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To: Joe S Pack who wrote (66598)	7/26/2005 1:41:29 PM
From: Slagle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Joe S Pack Re: "whom we ask" You could ask me, A person who knows quite a bit about the anthropology of the SE USA from my many decades of collecting and excavations I have done myself years ago. <g> And also because I am a considerable part Cherokee and am in possession of the family history handed down to me from Cherokee times generation by generation, I think I can speak with authority. When the first Europeans came here to the southeast, the Mississippian mound-builder Indians were already in serious decline all over the region. But what the Spaniards observed was that these people engaged in horrible practices including cannibalism (mostly ritual) and large scale sacrifice of victims as an element of their witchcraft, just as the Mexican Indians. Indeed that is the main purpose for the temple mound itself, as the sacrificial platform. When you excavate a mound burial you always find the remains of a number of young children buried along with the chief, with their skulls smashed just prior to burial and this is just as the Spaniards observed with their own eyes. Sometimes in one of these burials you find Spanish trade beads or even coins so that dates the barbaric practice to the era of Spanish contact. These things I have found in my own excavations, Do you think such a horrible practice deserved to be preserved? Of course not and neither did my ancestors. But mainly the whole place was just an empty wilderness. To give you an idea how empty, when the Spaniard Hernando DeSoto traveled through North Georgia, the heart of the Coosa Kingdom in 1540 there may have been 8,000 Coosa Indians in the whole reigon, an area that is now home to 8 million people. There was plenty of room for Indian and settler alike, indeed those tribes able to get along with the white vastly increased their population due to the application of the white mans tools and methods. But most couldn't for whatever reason and conducted murderous raids on the white settlements. Over time the musket put an end to this. And Joe, we can't have the whole world come here whatever is their color or religion. I don't know where you came from but if we just open our doors to the whole third world your life will be ruined along with mine. Slagle

To: Joe S Pack who wrote (66598)	7/26/2005 3:40:43 PM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Yes, victors write the history books. Why read books written by the losers ? " political crooks to squander in all sorts of killing activities all around the world." We need OMB to make sure they get more cost effective. We should consider outsourcing some of this work, like the British did with the Gurhkas. Besides cost, there seems to be some unneccessary killing. Maybe next year there will be some of the motivational posters on the walls at the CIA with messages like - " Is this hit really neccessary ? Use tax dollars wisely. "