{"id":1940,"date":"2007-12-15T20:16:28","date_gmt":"2007-12-16T01:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1940"},"modified":"2007-12-15T20:16:28","modified_gmt":"2007-12-16T01:16:28","slug":"smallpox-blankets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1940","title":{"rendered":"Smallpox blankets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is war, folks, and war is hell. There are forces at work which intend to do us harm, here and abroad- and we seem to have trouble fighting on all fronts. <\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s an answer- of sorts. The British &#8220;allowed&#8221; blankets contaminated wiht smallpox to fall into Indian hands. In other words, they cursed their enemies with the very thing that vexed the british themselves. <\/p>\n<p>So why not fight the enemy with the things which vex us? We worried about China and India manufacturing? send them Osha and the EPA. Worried about Islam and it&#8217;s encroachment on our society? send them Richard Dawkins et al.  <\/p>\n<p>Your suggestions in comments. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is war, folks, and war is hell. There are forces at work which intend to do us harm, here and abroad- and we seem to have trouble fighting on all fronts. So here&#8217;s an answer- of sorts. The British &#8220;allowed&#8221; blankets contaminated wiht smallpox to fall into Indian hands. In other words, they cursed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}