In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue ... and slaughtered the indigenous peoples he found

[presence]

In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue ... and slaughtered the indigenous peoples he found
http://www.theguardian.com/commentis...people-history

Stephen Colbert digs into the “white Christian establishment” and its defense of Columbus Day
http://www.salon.com/2014/10/10/step..._columbus_day/

The Truth About Christopher Columbus: Hero or Villain?
http://latinamericanhistory.about.co...umbustruth.htm

a brave, but very flawed, human being

[tangent4ronpaul]

Free blankies for gvmt workers chipin!

-t

[LibertyEagle]

But here we face an inner problem and a paradox not only for libertarians, but for any radical, minority ideological movement. For marginal movements attract marginal people. Such movements are filled with what Germans call luftmenschen, people with no steady jobs, incomes, or visible means of support; the sort of people who instinctively alienate the mainstream bourgeois Americans, not so much by the content of their ideas, but by their style, lack of moorings, and “counterculture.”-- Murray Rothbard

Rothbard also observed how such movement types might react if presented with the possibility of tangible mainstream success:

If a serious opportunity should arise… for the movement to make a great leap into Middle America, into genuine influence in our society, that Libertarian luftmenschen will react not with enthusiasm but in fear and trembling. For far greater than their professed love of liberty is their hostility to bourgeois America.

Rothbard noted:

As one critical observer of the party has harshly charged: ‘they want the Party to be a social club for crazies.’

Rothbard was right.

[presence]

Are you marginalizing my distaste of colonial jingoism LE?

[oyarde]

OK , I must have missed Columbus day again. Too bad , I like to tell the story to the Grandkids . Italian guy goes to work for Spain , lands in some archipelago around the Bahamas , thinks he is in Japan .Sees some gold , and it is all downhill from there .