Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - October 10, 2022


EPISODE 285： Why We Celebrate Columbus Day


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Would soy boys ever have discovered the new world, or do you need someone who s a high testosterone explorer and seafarer like Christopher Columbus? Libby Edmonds sits down with me for a discussion about the truth about Columbus Day.

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00:00:00.000 Would soy boys ever have discovered the new world, or do you need someone who's a high 1.00
00:00:07.240 testosterone explorer and seafarer like Christopher Columbus?
00:00:11.800 Libby Edmonds sits down with me for a discussion about the truth about Columbus Day.
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00:01:44.400 Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard tonight's very special edition of Human Events Daily.
00:02:02.820 Tonight, we are going to tell the truth about Christopher Columbus.
00:02:07.200 A man who's been attacked, defiled, reviled, statues toppled across the United States.
00:02:16.060 Italian-Americans in South Philly and other cities fighting to defend those statues, defend their heritage.
00:02:22.620 Christians asking, why should we destroy this man who, more than any other single person, 0.93
00:02:31.460 played the most significant role in the discovery and the founding of America?
00:02:37.800 And it's true, by the way.
00:02:39.120 Everything I've just said is true.
00:02:41.260 You take away Christopher Columbus and there is no America.
00:02:44.760 Period.
00:02:45.660 End of story.
00:02:46.900 You take away Christopher Columbus, the thread to the founding fathers does not exist.
00:02:52.560 And of course, we don't understand that that's what they want.
00:02:55.480 That's exactly what they want.
00:02:56.760 And so, to help me get into all of this, because we are going to get into all of this,
00:03:01.860 I thought, who better than to join me on this is an Italian herself, by the way, the great Libby Emmons, the editor-in-chief of the Postmillennial.
00:03:10.240 Libby, thank you so much for joining us today.
00:03:12.700 Thanks, Jack.
00:03:13.440 Glad to be here.
00:03:14.140 So, why do they hate Columbus so much, right?
00:03:19.560 Why are we told that?
00:03:21.420 And if I remember correctly, there's some municipalities and areas in the United States where it's not even called Columbus Day anymore.
00:03:29.420 It's been completely canceled.
00:03:30.620 And they call it Indigenous People's Day.
00:03:32.940 They're calling it Italian Heritage Day, all this different stuff.
00:03:36.460 Why have they targeted Columbus so directly like this?
00:03:40.900 Where is this coming from?
00:03:42.720 They have so many reasons that they want to target Columbus, not the least of which is that they want us to hate ourselves and they want us to hate our nation.
00:03:49.820 But they target Columbus because he was a white man who took it upon himself to sail across the sea in an attempt to spread Christianity and find a way for Europe to trade with the Far East without having to cross the Middle East, which was rather treacherous since the Islamic groups there were trying to invade Europe and kill everyone who tried to get to China.
00:04:16.600 So, yeah, so they hate Columbus, white man, Christian, came to the new world. 0.98
00:04:23.120 They like to say that you can't discover something that was already here.
00:04:26.340 And they make the claim that he intentionally destroyed Native populations who were innocent and harmless and doing nothing but dancing among the flowers and frolicking in the waves.
00:04:39.280 Well, right. And I think there's a lot to to focus on there, because I remember and just going back a few years.
00:04:49.300 So when I was in grade school in the 90s and we had the 500th anniversary of 1492 to 1992 and it was a huge deal and none of this was around.
00:05:00.120 It was we're celebrating Columbus.
00:05:01.740 We were so excited. This was the man who you celebrate the just like Magellan, by the way, who circumnavigated the globe.
00:05:09.100 Right. He didn't have GPS. He was using star chart.
00:05:13.280 They were and and and prayer. Right.
00:05:15.920 Because they had no idea. He had no idea how far the ocean was.
00:05:19.680 Obviously, he didn't realize that North America and South America would be here.
00:05:23.160 Ended up in the Caribbean.
00:05:24.180 No, didn't even know. Yeah.
00:05:25.760 Had no clue how far it would be.
00:05:27.960 He estimated based on just these, you know, you go through some of the old research that there's you know, there were bodies that would wash up in certain places that, you know, didn't appear to be African or European.
00:05:40.120 They weren't really sure what was going on.
00:05:42.860 There were, you know, pot pottery and different pieces that they would collect on various islands, like in the Canary Islands, for example.
00:05:49.360 And so they had they had this idea that there was something to something to the West, but they weren't entirely sure what that was.
00:05:57.820 And Columbus originally and to your point.
00:06:00.280 So at this at this point in time, it was the caliphate.
00:06:03.560 The caliphate and the Ottomans have now basically swept all of the Middle East. 0.95
00:06:09.400 They've taken it over.
00:06:10.580 They've shut down the overland trade routes or made it so incredibly impossible to traverse for any of the European empires.
00:06:20.340 This is the previous Silk Road that and obviously very hostile towards Christians in general.
00:06:25.160 You also have only a few years prior to 1492 what the fall of Constantinople.
00:06:31.820 So the fall of Constantinople plays in a huge part into Columbus's prayers for Christians across all of Europe.
00:06:39.680 And one of the things that actually everyone knows he eventually made it.
00:06:43.140 He's Italian, of course, but he wasn't flying under the flag of Italy.
00:06:46.200 He was flying under the flag of Spain because he went to the two Catholic monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella.
00:06:51.260 And one of the specific things that he mentioned was I want to go find gold because I want to finance and use this gold to finance a new crusade to liberate the church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.
00:07:05.960 And so religion actually does play a major part, not only in his interest in wanting to sail, but also in the ideas that led to them actually funding the entire thing.
00:07:17.640 So, and of course, none of this is to, you know, and of course people say, oh, you're just, you know, an apologist or apologist or this or that.
00:07:24.680 No, no, no, no, we're not apologists.
00:07:26.180 We're explaining.
00:07:27.420 We're giving context.
00:07:29.080 This was 500 years ago.
00:07:32.840 You can't take today's context and today's world and apply all of our same knowledge and understanding to the world of 500 years ago.
00:07:42.560 And more to the point, he didn't have GPS.
00:07:45.480 He didn't have maps that said, hey, follow this way over.
00:07:48.000 He had no clue what was there.
00:07:50.740 He did that.
00:07:51.520 And the people will talk about, oh, well, the Vikings had had their, you know, their settlement and Vinland and this and that.
00:07:57.400 OK, yeah, but that was wiped out hundreds of years before this and nobody knew about it.
00:08:02.300 So they kind of kept it to themselves.
00:08:04.100 So when we talk about discovery, we mean discovery in the sense of this is what brought Western civilization to the American continent, which is just a fact.
00:08:14.100 Right.
00:08:14.900 Yeah.
00:08:15.420 And I love that you're mentioning navigation.
00:08:18.140 I find the way that he navigated to the new world to be absolutely amazing.
00:08:23.720 They had a compass that they used.
00:08:25.460 They had an astrolabe, which Columbus didn't really know how to use.
00:08:29.380 They had a quadrant, which was somewhat useful, but mostly the way that they navigated was through something called dead reckoning.
00:08:36.540 And that's when you know where you were and you drop a piece of flotsam over the side of the ship.
00:08:43.120 You gauge how fast your ship is going by how fast that little piece of stuff floats by two marks that are notched on the ship.
00:08:51.500 And then you make a new judgment as to where you are after that.
00:08:55.540 So it's it's pretty amazing that they managed to get across the ocean at all with this insane method of figuring out where they were.
00:09:05.700 Columbus wasn't great at celestial navigation.
00:09:08.240 I understand that he studied it, but this was the method that they relied on.
00:09:13.940 Well, that's true.
00:09:14.480 And actually, the fact that Columbus was kind of an amateur, he's an autodict that would be the proper term, just self-taught, not a professional sailor, certainly not a member of any of the navies.
00:09:24.480 And this was something, by the way, speaking of which the in the current United States Navy, they're actually starting to teach celestial navigation again because they've realized that we've completely become reliant on GPS for for surface transit.
00:09:41.640 And then noticing that, hey, by the way, the CCP and the Russians and numerous other potential adversaries have the ability to take out our GPS or neutralize our ability to connect to GPS.
00:09:52.820 We could be dead in the water and we've forgotten how to do celestial navigation.
00:09:58.340 We've forgotten how to do dead reckoning.
00:10:01.140 We've forgotten so many different things.
00:10:02.760 Now, believe it or not, in the submarine service, that's it.
00:10:06.360 There is still a little bit more of that going on.
00:10:08.540 Obviously, you can't use celestial navigation, but you also can't use GPS when you're underwater because radio does not travel underwater.
00:10:15.500 It does very low frequencies.
00:10:17.640 And and so you are still doing a much more rudimentary form of navigation when you're underwater like that.
00:10:25.020 And so in the submarine core, we do have some of this.
00:10:26.980 But for our surface core, it's something that's coming back because we've recognized this as a Navy, that this is a strategic vulnerability, that if we find ourselves in one of these conflicts, we have to be able to do this stuff.
00:10:38.360 Well, here's Columbus, by the way.
00:10:40.460 And so to give everyone understanding, no one had ever done this before at all.
00:10:44.840 People said he was crazy.
00:10:47.120 Nobody wanted to fund this.
00:10:49.060 They thought it was nuts.
00:10:51.080 And the idea that not only that he did, he not know how far it would be.
00:10:55.720 He had to estimate what their food stores needed to be.
00:10:59.720 That's why, of course, they carry three ships because they didn't know how long or how big that ocean was, how long the voyage would be.
00:11:06.780 And his crew almost mutinied against him.
00:11:10.840 Right.
00:11:11.040 He had to talk from out of it.
00:11:13.140 And he made up and it's this incredible moment in his journey, his journals, where he says that he gave them three days and the same three days that we find in the New Testament, in the Gospels, that if if we do not have land sighted on the third day, then we will turn back.
00:11:28.920 And he made this bargain with the crew because they were ready to throw him overboard.
00:11:34.120 And lo and behold, he did discover land on that third day by the grace of God.
00:11:39.680 Yeah.
00:11:40.180 And he was praying about it, too.
00:11:41.560 And I think we were talking about this before.
00:11:43.980 He was saying that they could do whatever they wanted with them if they didn't if they didn't find land.
00:11:48.440 And I find it really inspiring, too, that he thought that it was his responsibility and his mission to spread Christianity.
00:11:55.680 I think that's something that we forget now in our hatred of ourselves and our sort of overwhelming displeasure with Christianity that we feel in our in our mainstream culture these days.
00:12:08.280 We forget that it is it is it behooves Christians to spread Christianity around the globe.
00:12:13.340 There's nothing wrong with that.
00:12:14.600 There's nothing wrong with spreading the word of God.
00:12:16.320 No, and eventually we will into space one day.
00:12:19.420 The cathedrals of Mars will be glorious.
00:12:21.320 The moon as well.
00:12:21.980 The lunar cathedrals that we've got about a minute left in the segment.
00:12:24.880 But before we go, I found out something on Twitter recently when I when I said, you know, that the District of Columbia is named after Columbus.
00:12:32.400 There were people who don't actually know that there are people who don't know.
00:12:36.080 So the District of Columbia is based on Columbus.
00:12:38.000 The country was almost given the name Columbia.
00:12:41.040 British Columbia is based on Columbus.
00:12:42.860 The country of Columbia in South America is named after Columbus.
00:12:45.820 And they'll say, no, no, no, no, no.
00:12:47.340 It's based off of this goddess.
00:12:48.580 And her name was Columbia.
00:12:50.260 Yes.
00:12:50.400 But her name was based on Christopher Columbus.
00:12:52.380 That's where it all comes from.
00:12:53.940 Right.
00:12:54.440 This wasn't some like ancient Greek goddess or something.
00:12:56.960 It's kind of like Britannia in in Britain.
00:12:59.420 So this idea that the founding fathers would never have revered Columbus.
00:13:03.700 Are you kidding?
00:13:05.200 Our found our national city, the District of Columbus, D.C., is named after Christopher Columbus, Columbia University.
00:13:12.540 I mean, you go down the list.
00:13:13.380 And so just just a little bit of a throw out to folks who I didn't even realize that that needed to be said.
00:13:19.020 But apparently education has gotten so bad in this country that people don't even know it anymore.
00:13:25.060 So hold on, Libby.
00:13:26.180 We've got 30 seconds.
00:13:27.140 We're going into the break.
00:13:28.040 But when we come back, I want to get into these the so-called atrocities of Columbus and the investigations of Columbus, the arrest of Columbus and find out what was really going on with all that, who led those investigations, who wrote those reports.
00:13:45.900 And reveal the fact that it was actually Columbus's main political rival within the imperial Spanish that wrote all that.
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00:14:54.360 And we're back sitting down with Libby Emmons and we're telling the truth about Christopher Columbus.
00:14:59.720 I want to restore Columbus Day in America.
00:15:02.460 But one of the first things that will happen whenever you talk about Columbus, they'll say, what about the atrocities?
00:15:07.420 What about the cutting off of hands?
00:15:08.960 The slavery, the horrifying acts.
00:15:11.960 He was even arrested.
00:15:13.280 He was thrown into jail.
00:15:14.720 He was deposed.
00:15:15.820 He was sent back to Spain in chains.
00:15:18.200 You know, we've heard these stories over and over again.
00:15:20.560 Well, here's the problem with that.
00:15:21.980 And there was a document that was found in 2006 that everybody will refer back to.
00:15:26.520 You'll see it in the Guardian.
00:15:27.340 You'll see it everywhere.
00:15:28.060 It's always this one that was the secret document that proves what was going on with Columbus.
00:15:32.620 Well, here's the problem with that.
00:15:33.460 That document was written by Francisco de Bobadilla.
00:15:38.500 This is the Bobadilla dossier on Columbus, very similar to the Steele dossier on Trump, if you think of it that way.
00:15:45.820 And here's what happened.
00:15:47.180 This guy was, now keep in mind, Columbus, Italian.
00:15:51.480 Bobadilla, Spanish.
00:15:53.060 All the soldiers, Spanish. 0.96
00:15:55.420 They didn't like the fact that Columbus was the governor, that Columbus was in charge.
00:15:59.000 Columbus had been given this remit by the king and queen.
00:16:01.500 And so they said, well, we're going to launch investigations into Columbus.
00:16:05.420 We're going to write reports on Columbus.
00:16:08.160 And, you know, we think we need to arrest Columbus.
00:16:11.240 We need to send Columbus back.
00:16:13.200 And, you know, the only person who can really be in charge here in Hispaniola is me, Francisco de Bobadilla, because I'm not like Columbus.
00:16:21.480 So all I would say is to anybody who's reading this document and using this one document as the end-all be-all with Columbus, just understand the provenance of that document is about as good as the Steele dossier that we saw in 2016 or possibly worse, because, of course, there was no way really to corroborate anything that was going on.
00:16:43.120 Remember, this is 500 years ago, and the king and queen are kind of wondering, hey, you know, we sent this guy over.
00:16:48.800 Why are you—why did you arrest him?
00:16:50.260 And he said, I don't know.
00:16:50.760 It's all above board.
00:16:51.520 Look what he was doing.
00:16:52.760 And Columbus actually wrote in one of his final letters—I'm going to read it here.
00:16:56.820 The letter was called La Terra Rarissima, and he wrote, let those who are fond of blaming and finding fault while they sit safely at home ask, why did you not do thus and so?
00:17:13.400 I wish they were on that voyage.
00:17:15.520 I well believe that another voyage of a different kind awaits them, or our faith is not.
00:17:21.660 In other words, to hell with them.
00:17:24.060 So Columbus's point was, look, I was the one who went and did all this stuff, too.
00:17:29.140 And then you guys come in, and you depose me, you arrest me, you imprison me, and all these different things.
00:17:34.520 Well, you would never have had any of that if it wasn't for me undertaking the voyage.
00:17:38.520 Brother, he almost didn't even make it back.
00:17:40.620 Could you imagine if he had crashed on the way back, which they almost did, and it was only because of their navigation and their prowess that they were able to survive and make it back with all of this information?
00:17:51.920 None of ours would be here today.
00:17:53.160 The United States would not be here.
00:17:54.240 Somebody may have found it later, but who knows what the actual history would have been.
00:17:57.620 But, Libby, I wanted to talk about something else.
00:18:00.780 And this is the fact that, of course, when we hear about Columbus, it's not just about the Bobadier dossier, right?
00:18:06.640 It's also because of the genocide and the atrocities and warfare.
00:18:10.940 Because, to your point, you know, they say the Native Americans, both in North and South America, were just frolicking and living freely with nature.
00:18:19.520 We've all seen Pocahontas. 1.00
00:18:20.740 Is that really what it was like in the old world before the arrival of the white man?
00:18:25.260 No, you will be shocked to learn that the ancient indigenous people were very much human beings, just like the rest of us, prey to all kinds of bad ideas.
00:18:37.960 Because the Taino people who inhabited the Bahamas were slaveholders as well. 0.94
00:18:44.540 They participated in slavery prior to the arrival of Columbus.
00:18:48.460 They had forced labor as well. 0.99
00:18:50.440 They were burning down forests to create the ability to grow food and things like that.
00:18:57.140 So, no, they were not just living in harmony with nature.
00:19:00.760 It was a survival of the fittest, just like it is in all of the other time periods, except perhaps now when we have masses of luxury in this country for pretty much everybody, at least on a certain level.
00:19:14.500 So, no, it was not like that at all.
00:19:16.100 This is an infantilizing idea that the ancients were not engaged in warfare, were not engaged in cruelty.
00:19:24.480 We've seen also across the world, indigenous ancient peoples who engaged in intensive barbarisms, murders, child sacrifices, eating babies, all of these kinds of things that we've seen. 1.00
00:19:37.800 And there's, you know, saying that these ancient people did nothing but live in some sort of perfect utopia is not only a lie, but it also defames their memory.
00:19:52.040 You know, these were human beings.
00:19:53.240 So, we're all very similar.
00:19:55.660 So, people, I think, I think people generally have heard of the child sacrifices that went on in the Aztec Empire that went on.
00:20:03.120 I mean, imagine what Cortez found when he arrived in Mexico.
00:20:06.640 And by the way, there's a reason that so many of the other tribes of Mexico joined with the Spanish to fight against the Aztecs and to overthrow them because they were sick of having to sacrifice their firstborn children to these pagan gods. 0.50
00:20:24.940 They didn't want to do that.
00:20:26.000 But the Aztecs were forcing them to do that because they had subjugated them through military conquest.
00:20:31.380 Military conquest was the point of the ancient world for thousands of years. 0.78
00:20:37.280 And that's certainly true of the natives on these islands as well.
00:20:41.440 They were engaged in warfare with each other.
00:20:43.300 Precisely.
00:20:44.380 On the islands, the tribal warfare is certainly not something that was absent from the ancient world.
00:20:51.200 It was the ancient world.
00:20:53.000 And when you talk about it, the one that I always get into and I think is such a fascinating rabbit hole that people don't even know that it wasn't just the Incas and the Aztecs, the Peruvians.
00:21:03.640 It was you can go to the Mississippians, East St. Louis, right on the banks of the Mississippi River, just across from St. Louis and Missouri.
00:21:13.420 There is an there's an area called Cahokia and Cahokia was in 1000 AD, a city of something like thirty five thousand people.
00:21:22.880 So that's a Native American city that was larger than London, larger than Paris at the same time.
00:21:28.920 And if you go there to this day, right in Illinois, you can go to Mound 72, which used to be part of a system of pyramids.
00:21:37.600 It was a complex of pyramids and they practiced ritualistic infant murder, child murder, all the way up to teenage girls that they thought that they had to kill in service to their pagan gods, so that they would have plentiful crops, plentiful harvest.
00:21:53.540 This was going on within the confines of the present day United States of America in ancient times.
00:22:00.220 That's and we have evidence of this going on just a few hundred years before Columbus arrives in the new world, which became the new world.
00:22:08.100 And so for folks trying to think that, you know, this this sort of stuff only happened with the arrival of the Europeans is ridiculous.
00:22:16.060 And the other one they get into, of course, is the well, the old war, the old world diseases, malaria, smallpox.
00:22:23.080 Well, that's right. There were there was disease in the ancient world.
00:22:25.360 The bubonic plague and the Black Death had just wiped out something like 50 percent of Europe's population because when it swept in from China, it was it was absolutely devastating.
00:22:34.560 And that's as horrible as it is. I don't think that it was, you know, certainly not intentional in any way.
00:22:41.560 No, I of course it wasn't intentional. The diseases were not intentional.
00:22:45.420 Europeans suffered from diseases as well.
00:22:47.760 And I think also when you think about the ideas that Columbus was trying to spread among them were the story of Abraham and Isaac and God making the covenant with Abraham,
00:22:58.280 saying that we don't need to do child sacrifice anymore. That's not going to be part of our religion anymore, which is such a beautiful and outstanding story in the Old Testament.
00:23:10.000 And that's part of our Christian faith. We do not have to sacrifice our children on the altar to any God and not to the you know, not to our God for sure.
00:23:19.240 He doesn't want that. And that's been very clear.
00:23:21.460 When I talked to my son and we're coming up in New York on Italian Heritage and Indigenous Peoples Day, and he's been learning about Columbus and the lead up to that.
00:23:30.940 And we were talking about it this morning on the way to school.
00:23:33.060 And I said, you know, the people in the Bahamas, they practiced slavery before Columbus got there.
00:23:38.680 And he said, really, they didn't tell me about that.
00:23:40.680 And we started talking all through it, as I so frequently go through his lessons with him and give him the reality of what's going on, because he's not getting that in school, certainly in his social studies classes.
00:23:54.880 And he said to me, Mom, why is it always Christianity? Why are they always coming after Christianity?
00:23:59.660 And we talked about that. And it really does seem like there is an undercurrent in American education to tell children not to be proud of our nation, but to hate it,
00:24:09.160 not to be proud of themselves and their history, but to hate it and to overturn all of the legends and replace them with complete untruths,
00:24:17.500 like this idea that the Native peoples were, you know, living in a utopic, idyllic time and place.
00:24:24.800 And it's just not true. And so when we think about what they're telling our kids, when we think about that, they're telling them Columbus was just pure evil.
00:24:32.700 They're also very clearly telling them lies to cover that up.
00:24:36.960 And the legends that they are replacing Columbus with are lies. They're not true.
00:24:44.680 And I think we need to recognize that, you know, Christianity is not the enemy here.
00:24:49.000 Christianity is the foundation of Western civilization, which is a beautiful and glorious thing.
00:24:55.540 Right. And that's something we've got about two minutes left, Libby, and we're here with Libby Emmons from the Post Millennial.
00:25:00.940 And this is something I've said at the last Turning Point event. I said it at the Great Reefs event.
00:25:06.660 I'm not apologizing for Western civilization anymore.
00:25:09.660 Do not.
00:25:10.660 Show me the civilization that has never gone through challenges and struggles and had its ups and downs.
00:25:18.680 Right. It doesn't exist. And it would be ridiculous to judge something based on that, because guess what?
00:25:24.260 We've all got problems because man is fallen. Man does have a sinful nature.
00:25:28.100 And it's our goal in this life to actualize ourselves while rising above that, as Thomas Aquinas writes.
00:25:33.340 And so this idea that we should be constantly apologizing, falling over ourselves. No, it's we're in the place we are now.
00:25:40.420 We've been put here for a reason. Our goal is what can we do to make our lives better, to try to help others as best as possible?
00:25:48.560 That's it. That's all we can do. And you have this revolutionary cabal that is trying to overthrow all of that so that they can take total power.
00:25:58.520 Libby, one minute left. Give me your final thoughts and then give me your coordinates for the for the audience back home.
00:26:05.040 Final thoughts. My final thoughts are that Columbus is not as bad as he was made out to be, that it is perfectly good and right that we should celebrate the legends and stories of our founding in all of their glory while recognizing some of the failures.
00:26:20.300 And I think that that's perfectly acceptable.
00:26:22.180 I don't think any culture in the face of the world does a better job of acknowledging its failures than ours does.
00:26:28.780 And we need to remember to celebrate our triumphs and our glories as well.
00:26:33.480 I'm at Libby Emmons on Twitter and I'm up at the Post Millennial every day.
00:26:37.940 Remember Columbus, the seafarer, the explorer, the discoverer.
00:26:43.120 I'm Jack Posobiec. Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to lay ashore.
00:26:47.400 We'll see you in the episode.