Sunday, January 23, 2022

MANIFEST DESTINY-DO WE STILL INVADE, CONQUER AND CONTROL OTHERS?

Various people and countries' could discuss this question for ions of time. Is it still legal and ethical to invade a country or land and take whatever we wish, including the people that possess it at the time, and enslave them? Such a thing sounds horrible today, but that has been the history of the world since it's inhabitance. A brief glimpse shows that when America was discovered by the white men of Europe, Native Indians lived here, but they would not sell the land, as most Indian Tribes believed all the land belonged only to God. We settled here as we didn't like what Great Britain was doing-taxing without representation. When more people came and there wasn't enough room, we came west including Mormons who didn't like what the United States was doing to them-killing them. But we then had a war with Mexico as they said it belonged to them. But did it really, or did the Roman Catholics support Spain's Conquistadors with the invasion in 1519 of the Americas. If you talk to the Mayans and Aztec descendants, they will say yes, along with the rape, pillage and burning of the ships that wouldn't let them go back to Europe. The Spanish took the Ancient Indians as man slaves and it became Mexico. Then if you look to the Pacific Rim Countries, we find that a handful of Dynasties have been around for thousands of years along with their slavery. At present there is an estimated 8 million slaves' in India; China with 4 million; 3 million in North Korea. So when does this unethical Manifest Destiny end and by whom. As a kid, we used to play Cowboys and Indians, and although we shared taking turns, TV taught us to believe the Indians were the bad guys, but were they really! They learned how to scalp people when the French invaded here. Although the Indian Tribes had their issues with each other, it just seems to make no sense that we ought to conquer and control others, but if we look around us, we see the US Congress trying to take control of the state governments, and then the state governments taking control of cities and those politicians are overpowering what the rural people want. Even the Utah State Engineer has told me that the government has the legal right to take any water they want, if it is "for the good of the people". I am not looking for an answer, but just bringing to light a well hidden hinderance to freedom we all want and needless to say it is sad like what Chief Red Cloud had said is coming true. We do not hold to the Juab County handshake anymore or our treaties.                                                                     



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