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We’ve been doing truly horrible things to each other, our children, and ourselves since long before Australopithecus learned to pee standing up. We show no signs of stopping or even slowing down. In fact, the biggest advance we've made in our 2 Million year history is that bigger brains have made us that much better at it.
Our second biggest evolutionary leap has been in our ability to lie convincingly. We have become so adept at this that we even manage to convince ourselves that incidents like these are the exceptions. 'It’s not my fault!'
Nov 1, 1994 Some South Korean cannibals known as the chijon family are sentenced to death for murdering and eating five people. Ex-convict Kim ki wwan and several other prisoners, in solidarity against the wealthy, founded the group in 1993. 'Eat the rich'.
Nov 3, 1755 Massachusetts offers a 20-pound bounty for scalps of Indian boys or girls under the age of 12. Warrior scalps go for 30 pounds.
Nov 8, 1800 In "federal bonfire number one," a mysterious fire swept the offices of the U.S department of war, destroying books and papers; after republicans had demanded proof the federalists had properly expended that money set-aside for the army.
Nov 8, 1868 Powder river country, including the black hills, is given to Lakota tribe "forever" by treaty. within a decade, white settlers, business interests, and the U.S army seize the region.
Nov 8, 1960 Washington state voters refuse to repeal "alien land law" provision of the state constitution barring Asians from owning property.
Nov 8, 1972 "trail of broken treaties" march occupies bureau of Indian affairs (bia), Washington.
Nov 8, 1974 Lt. William Calley is paroled after serving about three years under house arrest in his apartment for overseeing the murder of over 500 Vietnamese civilians - men, women, and children - at my lai.
Mar 20, 1960 South African police massacre 69 black civil rights demonstrators in Sharpeville incident, which moves African national congress (anc) to abandon its policy of non-violence.
Mar 20, 1995 Members of the aum cult release sarin nerve gas in the Tokyo subway. 11 people die and 5,500 are injured. The cult's doctrine of ‘poa’ makes mass murder the way to save their own souls. They had intended eventually to produce 70 tons of the gas.
Mar 20, 1996 Erik and Lyle Menendez convicted of 1st degree murder. They killed their parents for their money, and then lied all about it.
Mar 21, 1980 Mobster Angelo Bruno killed with a shotgun blast to the head while he waits in his car after dinner. The Genovese family thus asserted Philadelphia’s traditional claim to Atlantic city. His replacement is his former capo, Phil "chicken man" Testa.
Mar 22, 1933 The first ss-run concentration camp, Dachau, receives prisoners.
Mar 22, 1622 A band led by the brother of powhatan slaughters 347 settlers near Jamestown - the first Indian massacre.
Mar 30, 1968 Two children in the bowery come across the body of a homeless drug addict. He is later identified as bobby driscol, 31, the voice of Disney’s 'peter pan'. (The inspiration for J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan character threw himself in front of a subway train in late middle age, supposedly because he was unable to escape the constant attention of the press.)
Apr 17, 1997 After a newspaper publishes photographs of Belgian paratroopers committing human rights violations during a 1993 U.N peacekeeping mission in Somalia, Belgium’s defence minister announces that the elite fighting unit may be disbanded. The photos show one soldier urinating on a Somali corpse, and two men swinging a child over a campfire by the wrists and ankles.
Apr 18, 1983 62 people are killed and more than 100 injured in a suicide bombing against the U.S Embassy in Beirut. The group Islamic jihad claims responsibility, but the intelligence community believes it was actually the work of Hezbollah.
Apr 19, 1993 More than 80 branch Dravidians burn to death in Waco, TX as the FBI stages a disastrous final assault on their compound, ending a 51-day siege.
Apr 19, 1995 Timothy McVeigh kills 168 people when his truck bomb detonates in front of the Alfred p. hurrah federal building.
May 5, 1955an Internal CIA memo details the need for a drug that creates a state of "pure euphoria" and no letdown. From this sprang operation midnight climax, in which CIA brothels were set up in san Francisco, their customers dosed with led by CIA-backed hookers. Field agent George hunter white observed reactions behind a two-way mirror.
May 10, 1993 188 Employees, most of them young women, burn to death in a doll factory in Bangkok, Thailand. Management had locked the doors, so the workers could keep making Bart Simpson dolls without any distractions.
May 10, 1994 300 Active-duty marines stationed at twenty-nine palms receive a 46-question, multiple-choice survey. Given a hypothetical situation, more than a quarter of respondents indicate their willingness to "fire upon u.s. citizens who refuse or resist confiscation of firearms banned by the u.s. government." (On a positive note, almost two-thirds recognize that the order is patently unconstitutional. of course, that was 9 years ago.)
Jun 16, 1976 15,000 Black South African schoolchildren march through the streets of Soweto to protest the adoption of bilingual instruction in the Afrikaans language. The march ends when police and soldiers open fire, killing 600 kids and setting off days of riots.
Jun 21, 1877 Ten Irish immigrants who were labour activists (also known as the molly Maguire’s) are hanged at carbon county prison in Pennsylvania. Judge john lavelle of carbon county later wrote, "the molly Maguire trials were a surrender of state sovereignty. A private corporation initiated the investigation through a private detective agency. A private police force arrested the alleged defenders, and private attorneys for the coal companies prosecuted them. The state provided only the courtroom and the gallows."
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Fascism: A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.
