Spanish, British and French empires all have their own long chronicles of crimes against colonized peoples. Today we say that the beheadings and crucifixions of ISIS remove them from the company of civilized men. They should be annihilated to the last man, we hear on cable TV. But the Romans beheaded St. Paul and crucified Christ. Queen Elizabeth beheaded her cousin Queen Mary, even as her mother Anne Boleyn had been beheaded by her father Henry VIII, who also decapitated Sir Thomas More. The French Revolution Jefferson loved used at its instrument of justice the guillotine, to which Louis XVI and his queen Marie Antoinette were sent. Those heroes of the Revolution, Danton and Robespierre, were guillotined, as was Charlotte Corday, four days after she stabbed to death in a bathtub a third great man of the revolution, Marat. Great men are rarely good men, and every great empire is guilty of great crimes. But the empires men My Say Breaking The Silence On Domestic Violence School children in the earliest grades knew the date and the names of the ships on which Columbus and his crew had sailed: the Nina, the Pinta, the Santa Maria. They knew his voyage had been financed by Queen Isabella of Spain, after the Genoese Admiral of the Ocean Sea had been turned down by other monarchs of Europe. Oct. 12, 1492, was considered a momentous and wonderful day in world history: the discovery of America—by men from Europe. This year, Columbus Day passed almost without notice. And that Columbus Day has become an embarrassment to many and an issue of savage controversy to some reflects a receding belief in this country in the superiority of our civilization. Haters of Columbus say he was an imperialist, a colonialist, a genocidal racist, and a slaver who brought dictatorship, disease and death to the native peoples he encountered in the Caribbean. 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And Oct. 12 was once a celebrated holiday in America. -SEE BUCHANAN ON PG. 27- As if the U.S. and the world didn’t have enough problems—chief among them ISIS’ violent onslaught in Iraq and Syria and Sovietophile Vladimir Putin’s sabre-rattling—along came Ebola. The horrifying virus has caused wide-spread fear and panic throughout the world. So far, about half of its victims—the vast majority of whom are in west African nations such as Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Guinea—have died. Even so, President Barack Obama committed 4,000 American troops to the epidemic zone to assist in efforts to contain the disease. These soldiers are responsible for constructing makeshift hospitals, securing quarantine areas and offering logistical assistance to governments that have, to date, struggled mightily to instill calm and control amid the crisis. In the most recent conflicts and military operations, American soldiers are inoculated for almost every kind of disease common to the region where they are assigned, including anthrax, typhus and malaria. Though research is ongoing—and though a breakthrough appears imminent—an Ebola vaccine is still not available, especially to the soldiers who need it the most. Right now, containment and sanitation are the most effective tools at combating Ebola—but neither is a guarantee at stopping it. Evidence of this can be found in Dallas, Tx., where two nurses who cared for the first patient to die of Ebola in America contracted the disease, even after apparently following the proper protocol. Terrible as the Ebola crisis is, it’s mortifying to send American soldiers to fight a war against a microscopic enemy without guaranteeing their safety with a vaccine. It’s the equivalent of sending our soldiers to fight without proper armor or guns. We once tried going to war with whatever we had, and it backfired terribly. We’re doing the same thing again, only this time, no soldier can see this enemy with the naked eye. It’s all the more terrifying and a sure recipe for catastrophe. Think back to the debates over the last decade regarding American involvement in Iraq. Many questioned about whether the U.S. had an “exit strategy” for ending the war and getting our troops home. What is the exit strategy for the war on Ebola? What if our efforts aren’t enough to stop the disease from its bloody rampage? What if hundreds of our troops fall ill there? What if they fall ill shortly after coming home (Ebola has an incubation period of up to 21 days after exposure)? Who else would the infected soldiers infect? Do we have enough isolation units to care for them and for any citizens on this side of the Atlantic who may fall ill? We already had one unknowingly infected (but knowingly exposed) man slip through airport checks, arrive in America, become symptomatic and die of the disease here. How can we hope to take on Ebola overseas without finding proper ways to guard our own turf against it? We appear to be taking a one-front approach to Ebola, even though we know the disease is very capable of attacking on multiple fronts. Amid all these concerns, there also again arises the question about our status in the world. We are looked upon as the world’s police officer. Whenever there is trouble, everybody turns to us first to stop it—not the United Nations, not NATO, not Russia. More often than not, we rise to the occasion, at our own expense and sacrifice; few others step up. Now, we’re being looked upon as the world’s paramedic. We’re being asked to fight a virulent contagion still without a vaccine. We’re putting ourselves on the line and making incredible sacrifices again on a mission with no guarantee of success. We’re already stretched too thin, and a superpower alone can only do so much. The rest of the world must step up and sacrifice with us. Goodbye, Columbus most underreported crimes in the country. Only about one-quarter of all physical assaults, one-fifth of all rapes, and one-half of all stalking cases against women by their domestic or intimate partners are reported to the police. Over the last few months, we have seen the evils of domestic violence through high profile cases in the NFL. But we need to focus this public outrage to tell the stories of every day victims and fight incidents of domestic violence silently growing out of control in our own backyard. I recently joined City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and my colleagues in the City Council for the 14th annual Brides March to tell the story of Gladys Ricart, who was violently killed at the hands of an exboyfriend on her wedding day. Since her tragic death, there have been nearly 1,000 additional domestic violence related by City Council Member Elizabeth Crowley There is a silence that shrouds most incidents of domestic violence—a deadly silence. October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month and we must work together more diligently to give a voice to countless victims and put an end to this silence once and for all. The prevalence of domestic violence is alarming. In Queens, police responded to 55,993 incidents of domestic violence last year. Each day, the NYPD responds to almost 800 domestic violence incidents across the City, and one in four women nationwide will be victims of domestic violence at some point in their lives. My council district, which includes the 102nd and 104th precincts, has one of the highest rates of domestic violence in the county. Worst of all, these unacceptable statistics are just the tip of the iceberg. According to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, incidents of violence within families and romantic relationships are some of the -SEE MY SAY ON PG. 27-
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