the land, were slaughtered by those horrid white, Christian, heterosexual pre-America settlers, was born on this date.
January 29th, 1717, Jeffery Amherst born.
He was appointed by William Pitt (E) as English Governor-General of America 1758-1763.
Town of Amherst named in his honor (see 4/10) but involved the first germ warfare when he gave smallpox infected blankets to Indians.
3. None of those slanders of the first colonists, nor the claim that Amherst gave smallpox infected blankets to those wonderful Indians, is true.
4. This is the often repeated story of Lord Jeffrey Amherst ordering the distribution of smallpox-infected blankets to the Indians, as an example of āgerm warfareā used by Europeans. The story is not documented, except as a āpossibility.ā See the study of Professor dāErrico:
Historian Francis Parkman, in his book The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada [Boston: Little, Brown, 1886] refers to a postscript in an earlier letter from Amherst to Bouquet wondering whether smallpox could not be spread among the Indians:
āCould 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 themā. [Vol. II, p. 39 (6th edition)]
I have not found this letter, but there is a letter from Bouquet to Amherst, dated 23 June 1763, [189k] three weeks before the discussion of blankets to the Indians, stating that Captain Ecuyer at Fort Pitt (to which Bouquet would be heading with reinforcements) has reported smallpox in the Fort. This indicates at least that the writers knew the plan could be carried out.
It is curious that the specific plans to spread smallpox were relegated to postscripts.
"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."
Amherst and Smallpox
Did you note that Parkman "never found the letter"?
5. Many of the lies have a great deal of meaning when they can be put, uncontested, out into the public. That, of course, is exactly what the Left, the destroyers of civilization, have made possible due to control of the means of dissemination of information:
"Over the past several decades, the progressive Left has successfully fulfilled Antonio Gramsciās famed admonition of a ālong march through the institutionsā. In almost every Western country, its adherents now dominate the education system, media, cultural institutions, and financial behemoths." Is this the end of progressive America?
I will provide several other broadly accepted lies that have no basis in fact.