Exactly 126 years ago today, the government of the United States sent a sadistic assortment of United States Army Indian killers to South Dakota to exterminate more Indians. (Oh wait, maybe they all weren't sadistic, maybe some were actually nice guys. And maybe they didn't really go there to exterminate them, it just happened and had nothing to do with the previous centuries of massacres.)

"As dawn appeared on December 29, 1890, about 350 Lakota Indians awoke, having been forced by the US Army to camp the night before alongside the Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. The US Cavalry’s 7th Regiment had “escorted” them there the day prior and, now, surrounded the Indians with the intent to arrest Chief Big Foot (also called Spotted Elk) and disarm the warriors.

When a disagreement erupted, army soldiers opened fire, including with Hotchkiss machine guns. Within minutes, hundreds of children, men, and women were shot down. Perhaps as many as three hundred killed and scores wounded that morning."

It was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history and it was done by the U.S. government. It was near the end of the genocidal "Indian wars" where the white settlers of North America set out to eliminate the Native American population and steal their land.

From a high of anywhere from two to eight million, "By 1900, about two hundred thousand remained, nearly all consigned to remote wastelands in the interior west that elites considered worthless."

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/12/wounded-knee-massacre-lakota-us-army/

Today, the United States government continues to send it's military around the planet to kill and subjugate any humans that get in it's Manifest Destiny way. The American people, generally and collectively, still support their heroes who are willing to kill anyone for "freedom" and the "American way of life".

Sometimes I sit back and wonder why more people didn't fight back against their own government to stop the genocide. Certainly there were plenty who opposed the Indian wars and the absurd racism but not nearly enough. The Indian wars continued, decade after decade, until the vast majority of all Indians were killed and the rest were placed in concentration camps to assimilate or die. Out of sight, out of mind, the American people let it happen.

Today, the American people find themselves in a similar situation in that their government is sending their military to kill innocent men, women and children in other countries. The fraudulent War OF Terror is in it's fifteenth year, surpassing all U.S. wars in length, except the Indian wars. And still, the American people sit back and let it happen. Again, there are people who oppose the wars, the imperialism, and the massacres, but not nearly enough.

Today, YOUR government killed more innocent men, women and children in Iraq and Syria, 126 years to the day of the Wounded Knee Massacre.

Where will we be at in another hundred years? The possibilities are frightening. Will this country ever make amends? Will it ever stop the killing?