FirstQuaker -> RE: CIA and MI6 in bed with KDaffy (9/6/2011 3:45:55 PM)
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ORIGINAL: FirstQuaker So you are historically ignorant as well? Lord Jeffrey Amherst's letters discussing germ warfare against American Indians I thought people like you were proud of this and regarded it as an accomplishment. But back to how discussing the CIA and MI6 and their cozy relationship with KDaffy is bigoted against the British. "Some people have doubted these stories; other people, believing the stories, nevertheless assert that the infected blankets were not intentionally distributed to the Indians, or that Lord Jeff himself is not to blame for the germ warfare tactic." This, from your own link. I didnt say the story of the CIA, MI6 and Gaddafi was bigoted against the British. I said your posts were, please note the difference. So you have a reading comprehension problem and could only understand the preamble in the link? Try reading this final part a few times until it's general meaning sinks in - quote:
Conclusion All in all, the letters provided here remove all doubt about the validity of the stories about Lord Jeff and germ warfare. The General's own letters sustain the stories. As to whether the plans actually were carried out, Parkman has this to say: ... in the following spring, Gershom Hicks, who had been among the Indians, reported at Fort Pitt that the small-pox had been raging for some time among them.... An additional source of information on the matter is the Journal of William Trent, commander of the local militia of the townspeople of Pittsburgh during Pontiac's seige of the fort. This Journal has been described as "... the most detailed contemporary account of the anxious days and nights in the beleaguered stronghold." [Pen Pictures of Early Western Pennsylvania, John W. Harpster, ed. (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1938).] Trent's entry for May 24, 1763, includes the following statement: ... we gave them two Blankets and an Handkerchief out of the Small Pox Hospital. I hope it will have the desired effect. Trent's Journal confirms that smallpox had broken out in Fort Pitt prior to the correspondence between Bouquet and Amherst, thus making their plans feasible. It also indicates that intentional infection of the Indians with smallpox had been already approved by at least Captain Ecuyer at the fort, who some commentators have suggested was in direct correspondence with General Amherst on this tactic (though I have not yet found such letters). So now you claim history is bigoted against you Brits too? (And no, your buddy Anaxagoras said that bit about this thread itself being bigoted against Brits.)
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