'Columbus Day' Americas National Terrorist Holiday

THOGHTS ON THE COLUMBUS DAY CELEBRATION Since 1937, every year in October, the Columbus Day parade takes place on 5th Avenue in New York. The celebration has been taking place every second Monday of October, since 1971, when the date was proclaimed U.S. National Holyday. As Christopher Columbus was the first Italian to reach the land now called America, lots of Italian immigrants and Italo-American citizens take part in the event as they consider it the Day of Italian Pride. In the past few years, official delegations of some Italian Counties participated as well, and this year the Minister of Justice of the Italian Republic, Member of Parliament Clemente Mastella, went too. It is universally known that the arrival of Columbus in the new world set off the beginning of a period of destruction and mourning that led to the genocide of millions of human beings and to the physical extinction of whole populations. Right from the beginning of the conquest, the intentions of Columbus and of those who blessed his feat were clear. After a fruitless search for wealth and large towns on the coast of the islands he visited during his first trip, Columbus went back to Spain, leaving behind a part of his men to guard the Hispanic Island. On this matter Columbus writes: “I had a fort built …left the necessary men…(The indigenous people) are disarmed, they walk naked and are too shy; therefore those living in the fort can fearlessly …. ravage the island, on condition that they respect the law and the government I gave them”. The kind of government Columbus gave them is known from the original acts of the trial started against him by the Spanish Royals at the end of 1500, as recently discovered in a Spanish archive. The accusations and the testimonies of the time speak of bad government, denied justice, greediness, violence against Spanish and indigenous people. For all these charges Columbus was condemned. The pardon he received afterwards does not diminish the serious crimes he committed. Columbus’ conviction did not modify the destiny of the American Indigenous People. A few years later, a Royal Law ordered that before starting hostilities against the “indios”, the conquistadores had to read them a declaration, the so-called requiremento, with which they were informed of the truths of the Christian religion and of the necessity to declare their submission to the Spanish Crown and loyalty to the Pope. If the indigenous people refused or did not reply, which was always the case, due to the fact they could not understand what was said to them in Spanish or in Latin, the declaration would continue as follows: “I declare that, with the help of God, we shall enter into your country with all the necessary force, we shall fight against you in all ways and we shall submit you to the force and the obedience due to the Church and to the Crown. We shall take you, your wives, and your children and we shall make you slaves and, as such, we shall take you and we shall dispose of you according to the will of the Crown. And we shall take your belongings, we shall cause every possible offence and damage to those slaves that do not obey, refuse to receive orders from their master, resist or answer back”. These kinds of threats were very easily carried out by the Spaniards who, used to these kind of practices in their land, did not apply any kind of limit to their treatment of the “savages”. Furthermore, well before the requiremento came into force, Columbus himself captured and kidnapped hundreds of indigenous men and women to bring them back to Spain as slaves and trophies. It is not surprising that since 1992 (year in which the 5ooth anniversary of the “discovery” was celebrated), all over the American continent an indigenous movement of protest against the celebration of the Columbus Day has been expanding. The North American indigenous people in particular are strongly asking to transform this celebration that shamelessly celebrates the man that started the colonization and the conquest of their land. Common sense should be sufficient to understand the indelicacy of these celebrations, especially in view of the fact that the American Indians do not want to impose severe vetoes, but merely ask that this anniversary not be considered as a national holiday. They consider that a national holiday can be regarded as such only when it is shared among all citizens of a nation - and North American indigenous people are American citizens just as Italo-Americans are. Notwithstanding the continuous protests of the descendants of the original inhabitants of North America, this year, on 7th and 8th October, the Columbus Day was again celebrated and several natives were arrested for disturbing the celebrations. And because this is, without doubt, an Italo-American celebration, it is to them that we, supporters of the natives’ requests, want to address this appeal. We know that many Italo-American communities and organizations refuse the requests of the indigenous people, arguing that Columbus Day does not celebrate the conquest and the colonization but the courage, cleverness, and bravery shown by the Italians in the New World, values that should ideally be symbolised by the Genoese navigator. We would simply like to bring the above to the Italo-Americans' attention, and to underline that the long Italian history has been illuminated by many personalities who much more appropriately shed lustre on our country and the Italian descendents who migrated to America. We hope that Italians are willing to start evaluating the requests of the Native Americans differently, so that even this day can become a genuine occasion for Italian pride; a moment in which the universal values of historic justice and social equity towards a people already offended and persecuted are not ignored merely for the sake of being able to jump onto the winners' podium. Fortune has already been very generous to Columbus, who discovered America while looking for India. The fact that there is a national celebration in his name neither adds nor takes away anything from his merits as an explorer. It would be much more significant if five centuries later the descendants of the conqueror were to start to also recognise the rights of the conquered. These are the reasons that lead us to support the requests of the American indigenous people and to join them in asking that Columbus Day be abolished as a national holiday in the United States of America. Written in Cannara (Perugia) - Italy October 9, 2007 Signed by the following Associations: “The Circle”, Native American-Italian Support Network, Borgo San Lorenzo (FIRENZE) – President Antonio Ventre Soconas Incomindios, Torino – President Naila Clerici Hunkapi, Genova- President Sergio Bugolotti Gaia Terra, Roma – President Maurizio Rosace Wanbli Gleska, Ravenna – President Massimiliano Galanti Kiwani, Firenze – President Luisa Costalbano AlterNATIVI, Roma – President Vittorio Delle Fratte Huka Hey, Pordenone – President Auro Basilicò Todos Juntos, Varese – President Alessandra Marangon Mount Graham Defense Project, Modena – President Corrado Baccolini Iktomee, Como – President Giuliano Pozzi NativiAmericani.it, Livorno – Owner Alessandro Profeti Please sign the Petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/cd1ptoit/petition.html

It's about time to abolish Columbus Day !. The guy Christopher Columbus is an evil, bloodthirsty genocidal murderer, liar and a grand thief. He is the High Priest of Murder and Admiral of Mosquitoland !.