Wrymouth3
Emperor
is being a socialist a crime? (consider myself as one)
Only if you are a nationalist socialist .
is being a socialist a crime? (consider myself as one)
Only if you are a nationalist socialist .
...an example of an attempted genocide?
Yeah, I'm surprised that we're even talking about this. This was, like, explicit national policy for more than a hundred years.
Ah, okay. Leading examples would be the Civilization Fund Act of 1819, Indian Removal Act of 1830, and the Indian Appropriations Acts of 1851, 1871, 1885 and 1889. Between they outline a policy by which Indians should be dispossessed of their land and either expelled, assimilated, or exterminated, and as you eventually run out of land to expel them, that in practice means assimilated or exterminated, both of which constitute genocide as recognised under modern international law.Explicit National Policy.
A Bill in Congress, a Presidential Executive Order, a Supreme Court decision or a Federal Bureau Directive explicitly ordering the genocide of Indians.
Removal Acts
Ah, okay. Leading examples would be the Civilization Fund Act of 1819, Indian Removal Act of 1830, and the Indian Appropriations Acts of 1851, 1871, 1885 and 1889. Between they outline a policy by which Indians should be dispossessed of their land and either expelled, assimilated, or exterminated, and as you eventually run out of land to expel them, that in practice means assimilated or exterminated, both of which constitute genocide as recognised under modern international law.
I didn't claim that the Acts were each and every one an explicit declarations of genocidal intent, only that they were amount to an explicit policy of genocide.