Re: And how did you celebrate 1 May?

In article <vbaUj.248360$pM4.190208@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 "Karl Johanson" <karljohanson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
> news:fvoj72$bjf$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Karl Johanson <karljohanson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
> >>> Karl Johanson <karljohanson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >>>> How many million has the US government killed since the revolution?
> >
> >>> Excluding enemy soldiers and sailors, I believe it's still working
> >>> on its first million.
> >
> >> How do you count them?  Prisoner executions?  What about civilian
> >> casualties from the Civil War, 'Indian wars', the invasion of
> >> Canada, the CIA participation in the overthrow of the Iranian
> >> government & the US government's support for the Shaw, from the
> >> invasion of Iraq, etc?
> >
> > Yes, all of that, whether done by the federal government or the state
> > governments.  I do not count Indians who died of disease,
> 
> I've heard of intentional spread of disease (which should count), but 
> haven't found good references for that.

The only good reference I know of for that involved the British 
government in what is now Canada, not the U.S. government.

The big disease die off was much earlier, and pretty clearly not 
intentional.

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