You likely meant "scouts for the army." Perhaps they were early Leftists getting some OJT in treason against their nation.

Day 2: Elizabeth Warren's Ancestor Actually Helped Slaughter Indians, Report Says

By Cillian Zeal
October 16, 2018 at 5:55am

So, it's the day after Elizabeth Warren tried yet again to prove that she's at least a little bit Native American. How did that work?
Did the Cherokee Nation welcome her with open arms? No. Did President Trump give her a heartfelt apology? Did skeptical American voters finally nod their heads and say they were wrong this whole time?

Well, not quite. See, it turns out that Sen. Warren's Pocahontas moment was roughly as successful as Cory Booker's Spartacus moment, with the test proving she's anywhere from 1/64th to 1/1024th Native American. Assuming the upper range, that's a solid 0.09765625 percent. Way to prove 'em all wrong, Liz.

However, we now enter Day Two of Elizabeth Warren trying to convince us that she really did hear the wolf cry to the blue corn moon and that she plans to ask the grinning bobcat why he grinned at the first primary debate, and she'll demand an answer. As we laugh at her ability to repeatedly embarrass herself over this issue, let's also remind ourselves that one report claims Warren actually has as much Cherokee-killer as Cherokee in her lineage.

That piece of work was assembled by Michael Patrick Leahy for Breitbart News during Warren's 2012 senatorial campaign, where her decision to list herself as a minority during her time in academia drew criticism from Republican opponent Scott Brown.

The assumption was that Warren used it to get ahead in a university environment where certain voices were demanding that women of color be hired in greater numbers to diversify the faculty. Warren herself has given a number of reasons she decided to classify herself as Native American, but seems to have settled on the excuse that, as the Boston Globe put it, "many of the matriarchs of her family were dying and she began to feel that her family stories and history were becoming lost."

In 2012, Warren's explanation was that her great-great-great grandmother, O.C. Sarah Smith Crawford, was Cherokee. However, Leahy noted that Smith Crawford ''had no Cherokee heritage, was listed as 'white' in the Census of 1860, and was most likely half Swedish and half English, Scottish, or German, or some combination thereof."

However, if Smith Crawford somehow thought she was Cherokee, she was definitely one of the self-hating variety.

"But the most stunning discovery about the life of O.C. Sarah Smith Crawford is that her husband, Ms. Warren"s great-great-great grandfather, was apparently a member of the Tennessee Militia who rounded up Cherokees from their family homes in the Southeastern United States and herded them into government-built stockades in what was then called Ross's Landing (now Chattanooga), Tennessee, the point of origin for the horrific Trail of Tears, which began in January, 1837," Leahy wrote.

The Trail of Tears, the forced migration of the Cherokee people east of the Mississippi River to Oklahoma under the administration of Andrew Jackson, ended with over 4,000 men, women and children dead, according to the Cherokee Nation website.

And apparently, if we can even assume Warren is correct about her ancestry and that this report is accurate, one of the men who played a part in it married her "Cherokee" relative.

"Jonathan Crawford, O.C. Sarah Smith Crawford's husband and apparently Ms. Warren's great-great-great grandfather, served in the East Tennessee Mounted Infantry Volunteer Militia commanded by Brigadier General R. G. Dunlap from late 1835 to late 1836," Leahy wrote.

"While under Dunlap's command he was a member of Major William Lauderdale's Battalion, and Captain Richard E. Waterhouse's Company.

"These were the troops responsible for removing Cherokee families from homes they had lived in for generations in the three states that the Cherokee Nations had considered their homelands for centuries: Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee," he continued.

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"While these involuntary home removals were not characterized by widespread violence, the newly displaced Cherokee mothers, fathers, and children found an oppressive and sometimes brutal welcome when they finally arrived at the hastily constructed containment areas. An estimated 4,000 Cherokees were warehoused in Ross's Landing stockades for months awaiting supplies and additional armed guards the Federal Government believed necessary to relocate them on foot to Oklahoma."

Crawford wasn't one of the men who helped bring the troops to Oklahoma but, given the end result of the effort - something all involved likely had some inkling of it - he was certainly implicated in the slaughter. Crawford also served in the Battalion of Tennessee Mounted Infantry Volunteer Militia during the Second Seminole War in 1837, a conflict that ended with even more dead Native Americans (as one might expect).

So the best-case scenario involves her having as much oppressor blood in her as oppressed. And as Leahy points out, that's not an incredibly likely scenario: "Neither O.C. Sarah Smith Crawford, Jonathan Crawford, nor any of their seven other children, apparently ever claimed that O.C. Sarah Smith Crawford had Cherokee heritage."

"It is time for Ms. Warren to publicly acknowledge the truth of her ancestry," Leahy concluded his report six years ago.

"It is time for her to admit that she has no Native American heritage that she can prove; and it is time for her to acknowledge instead, that she is likely a direct descendant of a Tennessee Militiaman who apparently rounded up the ancestors of those who truly have Cherokee heritage, the first step in their forced removal from the Southeastern United States to Oklahoma over the long and tragic Trail of Tears."

So, what has she done instead? She hasn't admitted it. She hasn't even stayed quiet about it. It would have been much smarter if she left it alone and hoped most voters forgot about the whole thing. Nevertheless, she persisted.

Can't wait to see what Day Three is going to bring ...

Cult members, eh? Then you must have yourself convinced that you're an independent thinker? That Atheism isn't its own religion? Hell, man, you don't even create your own memes!! You are a self deluded follower of the same Satan that sows seeds of discord in the Earth while whispering words of encouragement in the ears of those who do his bidding.The laughable thing is you're stupid enough to think you are your own man.

"Psycho-masturbation" LOL!! Wow! Perfect!

There is but one God, the Living and True God. He is as omniscient as He is merciful. He has perfect judgement. He makes no mistakes. The only plan at work here is His plan, not yours. Stop trying to compete with Him in a field you know nothing about.

Having not been on OPP for some time, opening this interesting title on my first night back only to be greeted by an Anti-Christian visage like that which you posted is deeply troubling. Without asking, I can immediately tell your politics are with the loony Left because, although we may disagree on almost everything, the assault on the basic - even intrinsic - values of another American where those values are directly responsible for the freedoms YOU enjoy not only strikes me as self-destructive but mean spirited as well.

For a movement that criticizes the Right for being intolerant (meaning we hold onto our values, have discriminating tastes and understand the origins of our Rights), those on the Left seem to feel empowered to shame and disrespect those who do not share their hedonistic life style, their secular humanist attitudes and their Atheistic belief system which allows them to continue in the delusion that they are the center of the universe.

I talk to Liberals, Democrats and Leftists (not always the same in beliefs) all the time who blame the Right for the conflicts created by the Left. That too often repeated comment demonstrates an almost dedicated ignorance of current events, historical reference and what makes our Constitutional and Representative Republic the envy of the world.

It isn't the childishness, the undermining and destruction of institutions and traditions by the Left that demonstrates our country's greatness. It isn't the misnamed and mindless philosophy of Political Correctness that reinforces her strengths. It isn't Identity Politics, the Politics of Personal Destruction or the Divisiveness of the "leadership" of the Democrat Party that can be said to unite us as Americans. And it isn't the mocking of other people's religious beliefs that makes you a broad-minded intellectual. You are a shallow thinker who attempts to make himself feel bigger, more important by denigrating others - including the single most revered and influential religious figure in the history of mankind.

You wouldn't recognize propaganda if it bit you in the ass. Such comments as yours are indicative of those issuing from the mind-numbed robots of the Left, who blindly "lap up" whatever the MSM tells them. Check your OWN dog bowl and you'll find you have been lapping up a steady diet of the kind of propaganda that rots your mind and destroys your vision - so much so that you cannot detect the creeping incrementalism that is destroying your freedoms.

Michael Bloomberg, Everytown For Gun Safety, et al and the usual suspect radicals for gun control are touting this obvious lie to tug at the heartstrings of Americans, and our Liberal, Socialist Utopia-seeking news media ARE NOT doing their due diligence to research and refute this false claim.

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Actually, the "nice try" came from the DOJ and FBI, who wanted a chance to delay its release by making false claims of a need for redacted portions of it. All that would have accomplished is confusing the issue in the eyes of the public by perhaps redacting names or "paper trail" procedures, shed doubt in the eyes of the public on the 'understanding' of the GOP members of the House Intelligence Committee as to what constituted 'Classified' information and given the FBI and DOJ more time to concoct some CYA response.

If this is an accurate portrayal of the procedural timeline and reactions to the memo releases (and I have no reason, based on my following the unfolding of this story and the details that have been made available to me, to doubt or add correction to any part of it), it should be clear to any objective observer that, at a minimum, your conclusion posed in your question at the end is accurate. The necessary redaction's of the Democrat memo, I predict, will be used by the Democrats to cast aspersions on Republican transparency when, in actuality, they tend to affirm the negative assessment of Democrat transparency. The media, as usual. will continue to support the Democrats' twisted narratives.

I've GOT to remember that one! (LOL!!!)

You must be what Lou Dobbs was referring to when he said "Dimms" ...

I know enough about Socialism to understand that it is a slightly tastier precursor to Communist totalitarianism. They are just different stages of development of the same noxious weed and left to their own devices, will smother out the fruits of freedom.

You would do well to take your own advice and spend more time reading, studying and understanding Freedom ... starting with the Declaration of Independence and our Constitution.

It is really disturbing to see the number of times you have made the same or similar statements, yet you present as such an astute fellow. Marx, Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky must not have perfected the implementation of Communism to your satisfaction in the 19th and 20th Centuries. After all, governments established under that philosophy only killed 30 - 50 million people in the last century and are starving hundreds of thousands as you sit on your sanctimonious, pseudo-intellectual ass advocating for more. To my knowledge political philosophies have no expiration dates, although the time may have passed for some.

Whether you call it Communism, Socialism, Fascism, Progessivism or Kemmerism, the core requirements are the same: Abolition of Private Property Rights, abolition of Individual Rights, abolition of Religious Freedom, abolition of the concept of the Divine Origin of our Rights (Human Rights), replacement of that Divinity with the State as being the source of whatever Rights and Liberties the State says you have, abolition of Freedom of Speech, controlling the public education system, fracturing of the Rule of Law through selective application and protection of the favored from prosecution, instituting chaos through the advocation of violence to achieve goals considered politically correct, destruction of public institutions and the undermining of morals and core beliefs, controlling the news media and through it the minds of the people. There are others more specific and written down in the Communist Manifesto but these off the top of my head are symptoms of the cancer wrought on American society by the Progressive influence of globalists and the Democrat party for the past 100+ years.

The existence of Freedom and the ability to do whatever one wishes with his/her life as long as one does not interfere with the ability of anyone else to do the same with THEIR life is the tolerance for the existence of others which made possible most of the great scientific advancements of the industrial age of the Western world in general and the United States in specific. The coupling of that freedom of thought with the opportunity to profit personally by sharing inventions that benefit people through Capitalism are the foundations of the American Dream. Dreams constitute the reality one wishes to create for one's life, but under Communism those dreams are replaced with whatever vision of your usefulness the State has for you within the group.

That is why it will fail again as it always has. There is no individual incentive to achieve greatness unless you are part of the ever-growing body politic or can find some way to contribute to the graft and corruption (cancer) that will lead to its ultimate destruction. Also, the world has now seen what true freedom can do when freeing the mind of Man. It's too bad your head has been in the sand, and that position has provided opportunities for other distractions more personally satisfying to you.