And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It took me years later than it should've to realize that the whole "smallpox-infected blankets" was Fake News. I think I first got that story in Jr.High, but whenever it was, it's phony!
The germ theory of disease wasn't widely accepted until the late 1800s, yet back in the mid-1700s bad white men were supposed to know that blankets could harbor smallpox germs; yeah, right. Sure they did! More Leftist propaganda, meant to show "white man bad, noble Indian good."
um, did they succeed?
ReplyDeleteDon't know capt, but Muller is looking into a Russian connection.
DeleteIt took me years later than it should've to realize that the whole "smallpox-infected blankets" was Fake News. I think I first got that story in Jr.High, but whenever it was, it's phony!
ReplyDeleteThe germ theory of disease wasn't widely accepted until the late 1800s, yet back in the mid-1700s bad white men were supposed to know that blankets could harbor smallpox germs; yeah, right. Sure they did! More Leftist propaganda, meant to show "white man bad, noble Indian good."