StewartReneeLv7

15 Apr 2022

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Terror of Wounded Knee

The Indian activists who have taken hostages and staged a violent replay of the "battle" of Wounded Knee are engaged in a dangerous game. If the first battle was a massacre, the second is also a crime. Certainly, it will not help the Indians' cause with the great majority of Americans.

 

We have had too much experience in this country with those who fantasize with high-powered rifles and who dramatize themselves with violence against others.

 

After a decade of riots, mass murders, and assassinations, Americans no longer are moved to sympathy by twisted souls who believe that they can win votes with gun-powder and extortion

 

The activists in this case have made the usual demands and already some politicians are talking of acceding to those demands. Let us hope that this line of official acquiescence to blackmail will not be followed.

 

The first priority must be to get the hostages back to safety; then there must be no official move later to reward the kidnappers or excuse their crime on the grounds that it was politically inspired. We should have learned by now that the casualty of a politically motivated crime is just as dead as the victim of any other crime. Political terrorism has no place in this country. Those who engage in it must be dealt with as terrorists, not as a new brand of political promoters.