Hidden History: did you know that the US government ran its very own concentration camps decades before the Nazi Holocaust?

The whining and crying and lying about how wonderful this country was before the national nightmare of November 2016 needs to stop, people. 


  History is written by the victors. Its lessons in public education system  from elementary to high school and the textbooks they use propagate the bias of omission and subterfuge, leaving students uninformed as to fact over fiction. Private schools and universities, propped up by the agenda-driven backing of purse strings, also have vested interest in only telling the stories the way they see fit. 

   The supposed umbrage that some Americans take over real or imagined travesties of the current presidential administration is often portrayed as if this country has been a beacon of moralistic behavior on the world stage.  Few people have even heard of the Philippine Insurrection*, nor know the depth of atrocities the US government and US military crapped onto the Philippine people. Military action, starvation, disease, torture, rape, etc., were tools used by the liberty-loving Americans against the natives. 

   From the time of the Spanish-American War in 1899 to the years just prior to World War I, a brutal and lopsided war was fought in the Philippine Islands.  In addition to having killed or allowed to die 1,000,000+ human beings, the US government enslaved civilians in concentration camps to control movement, to restrict assistance to combatants, and to punish those who failed to fall in line with American goals. 





*It was dubbed an insurrection by whites, because they were stealing land, resources and labor from darker people whom they saw as inferior and backward. Gee, I wonder if that had ever happened before in human history . . .   Of course, 125 years earlier, when ancestors of those whites fought for their own freedom from an oppressor, they dubbed it the American Revolution and painted themselves as righteous. Filipinos wanted freedom from oppression, but the American government deemed them unworthy of it.