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Re: Colonialism as viewed by Westerners
« Reply #30 on: August 17, 2022, 04:25:01 pm »
More on the Doctrine of Discovery:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/doctrine-discovery-led-displacement-native-100015606.html

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How did the King of Spain acquire a valid title to land in Alachua and neighboring counties, where Creek and Seminole people were then living?

The answer is the doctrine of discovery. In 1493 Pope Alexander VI, the notorious Borgia Pope, divided the Americas, Africa and Asia between Spain and Portugal on the grounds that their navigators had discovered the Western Hemisphere and sub-Saharan Africa.

An earlier Papal decree, Romanus Pontifex, which was issued and reissued by several of his predecessors, had established the right of the King of Portugal "to invade, search out, capture, vanquish, and subdue all Saracens (i.e. Muslims) and pagans whatsoever, and all dominions, possessions, and all movable and immovable goods whatsoever held and possessed by them and to reduce their persons to perpetual slavery, and to apply and appropriate to himself and his successors the kingdoms, dukedoms, counties, principalities, dominions, possessions, and goods."

These documents together gave European Christians exclusive rights to the land and resources of the rest of the world. They were a charter for enslaving and exploiting the people of Africa, Asia and America.

In other words, Vatican ethics matches Vatican aesthetics:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-ugly-48/msg3961/?topicseen#msg3961

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We might dismiss them as historic curiosities except that Chief Justice John Marshall invoked both Papal documents in a unanimous Supreme Court decision in 1823 that established the right of the United States to dispose of the lands occupied by Native American tribes and of the people themselves. Marshall held that the doctrine of discovery gave European nations an absolute right to New World lands that they ceded to the United States by treaty.

Manifest Destiny is really just a limited application of the Doctrine of Discovery. I also suspect that the Doctrine of Discovery is is what MTG etc. are really thinking about when they refer to themselves as "Christian nationalists":

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/judeo-christian-theocracy-supporters-in-the-us-(dominionists)/msg15167/#msg15167

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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote in a unanimous Supreme Court decision in 2005 that, "Under the doctrine of discovery title to the lands occupied by Indians when the colonists arrived became vested in the sovereign — first the discovering European nations and later the original states and the United States."

Hence:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/jews-have-nothing-in-common-with-us!/msg14333/?topicseen#msg14333

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The idea that sovereignty over North America belonged to the King of England or the King of Spain, who transferred their right to the United States by treaty, was too attractive to be set aside. Following the precedent set in earlier cases and appealing to international law, the Supreme Court determined in 1835 that the King of Spain's grant to the Arredondos was valid.

Which proves the need for:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/legal-decolonization/

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The Seminoles who had lived and farmed in Alachua County had already been forced from their homes under the Treaty of Moultrie Creek (1823) and would soon be sent on the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma under the Indian Removal Act (1830) and the Treaty of Payne's Landing (1832).

The first coffles of enslaved Africans were already on the march from South Carolina. This is the story embedded in the title to your property and mine.
« Last Edit: August 17, 2022, 04:29:47 pm by 90sRetroFan »