Theos-Talk Archives (March 2006 Message tt00199)

krsanna wrote:
> Amen! Americans rarely acknowledge that America was Hitler's 
> inspiration for confining and eliminating inferior races, and that 
> he wrote about how well America had handled American Indians by 
> isolating them on "federal reservations," that were often as cruel 
> as Hitler's concentration camps. 
	Can you give ONE example of this?

> American President Andrew Jackson
> pioneered biological warfare by infecting blankets with smallpox, 
> rounding up Indian children, women and men at gunpoint in the middle 
> of the winter and giving them the smallpox infected blankets.  
	The French pioneered it during the French and Indian war. Please give 
documentation that Andrew Jackson even used it.

> American Indians do not have immunity to childhood diseases common 
> in Europe, i.e., measles and smallpox.  This lack of immunity is 
> part of American Indian genetics and America's government used it to 
> exterminate the Indians who had legal claims to their homelands.  
	Can you document this, or are you making this up, as well?

> inferiors was still practiced in America during World War II.  One 
> of the first things I noticed about theosophical hypocracies was 
> that I have never once seen a single comment in theosophical 
> literature about the Civil Rights Movement that Rosa Parks began in 
> 1954 when she refused to give up her seat to a White man.  
	Have you looked?

> Why didn't an organization dedicated to brotherhood get out on the 
> line and march with Rosa Parks?  Why didn't Theosophists write about 
> the Civil Rights Movement to integrate America's schools, 
> businesses, and churches the way Gandhi worked to liberate India?
	Because the Theosophical Society itself is enjoined from getting 
involved in politics, although individual members are encouraged to do so.

	Bart