Sunday, February 15, 2015

Now they're mass-beheading Christians in Libya

Lined up 21 Egyptian Copts like you would for a mass shooting and raised the swords:

Islamic State released a video on Sunday purporting to show the militant group beheading 21 Egyptian Christians kidnapped in Libya.
The Egyptians, dressed in orange jump suits, were beheaded after being forced down on the ground. The video appeared on the Twitter feed of a website that supports Islamic State.
We're on their list, too.

4 comments:

  1. We've always been on some list as others have been on our list. Consider any Indian tribe in the Americas.

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  2. You're slipping. You used to at least try to be more sly about pulling that Noam Chomsky / Howard Zinn / America's-story-is-basically-a-shameful-tale-of-exploitation-and-bigotry horseshit.

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  3. Pretty horrid dog vomit in the American annals nobody can deny. To your ilk you cannot be a patriot and admit to it, I guess.

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  4. Yep, here's a refresher:

    In the start, the country expanded by occupying American Indian lands, portraying its indigenous population as inherently violent and warlike. In 1823, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall wrote: “The tribes of Indians inhabiting this country were fierce savages, whose occupation was war. The American Indians were thought to be an existential threat to the United States (a classic case of projection or role inversion): John Quincy Adams, for example, wrote that “the savage Indians” were out to “wage an exterminating war” against the “peaceful inhabitants” of the United States It was the same message then as it is now: we must attack them before they attack us. As Indian land was gobbled up by the use of force and fraud, the U.S. border expanded to the periphery of Mexico (which at that time consisted of most of the West Coast and Southwest of the modern United States). Hungry for this land too, the U.S. invaded Mexico, and “Mexicans were portrayed as violent and treacherous bandits who terrorized” the people [4]. American belligerence towards Mexico heated up in the 1800’s, culminated in the U.S. annexation of half of Mexico’s land (leaving right-wingers today to wonder “why so many Mexicans are in our country?”), and seamlessly transitioned into the Banana Wars of the early 1900’s. Once the Americans had successfully implemented Manifest Destiny by conquering the land from sea to shining sea, the Monroe Doctrine was used to expand American influence in the Caribbean and Central America....

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