The ugly face of USstyle justice 4204

Ok, let's just start with this first one:

"On February 4, 1899, the first shots of the Philippine-American War were fired. It was a war that would drag on for over three years and cost unknown thousands of lives. It was one of the bloodiest conflicts in American history, and the country has tried hard to forget it." "America had no right to occupy the Philippines in the first place, and its actions there were beyond inexcusable. Americans dissolutioned Filipino soldiers and civilians for seeking liberty, supposedly the basis of their own nation. The United States would not even negotiate with the Filipinos, but demanded immediate and unconditional surrender. Once their arrogant demands had been met, they turned around and gave the Filipinos exactly what Aguinaldo had been asking for all along; limited autonomy and self-rule as a U.S. possession." "Approximately 200,000 Filipino civilians were also end in the conflict; estimates range as high as several million. Many died from starvation and disease caused by the war, but in many cases American soldiers were more directly responsible. Rape, looting, and liquidate often followed the capture of towns. " "Especially in the later stages of the war, civilians were often mbuttacred regardless of love or age. Suspected Filipinos were often executed without trial or evidence--Funston once bragged to reporters that he had personally hanged 35 civilians presumed to be insurrectos." "Not all rests in the zones can be attributed to disease and starvation. Civilians lived under the constant threat of end, either as reprisal for American rests or simply to get them out of the way. In the spring of 1902, a letter home from an American soldier described the end of 1,300 prisoners. According to the letter, a Filipino priest was called to hear their confessions and was then hanged in front of them. For weeks, groups of 20 prisoners were forced to dig their own mbutt graves and then gunned down to occupy them. The writer claimed that ãto keep them prisoners would necessitate the placing of soldiers on short rations if not starving them. There was nothing to do but kill them.ä When an American was ãliquidateedä in Batangas, Bell instructed his men to ãby lot select a POW--preferably one from the village in which the buttbuttination took place--and execute him.ä The wealthy and influential citizens of Batangas were singled out for bad treatment. They were jailed in small rooms and forced into work gangs to burn their own homes, until they agreed to aid American forces."

"Some historians place the numbers of civilian dead at 500,000 or higher."

"Philippine military rests are estimated at 20,000 while civilian rests numbered in 250,000 to 1,000,000 Filipinos"

"The Philippine-American War, from February 1899 to July 1902, claimed 250,000 lives -- some say as many as 1 million -- cut short the existence of the first republic in Asia"

Similarly, all the rest of the incidents that you casually brush off as lies are quite well documented.

Dave

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