This was posted to Reddit's [/r/occupywallstreet](http://www.reddit.com/r/occupywallstreet/comments/1ofpfc/a_bad_day_for_the_indians_xpost_from_rconspiracy/) for Columbus Day 2013.

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> "As soon as I arrived in the Indies, on the first Island which I found, I took some of the natives by force in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts. [...] They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I shoed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance. They have no iron. Their spears are made of cane[...] They would have make fine servants[...] With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want." - Christopher Columbus *Captain's Log, 1492*
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