We watched the blood red sun rise over nine mile road racing for Denver, it was a cold October morning, the sky gave promise, not to the A.M. Radio promised sunny Saturday, but rather an icy gray fall day. Here we were on the road again, looking for what happened to free speech. We had been told that the American Indian Movement under the leadership of Russell Means had stolen the right of free speech from the Italian American Community. We were told that Denver Mayor Wellington Webb and the Justice Department spent years conspiring against all the Italian Americans in Denver to silence them and steal that wonderful navigator Christopher Columbus from us all.

The Myth of History, Harry Hoyle my history teacher taught me in the mid fifties, is that Renaissance men and women were ignorant peasants and that sailors knew nothing of the world. I learned that there were a lot of navigators who piloted captains and crews, with routers making their individual Captains quite wealthy. Every son of sea cook knew the world was round. What Columbus, who might have been a Genoese, a Spanish Jew or a Portugese, added to the deal was real estate; he started on a voyage of Conquest for a rapacious and broke monarchy knowing there was a pot of gold with his name on it. He was like Michael Wise or the Bush brothers at the font of Savings and Loan.

But even in their ignorance the Italian American community has the right to be a box of sheep led by anvils. So says the First Amendment.

Since the dumbing down of American history, teachers with gumption have been replaced by the boob tube, or worse, the politically correct yuppie who passes lies on like gospel. Russell Means has taken on himself the task of educating two generations of Denverites about the Conquest and Discovery of America .

They say millions died at Columbo's command and we find they did because the islands had their population wiped out by the Spanish Fury; they say slaves were brought in from Africa and they were; they say the Spanish hanged Indians to make dog food for the war dogs of that age and they did. And I heard Tom Kamb, speaking as an Italian American radio announcer, say Columbus was simply an entrepreneur like Bill Gates or the Bush family. Mr. Gates, an educational grant please, for the people at Clear Channel Radio. And maybe a week with Judith Martin for Mr.Kam's demeanor.

Then the Italian American Community's Church told the Indians to forgive and forget and they did not.

Indians today are law biding by nature but they like the letter of the law, with the same law for everyone. Their belief in honor leads them to believe if a man gives his word he keeps it. In this case the organizers of this year's parade are, by their own admission liars, infamous liars with no honor, telling vile lies, sort of like Colorado's Col. Chivington. When they entered into negotiations with the Indians, they were there to lie; they kissed the ass of the Justice Department just like the Judas that they are taught to despise. Then they turned and cried foul.

This adds sniveling to the list of charges against the Reconstituted, Recombinant Sons of Italy Second Generation; Machiavelli was Italian too.

When Means points to the outright deception practiced on the rest of us, he is called a spoil sport. When the sport is exploiting Indians, he has a right to be a spoiler. When he thumb nailed history to those who could listen, whose minds weren't addled, he told the truth. Means was a man who had done business with people dealing in bad faith, taking advantage of their followers who are bathed in a medieval ignorance by an education system that refuses to teach the truth.

Of course, the meeting on the steps of City Hall was not without its Stalinists. I was accused of laughing by a dour Chicano, there is a failing by those of the Stazi religion to stifle joy at any turn in the road. He was taught by movies that he, like the rest of America, must carry the Time Warner Indian on their backs. There was, apart from the militant sour puss, very little P.C. being practiced this day.

The press reporting this missed the point. The Columbus Day Parade organizers lied when they signed a bad agreement with the United States Justice Department knowing that no one would follow up when the truth was revealed; the Indians are too poor to afford to enforce contact. It appears to these gentlemen a dollar is a dollar and the stupid will flock to their banner. And those who profit from race hatred will have their cause bloated as well.

Clear Channel Radio had a fireman, Tom Kamb, on call to throw gasoline on the fire for the week before the march, to stir old wrongs and bring the Suits from elsewhere to the parade. The Columbus parade organizers even admitted to lying (while their masters sat quietly getting rich.) They were hoping that the Italian community, given a back bone by motorcycle thugs, could destroy the dignity and pride the Indians have. Kam calmed towards the end of the week some one in radio had found a brain and gave Kamb a temporary hook up.

The Indians then, in a careful and organized fashion, blocked the parade route and were arrested. The women were first to be taken away, after the press was removed physically by the besmirched badges, remember the heros of Columbine who hid behind the fire trucks?

There was no resistance to arrest by the men or women and the police managed to clear the street without their usual gas and beatings.

The Indian point in stopping the parade was to give people a chance to think: who is able to tell the truth and how. The popular culture is where we live but for some reason there are communities that live in Archie Bunker like darkness. That is their right but they ought to be challenged when the ratlike bigot crawls out of his or her hole to gnaw on or practice the game of conquest of culture. The problem is there are very few well informed citizens in Denver outside the Latino-Indian, dirt poor White communities. After all, the yuppies hardly have time to say good morning to their children, who grow up with strange minds, another abandoned generation. The Black community in Denver lives, for the most part in an island of Afro-isolationism( of course there are many well informed Rastas, former residents of the Caribbean the place of Columbus's perfidy.)

So the arrests were made and the liars' parade proceeded, led by the motorized mounties and followed by a long line of pimpmobiles including the stretch Hummvees. These were filled with the flower of Italian womanhood, there were only Italian Stallions no gay Caballeros here!

Many people think all in their ethnic group are wonderful people. My godfather was the godless Carlo Tresca. There have been beautiful Italian Americans all through my life, but we are looking at the dark side; there were black shirts as well as the Black Hand. Every culture has its bigots, idiots, and corrupt leaders. There's one inside every well person: all who look objectively at their lives have to over- comes the deception rampant in this world. At this parade we lookrd at people who have a shopping mall view of America, trying revive a history that never was. But how could I stay upset with any people whose best float in the parade was a whole bunch of people partying to the music of Dean Martin singing "Volare."

The parade was over. My brother and I were standing at the corner of 14th and Broadway after snarling off an army of panhandling bums, when a very nice Italian vendor was trying to polish some cops' badges with free Twinkies, donuts, etc. There was a skinny Italian looking cop complete with New York accent who said,. "Sorry, I don't eat that shit, you trying to kill me. I only eat health food." Smart, cop no donut.

More and Illustrations later...
©Cordley Coit 2000

September 19, 2000 Six students with the permission of four mothers marched out of class this noon to protest the cancellation of the popular music class after someone stole 9000 dollars in band instruments and returned them after the music teacher resigned; his forced resignation is part the usual way of doing business in Simla.

In this sleepy Eastern Plaines town of six hundred this is big news but no surprise we have had the high school students under lock down since the unfortunate incident at Columbine High in Littleton. Any teacher who shows signs of activity above the chin is quickly sent up the road, sort of a reverse Darwinism.

As usual the school board and administrators first lied, then waffled their way through the whole event. They were glad to end the music program as it took students and interest away from the local Simla jock sniffing culture.

Students had organized a mass walkout from the locked down facility, which after the Columbine murders last year threw a student out of classes for wearing a black parka to class. Civil rights and respect of the young minds long since faded from the administrators' minds; the iron heel of authoritarianism enforces narrowed down education.

The Simla Police Department was parked discreetly around the corner from the crowd, four mothers and four children, a couple of unconnected students, angry school bus driver and the media, that gathered to protest the low brow School Boards decision to cancel music as a subversive form of education.

As in all one party countries, no one in Simla realizes, including the school board, that they are elected officials, they not are gods for their term. This thought is alien to many puffed egos from interrelated families that rule under the color of the deity.

Notes From the Front lines

The warm afternoon sun summons a flight of yellow jackets to harass the innocent and the administrator alike. We dodge the nasty yellow carnivores while digging for pencils and filling note books with wisdom or venom depending on the reader's feelings about the state of non-education rampant today.

Ms. Mitchell supports her daughter who feels betrayed by the lack of student support. "Kids here are so lame." laments the teenager. Her point is well taken. Since the town is locked down, curfewed and generally and anti-teen, all that is left is sex in the vehicle and out of town woodseys and raves where the boys drive fast, dope and impregnate the girls who die in the ensuing car wrecks: Teen Wasteland.

"So lame. I called them all and they are not here." An important bit of education is happening here. This is real education. Student spies for the administration taped the kids demonstrating and they are frustrated. "The school allows this to go on but not education." She is learning young what Che Guevara learned later in life, her anger and disappoint ment are so real; this is education.

Ms. Mitchell is angry because the school's attitude toward music is totally hostile. "I pay taxes for education in two districts. They had twenty students signed up and the board said there weren't enough students in the band."

Simla is an oligarchy ruled by the few, the related, and the unlettered. Any deviation from the party line is considered very odd and people practicing logic are suspect.

The two o'clock bell rang and the mothers checked their children back into class. I went home having heard the first shot Simla Student
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After spending the spring attempting to sort out personal-artistic matters, we are back this summer with more insights into the world around us: this comes from neighbor Frank McGaugh, a traditional blacksmith and historian. It provides some background into reasons the framers of the Constitution wanted an armed populace.

The English, when they subdued Scotland, disarmed the people and shipped three million Scots to North America. They did the same in Ireland, India and Palestine, thus making any peace impossible. The English are a docile people, safely disarmed and without a liberty left to them except to bleat for food. The people of this part of North America chose a different road from the rest of the pack.

Canadians, disarmed like their Australian cousins, are neutered politically; like the Scots of today, they are all safe compliant people. No English speaking nation allows free speech, except our Republic; everything said elsewhere has to be politically correct or the dissenters go to jail.

If you want to learn more about real self defense, go to my links and read the works of Kurt Saxon or study Col. Jeff Cooper's dandy ideas about firearms. Once you have digested and acted on the above information, start demanding your rights. Make this lifetime more interesting for yourself and your children; dare to demand good government. Disarmed, you are whining; armed, you are complaining or demanding. Think about it.