I'm looking to start a Les Lester's Chronicle podcast. Fact is, I've got to stay on top of my obligations.
Today, we're caught up in the centuries old game plan of Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Herzl:
Herzl -- "When we occupy the land, we shall bring immediate benefits to the state that receives us. We must expropriate gently the private property on the estates assigned to us. We shall TRY TO spirit the penniless population across the border BY PROCURING EMPLOYMENT FOR IT in the transit countries, while denying it any employment in our country. The property owners will come over to our side. Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discretely and circumspectly. Let the owners of immovable property believe that they are cheating us, selling us things for more than they are worth. But we are not going to sell them anything back."
***(Easily corroborated online via myriad sources)
Jefferson -- "Like many contemporaries, he believed that Indian lands should be taken over by white people[1] and made the taking of tribal lands a priority, with a four step plan to “(1) run the hunters into debt, then threaten to cut off their supplies unless the debts are paid out of the proceeds of a land cession; (2) bribe influential chiefs with money and private reservations; (3) select and invite friendly leaders to Washington to visit and negotiate with the President, after being overawed by the evident power of the United States; and (4) threaten trade embargo or war.”[3]. ***(Easily corroborated online via myriad sources)
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