Preliminary Statement: America is a land of crucifixion
When Columbus first arrived in the New World he was greeted by friendly natives. In his own words:
They … brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things … They willingly traded everything they owned … They were well-built, with good bodies and handsome features …. They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance. They have no iron. … They would make fine servants. … With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.
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I took some of the natives by force in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts.
To give thanks to God for his successful journey Columbus crucified 13 of these natives – one for each of the 12 Apostles and another for Jesus. He did this in a very uniquely cruel way that has defined the Americas. Around their necks the natives wore nooses. At their feet Columbus built fires. The natives could choose between crucifixion and suffocation or crucifixion and burning. As they switched the agony was unspeakably prolonged.
Columbus returned to the Caribbean with 17 ships and 1,200 men. His men traveled from island to island, taking natives as captives. In 1495, in a large slave raid, Columbus and his men rounded up 1,500 Arawak men, women, and children, and put them in pens. They selected what they considered the best natives and loaded them onto ships back to Spain. Two hundred died enroute. After the survivors were sold as slaves, Columbus wrote: “Let us in the name of the Holy Trinity go on sending all the slaves that can be sold.”
And so Christianity goes.
Although recent research has concluded that Columbus was a Sephardic Jew. A nice blend of all the murderous Testaments.
Columbus took one of the female natives – a young pretty girl – and gave her to a sailor. Here are the sailor’s own words:
While I was in the boat, I captured a very beautiful woman, whom the Lord Admiral Columbus gave to me. When I had taken her to my cabin she was naked — as was their custom. I was filled with a desire to take my pleasure with her and attempted to satisfy my desire. She was unwilling, and so treated me with her nails that I wished I had never begun. I then took a piece of rope and whipped her soundly, and she let forth such incredible screams that you would not have believed your ears. Eventually we came to such terms, I assure you, that you would have thought she had been brought up in a school for whores.
Columbus was the first Jeffrey Epstein.
Bartolome de las Casas, a young priest describes the treatment of the natives:
Endless testimonies … prove the mild and pacific temperament of the natives. … But our work was to exasperate, ravage, kill, mangle and destroy; … the Spaniards thought nothing of knifing Indians by tens and twenties and of cutting slices off them to test the sharpness of their blades … two of these so-called Christians met two Indian boys one day, each carrying a parrot; they took the parrots and for fun beheaded the boys.
With Columbus in charge of the Spaniards there followed: complete enslavement; wholesale rape; mass murder; corpulent torture. About 50,000 indigenous natives committed mass suicide rather than comply with the Spanish:
The Indians destroyed their stores of bread so that neither they nor the invaders would be able to eat it. They plunged off cliffs, they poisoned themselves with roots, and they starved themselves to death. They had given up and committed mass suicide to avoid being killed or captured by Christians, and to avoid sharing their land with them, their fields, groves, beaches, forests, and women: the future of their people.
Sounds like Gaza
The Spaniards hung, crucified or burned natives that they took captive. The Arawaks committed mass suicides. They fed cassava poison to their infants to save them from the Spanish. In two years, half of the 250,000 natives on Haiti were dead, either through murder, mutilation or suicide. By 1550, there were 500 natives. By 1650, the Arawaks had been wiped out from the island.
From rape, to pillage, to flat-out murder, Columbus and his men were the first Europeans to commit horrendous atrocities against America’s indigenous people.
Then came American corporations, politicians and Judges
Modern America – the former country of slaves and genocide of its own indigenous peoples – is a place of government sanctioned violence: mass shootings; the killing of unarmed black men and women on the streets and in their own residences by police; ICE brutalization of communities; and white nationalist militias. The degeneracy that is America knows no bounds.
Now there is the violence to our psyche:
The denial of Covid as over one million Americans died while the federal government did nothing; the lie that the 2020 election was stolen; the depravity that is our president; the storming and debasement of our Capitol by thugs wearing “Camp Auschwitz” sweat shirts that defecated in what was once considered hallowed halls; the pardoning of these Capitol attackers many of whom had been or have since been convicted of a range of sexual offenses from rape to pedophiliac atrocity; the pedophiliac atrocity that is Jeffrey Eptsein and the Orange Fuhrer; the killings of citizens by masked government thugs; the bogus wars and daily looting of our Treasury by Trump and his Oligarchs.
Like the citizens of Nazi Germany we lost our ability to be astonished. Nothing disgusts us any longer. We let it happen. https://raymondzuppa.com/maga-land/
In America what happens no longer matters. All that matters is what someone says happened. Joe Rogan is the official MMA commentator. He never had a fight. He opines about viruses and vaccines but he’s not a doctor of any sort. And nowhere is the just say anything decomposition of fact more prevalent than in our Courts.
Look to the tragedy that is Steven Donziger
A tragedy of many levels: the tragedy of genocide; ecocide; the destruction of democracy; the rot and corruption of our judicial system; and in the end the poisoning of our planet.
It is all played out in a single courtroom … before a single atrocity of a judge … in a building … in Manhattan … as if that courtroom were the center of the University. It is called the Southern District of New York. 500 Pearl Street, New York, NY. A place of violent debauchery; ultimately a place with enough power to debase an entire planet.
I am a lawyer. I practice in that Court House. Unlike all the other lawyers I have the courage to speak out despite repercussions.
Shame on the lawyers who have not spoken out.
I am not afraid because if you’re different enough, the darkness is not intimidating, the shadows are not terrifying. You fear nothing.
Statement Of The Case
https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/crude-the-real-price-of-oil-2009
1964: Texaco (now Chevron), discovers oil in Ecuador’s northeastern Amazon Basin, the “Oriente.”
1967-1992: Texaco (Chevron) conducts drilling operations, ignores normal waste regulations, and dumps some 16 billion gallons of toxic wastewater into rivers and pits, polluting streams, groundwater, and farm land.
1992: When oil production ceases, Texaco (Chevron) abandons the fields, leaves behind over 900 carcinogenic waste pits, and leaves indigenous inhabitants with destroyed land, polluted water, and an epidemic of cancer and birth defects.
1993: Steven Donziger, a recent Harvard Law School graduate, accepts the victims’ case, working with the plaintiffs’ Ecuadorean lawyers and Ecuador’s Frente de Defensa de la Amazonía (FDA)
1993: A 30,000-member class-action lawsuit is filed against Texaco in New York Federal court, to hold Texaco accountable; Chevron later bought Texaco, fought to shift the case to Ecuador, and promised to accept jurisdiction there.
1995: Texaco stages a sham “clean-up” of less than 1% of the damage, covering toxic pits with dirt.
1998: Texaco (Chevron) lobbyists convince Ecuador government officials to sign a “release” of liability, citing their fraudulent, sham “clean-up,” which does not, however, apply to individual plaintiffs and devastated communities.
2000: Chevron buys Texaco.
2001: Chevron insists the class-action liability case be moved from the US to Ecuador.
2003: Trial process begins in Ecuador to claim damages from Chevron.
2009: Chevron hires notorious “corporate rescue” law firm Gibson-Dunn, previously censured by England’s High Court of Justice for fabricating evidence. Judges in California, Montana, New York, and elsewhere had censured Gibson-Dun for witness tampering, obstruction, intimidation, and “legal thuggery” against adversaries and their lawyers.
2009: Donziger testifies before Congress on Ecuador case.
2009: Crude, film with Trudie Styler, released at Sundance, drawing widespread attention.
2010: Gibson-Dunn, on behalf of Chevron, launches an attack against the victims, their lawyers, and media, before corporate-friendly Judge Lewis “Smoking Man” Kaplan in New York. Kaplan forces filmmaker, Joseph Berlinger to turn over 600 hours of outtakes from his 2009 documentary, “Crude: The Real Price of Oil.” Kaplan ridicules the journalist’s request to protect confidential sources.
2010: Gibson-Dunn lawyer Randy Mastro uses Kaplan’s court to insult the Ecuador judicial system, calling the Ecuador judgement “a sham.” Kaplan mocks the Ecuadorian court and refuses to allow their input. Kaplan referred to the 30,000 class-action victims as “so-called plaintiffs,” claiming that their “standing in this matter is debatable.”
2011: In Ecuador, after eight years and overwhelming evidence of pollution and harm to individuals, communities, and Amazon ecosystems, the Ecuador court issues an $18-billion judgment against Chevron, on behalf of 30,000 victims. The decision is later confirmed by Ecuador’s Supreme Court (Court of Cessation).
2011: In response, Chevron sells its assets in Ecuador, flees the country, refuses to pay, and threatens the victims with a “lifetime of litigation.”
2011: Chevron reveals in a private memo that their “L-T [long-term] strategy” to undermine international enforcement efforts is to “demonize” Mr. Donziger. In New York, at the behest of “Smoking Man” Kaplan, Chevron files a RICO (racketeering) case against two Ecuadorean plaintiffs — Secoya Indigenous leader Javier Piaguaje and farmer Hugo Camacho — and their American lawyer, Steven Donziger.
The Trial
Steven Donziger was held under house arrest in Manhattan for over three years. Judge Lewis “Smoking Man” Kaplan charged Donziger with contempt for refusing to give Chevron his lap top computer which had sensitive client information. Prosecutors did not charge Donziger. They refused to take the case from the Judge’s referral. Judge Kaplan charged him – almost unheard of — the Judge is supposed to be a neutral arbiter. In a bench trial in front of a handpicked psychopathic member of the Federalist Society – Corporate Judge Loretta Preska – Donziger was prosecuted by a private oil company lawyer. Preska convicted Donziger. He received the maximum of six months in prison.
Ever since he won a multibillion-dollar judgment in 2011 against the oil giant Chevron, the multinational has come after him. They have destroyed him economically, professionally and personally. They even took his law license.
The Ecuadorian victims continue to sicken and die.
But the devil is in the Satanic details of the Judges that we’ve discussed and others. They commit genocide. They’re open about it.
Next Episode we start taking them down. I promise …