03 January 2011 By Alden C. Mayfield "If the Puritans, Freemasons, and their
ancestors really believed in their value systems, they
wouldn't have committed such horrendous crimes of
genocide and blatant theft of millions of hectares of
American Indian lands. While Americans still benefit
from these vast resource rich lands, Indians are
placed on segregated lands. As such it is beyond
doubt that America's foreign policy is not guided by
the Puritans, Freemasons or Liberal ideas of liberty,
democracy and freedom. To be sure "the West won the
world," according to Samuel P. Huttington, "not by the
superiority of its ideas or values or religion, but
rather by its superiority in applying organized
violence. Westerners often forget this fact,
non-Westerners never do." There are some (Korean) academics, teachers,
intellectuals, government think-tanks, policy makers,
and so forth, who unabashedly promote the unquestioned
and unchallenged historical virtues of "American
Exceptionalism (Manifest Destiny)" that were ironed
out in the mid-nineteenth century, and filtered into
modern-day world international affairs. However, it
is obvious that this narrow Anglo-American ideology is
historically and politically misconstrued. In constructing their version of "American
Exceptionalism" rhetoric, this ideological bent
highlights John Winthrop's ‘Light on the Hill'
rhetoric. However, Winthrop held strident
anti-democratic sentiments: "A democracy is,
amongst civil nations, accounted the meanest and worst
of all forms of government." Also, Winthrop's
vision was meant for the "white" population, not for
Indians, Blacks, or any mixed bloods. In fact, this
ultruistic light became a time of abject darkness for
the African-American and Indigenous populations as
millions were historically erased through slavery and
mass murder via the conduits of racism and pandemic
disease. Instead, most Puritan missionaries were
reluctant to share this light with the "other." In
fact, missionary work amoung North American Indians
(and Blacks) was sporadic, begrudging and
self-serving, despite the genuine missionary success
of John Mayhew Jr. and John Eliot and other Moravian
Missionary work in Pennsylvania. Along with Winthrop's vision for "White" America,
these scholars salute "American Exceptionalism" by
portraying former American Presidents as grand
examplers of Puritan and Freemason ideas of its
Messianic mission to bring peace to this dark world.
All these great ideas, according to these
intellectuals, were meant to dispel the ideological
darkness of Savagery, Communism, Dictatorship and
Terrorism. Despite its many historical
contradictions, these scholars uncritically support
"American Exceptionalism." Why have these scholars
omitted the racial prejudice and mass genocide of
these earlier American Presidents? For example, in
1783, George Washington compared Indians with animals:
"Both being beasts of prey, tho' they differ in
shape." Indeed, Washington had no compunction in
obliterating 28 Indian settlements in a two-year
period. What happened to Washington's Freemason ideas
of brotherly love? In a heartbeat, America's dream of
freedom and democracy became the American Indian's
long nightmare of dispossession and poverty. Not only did Washington have negative views of
American Indians, Thomas Jefferson had very little
qualms in exterminating Indians like wild dogs. In
1807, Jefferson unabashedly proclaimed that "if ever
we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any
tribe, we will never lay it down till that tribe is
exterminated, or is driven beyond the Mississippi."
(David Stannard,. American Holocaust, pp. 118-121).
What happened to all the Puritan and Freemason ideas
of love and liberty? Furthermore, let us not forget President Andrew
Jackson's racist policies of American Indian
ethnic-cleansing. Jacksonian America proposed and
enforced the removal and relocation of tens of
thousands of American Indians from the American
Southeast to thousands of miles west to
Oklahoma between 1830-1838. Modest figures estimate that between 60-150,000
American Indians died on the "Trail of Tears" from the
Southeast to Oklahoma. Many American Indian children,
pregnant women, the infirm and elderly either died of
disease, hunger, murdered for sport, or simply froze
to death on their way to Indian Territory. Jackson's
policies of forced removal were the paradigm for
future Western inspired forms of ethnic-cleansing,
namely Nazism: "My friends," explains Andrew Jackson.
"circumstances render it impossible that you [American
Indians] can flourish in the midst of a civilized
community. You have but one remedy within your reach,
and that is to remove to the west. And the sooner you
do this, the sooner you will commence your career of
improvement and prosperity." If the US government fights for freedom and
democracy, why didn't the US liberate Korea
from Japanese colonization before WWII? The
reason the US fought in the Korean War wasn't to
liberate Korea, but it was rather to shield Japan
from the threat of communism. Also, since it was well
known before and after the
illegal invasion of Iraq that there were no WMDs, the
real motive for attacking Iraq wasn't for freedom and
democracy for Iraqis, but control of this region's
strategic location as it is in close proximity to Iran
and to vast untapped oil reserves. And doesn't the US
government have a long history of supporting dictators
and rogue states around the world: Saddam Hussein in
Iraq, Saudi Arabian dictatorial Princes and Israelis
Juntas in the Occupied Territories? The US government
isn't primarily concerned with freedom; it is more
concerned with its own self-interests, which includes
supporting dictators and conducting business with
communist regimes. No doubt, these scholars
flattering words would have pleased Imperial Japan's
colonial motives in liberating Asia from Western
colonization. If the Puritans, Freemasons, and their ancestors
really believed in their value systems, they wouldn't
have committed such horrendous crimes of genocide and
blatant theft of millions of hectares of American
Indian lands. While Americans still benefit from
these vast resource rich lands, Indians are placed on
segregated lands. As such it is beyond doubt that
America's foreign policy is not guided by the
Puritans, Freemasons or Liberal ideas of liberty,
democracy and freedom. To be sure "the West won
the world," according to Samuel P. Huttington,
"not by the superiority of its ideas or values or
religion, but rather by its superiority in applying
organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact,
non-Westerners never do." Comments 💬 التعليقات |