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Subject: Re: The joy of Democracy
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2024 13:05:31 +0100
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On Fri, 8 Nov 2024, Peter Flass wrote:

> D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 8 Nov 2024, rbowman wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 7 Nov 2024 18:17:46 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Empire of the Summer Moon on the Comanche Canâ??t find an actual book,on
>>>> the Iroquois, but thereâ??s a lot of stuff outbtgere
>>>
>>> https://bloodontheohiotalesoffrontierterror.blogspot.com/2016/12/iroquois-
>>> torture-and-decapitation-of.html
>>>
>>> Supposedly Zimmermann's books are collections of first person accounts.
>>>
>>> https://epublications.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?
>>> article=1174&context=dissertations_mu
>>>
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Fort_William_Henry
>>>
>>> I grew up in that area and the massacre at Fort William Henry was part of
>>> the local lore. James Fenimore Cooper got a lot of miles out of it.
>>>
>>
>> Fascinating. Very interesting, thank you for the links.
>>
>>
>
> What was interesting about the Comanches, and probably others, is that it
> wasn’t just “let’s torture these people because we hate them”, but rather a
> deliberate policy of terror to discourage anyone from attacking them or
> trespassing onto their territory.

Sounds like they were able strategists and well ahead of their times!
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