Blaming the Victims -- Again?

For the benefit of those not trained in American history, the British Puritan settlers saw themselves as the "New Israel"

http://gbgm-umc.org/umw/joshua/manifest.html

-- i.e. entering the promised land (recommended by John Locke to those left out of the property grabs in Britain of his times) to claim it as their own, as the ancient Israelites were supposed to have claimed Canaan by G-d given right. Needless to say the existing inhabitants were not consulted on this plan ---> wars and genocide here and there.

Presumably some of my own ancestors who arrived for this happening were involved. My grandfather, Charles Foster Kent, a Biblical theologian, was born in Palmyra, Western New York as a farm boy -- where the family had presumably migrated. A classmate interested in such things suggests that his predecessor arrived in 1633 to marry a wife who had arrived in 1627. My oldest and dearest friend, Dan Huden, was part native American. His father, John Huden, also an academic and a college president, was an expert in Indian Affairs as well as education.

Note the Satanic traits ascribed to our native Americans:

http://gbgm-umc.org/umw/joshua/nativeam.html

Sound at all familiar? Seems that the tendency to blame the victims has been around for some time -- rape to the Holocaust.

You will notice that a Yale College or two are named after some of the leading lights of this migration mentality.

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Exiting Gaza, Israel fights on two fronts
Palestinian militants and Jewish protesters stand in the way of a
landmark withdrawal. By Joshua Mitnick
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0718/p01s03-wome.html?s=hns
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to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy)
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