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The Real History Of Christopher Columbus
REVIEW OF THE VIDEO:
Christopher Columbus kept personal journals. So most of the facts they discussed in the video came directly from Christopher Columbus.
Columbus original mission was to find gold and slaves. It was a commercial mission. He was not exploring.
Columbus initiated the trans-Atlantic slave trade, in early February 1494, first sending several dozen enslaved tainos to Spain. Columbus described those he enslaved as well made and of very good intelligence. Then he ordered 1,600 rounded up and had 550 of the best males and females, chained and sent to Spain. The people that Columbus did not grab for himself, he told his crews that they can take as many as they want from the people that were still left. Most of the slaves died on there way to Spain.
Columbus described the natives so full of love and without greed that it made it very easy for him to enslave them. Columbus looked at there love and compassion as a weakness that he could exploit. Columbus discusses how they would break the native women to get them to do anything they wanted. They would take a women and have guy after guy rape her and at some point she just stops resisting at all and that was the process they used to break them and make them complaint.
Now the slave trade was not paying off to well so Columbus decided to come up with a tribute system for the natives. They had to fill up a hawks bell with gold every three months and those that did not fill it up were punished. Columbus would have them chased down and attacked by attack dogs or he would have there hands cut off and they had to wear there hands around there neck.
When Columbus went back to Spain he said he just needed 50 soldiers to conquer all the natives because they had so little experience with war. On his second trip to the new world he brought cannons and attack dogs. If a native resisted slavery he would cut off a nose or a ear. If they tried to escape he would have them burned alive or hunted down by attack dogs and the dogs would tear off there arms and legs while they were still alive.
If Columbus ran short of meat to feed the dogs he had native babies killed and fed to the dogs. One of the men who worked for Columbus said that he saw the Spanish soldiers under Columbus in one day dismembered, beheaded, or raped 3,000 native people in one day. He was so disgusted that he quit working for Columbus and became a priest.
Experts agree that before 1492, the population on the island of Hispaniola was above 3 million. Within 20 years of Spanish arrival, it was reduced to only 60,000. Within 50 years, not a single original native inhabitant could be found. This just happened on one island it was spread to all the places Columbus went.
ANALYSIS OF THE ACTIONS CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS TOOK:
Did the Columbus harm, steal, or threaten the natives? Yes
Did the Columbus violate the natives individual rights? Yes
Was the interaction between the natives and the Columbus voluntary? No
The actions of Christopher Columbus were criminal and a violation of there rights.
SUMMARY:
Christopher Columbus and the soldiers who came with him and committed these crimes did not consider themselves evil people. They felt like what they were doing was OK because they were given permission by the Queen of Spain to do what they did. They felt it was OK to do because there government had given them permission to get gold and slaves, so they were acting under the authority of there government. They were just following orders.
People today are still guilty of doing things that are wrong because they are given permission to do it by there government and that they are only following orders. They believe they have an obligation to obey government, no matter what government orders them to do.
This evil behavior will continue until people accept the fact that all people have individual rights and no one is allowed to violate these rights. It is not OK to violate someones rights even if told to do so by the government. A persons individual rights supersede any law government comes up with. If you are violating someones rights, you are a criminal.
People have the irrational belief that government is allowed to do things that you can't. So the resistance in peoples minds is turned off and they think government authority is OK, logical, and reasonable. But if people would examine the cause and effect of what is really happening. They would say it is logical to resist someone who is trying to have authority over you and is using it in such a way that you do not agree with it.
If evil were only committed by evil people then we would not be in that bad of shape. But today almost everybody thinks it is OK for you to be forcefully robbed which is called taxation. People imagine that it is a good thing if done by government. Good people condone evil because they do not recognize that it is evil. But once they realize that it is evil. They will try to stop it instead of voting for it.
QUESTIONS:
- Is it fair to say, wrong is wrong, no matter who does it?
- What is more dangerous, freedom or a government that has authority over you?
- Is government the biggest violator of our individual rights?
- Can you delegate to another human being a right that you do not have?
- Can two people delegate a right to a human being that neither of them have?
- Can seven million people delegate a right to a human being that none of them have?
- Can someone delegate the right to steal my money to government?
- Can seven million people delegate to government the right to steal my money?
- Can anyone in government have a right that I do not have?
- Do people have the right to defend themselves?
- Is it fair to say, if people do not defend there rights, they will end up losing them?
- Is it fair to say, if it becomes common for people to violate your rights, then in a way you have already lost your rights?
- If a person is harming you, stealing from you, threatening you, or violating your rights, is he a criminal?
- If government is harming you, stealing from you, threatening you, or violating your rights, is it a criminal organization?
- Do we have an obligation to obey criminals?
- Do we have an obligation to obey a criminal organization?
- Does anyone have the right to claim ownership over you?
- Do you own yourself or is someone else your master?
- Do you have an obligation to obey government?
- Should interactions between people be voluntary?
- Should you respect the rights of others?
- Should people respect your rights?
INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS:
- The right to liberty - The right to do whatever you want as long as your not violating the rights of others.
- The right to self-defense - The right to defend yourself, your property, and your rights.
- The right to own and carry weapons - So you can defend yourself, your property, and your rights.
- The right to self-ownership - We own ourselves. No one can claim even partial ownership over you without violating your rights.
- The right to free speech - The right to communicate your opinions and ideas without fear of government retaliation or censorship.
- The right to privacy - No one has the right to violate your privacy.
PRINCIPLES OF FREEDOM:
1 - All people are born free, created equal, and have certain individual rights.
2 - A society built on freedom is based on the rights that all people have. People can do whatever they want within there rights as long as they do not violate the rights of others. Individual rights are rights your born with and no one can legally take away from you. Any law that violates your rights is null and void. Anyone that violates your rights is a criminal.
3 - People have the right to self-ownership. Self-ownership means not only that you own yourself, but everyone owns themselves. The best way to ensure respect for our self-ownership is to respect the rights of others. Without self-ownership, there is no freedom.
4 - No one can claim even partial ownership over a person without violating there rights. Taxing people without there consent under the threat of force is robbery and is a violation of our rights. Free people get to decide for themselves how there money is spent.
5 - All interactions between people should be voluntary and free of force, fraud, and threats.
6 - People have the right to carry weapons to defend themselves, there property, and there rights. We never have an obligation to let anyone commit aggression against us. No one has the right to harm you, steal from you, threaten you, or violate your rights.
7 - We have the right to seek leaders for ourselves but we have no right to force rulers on others. No matter how leaders are selected they are only human beings and they have no rights or claims that are higher then those of any other human. No one has the right to murder, enslave, or to steal. We can not give people any rights that we do not have ourselves.
8 - To help secure our individual rights, governments may be created, deriving their powers from the consent of the governed. Whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter it, abolish it, or withdraw there consent to be governed.
THE FREEDOM SOLUTION:
There are two kinds of people. People who prefer big government (statists) and people who prefer freedom.
Statists want government to have a great deal of power over the economy and individual behavior.
People who prefer freedom, want to have a great deal of control over there own lives.
We should just let each group live the way they want too.
If your a person who prefers statism then you can have all the government you want, as long as you do not violate the rights of others.
If your a person who prefers freedom then you can have all the freedom you want, as long as you do not violate the rights of others.
Freedom means that people get to decide for themselves how they want to live.
LIBERTY IS NOT A BATTLE:
Liberty is not a battle that requires the conversion of others in order to win.
Liberty is won when you accept the fact that you own yourself, that you have individual rights, and no one has the right to violate your rights.
When you accept that you are liberated.
