Genocide Boat Tours the Bay Area

Genocide Boat Tours San Francisco Bay Region

A replica of one of Christopher Columbus' ships, the Nina, is now
touring several Bay Area ports of call. Today it is docked at Loch
Lomand Yacht Club in the San Rafael canal waterway.
To read local press reports and the Columbus Foundation literature,
you'd never image what unspeakable atrocities this so called
historic boat, the Nina, brought to the new world. Only two
sentences in the Columbus literature mention controversy, and then in
a decidedly dismissive way....."Some people saw nothing to celebrate.
Instead, they thought that it should be an occasion to protest while
pursuing modern political agendas." The literature goes on to extoll
the effort to rebuild the ship without mentioning the over three
million Indians exterminated by Columbus' men during the voyages.
To brush aside the controversy in this manner is akin to nostalgically
describing the construction of gas chambers and concentration
camps by the Nazis during the Holocaust, without once describing the
brutal murders that took place within. Imagine the public reaction to
such a tour of recreated concentration camp buildings.
Once again we have here an opportunity to set the record straight.
Quoting from Howard Zinn's "Peoples History of the United States";
..."And so Columbus desperate to pay back dividends to those who had
invested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In
the province of Cicao, on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge
fields of gold to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or
older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When
they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their
necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and
bled to death.....In two years, through murder, mutilation, or suicide,
half of the 250,000 Indians on Haiti were dead"
Many similar horrific accounts followed Columbus and his crews
throughout the Caribbean.
Detailed original logs written by Columbus still in existence today,
provided the reference material. Las Casas, the conquistador turned
human rights activist said; " there were 60,000
people living on this island (Hispaniola), including Indians: so that
from 1494 to 1508, over three million people had perished from war,
slavery and the mines. Who in future generations will believe this? I
myself writing as a knowledgeable witness can hardly believe it...."
This was the legacy of the Columbus voyages. Read Professor Zinn's
book to find out more. Read the book to also see how the sugar coating
and fantasizing of history only serves to support exploitation and
persecutions by corrupt governments today. This was genocide plain
and simple and this is what our children should be taught about this
infamous boat.
The locations and moorings of the "Nina" can be found at the
Columbus Foundation's web site: http://www.thenina.com