In 1493, after Columbus returned from his first trip having “discovered” the new world,” Pope Alexander VI issued Inter Caetera, a papal bull which granted to Spain all lands to the west and south of a pole-to-pole line 100 leagues west and south of any of the islands of the Azores or the Cape Verde islands. Inter Caetera, along with concepts like, Terra Nulius” (meaning, Land that belongs to no-one’) became a set of edicts that gave tacit consent to creating international laws that considered territory populated by heathens (non-Christians) as land that nobody owns so that the first Christian (read, European) country to “discover it is entitled to take it over, as finders keepers”. These edicts and laws and the practices based on them came to be generally known as, “The Doctrine of Discovery. To quote from the organizers of an annual Burning of the Papal Bulls in Hawaii: Original peoples and supporters seek the formal revocation of the 1493 papal bull Inter Caetera. This decree was issued by the Vatican to Christopher Columbus on his second voyage to the Caribbean. Along with the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas, it sought to establish Christian dominion over the globe and called for the subjugation of non-Christian peoples and seizure of their lands. As a result, an estimated 100 million indigenous peoples were killed off in the process of Europes conquest of the “new world. This papal edict has never been repealed and is the foundation-stone of the international system we live under today and directly related to the corporate-state-military plunder and rape of the planet, which is sometimes linked to the phenomenon known as globalization.
Posted on: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 20:39:24 +0000
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