The primary SOURCE for this post was the book 'Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire' by Jonathan M. Katz
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All people found outside [Bell's] camps without identification were shot on-sight. Men were rounded up, tortured & executed. Entire villages were burned. By May 3, 1901, 1/6th of the population of Luzon had been killed or died of disease.”
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There was “a deadline outside [on Luzon] beyond which everything [was] shot.” Civilians in Bell's camps suffered from cholera, beriberi, smallpox & bubonic plague. To protect his soldiers, Bell ordered public vaccinations. Civilians were subject to a curfew.
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5/7
On Luzon, Brigadier General J. Franklin “Bell ordered civilians to be rounded up into ‘zones of protection.’” Fancy language to say, ‘concentration camp or ‘reconcentrado pen,’ as they were called then.
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4/7
...countryside to mount a guerrilla insurgency.”
Facts: President “Aguinaldo was betrayed by the Macabebe scouts.”
SOURCE: Gangsters of Capitalism - Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire by Jonathan M. Katz
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#OTD in 1901
Mar 23: President Aguinaldo of the Philippine Republic Captured
Context: “Realizing the Filipinos couldn't win direct confrontation, in late 1899, the fleeing president Emiliano Aguinaldo ordered his troops to throw away their uniforms & melt into the...
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The primary SOURCE for this post was the book, Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire by Jonathan M. Katz
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#AmericanImperialism
#WhiteSupremacy
#AmericanHistory
4/4
Aguinaldo ordered his troops to throw away their uniforms & melt into the countryside to mount a guerrilla insurgency. The short war left approximately 3,000 Filipinos and only 59 American dead.
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#OTD in #History 1899
February 04: The Philippine Republic Declared War on the United States
Context: War was declared after a white American soldier shot and killed two Filipino soldiers.
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The #Philippines declared independence in June 1898, but in the terms of the peace deal with #Spain the US ignored the declaration and claimed colonial control. So on #ThisDayInHistory in 1899, the #PhilippineAmericanWar began. By its end, ~250,000 Filipinos lay dead at US hands.
"...in his 30 yrs of war against the Apache, Cheyenne & other Native American tribes: Concentrations, devastations and harassment." SOURCE: Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire by Jonathan M. Katz
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7/8
Samareños “spoke a different language than the [insurgents from Luzon] & considered them nearly as foreign as the” Spaniards…until the Americans arrived on Samar. General A. R. Chaffee wanted Samar to be ruled w/ an iron fist & ordered the use of tactics he’d learned..."
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“Samareños had taken no part of the revolution against Spain.” Nor were they part of the insurgency that followed America’s betrayal of Aguinaldo. They remained indifferent to the whole thing. SOURCE: Gangsters of Capitalism by Jonathan M. Katz
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5/8
Facts: "Before synthetics came along, electric companies used it in their generators and it took various forms in the shipbuilding, oil drilling & even office supply industries. U.S. Commanders wanted to destroy the hemp simply to starve the insurgents [on Samar] out..."
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3/8
The Philippine Islands’ most valuable export at the time was “a strong, flexible fiber harvested from a cousin of the banana plant known as Abacá. Americans called it ‘Manila hemp,’" SOURCE: Gangsters of Capitalism by Jonathan M. Katz
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2/8
1900: United States Military Forces Increase their Presence on Samar
Context: “U.S. forces were ordered to [the Philippine Island of] Samar to, as a commander put it, “render a sufficient quantity of hemp available to the American Market as soon as possible.”
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1/8
"...in his 30 yrs of war against the Apache, Cheyenne & other Native American tribes: Concentrations, devastations and harassment." SOURCE: Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire by Jonathan M. Katz
#PhilippineAmericanWar
7/8
Samareños “spoke a different language than the [insurgents from Luzon] & considered them nearly as foreign as the” Spaniards…until the Americans arrived on Samar. General A. R. Chaffee wanted Samar to be ruled w/ an iron fist & ordered the use of tactics he’d learned..."
#PhilippineAmericanWar
6/8
“Samareños had taken no part of the revolution against Spain.” Nor were they part of the insurgency that followed America’s betrayal of Aguinaldo. They remained indifferent to the whole thing. SOURCE: Gangsters of Capitalism by Jonathan M. Katz
#PhilippineAmericanWar
ugly #AmericanHistory
5/8
Facts: "Before synthetics came along, electric companies used it in their generators and it took various forms in the shipbuilding, oil drilling & even office supply industries. U.S. Commanders wanted to destroy the hemp simply to starve the insurgents [on Samar] out..."
#PhilippineAmericanWar
3/8
The Philippine Islands’ most valuable export at the time was “a strong, flexible fiber harvested from a cousin of the banana plant known as Abacá. Americans called it ‘Manila hemp,’" SOURCE: Gangsters of Capitalism by Jonathan M. Katz
#PhilippineAmericanWar
ugly #AmericanHistory
2/8
1900: United States Military Forces Increase their Presence on Samar
Context: “U.S. forces were ordered to [the Philippine Island of] Samar to, as a commander put it, “render a sufficient quantity of hemp available to the American Market as soon as possible.”
#PhilippineAmericanWar
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The primary SOURCE for this post was the book, 'Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire' by Jonathan M. Katz
#PhilippineAmericanWar
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
6/6
Pvt. Harold Kinman wrote his sister that his company was ‘hiking and killing all we come across.’” In December, Smith sent Waller a handwritten note that said, “The interior of Samar must be made a howling wilderness.”
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5/6
White, privilege & imperialism personified. “Waller’s Marines destroyed rice, killed carabao & burned homes. They also did what the military commanders [& Wall Street] had wanted to do all along: Confiscate and burn supplies of ‘Manila hemp.’
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4/6
According to historian Brian Linn, Brigadier General Smith only got his general stars because of “his longevity, his physical bravery, and the mistaken believe that he planned to retire.”
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3/6
"I want all persons killed who are capable of bearing arms against the U.S.” In other words, Smith ordered genocide.
Facts: It should come as no surprise that Smith “was legendarily corrupt & drunk. Court-martialed 3 times for insubordination & dogged by creditors.”
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2/6
The U.S lost a battle in the #PhilippineAmericanWar in 1900 and then took to scorched earth measures including #concentrationcamps to force Filipinos into submission. The same is happening in #Gaza today
The U.S lost a battle in the #PhilippineAmericanWar in 1900 and then took to scorched earth measures including #concentrationcamps to force Filipinos into submission. The same is happening in #Gaza today
"...in his 30 yrs of war against the Apache, Cheyenne & other Native American tribes: Concentrations, devastations and harassment." SOURCE: Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire by Jonathan M. Katz
#PhilippineAmericanWar
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