Whose genes have Americans inherited?

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Sometimes you can hear that during the development of North America, the new continent was inhabited by bandits, swindlers and criminals. Is it really? Whose genes have the present-day democratizers, shock workers of capitalist labor inherited?

America (the one that is now the United States) used to be quite easy to get to. It was enough to commit a certain crime, and you would be provided with a one-way ticket.

So, the British deported their criminals to America back in the 17th century, but after the end of the local civil war, things went pretty badly - healthy men began to be valued too highly, and the planters, to whom criminals usually fell into the hands, naturally wanted to see have healthy workers.

In 1717, George I included an article in the Piracy Act extending the export to America to various thieves and wool smugglers.

In 1718, the export was extended to poachers (for killing a deer). After that, the number of crimes for which they were sent to America grew steadily.

In 1751, it was allowed to take out those who stole the bodies of those executed, in 1753 - those who married outside the church, a little later - swindlers, as well as thieves from lead mines, etc. (rapists, robbers, rioters, robbers of mail and barges, illegally shooting (?), sheep thieves, counterfeiters, horse thieves, arsonists …). They were deported for a term of 7 to 14 years, and those who illegally returned to England ahead of schedule were subject to the death penalty.

At the same time, the convicts were sold to shipowners for 3 (later 5) pounds, and they, in turn, sold them to planters for 10 pounds (women, however, 8 pounds).

Well, what is there to complain about the high cost - but what a wonderful heredity was provided to the Amers.

Saxophiles vehemently object to such speeches, for example: at the dawn of its formation, many respectable people from England and Europe also came to America.

Yes. Just before talking about the beneficialness of the genes of these "respectable", you need to see what kind of creatures fell into this category.

The ruling elite (who can be more respectable than it in Bad Good Old England and in Europe) cared very much about their subjects.

Husbands in England, for example, were instructed by their wives to constantly be on the right path to instruct.

-… in addition to psychological and financial pressure, husbands and husbands did not disdain physical violence. Beating a wife was considered a common thing. Moreover, the court was on the side of the husbands.

So in 1782, Judge Francis Buller ruled that a husband has the right to beat his wife if the stick used to discipline is not thicker than a thumb.

In 1862, a wealthy Kent-based farmer, Major Murton, was accused of beating his wife to death when she would not allow him to bring two prostitutes to his house. When sentencing Murton to 3 years in prison, the judge said: "I know this will be a harsh punishment, because before you held a high position in society." Murton was shocked by the inhuman verdict: "But I have always been so generous with her!"

In 1877, Thomas Harlow killed his wife with one blow for refusing to buy him a drink with money earned from street trading. The judge found him guilty, but commuted the sentence due to the fact that Harlow was … provoked …

The local rulers also took great care of the younger generation. They brought up independence in children, a sense of responsibility for their actions from a very early age.

- Until 1875, the age of consent for girls in England began at 12 years old. A twelve-year-old child was considered old enough to be able to take charge of his own body.

As early as 1285, rape became a felony that could carry severe punishment, including the death penalty. But sexual intercourse with a child under 12 years old was not considered rape a priori. It was a misdemeanor.

In 1576, during the time of Elizabeth I, any relationship with a girl under 10 years old was tantamount to rape. However, the age of consent remained the same - 12 years. Sex with a girl from 10 to 12 years old was still considered a misdemeanor, and twelve-year-olds were completely ignored by the law.

In 1875 Parliament raised the age of consent by a whole year …

This is how they spoil children, teach them to be irresponsible.

Respectable Englishmen / Europeans were distinguished by their civilization / sophistication of their leisure time.

In Europe, execution was entertainment, a spectacle. They converged and gathered for executions, as for a theatrical performance, taking their wives and children with them. It was considered good form to know the names of the executioners and, with the air of connoisseurs, talk about what and how they were doing.

It is impossible to name some kind, diminutive household name for a gallows or a butcher's ax in Russia.

Neither the affectionate "Hangman Mashenka" nor the ironic "Skinny Thekla" is simply impossible with us.

And in all countries of Europe, the gallows and executioners' instruments were called just that! Either "Little Mary" - a complete English analogue of "Mashenka" (in London), then "Skinny Gertrude" (in Konigsberg), then "Fast Albert" - the ax of the chief executioner in Augsburg.

In "enlightened and civilized" England with the separation of powers and the "very first parliament" in the world, an eight-year-old boy accused of stealing from barns could be hanged. And the crowd laughed and sang as they watched him being hanged.

From infancy, children were taught not only to calmly look at atrocities.

Even British customs were formed: if a baby touched the hanged man with the handle, it was for luck, they also used the chips from the gallows as a remedy for toothache. Either they sucked it or used it as a toothpick.

In Britain in 1788 there was a case when a crowd rushed to the man who had just been hanged and literally tore this still warm corpse into "souvenirs".

The local innkeeper was especially "lucky" - he took possession of the head and showed it for a long time in his tavern, attracting the public until this head was completely rotten.

Public executions on the Place de Grève in Paris caused a surge of emotions - the crowd roared, rejoiced, sang, rejoiced.

“Those who have lived in Paris for a long time, like me, knows what that disgust was: the public executions that took place near the prison“La Koquette”. Nothing more disgusting, more disgusting than this could be imagined! Thousands of people, from secular weavers and first-class cocotques to the rabble - pimps, street sluts, thieves and escaped convicts spent the whole night in the surrounding taverns, drank, sang obscene songs and at dawn rushed to the cordon of soldiers that surrounded the area where the "trees of justice" rose as this disgusting apparatus is officially called. It was impossible to see well from afar, but all this mass felt delighted only because she was “at the execution”, so dashing and cheerfully spent the night in anticipation of such a captivating spectacle "(This is how Pyotr Dmitrievich Boborykin wrote, a Russian writer who invented and published in 1864 the word “intelligentsia.” And a fanatical “Westerner,” by the way).

When the Great French Revolution replaced the gallows with a guillotine (the people “affectionately” called it Lisette), Michel Foucault writes in the Chronicles of Paris that after the introduction of the guillotine, the people complained that nothing was visible and demanded the return of the gallows. After Napoleon and the Restoration of 1815, the gallows was returned.."

One can imagine the happiness of such a respectable rabble / people who got into the New World, in the vastness of which he was allowed to become not a spectator of executions, but an executioner.

Moreover, the choice of methods of execution in the homeland of this rabble was developed by the richest.

Here is what Vasily Vereshchagin, the author of the famous painting, tells about one of these methods:

Execution of the leaders of the sepoy uprising with the help of the "Devil's Wind".

Devil Wind(English Devil wind, there is also a variant of English Blowing from guns - literally "Dispelling by guns") - the name of the type of death penalty, which consisted in tying the sentenced person to the muzzle of the gun and then firing it through the victim's body (both with a cannonball and with a blank »A charge of gunpowder)).

- Modern civilization was scandalized mainly by the fact that the Turkish massacre was carried out close, in Europe, and then the means of committing atrocities were too reminiscent of the Tamerlane times: they chopped, cut the throat, like rams.

A different matter with the British: firstly, they did the work of justice, the work of retribution for the violated rights of the victors, far away, in India; secondly, they did the job grandiosely: in the hundreds they tied the sepoys and non sepoys who were outraged against their rule to the muzzles of the guns and without a shell, with gunpowder alone, they shot them - this is already a great success against cutting the throat or ripping open the belly.

… The death of this sepoy is not afraid, and they are not afraid of execution; but what they avoid, what they fear, is the need to appear before the supreme judge in an incomplete, tortured form, without a head, without arms, with a lack of limbs, and this is precisely not only probable, but even inevitable when shooting from cannons.

A remarkable detail: while the body is blown to pieces, all the heads, detached from the body, spiral upward. Naturally, then they are buried together, without strict analysis of which one of the yellow gentlemen belongs to this or that part of the body.

This circumstance, I repeat, terrifies the natives very much, and it was the main motive for introducing executions by shooting from cannons in especially important cases, such as during uprisings.

The civilizers who arrived in the New World saved gunpowder - delivery was expensive - and did without guns.

But, nevertheless, some fruits of technical progress were carried to the Indian masses.

Sharp steel knives brought from civilized paradise, for example, made it much easier for savages to scalp their opponents from hostile tribes. In order to present them to the enlightened naglo-Saxons / Europeans and get paid for it.

There is no reception against the scrap of progress …