Chapter 9 Act 7 The Trial of Jackson

The scene is the same as Act 1. God Li: (Stands up, hits the gavel) Now announce the opening of the seventh court of the "Last Judgment" (sit down).Biography of the defendant, the 7th President of the United States, Andrew Jackson (Andrew Jackson). (Jackson bounces.) God Lee: You are Jackson, born in 1767, you are the same age as Jr. Adams, and you are the seventh president of the United States. Jackson: (lively) It's me.Just to correct, it's not that I'm the same age as Jr. Adams, but Jr. Adams is the same age as me. God Lee: (laughs) Well, I agree with your correction.President Jackson, Roosevelt Jr., the 32nd President of the United States in the dock, said something about you. He said: Most of the various forces in the country are against Jackson, and the information media and the public opinion it deliberately shapes are against Jackson. Self-righteous intellectuals were against Jackson, all kinds of banal reactions were against Jackson, arrogant and outdated traditionalists were even more against Jackson, and everything was against him—except the American people.What do you think of the above words?

Jackson: (looks toward the dock, counts down with his finger, counts to Truman, laughs, turns his head, and points to the court) He said that? God Lee: You counted wrong, you were referring to the 33rd President Truman. Jackson: (confused) I'm so bad at arithmetic? God Lee: This is because the 22nd and 24th are the same person, both in Cleveland, so you counted them wrong. Jackson: Thank God Lee for telling me to give me confidence in arithmetic (pinch fingers), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5... (Laughter.) God Lee: It is recorded in history that Jackson became the president of the United States as a vulgar, uneducated, and uneducated man from the frontiers of the West. He even expanded the power of the president and established the so-called "Jacksonian democracy". The democratization of America, before the inauguration, you vowed to shake the hand of every person in town, and immediately fulfilled the vow, and the result was that the administration was delayed for weeks, because you had to take off the bandages.You are so popular. On the day of the inauguration ceremony, there was a passionate scene of thousands of people lying drunk in the White House. This is unprecedented in the United States. How do you feel?

Jackson: Well, I'm honored.The biggest difference between me and my previous 6 presidents is: 1. I am not from the east.Second, I am not an immigrant with many generations of background, I am only the second generation of immigrants.3. I was born poor in a log cabin.4. I have not received a good education.5. I am an Irish immigrant and I hate the British.The deaths of my mother and my two older brothers were caused by the UK. I was orphaned when I was 14. I hate the British.The scars on my face are from the resistance to the British. God Lee: I know your records. When President Washington left office in 1796, the House of Representatives resolved to send him a souvenir, and you were the only representative who voted against it.The reason is that Washington came up with the "Jay Treaty", which was too rude to Britain.

Jackson: That was kind of a traitorous treaty.Washington is 35 years older than me, and I respect him, but I love America more than he does, and I won't make that kind of traitorous treaty. God Lee: Someone loves his country but not his countrymen, like the English poet. Jackson: I love my countrymen, I love Americans. God Lee: Are Indians Americans? Jackson: (confused for a while) Should be? God Lee: Should be?Is it or is it not? Jackson: Oh, at least in my time, Indians were not Americans. God Lee: Including the little Indian girl Lyncoyer in the deserted village after the War of 1813?She didn't know that her mother was beaten to death, and she was crying while holding her mother.

Jackson: Ah, I took care of that little girl who was still nursing, poor thing, she died at 17, of tuberculosis. God Lee: Is she American? Jackson: (hesitating) She isn't either, is she?Indians are not Americans. God Lee: How to decide who is an American?It is very likely that her father and her uncle were all killed by you as foreigners.It can even be said that they were killed as if they were not human beings at all, right?Is it the American standard who sets it? Jackson: (hesitating) It's up to the Indians to obey our white laws. God Lee: White man's law?Let me help you recall. In 1802, your federal government and the state of Georgia signed a treaty: the federal government agreed to remove Indians from Georgia at some future date, and Georgia would give up its western lands to the federal government.However, the federal government failed to deliver on its promises in time, and Georgia began seizing Indian lands in the 1820s.The Indians, assisted by some humanitarian and religious groups in the east, filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court. At that time, Justice John Marshall (John Marshall) was in charge of the case, and the verdict was in favor of the Indians.But the decision is moot because the federal government has no intention of enforcing the resolution.That's when one man said after the historic verdict: Well done!Since Marshall made such a judgment, let him execute it.The person who said this, called Jackson, is none other than you.You don’t even have the laws of the federal court’s judgment. The Indians abide by the laws of the whites. You Jackson knows best what will happen.

Jackson: But, but, in 1830 Congress passed an Indian Removal Act that seemed to resolve the impasse.According to this ordinance, the Indians gave up their land, and the federal government provided them with land west of the Mississippi River, protected them, and compensated them... God Li: How dare you mention this!In your speech when you signed this Act in 1830, you said that the Indians, an unfortunate people, are now in an uneasy situation, and hoped that they would receive God's blessing like us, so that they would not gradually wither or even suffer the fate of extinction, We therefore hope that the last remaining members of this unfortunate nation will be kept safe from possible harm and oppression, and that our government will care for them and protect them like a father and brother thereafter.Do you want to know what will happen after you are blessed by God and taken care of by your father and brother? 17,000 people were rounded up by you, 4,000 people died during the migration, "The Trail of Tears", have you heard of it?

Jackson: I heard. God Li: Your last words said: I hope to see you all in Heaven, both white and black, both white and black.The only question is, you're thinking about black and white, have you forgotten the other color? Jackson: I should have left out the Redskins and Indians. God Li: The problem is not omission, the problem is how to treat them cruelly.During the war, you brutally killed the Indians, maybe you white people can speak the truth, but after peace, you broke your promise to them, and drove them away, burned them, killed them, and even killed them all.Who said All chiefs and no Indians, only chiefs and no Indians, and few chiefs were killed.Before you white people came to America, there were about 2.5 million Indians in America. After 300 years, you wiped out 90% of them, leaving only 250,000.

Jackson: You can't blame me all, not to mention that some things happened after I stepped down.I recite a piece of history to God Li: Jackson believed that the Indian Relocation Program could solve the problems of the time peacefully.According to the plan, the federal government agreed to provide these southern tribes with new land, so that they could have their own homes, would not be harassed by whites, and would receive the best protection.As for the failure of the federal government to fulfill its promise in the end, it was not Jackson's fault alone. God Lee: I never said you were the only one to blame.There are several murderers in the dock today.Now, Tan Zikuan stands up by himself (stretches out his index finger and moves it upwards. There is silence in the dock).Why, no one stands up, then I will drag you out later.Now, let me ask General Jackson again, I agree with you when you said "One man with courage makes a majority".General Jackson!Are you white people going too far with the Indians?

Jackson: (confused) This... God Lee: General Jackson, you are the bravest president of the United States.You said "one brave man wins the crowd", but when you fought for your wife, your bravery, "success" is an odd number, because the other party was killed by you, isn't it? Jackson: (satisfied) God Lee is right, that kid said bad things about my wife, I killed him in a duel, my gun, cut off a bad tongue. God Lee: The thing is, the Indian problem is not a duel problem, it's not a problem of killing a thorn in the side.A duel is only your private bond with a man; but what about an Indian?It is a matter of more than 800 international treaties between your white American government and the red race.

Jackson: (confused) an international treaty? God Lee: Exactly.It is an international treaty out and out.When you signed more than 800 treaties, you did not recognize Indians as Americans, but you had to admit that the land you wanted to occupy was Indian land, so you signed more than 800 international treaties. You have complied, and those who broke their promises include you, President Jackson, right?You Jackson are from the 18th to 19th century, you don't know what happened in the 20th century. In the 20th century, the descendants of the Indians who were killed by you held a hearing and sent the hearing records to the United Nations. The Indians asked for confirmation of their "natural sovereignty."They said, "We have the right to annul those treaties, inch by inch, until both Democrats and Republicans find themselves sitting on Plymouth Rock once again. Turning invaders into refugees is not a sight What's wrong".This is so interesting, because it is almost the same as the representatives of the Kuwaiti government-in-exile demanding justice and restoring the sovereignty of Kuwait before the UN Security Council passed Resolution 678.Prior to this, the United Nations had turned a deaf ear to the voice of the Indians for 46 consecutive years, because the Indians signed an international treaty with the United States, which was difficult to deal with.Even if some people think that this is the internal affairs of the United States, it doesn't matter.Isn't the United States clamoring loudly that it can interfere in other people's internal affairs for the sake of human rights?

Jackson: I don't understand what the United Nations is.It seems that this is really a bit troublesome. God Li: For someone like you, it's actually not troublesome at all.When you were president, in 1832, the Supreme Court of the United States made a clear case: "The jurisdiction of the United States cannot extend to the Indians." But in your eyes, there is no Supreme Court of the United States, so a little formal justice in the United States has also been destroyed. up.Good news for you, 147 years later, the Supreme Court itself is Jacksonified. Jackson: Thank God Lee for telling me. God Lee: In the end, the "sovereign territory" of the Indians guaranteed by more than 800 treaties, went from 550 million acres to a fraction, and only 50 million acres remained. Jackson: Unexpectedly, it was all caused by the land.It exposes a lot of history that we don't want to know. God Lee: I think the last thing you want to know is the inside history of your independence, right? Jackson: What inside history? God Li: Let me ask you, why did you want to be independent back then? Jackson: It's not that the UK bullied us by raising taxes unreasonably. God Lee: There is another important reason you should know, right?That is, Britain opposes you bullying Indians. Jackson: Is there such a strange thing? God Lee: Yes.It was 1767. The United Kingdom promulgated a new regulation to support the Indians to keep their original land. As a result, they annoyed the land speculators who wanted to seize the Indian land. Jackson: (Suddenly realizes) It turns out that the reason for our American independence is not so fair. God Lee: It's like being unscrupulous after you become president.During President Monroe's tenure, Indians were driven westward on a large scale, to the west of 95 degrees east longitude.Then you went so far as to praise this policy as a humanitarian one.You go so far as to say that it is a just and humane policy to advise the Indians to leave their lands and go to that country in the west, where they may be free from the influence of mercenary whites. . . In which case the government can A paternal guardianship of their interests would perpetuate their race."You made the better Removal Act, didn't you?The end result is that the Indians kept your migration law, and you broke it up.125 years after your death, on July 8, 1970, President Nixon of the United States officially admitted everything in black and white. He pointed out that the Indians were oppressed and treated cruelly by the whites. . Coolidge: (stands up) I am the 30th President of the United States, and I gave citizenship to Indians in 1924 (sits down). Truman: (stands up) I am the 33rd President of the United States, and I gave Indians the right to vote 24 years after 1924 (sit down). God Lee: I know the records, but what a pity, how many Indians are left?Want to hear the killer's record?Have you heard that phrase? The only good Indian is a dead Indian, which comes from the rhetoric of The only good Indians I ever saw were dead. It was said by General Philip Henry Sheridan. Sheridan said in 1869 as With a nuclear bomb, isn't he General LeMay?This is the lineage of your American killers, right?You believe that only dead enemies are good enemies, don't you?In the movie "Dr. Strangelove" (Dr. Strangelove), the General Ripper who ordered the plane carrying the nuclear bomb to take off, his brain is also in the same line, right?Isn't Lincoln, who you have been named the greatest president, also a killer of Indians?Lincoln, please stand up (Lincoln stands up), Lincoln, do you remember the Sand Creek Massacre in your fourth year as President? Lincoln: I'm sorry, but my memory is very vague. God Lee: Fuzzy?Let me clear it up for you, please?It was November 29, 1864. Colonel John M. Chivington led 750 cavalry to the Indian camp on the Sand River in Kiowa, Colorado. This camp was actually a concentration camp because The Indians inside had surrendered long ago, and they lived here. This was arranged by the US government, and there were major-level officers guarding the gate of the camp.But Colonel Zivington came with his troops and openly said that the purpose of my coming was to kill the Indians. In the eyes of God, no matter how you kill them, it is reasonable and upright.So they went in and killed everyone they saw. More than 500 people were killed in this way.You American soldiers not only kill people, but also cut off the scalps of the dead as trophies. What's more brutal, some even cut off the vagina of Indian women, pinned them to hats or nailed them to saddles, to show off the results of killing and surrendering Woolen cloth.do you know?President Lincoln, this happened during your presidency, remember? Lincoln: (shaking his head slowly) I don't think I remember, the Civil War kept me busy. God Lee: Busy?No matter how busy you Americans are, you haven't forgotten to kill the Indians, have you?Your General Sheridan reported: Since 1862, at least 800 Indians, men, women, and children have been killed in my jurisdiction.Men are usually scalped, their bodies cut up, dismembered, their genitals cut off, and stuffed into the victim's mouth; women are raped and gang-raped, sometimes fifty or sixty times, and then killed, their scalps also Stripped off, the genitals were inserted with wooden sticks, and some were even inserted during their lifetime... Ah, President Lincoln, what is recorded above is a phenomenon since 1862. It is the atrocities of white people when you were president. Sheridan is The famous general in your civil war is not a small person, and you can't say you don't remember his black and white words. Lincoln: I am sorry that we white Americans have done such a horrible thing. God Lee: But you white Americans are still propagating that the Indians are too barbaric and scalped people all day long.You American movies are even more masters in this way. Not only do you do all kinds of bad things, but you also blame the Indians for your crimes. You white people are too hateful, right?You Americans who keep talking about justice, justice, and justice, are you too hateful? Lincoln: Isn't scalping real? God Lee: So what if it's true?At least don't cut the pussy!In a word, for the Indians, you Americans have exposed innumerable cruelty, unbelief, and ugliness, and the "last judgment" can only find some culprits to be held accountable.Jackson's successor, Van Buren, the eighth president of the United States, is one of the culprits. Because of your Indian policy, you followed Jackson all the way.In the next court, I'll try Van Buren.Now, leave the court (with a blow of the gavel, stand up). (The curtain falls.)