Executions in America

Lewis hired two guys to murder her husband, and they did so. The Wikipedia article said she did it to cash in on an insurance policy, and that "Her two accomplices, Matthew Jessee Shallenberger, then 21, and his former roommate and friend Rodney Lamont Fuller, then 19, were sentenced to life terms at their separate trials." The only injustice I see is that Fuller is still alive. Schallenberger committed suicide in prison.

 

Midgardsun: I enjoyed your account of American imperialist history. But what's your source on Americans killing 600,000 Phillipinos in 1898-1910? Also there are plenty of instances in your list where American military involvement was a purely defensive reaction. Example: the war against Japan.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine-American_War

 

no, the nuclear bombs on Japan were a big crime, no defense, since Japan had already offered capitulation before which was ignored.
http://www.dreamscape.com/morgana/himalia2.htm
And better not mention the background of Pearl Harbor
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/pearl_harbor.htm

 

This is serious business. Not surprisingly, I was not aware of it, since I was brought up and educated in U.S. schools. If I were French, I wouldn't expect to learn about French colonial atrocities in Algeria and Vietnam. Whether the Philippine death toll was 200,000 or 1,400,000, and whether the deaths were due to cholera or American bayonets, the result is the same. Evidently the Yanks were trying their hand at jumping on the colonial bandwagon even though they'd freed themselves from the same scourge in the 18th century.

My understanding is that the current generation of American high school students is usually allocated one period (45 - 55 minutes) of history class to review the American-Vietnamese conflict (1960-1973 roughly).