Sucker's Portfolio

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Kirkpatrick Sale tells of Taino Indians who buried Christian icons in their fields in order to increase the fields’ fertility. This was a reverent thing for them to do, but Columbus’s brother Bartolomé had the Indians burned alive. On several occasions the Spaniards hanged thirteen Indians at once, with their feet barely touching the ground, in honor of Jesus and the twelve Apostles. And of course the Christian Adolf Hitler back in the Old World, not that long ago, had the men who had conspired to assassinate him hanged from meat hooks by piano wire, with their feet barely touching the ground, and had their comical jigs of death filmed by a professional camera crew.

fact check please... don't doubt it though