Netflix To Create Film Adaptation Of BioShock
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The loading and aiming took place before it. It was a part of the escalating tensions.
There was no "plan". It was an accident and then it was just carnage after they were fired on.
They weren't any "attackers", they were defenders. Defending not just some place or idea but their families from murderers and after having been mostly disarmed.
What this dying officer said he thought was a signal (so he says he ordered to "fire at them") was really the medicine man doing his routine symbolic gesture. When he mentioned how some raised their weapons above their heads "like in an offering" he didn't know what they were saying, and it was really one guy who did so and he started shouting how it's his rifle that he paid a good price and he's not going to just give it like that. (I don't remember was it mentioned in this particular book.) He just didn't understand this, too.
Your so invested into defending your stupid misconception, is it actually not even your original idea?
It was the this officer telling what he didn't understand (as he was dying). He didn't know customs, he didn't know the language, he was scared (both sides were increasingly scared) in the chaos of a moment that he and other officers created a needlessly extremely tense situation, and had their weapons already readied to fire on his orders too (which terrified the older Indians who decided to surrender all weapons after all, but this obviously didn't end up well). Which happened, among other reasons, because they brought only one official interpreter and didn't even bring their own Indian scouts to the meeting.
That's similar how the feds didn't care about what they dismissed as "bible babble" and so didnt bring any religious experts to Waco as advisors in negotiations and planning, they instead brought tanks against those people. And they have brought tanks to Wounded Knee 2 too for that matter. And likely shot their own man, because it's a tradition.
Also he might have been even still drunk when it all happened.
Do you just pretend you can't understand this now? Do you now roleplay as him to assume the worst, even if you know what really happened there unlike he did then (causing a bloodbath which costed him his own life)? Or are you just so contrarian, or so stubborn in your mistakes, or simply trolling and wasting my time?