Columbus Day Objectors

A Young Democrat Protestor

Democrats, Socialists and Communists have such need for anger they reach back 526 years for inspiration only to miss their target by a thousand miles and many centuries as Columbus made his first landfall in what is now San Salvador, then sailing to Cuba and Venezuela.  He never touched America nor did he prove the world was round.

Columbus was hard on natives, but they were violent to the point of cannibalism, so he was not all bad, just misunderstood.  He was not much of a navigator as on his three voyages to the New World he had two chances to determine where the new lands were located on our globe by timing eclipses and made 800 mile errors both times!  At least he was consistent.

It was well known for 2100 years before Columbus that Greeks used the lengths of shadows from identical sticks set vertically known distances on a north-south line on same days to estimate the size of Earth geometrically.  It was most likely well known long  before that as the Phoenicians had maps for sailing around Earth in 6000 BC.  As a boy I saw coins they left in Duluth, Minnesota.  Apparently the Indians had crooked gambling casionos then and the Phoenicians got mad and never returned.

In connection with a book project I contributed to an article on navigation in antiquity for the Smithsonian Institution in 1974 Quarterly, documenting a method I developed that could have been used in antiquity.  They asked me to see if it could be the secret method Captain James Cook used in determining longitude for South Sea islands so well the positions were improved only recently.  

I applied my method and developed a test using variations in gravity constants for several South Pacific islands.  They confirmed my method, based on differentials in solar-lunar cycles, thus I am in the literature for having rediscovered Cook's secret.   

They Smithsonian contacted the British Admiralty for confirmation, but were told the Cook method was still a state secret after 196 years!  I suspect they simply did not want to admit to having destroyed his journals as he had fallen out of favor with his shocking accounts of the natives cuisine.  To wit:

When Cook arrived at what is now Vancouver Island on March 30, 1778 he was greeted by members of the Nootka tribe wanting to trade roasted human arms and legs for goods.   Cook wrote in his journal:

"They were a short-statured people, dirty beyond measure from head to foot, smelling strongly of fish, oil and smoke, their broad faces painted thickly with ochre, red, white or black; their thick legs bowed with long sitting in their canoes.  These women, at any rate, had no attraction for the British seamen, except for some of the more experimentally-minded young gentlemen, who went to work on to see what they could do with a tub of warm water and soap, and scrubbed down the startled ladies to a very satisfactory result."  From "Cannibalism, Headhunting and Human Sacrifice in North America," "A History Forgotten" by George Franklin Feldman a book offending our academia in their mania for political correctness.

The Feldman work is not unique.  The most important, and damning work of this kind are the "copralite" studies of fossilized feces from native American sites throughout the continent with all containing human DNA.  It is clear our native people in the time of Columbus were cannibals due to their  protein deficiency as they could not get enough snaring rats and birds.  They left no cemeteries as they did not bury their dead:  They ate them and in times of famine they ate their children. 

The followers of Columbus brought civilization and acceptable protein to these people thus we should celebrate them on Columbus Day.

Adrian Vance