Theos-Talk Archives (March 2006 Message tt00222)

I thought you were disputing Hitler's admiration for America's 
treatment of the American Indian.  The documentation for that is in 
the book I reference.

I'll look for an article published around 2003 acknowledging that 
the U.S. Army infected blankets with smallpox before giving them to 
the Cherokee, who had been rounded up at gunpoint in the middle of 
the winter.  It made news in the Native American community at the 
time I worked in Native American Studies at a state university.  The 
acknowledgement was not widely published in the predominantly White 
media.  

I'll look up the Native American biologist, an old friend of mine, 
and get the reference for you.  We laughed heartily because the 
chair of the Anthroplogy department at the university denied that 
smallpox could be transmitted by blankets.  He liked to think that 
the rumors about the smallpox-infected blankets were a scientific 
impossibility.  Of course, he didn't know much about biology

Thanks for clarifying the documentation you desired.  I hope 
Hitler's second book was informative.

Best regards,
Krsanna Duran


--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl@...> wrote:
>
> krsanna wrote:
> > The behavior questioned in the Cobell case is mild compared to 
early 
> > instances of genocide under the guidance of Andrew Jackson.  You 
> > didn't ask me about what Andrew Jackson did, but you could start 
> > with Supreme Court rulings in the early 19th century which 
declared 
> > the land grab that Jackson orchestrated illegal.  Jackson had 
the 
> > army and conducted blatant genocide to accomplish his desires, 
> > knowing full well the illegality of his actions.  Things got 
worse 
> > for Indians from that time.  
> 
> 	Still just accusations, with no documentation. I was not 
disputing land 
> grabs; I was disputing disease warfare.
> 
> > 2.  Of course I looked to find Theosophical work in the Civil 
Rights 
> > Movement.  I didn't have to look far to find Gandhi's 
involvement in 
> > India's independence and Nehru's assistance to Tibet.  
> 
> 	Then, of course, you are aware of Annie Besant's personal 
involvement.
> 
> 	Bart
>