1890 -- US: Wounded Knee Massacre of Oglala Sioux, Pine Ridge, South Dakota. 300 mostly unarmed Indians killed when the 7th Cavalry (Custer's old command) discharges artillery amidst women, children, & fleeing men. 29 soldiers die in this final major military battle in genocide against Native Americans. 18 soldiers get Congressional Medals of Honor for their 'bravery'. "Any white person who brought the element of civilization had the right to take over this continent." — Ayn Rand, http://www.dickshovel.com/WKmasscre.html Four days after Christmas...the soldiers riddle women, children, & the few men with bullets like so many buffaloes. The blizzard strikes the dead & freezes them on the snow. http://woptura.com/ Also on or around this day... 1910 -- Mexico: The anarchist Praxedis Gilberto Guerrero is killed after leading a small band in capturing the town of Janos. http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/anarchists/guerrero.html Anarchism is a tendency in the history of human thought & action which seeks to identify coercive, authoritarian, & hierarchic structures of all kinds & to challenge their legitimacy — & if they cannot justify their legitimacy, which is quite commonly the case, to work to undermine them & expand the scope of freedom. — Noam Chomsky The PIONEER has before declared that our only safety depends upon the total extirmination [sic] of the Indians. Having wronged them for centuries we had better, in order to protect our civilization, follow it up by one more wrong & wipe these untamed & untamable creatures from the face of the earth. " — L. Frank Baum, Publisher & editor of "The Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer", & later author of the Wizard of Oz books. http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/calmast.htm I have an entry on nov 11,check it out.Matthew X.
