Friday, June 30, 2006

 

More Israel Gaza Updates.

John "There is Something Really Huge Shoved Up My Ass and I Can't Get it Out" Bolton, U.S. ambassador to the U.N. is doing his best to make the UN innefectual in the matter of Israel's illegal invasion and continued genocide of the Palestinians.

Israel's ambassador to Washington, Daniel Ayalon, says that Palestinians have launched more than 800 rockets into Israel. He said Israel has been careful not to harm civilians. And you can believe him because he has NO evidence to substantiate these claims or is NOT presenting any.

http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-06-30-voa57.cfm

Israel is also creating a crime against humanity as it is increasingly destroying and shutting off access to water via destroying their power plant and having control over their other sources of power to operate their electric pumps. This is also an act of genocide. I guess this is part of being "careful not to harm civilians" that Daniel Ayalon is talking about.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/063006C.shtml

2,000-5,000 Turks took to the streets and are saying that the Israeli attack on Gaza is an attack against those who follow the Muslim religion.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1150885888800&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

"Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said Friday that Israel's offensive in Gaza - including the kidnappings of some of his cabinet ministers - was part of a premeditated plan to bring down the Hamas-led government." This article also states that the Israeli Air Force has had 30 bombing raids already, that seem to have miraculously killed absolutely no one, at least according to the Israeli's.

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=38ddd00a-58f2-40d0-8413-1232956a6efa&k=94011&p=1

 

Afghanistan, the forgotten front in the oil business

Let's not forget we're fighting one there. How many dead soldiers? How many dead Afghanis?

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/063006F.shtml

Funny thing about this article, which covers the poppy crops issue; I was watching Bill Maher a year or so after the U.S. illegal war in Afghanistan started. He had a former official in the Bush administration who stated something like: "The reason why Bush is allowing drugs to flow out of Afghanistan is that the money is helping in the war on terrorism." This type of memory lapse reminds me of the '95 CNN piece on the '93 bombing of the WTC. The investigators found a handful of plans for futher terrorist attacks, one of them being hijacking planes and flying them into U.S. landmarks. Feh! How soon we forget.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/063006M.shtml

 

War on the People.

Bush seems to have declared a war on the people of the United States and is forcing sanctions on us so his wealthy buddies can have that money.

Cuts in the welfare program:

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/063006E.shtml

Cuts in medicaid:

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/063006F.shtml

 

Indigenous Rights

Human Rights Council adopts Universal Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

It's a tiny victory and has hardly any teeth, but we now have another tool to put in our belt

http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/declra.htm

 

Racists Racists Everywhere!

As racists are always willing to point out so they don't have to look at the consequences that have been suffered in order to create such wonderful things as this computer, I benefit from the use of this computer that has created great suffering throughout the world. So, because I benefit from it, that means they don't have to look at the consequences others had to suffer under in order to bring this computer into my life so they can read my words and post their racist bullshit on my blot so they don't have to look at the privilege they have from not only the slaughter of my people, but many other nations as well. All of this becomes absolutely fine in their hearts and minds because I don't live in the "primitive" state like they believe I should in order to have a valid voice. Their voice is, however, perfectly valid because they sought to directly benefit from the genocides and oppressions of many people so they can have a computer and write their racist diatribes on my blog in order to try to argue me down. I'm blamed for the genocide against my people, the slaughter of women and children in Iraq, the rape of women and children in Iraq, the boarding schools in this country as well as many other countries, poverty, domestic violence, rape in this nation, the rape of children in this nation, etc, simply because I benefit from the use of a computer. All of this is OK now and we don't have to deal with any of the horrors in this world that created the privilege I own in living in a space without concern about military action outside my door. All the horror around the world historical and current are my fault, according to JD, whose comment is displayed below, because I use a computer. It is all my fault. I motivated the nuns and priests who raped Indian children repeatedly because I use a computer. I motivated the military who murder and rape women and children in Iarq and EVEN THEIR OWN! All my fault because, as JD would tell me in his unsubstantiated view, that all the problems in the world are my fault because I benefit from the suffering of millions so I can write these words to you.

Here is JD's comment from my "Up Yours" post:

Whatever, Tonto. I don't look at myself in the mirror as a white boy or a European-American, or as a descendent of French Huguenots, or as a descendent of the Irish potato famine.

That you choose to look at yourself as a victim is YOUR OWN FUCKING FAULT!

You made your own Burning Bed, you roast in it, asshole.

You can scream and bitch and moan about how you "want it all back," but the truth is the following: You could have it all back, but instead of working for it, you have decided to stay on the sidelines and whimper about how The Man keeps you down.

So go hang out with Chutch, smoke a Peace Pipe, drop some shrooms, do whatever the fuck you want.

Just remember one thing, though - this here venue on which you vent your screed, and the computer on which you created it, was conceived, developed, and was paid for by those very same "little cracker ass peckerwood piece(s) of privileged white male shit" that you so deride in your spew.

Smoke signals don't work to well above 14K, ya know.

Asshole.
"...descendent of the Irish potato famine." Where's your family from, brother JD? I have a friend who is from South Armagh in the Northern Six counties. Is your family from Cork? This is what my friend tells me..."The potato blight was caused by God. The famine was caused by the British." You see, Brother JD, your people were growing plenty of food, but your British occupiers were TAKING it from you. Do you even remember that your people had to eat grass to survive? Do you remember there "mouths stained with green?" Your people could have had plenty to eat so there would have never been an exodus of some 2,000,000 Irish from YOUR HOMELAND brother. But you don't "whine" about that, do you brother? You don't say ANYTHING about the British who still mount your people like dogs in the Six Counties in the north while the FREESTATERS and assholes like yourself are living in privilege in this nation so the Brits can continue to murder your people and rape their culture, terrorize little girls walking to school. You are too busy writing your racist diatribes to assholes like me on my blog. Good for you! I could use the same argument your way, Brother. The blight, the British caused "famine," is your fault, Brother, because you are over here showing me that I'm just a whining asshole who caused the genocide of my own people by writing to me on my blog on a computer. But I aint that STUPID! JD, Brother! I know it's the Brits that mount your people in the Northern Six. I know it's the Freestaters and immigrants like yourself who I "allege" turn your back on the people in your homeland. JD, Brother, I would never do that because, well, that would make me you, and I can't stand people like you.

Anyway, JD, if you want to discuss these issues with me, Brother, bring something of substance to the table because right now you are acting like nothing but a stupid fucking piece of shit that doesn't even speak out about the injustices of his own people by the occupiers of the Northern Six known as the Brits. It's called complicity, brother. Are you complicit in the genocide of your poeple?

Article 2, section c of the "UN Convention on...Genocide" describes it as something like this: imposing conditions upon life to bring about the destruction of a people in whole or in part. Are you complicit in the genocide of your brothers, JD, like you ARE in the genocide of my peoples and many more in this occupied territory known as the United States, Brother? Would it be OK with you, brother, if a nation managed to come in and slaughter many or all of us Americans in order to create wealth for the few? It seems to be OK with you that we do it here and in other nations for your privilege and mine.

Do you want to fight with me, brother? Do you think that is productive? Or would you rather fight against the occupying nations that are currently fucking your people in Ireland and committing genocide against them? Do you even care?

PS "...French Huguenots" How do you feel about the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre? Is that your fault because you can write to me on a computer today? I don't think so. Do you?


Thursday, June 29, 2006

 

the ratio is like 1 to 280

Another good reason not to join the military as yet another soldier has died near Ramadi as the impending slaughter of Iraqi's there looms on the horizon. It is a sad article, but I read the words that his best friend speaks, and I have to wonder if revenge is in his mind. So many stories I have read of revenge killings in Vietnam done by our soldiers when their friends were killed. I've heard about it in Honduras. I've heard about it in this war. I did the rough estimate math. The last number of Iraqi militarily murdered body count was unofficially around 70,000. The U.S. deaths, roughly 2,500. That means with this soldiers death, approximately 280 Iraqi's will have to die. Maybe Ramadi will be razed soon, as they get closer and closer to all out military destruction of that city. Bringing democracy to Iraq at the barrel of a gun. Sounds like what America did to us Indians.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/B062906Z.shtml

 

Update on Israel's Attack on Gaza

There never seems to be any mention of the actions that Israel are taking in Gaza are ILLEGAL. However, they are America's pit bull in the middle east, so that makes there genocidal activities OK. Just ask George Bush. It is also alleged that Israel is pushing in from the North in Gaza as well. Can you say "turkey shoot" like our alledged troops did about the infamous Highway of Death?

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062906Z.shtml

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0629-07.htm

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L29104625.htm

 

Breaking it left and right

A U.S. court stated that U.S. law trumps international law, an arugment that the Germans used in defending themselves from prosecution during the Nuremburg trials in regards to the Holocaust. This is an article about treatment of foreign prisoners, the violation of a 1963 treaty (and the u.s. constitution), and thus putting U.S. citizens in danger overseas as this now makes the treaty null and void.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062906K.shtml

 

Collective Punishement Dealt Out by HUD to Indians

Here is an interesting article about how HUD cut housing in half for Indians because of a lawsuit filed by the Fort Peck Lakota, which they won. Collective punishment which is also a violation of the U.S. Constitution, which, of course, is not much more than toilet paper.

http://www.indianz.com/News/2006/014716.asp

 

Revolutionary Vacation

Starting Sunday, Rhonda and I will be heading to Minneapolis where we will rent a car and drive across South Dakota to visit Wounded Knee and to participate in the opening ceremonies at Bear Butte for the encampment to protect the sacred site from the encroaching Sturgis Biker Rally.

We will then head into Nebraska for a visit to a town Rhonda lived in as a child for a year, then up to Cass Lake, Minnesota for the Protecting Mother Earth Conference.

I am not planning on writing on my blog the whole time we're gone, which should be about 10 days.

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

 

Digging up old truths

Let's not forget. I just watched the video about the use of white phosphorous by U.S. forces against Fallujah. Yeah...well...

Here's the link.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/110805Z.shtml

 

Bloodiest Month in Afghan War

Why aren't we seeing the numbers of dead in the U.S.'s other illegal war, that of Afghanistan?

Here are updates on the military actions in that nation.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/28/1421229

http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Taliban-steps-up-attacks-in-Afghanistan/2006/06/25/1151174050651.html

 

Current AP on Israel's Military actions in Gaza

Israeli military pummels Palestinians as it seeks soldier, and Palestinian group claims it kidnapped another Israeli


A Palestinian group aligned with the Fatah Party says it has abducted another Israeli.

A statement obtained by the Associated Press says the Al-aqsa Martyrs' Brigades is holding a 62-year-old man abducted Monday.

On Sunday Hamas abducted an Israeli soldier.

Palestinian fighters also claim to be holding a missing West Bank settler.

Israel turned up the pressure to release the captive soldier, sending its warplanes to bomb a Hamas training camp [define "hamas training camp"]after knocking out electricity and water supplies for most of the 1.3 million residents of Gaza Strip.

The Hamas-led Palestinian government called for a prisoner swap with Israel, saying the Gaza offensive would not secure the soldiers's release.

Tensions escalated today as the military fired artillery near Gaza City - the first time Israel has targeted that area during the offensive. There were no reports of injuries or damage.

Palestinians dug in behind walls and embankments, preparing for a major strike after Israel sent in troops and tanks and bombarded bridges and a power station. Warplanes fired missiles in northern and southern Gaza.

[I read that 3 Palestinians were killed in their Monday raid where they kidnapped the Israeli soldier, as well as the two Israeli soldiers killed.]

 

UP YOURS

[Note: As I got my first lengthy paragraph in on the following, I accidentally hit the power button on the power strip and lost it. It is emotionally intense to write about the following for me. But I am determined and such a little set back (took about half an hour to get everything back up) is not going to stop me. I'm at KBOO, which is an appropriate place to write about this in my opinion.]

I have done hallucinogenic mushrooms several times. The second time was with my second wife, now ex. I felt I needed to deal with some emotional issues and thought this might help. I reverted back to the age of five to some intense childhood trauma and I freaked out. My ex thought that the only way to get me back was to beat the living fucking shit out of me. She smashed my face with her fists, beat my back, and would beat my ass with hooked fingers for maximum punishment.

I would at times sit on the floor, crying, and trying to act normal. I could feel the intensity filling her again, and would beg her not to hit me when an attack would fall down upon me. I was so terrified of being beaten unconscious or possibly even murdered.

During this beating, I also hallucinated a paralell world of a blonde woman being beaten to death by her husband in 1936. She was laying on the floor against a wall and was being kicked so horrifically that all defenses fell as the last bit of punishments were strongly felt as she died. My ex wife was that husband.

Amazingly, upon recovery, I had no bruises on my face, ass, or back from her brutal punishment. I still married the fucking bitch, only to leave her several years later. She never beat me again, but our last year of marriage brought many a threats of physical violence along with all of the verbal violence she could throw out like candy in the streets to kids during a parade.

I did mushrooms with her in the Gifford Pinchot a few years later. Out in the nature, I could actually see the energy of rocks and understand too briefly their language. I started to revert, so I started mumbling aloud not to get freaked out or see spirits that would scare me. We left the little camp ground at Twin Falls as dusk approached. I could see everything clearly in the darkness. I asked, almost demanded she turn out the lights of the car and started screaming for her to drive "FASTER." As we headed down 90 and back into Carson, Washsington, we stopped at the McLellan Viewpoint where one has a fantastic view of Loowit (Mt. St. Helens). I started to feel no fear. It was like a slow wave. It started encroaching little by little as we stood alone at the rock wall. I started to believe that Joy Harjo wrote her "Fear Poem" while on mushrooms. As we journeyed down the road toward Carson, I suddenly felt absolutely no fear, and not in that stupid brand name sense either. It is an odd place to be and my decision and choice patterns drastically changed. I could have gone on a horrifically violent rampage if I had chosen that path, but I chose a different one. I wanted to confront a huge white cop who stood in the middle of Hwy. 84 with his radar gun. She wouldn't stop (good choice on her part). I wanted to go talk to friends who had distanced themselves from us. She refused. (The distance was confirmed later as...being her verbal abuse of me and them and others). And I still stuck by the asshole for another year, facing verbal abuse in a horrific form of screams so loud in my face that I could feel her spit, along with her threats of physical violence toward me and my daughter both. It came to the point where I chose to leave, though, living in the denial I did in order to survive her abuse, the reasons didn't come perfectly clear until I was securely away from the fucking bitch!

Why am I telling you this?

I am reading the book, "Reclaiming the Sacred," by Winona Laduke. As I read about the HORRIFIC destruction that Indians have suffered at the hands of you and your fellow Americans, the destruction IS OVERWHELMING! Overwhelming! So much has been destroyed, and the efforts at our continued destruction and oppression are so obvious to me as you and your fellow Americans live in denial about it. FUCK! I'VE EVEN LIVED IN DENIAL ABOUT IT JUST TO SURVIVE IN IT! But not all of you are blind to it, and many of you struggle against it. But you who don't must understand the depths of this horrific destruction because it is done all over the world...historically and right here and now.

When I tell you I want it all back, your interest turns to yourselves. Fuck the destruction and most HORRIFIC terror you and your people have put us through, you ALWAYS want me to think about you so you and your fellow Americans don't have to face the destruction you created. I know most of you live in FEAR that I, and so many others, would treat you exactly the way you treated us. That is why when I say "I want it all back" your minds immediately float to your personal deportation and potential property loss (which is illegally yours to begin with) instead of indigenous history, genocide, imported diseases, diabetes, alcohol, and you and your fellow Americans NEVER think of changing things or doing anything that is honesly "RIGHT!"

I will NEVER forget that little cracker ass peckerwood piece of privileged white male shit at a Ward Churchill lecture at Reed College. Ward discussed all sorts of illegal and genocidal maneuvers of the U.S. government against Indians, especially lands covered under treaties as well as the genocide of Indians past and present. He also mentioned the Madeline Albright quote where she declared her complicity in genocide of the people of Iraq when she stated that the 5000 children dying each month in Iraq are an acceptable loss. What did this first fucking stupid ass white boy ask after plying Ward about treaty lands and his own personal rights and fears of deportation? "What about me?" The stupid fuck was almost crying! It was fucking amazing! What a waste of an alleged education! Reed College has been knocked down about a million notches in my book, and I've even told my daughter she will not be going there even if she gets a full scholarship because every subsequent stupid cracker ass white boy "of privilege" that followed had questions that also amouted to, "What about me?" Out of the dozen people that asked questions, only one was not a white boy. She was of Asian decent and on the faculty and was genuinely embarassed by the students. She didn't say..."What about me?" No one but her asked about the conditions of indigenous life and the genocide of our peoples. No one mentioned Madeline Albrights blatant confession of complicity in genocide or the thousands of children dying in Iraq. It was all; "What about me?"

To further illustrate my point, here; what, honestly, is the likelyhood we'd get it all back? A trillion to one, maybe? Maybe even greater? The rule of force is in authority here. You and your fellow Americans are continuing the genocide against us Indigenous peoples to guarantee your place as the "master race." You are continuing to destroy our environment, economies, health, culture, langauges, ways of life, spirituality, etc. We can't stop you. You'll do whatever you want because...well...you can. And then when we bring up your laws, as you always throw them in our face when the laws fall on your side, you and your stupid fucking fellow Americans immediately start crying "What about me?" Like we could really do something to you with ANY authority. The rule of FORCE is on your side. And besides, assholes, WE ARE NOT YOU! What makes you think that I would in anyway want to be like you and start major extermination policies of you and your fellow Americans like YOU ACTUALLY DID AND DO TO US? I don't want to be like you! I know what it feels like to face all of your asshole wrath. I know what it is like to be FORCED to live in a manner I would not choose if I had an ACTUAL CHOICE.

And all of your stupid fucking "what about me['s]?" do nothing but avoid the conversation you FREELY CHOOSE not to have. YOU don't want to be made to feel uncomfortable. YOU don't want to have to take personal responsibility, let alone social responsibility. YOU don't want to do what is right because it might cut into your PRIVILEGE!

As I continue to read Winona's book, "Reclaiming the Sacred," and see all the resistance made by YOU and your fellow asshole Americans in support of the genocide of Indigenous peoples out of FEAR of losing some of your ILL GOTTEN gain, you so fucking offend me. But still, YOU and your fellow asshole Americans want me to "talk nice." We've talked nice, only to have you all fuck us up the ass even more. We are FORCED to talk nice because if we don't, you all will get more fierce in your attacks on us out of fear of your "What about me?" BULLSHIT! Talking nice just means you don't have to listen. Talking mean means you'll simply refuse to listen. What is the fucking difference? How do we get your fucking genocidal boot off our neck before you and your asshole fellow Americans "complete the job?"

So, right here, right now, I will tell you what I think. No, I will not treat YOU and your fellow asshole Americans like you all did and do treat us. I hate it! It fucking hurts! It fucking pisses me off! It IS a crime! It would make me YOU, and I can't stand that idea. So, here is MY message from ME to YOU and your asshole fellow fucking Americans:

GO FUCK YOURSELVES!

I have no fear in facing your genocidal activities, not like you do about the slim possibilities that you may have to take responsibility or give any of your ill gotten gain back.

PS and yes, I STILL WANT IT ALL BACK! Try to think about it like this, whitey. What if you woke up this morning and found yourself as a Red Nigger? What would your world look like, you fucking piece of shit?! Can you feel empathy? I doubt it!UP YOURS!

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

 

GAZA IMPENDING SLUAGHTER

Israel is on the move to slaughter thousands of people in Gaza for the kidnapping of 1 Israeli soldier and killing of 2 others. They have so far bombed a power station (a violation of international law) and two bridges. There is no power in the Gaza area. I know a woman in that area taking a language emersion course to learn Arabic.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13580436/
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062706T.shtml

 

The U.S. Constitution

Here are the first 3 sections of article 1 from the U.S. Constitution:

Article. I.

Section. 1.[2] All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

Section. 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.
No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.

Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons [Modified by Amendment XIV]. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New-York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three.

When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such Vacancies.

The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.

Section. 3. The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof [Modified by Amendment XVII], for six Years; and each Senator shall have one Vote.

Immediately after they shall be assembled in Consequence of the first Election, they shall be divided as equally as may be into three Classes. The Seats of the Senators of the first Class shall be vacated at the Expiration of the second Year, of the second Class at the Expiration of the fourth Year, and of the third Class at the Expiration of the sixth Year, so that one third may be chosen every second Year; and if Vacancies happen by Resignation, or otherwise, during the Recess of the Legislature of any State, the Executive thereof may make temporary Appointments until the next Meeting of the Legislature, which shall then fill such Vacancies [Modified by Amendment XVII].

No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen.

The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.

The Senate shall chuse their other Officers, and also a President pro tempore, in the Absence of the Vice President, or when he shall exercise the Office of President of the United States.

The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.

Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States: but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.

http://www.constitution.org/constit_.htm

 

Venezuelan Constitution

Here are the first nine articles of the Venezuelan Constitution:

Article 1: The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is irrevocably free and independent, basing its moral property and values of freedom, equality, justice and international peace on the doctrine of Simón Bolívar, the Liberator. Independence, liberty, sovereignty, immunity, territorial integrity and national self-determination are unrenounceable rights of the Nation.

Article 2: Venezuela constitutes itself as a Democratic and Social State of Law and Justice, which holds as superior values of its legal order and actions those of life, liberty, justice, equality, solidarity, democracy, social responsibility and, in general, the preeminence of human rights, ethics and political pluralism.

Article 3: The essential purposes of the State are the protection and development of the
individual and respect for the dignity of the individual, the democratic exercise of the will of the people, the building of a just and peace-loving society, the furtherance of the prosperity and welfare of the people and the guaranteeing of the Fulfillment of the principles, rights and duties established in this Constitution.
Education and work are the fundamental processes for guaranteeing these purposes.

Article 4: The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is a decentralized Federal State on the terms set forth in this Constitution, governed by the principles of territorial integrity, cooperation, solidarity, attendance and shared responsibility.

Article 5: Sovereignty resides untransferable in the people, who exercise it directly in the manner provided for in this Constitution and in the law, and indirectly, by suffrage, through the organs exercising Public Power. The organs of the State emanate from and are subject to the sovereignty of the people.

Article 6: The government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and of the political organs comprising the same, is and shall always be democratic, participatory, elective, decentralized, alternative, responsible and pluralist, with revocable mandates.

Article 7: The Constitution is the supreme law and foundation of the legal order. All persons and organs exercising Public Power are subject to this Constitution.

Article 8: The national flag with its yellow, blue and red stripes, the National Anthem “Gloria al bravo pueblo” (Glory to the Brave People), and the coat of arms of the Republic are the symbols of the native land.
Law shall regulate their characteristics, meaning and use.

Article 9: Spanish is the official language. The use of native languages also has official status for native peoples, and must be respected throughout the territory of the Republic, as constituting part of the cultural heritage of the Nation and humanity.

http://www.embavenez-us.org/constitution/intro.htm

 

South African Constitution

Here are the first six articles of the South African Constitution:

Chapter 1 Founding Provisions

Section 1 Republic of South AfricaThe Republic of South Africa is one sovereign democratic state founded on the following values:

(a) Human dignity, the achievement of equality and the advancement of human rights and freedoms.(
b) Non-racialism and non-sexism.
(c) Supremacy of the constitution and the rule of law.
(d) Universal adult suffrage, a national common voters roll, regular elections and a multi-party system of democratic government, to ensure accountability, responsiveness and openness.

Section 2 Supremacy of ConstitutionThis Constitution is the supreme law of the Republic; law or conduct inconsistent with it is invalid, and the obligations imposed by it must be fulfilled.

Section 3 Citizenship

(1) There is a common South African citizenship.
(2) All citizens are -(a) equally entitled to the rights, privileges and benefits of citizenship; and(b) equally subject to the duties and responsibilities of citizenship.
(3) National legislation must provide for the acquisition, loss and restoration of citizenship.

Section 4 National anthemThe national anthem of the Republic is determined by the President by proclamation.

Section 5 National flagThe national flag of the Republic is black, gold, green, white, red and blue, as described and sketched in Schedule 1.

Section 6 Languages

(1) The official languages of the Republic are Sepedi, Sesotho, Setswana, siSwati, Tshivenda, Xitsonga, Afrikaans, English, isiNdebele, isiXhosa and isiZulu.
(2) Recognising the historically diminished use and status of the indigenous languages of our people, the state must take practical and positive measures to elevate the status and advance the use of these languages.
(3) (a) The national government and provincial governments may use any particular official languages for the purposes of government, taking into account usage, practicality, expense, regional circumstances and the balance of the needs and preferences of the population as a whole or in the province concerned; but the national government and each provincial government must use at least two official languages.
(b) Municipalities must take into account the language usage and preferences of their residents.(4) The national government and provincial governments, by legislative and other measures, must regulate and monitor their use of official languages. Without detracting from the provisions of subsection (2), all official languages must enjoy parity of esteem and must be treated equitably.
(5) A Pan South African Language Board established by national legislation must
-(a) promote and create conditions for the development and useof
-(i) all official languages;
(ii) the Khoi, Nama and San languages; and
(iii) sign language ; and
(b) promote and ensure respect for
-(i) all languages commonly used by communities in South Africa, including German, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Portuguese, Tamil, Telegu and Urdu; and
(ii) Arabic, Hebrew, Sanskrit and other languages used for religious purposes in South Africa.

http://www.info.gov.za/documents/constitution/index.htm

 

Blackfoot Constitution

Here are the first five articles of the Blackfoot Draft Constitution:

DRAFT CONSTITUTION OF THE BLACKFOOT (PIIKANI) NATION
Chapter 1

Constitutional Principles

Article 1
The Blackfoot Nation is comprised of: the traditionally-recognized authorities, leadership and representatives of the Blackfoot; members of the Apatohsipiikani, Kainaiwa, Siksika, Amskaapipiikani and related "Bands" of the Blackfoot; all those recognized by traditional authorities as Blackfoot with or without current affiliations/residence with the existing "Bands" of the Blackfoot. Members of the Blackfoot Nation must possess some degree of Blackfoot ancestry and/or be adopted/recognized through traditionally-recognized institutions; no specific "blood-quantum" is required for recognition of Blackfoot citizenship.

Article 2
The Blackfoot Nation ascribes to multi-citizenship but reserves the right to demand relinquishment of either Blackfoot citizenship or the citizenship of another nation in the event that the rights, responsibilities or allegiance of citizenship associated with another nation conflict with the rights, responsibilities or allegiance associated with Blackfoot citizenship. All rights of Blackfoot citizens, elaborated and protected in this Constitution, shall never be invoked or affirmed as instruments to deny or abridge the same individual rights of others or to compromise the survival and prosperity of the Blackfoot Nation.

Article 3
In accordance with international law and internationally recognized rights to independence, self-determination and survival of nations, the Blackfoot Nation does not recognize and is not in any way under the authority of any laws, policies, procedures, agencies, "officials", agreements or structures imposed or recognized by any (past or present) colonizing powers or foreign nations or any "authorities" not selected or recognized by and through traditional Blackfoot authorities, institutions and Ways exclusively.

Article 4
Unless otherwise provided in this Constitution, any agreements between the Blackfoot Nation and any other sovereign entities or Peoples, including other First Nations, shall have the form and substance of an international treaty. Treaties shall become an integral part of the "Supreme Law of the Nation" to which all Blackfoot authorities and persons shall be bound, anything in Blackfoot law or traditions to the contrary notwithstanding.

Article 5
(1) The Blackfoot Nation has never ceased to exist as its existence and right to exist does not depend upon recognition or non-recognition by any other sovereign entity or force. The Blackfoot Nation continues to exist despite many attempts by colonizing powers at "non-recognition", "termination", extermination or imposition of colonial, genocidal and non-Blackfoot laws, institutions, "Tribal officials" and "trustee relationships". The central purpose of the Blackfoot Nation is to guarantee and protect the survival,
prosperity, identity, rights and culture of the Blackfoot People collectively and individually.

(2) All members of the Blackfoot Nation are endowed by the Creator and/or their Humanity, as sanctioned/recognized by law, to certain fundamental and internationally recognized human and civil rights and freedoms to include (and not to be limited to) the following: Freedom of Speech and Assembly; Freedom of/from Religion; Freedom of Association; Freedom of the Press; Freedom From Unreasonable and Illegal Search and Seizure of Property; Freedom to Lawfully Own, Sell and Bequeath Personal Property; Right of Due Process, Right to Appeal of Judicial Verdicts and Freedom From Double Jeopardy; Freedom From Any Discrimination Based on Gender, Age, Disability, Color, Blood-quantum, Sexual Orientation, Social Class, Religion, Political Affiliations or Family/Clan/Band Affiliations; Freedom to Keep and Bear Arms (for hunting, personal protection and militia responsibilities); Freedom to Petition for Redress of Grievances; Right to Privacy; Right to Confront and Answer Accusers and Accusations;

http://www.chgs.umn.edu/Histories__Narratives__Documen/Documents_on_Native_American_G/BlackfootDraftConstitution.pdf

 

Constitution...isn't that what happens when the shit gets blocked up in your asshole?

Uh, Stupid! You all signed this agreement. That makes it a treaty. That means you are violating your own constitution (article 6 section 2), not that that horrible document is worth much nor that you all ever followed it to begin with. Also see: "The Torture Papers." Besides, it's not like you'd enforce them, anyway. You're the United States, and by gum, your gonna do what you want. And if you want to torture people (even though torture has been PROVEN useless and is basically only done as REVENGE for not kneeling before you and sucking your cock), by gum...You're gonna torture people. "Right or Wrong" as some of your citizens say!

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0627-06.htm

 

Constitution a Gone Gone

It's as if that silly piece of paper never even existed!

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062706C.shtml

 

Another way the government fucks their troops.

Another way the U.S. Government is supporting our troops...fucking their families when soldiers are killed in combat for the governments illegal activities because, well, they need to keep the financial costs of the war down (in other words, wealthy white men need that free money). The cost in lives and suffering of the families that lose loved ones in this illegal war don't mean shit. The most important thing, of course, is the already wealthy white men who are making billions in free money for their genocidal efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0627-07.htm

Join the military and get killed in a conflict or otherwise, this too, could happen to your family. More benefits to consider. Like possibly getting medical experiments done on you like the men at the Nevada Test Site and Bikini Atoll and Tuskogee Experiment and etc. Like having to pay for your own medical attention when wounded in Iraq in order for wealthy white men to keep that money for themselves. If you're a woman, good chance you'll be raped in that organization, not so much from the enemy, but from your own military brothers. And the list goes on and on...

Monday, June 26, 2006

 

Sweet and Sour

Saturday, I came into KBOO to do a training in Production 1, but prior to doing so, I went to Grendel's to get my usual large Grendel's Ghost. I whipped out my money and my frequent drinker card when Eric, the owner, pulls a $20 from beside the cash register. He snaps it in front of me, and I'm wondering what the heck he's doing. Is he giving this to me? Has he lost his mind?

Turns out, some fan of "Mitakuye Oyasin," the KBOO radio program I host, asked if I was doing a reading there any time soon. Eric said no. So the man gave him a $20 in order to pay for my drinks until it is gone. FUCKIN' A!

Today, for lunch, I went to Sunrice on Morrison and 7th. I wasn't all that impressed, but had felt the desire to go there and have lunch. I sat at a table and ate sweet and sour pork and attempted to read the Venezualan Constitution (which I am so much more impressed by first nine articles covering the fundamental principles than I am the WHOLE U.S. constitution and subsequent laws).There was commercial radio blasting in my ear, traffic noise just outside the window, a loud refrigerator, and a television blasting the Channel 8 news. What a fucking joke!

I rarely watch television news because I find the misinformation or lack of any "real" information to fucking offensive. But there it was, and for my two or three times a year personal anthropolical study, I watched the senseless shit for about 15 mintues. First, there was an attempt at a fluff piece brought to the audience by a perfecty coifed and beautiful woman in fancy clothes. I couldn't make out what it was about, and they didn't get the right video to go with it, so they went to a commercial. Commercials...gotta hate them. Besides, the mainstream TV news is just filler for the commercials.

They came back showing some man running around in a kitchen wearing a stereotypical chefs hat so you know he has something to do with food, and he was talking about, you guessed it...FOOD! This went on for several minutes, but due to my severe lack of interest and the fact that viewing this shit feels like I am punishing myself, I have no idea what he was talking about.

Then they returned to the newscasters giving each other small talk because the alleged news viewing audience is more interested in personality than...well...news. Then about 3 or 4 minutes of weather. Today...it is HOT in Oregon, but will be cooling down in the days to come.

And then, to promote the paint business, they did another fluff piece about paint. My lunch being over, I left at this point.

I didn't see anything about, say, the fact that auto companies will be cutting out some 50,000 jobs, or giving Bush supreme power to spy on ALL U.S. citizens, battle in Ramadi, war in Iraq or Afghanistan, building war against Iran and North Korea, the nuclear waste derail in Michigan, or any other...well...news.

Sweet and sour...Sick and Sad!

 

Tuesday Night Vigil

There is a vigil held outside of the military recruiting office at, 1317 NE Broadway, held every Tuesday from 5:30pm to 6:30pm. Feel free to come by and join us.

 

Constitutional Discussion Group

One thing that really stood out for me about the Chavez led Revolution in Venezuela is the people knew their rights. You could see copies of the constitution tacked to the walls of peoples shacks. You could see many thousands of people who know their rights. You could see many people willing to stand up for their rights even in the face of the horrific threat from the fascist wealthy of the Venezuelan nation. They knew their rights.

This motivated me to read the horrifically outdated, racist, sexist, elitist U.S. Constitution, which, well, of the five or so constitutions I've read, really sucks.

It took me two days to trudge through the horrifically boring bullshit known as the U.S. Constitution. I know many people tout it, but few have read the excessively boring, racist, sexist, elitist, outdated document. Reading it, it is easy for me to see how it is WIDE open for the corruption of the wealthy elitists of this nation, and wouldn't you know it, that IS exactly what happens.

Rhonda and I would like to start a discussion group not only about the U.S. constitution, but many constitutions used throughout this world, as well as a discussion on human rights using something as silly as the actual UN Declaration on Human Rights.

Anyone feel up to this?

 

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.

"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," is a must see:

MUST SEE!

The documentary is about the Carmona led coup to take the Venezualan democratically elected president, Hugo Chavez, out of the presidency because, well, in all honesty, he didn't fall to his knees and suck U.S. cock like the wealthy Carmona.

Chavez is extremely popular, rides around in vehicles and waving to the peole form the back of a flat bed truck. He touches them, talks with them, and not the wealthy. Unlike Bush, he goes out and talks with the people he represents.

One gets a good observation of what motivated the peoples movement that led Chavez to the presidency.

One also gets a good look at the propagandist corporate owned media. During a massacre led by the coup that ousted Chavez for about four days, camera angles were used to say that the pro-Chavez people were murdering the pro-Carmona marchers. Truth is, as the pro-Chavez marchers went across an overpass, snipers were hitting marchers in the head. Many Venezualans are known to carry handguns. They fired at sniper positions in the streets below. But with certain camera angles, all one will see is men firing into the street below without seeing the where they were firing. The corporate owned media said they were killing the pro-Carmona marchers below. This was stated as fact on the corporate owned media. Before Channel 8, the state media, could renounce this lie, the corporate people manged to get it cut off of the air. Given an angle from behind, instead of beside the shooters alleged to be killing pro-Carmona marchers, one sees the street below was completely empty. Propaganda! It happens here, too, folks.

This is a must see. A MUST SEE!

A MUST SEE!

Find it, watch it, change the world!

 

Keep Your Eyes Open!

An economics department head tells me he starts out his classes by asking his students to look up certain things in the index of the text: genocide, rape, misoginy, racism, drugs, poverty, and many other things. The kids write them down and then start to look, and they don't find these things. They start telling the professor this. All of these things have economic factors and none of them are in your text. So it is often more important what you don't see, than what is being shown.

For the last two days in a row, The Oregonian, an alleged newspaper in the Portland, Oregon area, has had two FLUFF pieces for headlines. When one pays close attention to the media, it usually follows a certain pattern. With so much happening in the world, when there are two fluff pieces in a row for headlines, my interest in what is going on in the world peaks. The major media usually follows the pattern of covering up illegal activities of the government.

As well, there is another apparent "fluff" terrorist plot allegedly planned by a group being called the "Florida Seven." Like the Portland Seven being used to cover up illegal activities of the U.S. government, the Florida Seven seem to be in the same situation.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062606K.shtml
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0625-04.htm

The two fluff pieces and this fluff case means, if U.S. media patterns are consistent, that there is some shit happening in the background that they don't want you to know.

There are two immediate threats of major war in the near future to be illegally enacted upon by the United States criminal Government.

North Korea stands to test a long range missle. The U.S. according to genocidal Rice is attempting to take a position of no negotiations. You don't negotiate, that puts you on the verge of war. Were it not for the genocidal Bush administration stating that North Korea was part of this invisible "Axis of Evil," they would not have taken to restarting their nuclear weapons program, as they are terrified the U.S. will come after them like they illegally invaded and commit genocide in Iraq.

Iran is pushing forward with their nuclear program, and the Bush admistration is ignoring what they are stating they are using it for, and again not wanting to negotiate. War looms in the distance.

Hitachi and GE have signed a contract worth $5.2 billion to build two nuclear power plants.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/worldbiz/archives/2006/06/24/2003315413

There has been a derailment of a nuclear waste shipment in Michigan, and "Operation Divine Strake" is back on schedule for this fall. Divine Strake is a bomb test of 700 tons of amonium nitrate and fuel oil on the Nevada Test Site. This will give millions of dollars in FREE MONEY to the Bechtel Corporation, since they run the site. Find out more at:

www.wsdp.org

More information is coming out about the lies behind the allegations of WMD's, America's motivation for its illegal war in Iraq.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062606Z.shtml

GM and many auto manufacturing companies are making major cuts in their workforce. Though they are buyouts of jobs for early retirements, it takes at least 49,000 jobs out of our economy.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062606J.shtml

Global warming is depleting Greenlands ice, sending tons of fresh water into our oceans every year.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062506F.shtml

The city of Ramadi in Iraq last I heard was completely surrounded by U.S. and Iraqi forces ready to make a Fallujah II. I haven't been able to find any updates from this weekend about activities in this area.

Congress is planning on giving total spying powers to the criminal who stole our alleged Government, GW Bush. He will soon have complete alleged legal violation of the U.S.eless Constitution, and he will have further power to impose martial law on any dissent should these powers be handed over to him by those who don't believe in allegations of freedom.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062406D.shtml

Other interesting articles about this, the U.S. government is trying to keep the report of the above out of the press.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062406E.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062306B.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062306M.shtml

A report came out that the G8 promises to help the poor are not being enacted and millions are dying worldwide.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0626-01.htm

Because nations like Venezuela are nationalizing their oil which lays threat to U.S. military and its CORPORATE owners, who, for the most part, are oil business billionaires, means we could be slaughtering people to the south for the wealth of the few, soon. That, or the U.S. corporate military may start facing some serious challenges in lack of resources.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0626-04.htm

So, keep your heads up and your eyes open. Considering the U.S. media consistent pattern, things like fluff headlines and bullshit like the Florida Seven means some serious shit is coming down, locally, globally, and/or all points in between and all around. May happen in the next week or so. I certainly hope I am wrong, however, and will be glad to say so should none of the above instances come to fruition.

Friday, June 23, 2006

 

Honoring

I have read Nick Coleman's article of June 21, for the Minnesota newspaper, the Star Tribune and wanted to voice my support for him. It was an excellent article, and I would like to counterpoint the three letters that appeared in your newspaper defending the name, "Fighting Sioux" on June 23rd.

Brett Dyste, of Hamel said "[w]hy don't we change the name of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish?" I know an Irishwoman who hates the stereotype of the Irish. She hates the Notre Dame logo, she hates the stereotyping of Irish in Irish Spring and Lucky Charms commercials as well.

Brett also states that a third of Indians in North Dakota support the name. There is a book out called, "How to Lie with Statistics." If one chooses to think critically, one should ask questions like; What questions were asked in this poll? How was this poll conducted? How, if any, was outreach done to attract these Native Americans? How were these Native Americans identified as such? Etc. I assume this was the poll taken by the Fargo Forum, as according to Larry Pederson of St. Michael. Since I don't have a credit card, I cannot access that information over the internet.

Larry Pederson also states that the Spirit Lake Tribe passed a resolution in 2000 to support the team name. In 2001 there was a challenge to that resolution but it was tabled. As well, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe created a resolution against the use of the name "Fighting Sioux" in 2001. This is not mentioned.

After reading Nick's article, I didn't hear Nick say anything about knowing what is best for Native Americans. Using the same logic, one could say Larry knows what's best for Natives as well.

Why Larry found it necessary to mention that the name was in place before Engelstad got involved with the university is unclear to me. I believe what Nick was attempting to point out was the fact that Engelstad, during a debate about changing the name, said he would remove his $100 million dollars from the school to build a new hockey rink if they changed it. I believe that is called "extortion."

Matt Noah states that there is "indisputable...respect for Native American Culture and history at [UND]." But, with just a little research I found a 2001 article about a civil rights suit from Native students against UND, as well as an article about how Mary Schneider, head of the Indian Studies Department, resigned because of the "Fighting Sioux" name and logo at UND in 2001.

Brett alleges that Nick suggests that if you support the name "Fighting Sioux" you are a racist Nazi. What Nick actually mentioned was Engelstad is a known collector of Nazi memrobelia. However, there is a connection between what happened to the nations misnamed the Sioux and what the Nazi's did to the Jews and others:

Adolf Hitler got many of his ideas for his Final Solution from what the U.S. Government did to the Indians in this nation. His Ghetto system was designed in part from the reservation system. His sterilization program was designed directly after the U.S. sterilization program against the Indians. There is also the famous Julius Stryker drawing of a stereotypical Jew for propaganda, which looks very similar to the logo of the Cleveland Indians.

I find it interesting that people simply state that the racist portrayal of Indians is OK because some Indians say it doesn't bother them. But the same could be said for anything. I'm sure there are many people out there that think rape is OK. Does that make rape OK? You can make anything OK because you can find someone who is for it. It is also an attempt to divide Indians on this issue by those whom the racist name of "Fighting Sioux" benefits.

Using racist mascots like the "Fighting Sioux" dehumanizes the group they are portraying. This makes it easier to do inhuman things to your fellow human beings for the benefit and profits of others. Matt seems to think that "respect for Native American culture and history" is simply shown by naming sports teams like the "Fighting Sioux." Nevermind returning sacred objects, honoring treaties, getting your foot off of the necks of our economies, cleaning our rivers, respecting our sacred sites, stopping hate crimes against Indians, helping in programs to save our languages that survived the destruction in the boarding schools, etc. None of that has to be done because the UND has chosen to call their sports team the "Fighting Sioux."

If you really want to have some serious "killer" names that strike fear into your opponents, how about names like, "The Fighting 7th," "Chivington and the Gang," "Custer's Chargers," Etc. What? Aren't you proud to be white? Why don't you want to honor the names of such great baby killers as these? They are thrown in our face as great American Heroes. Since I am an Indian, I'd say that I would be scared just to hear the name "The Fighting Whities." Being Indian, I know what you people are capable of.

Nick's article:

http://www.startribune.com/357/story/505411.html

the three letters

http://www.startribune.com/563/story/510171.html
http://www.startribune.com/563/story/510172.html
http://www.startribune.com/563/story/510175.html

 

This Divided State

I just heard about this documentary, but have not yet had a chance to see it: "This Divided State: Death Threats, Bribery, and Family Values." It is about a college in Utah that invited Michael Moore to their university to speak. Concerned parents and right wing conservatives were concerned that some fat white liberal male was gonna come to their little community to speak for a $40,000 fee and tell little Johnny things like, "killing is bad, m'kay." "War? Well...War is bad, m'kay." I mean, what would little Johnny think if someone told him that the U.S. government was so corrupt as to start illegal wars with other nations.

So the right wing faction of the college invited Sean Hannity, a stupid (in my opinion after I've seen this little cracker as speak) over paid right wing U.S. government progogandist and fascist. It is said that he went before the crowd and got them fired up. Got them filled with hate. My friend, that saw the actual documentary, tells me of how she was amazed at this tiny blonde woman who became so enraged during Hannity (a chicken hawk) fired up the crowd to HATE the enemy.

Hannity, in his generosity, to outdo and show how much better he was than Michael Moore, was so generous as to waive his usual $40k or $50k speaking fee to come out there and fire up the crowd into displaying their genocidal warmongering chicken hawk family values. But he didn't want to talk about how he demanded a private jet for his journey there and back which cost $50,000.

Sean Hannity, promoting the family values of genocide, hate, and chicken hawking. And if you can get away with it, making quite the lucrative career of misinforming the nation and propagating for its genocidal government. THERE'S GOLD IN COMMITTING GENOCIDE!

 

Terror

The Earth Liberation Front, has been described as the "top domestic terror threat" in the nation. I have friends who have experienced actual acts of terror, and ELF aint it.

There is a docmentary that shows an interview with an ELF representative. The man stated that for every action of "property damage" done, 6 or more have been called off because of the possibility of someone getting hurt. And America describes this as terror.

I'm told that the Irish Republican Army has called off many attacks because a child or some other innocenct came into the area.

My friends who have experienced actual acts of terror don't appreciate the U.S. government calling organizations that perform "property damage" "terrorist organizations." They say it is demeaning to those who have died in ACTUAL terrorist attacks as well as those who have survived or lost loved ones or are somehow connected to ACTUAL terrorist attacks.

Think about that the next time you hear about ELF, or ALF, or some other organization that performs property damage being called "terrorist."

Now comes the question (put on your critical thinking caps, kiddoes). "Why are property damaging organizations like ELF being described as terrorist when they aren't killing or hurting anybody?"

In my opinion, I believe it to be propagandist. Describing those organizations that are attepting to do damage to property of those who damage the earth as terrorist must serve a purpose to the official criminals in the white house because they don't do such things frivilously. They understand that most Americans are stupid and or don't have the time nor desire to see the real horror this government is. "Look at the monkey. Look at the monkey." That way one won't look into the actual acts of terror that say...the United States Government is committing abroad as well as to its own people to benefit the wealthy. People are TOO STUPID to realize we live in a fascist state. And things aren't gonna change if you vote democrat. So let's take a look at a real act of terror enacted by the United States Government in Iraq:

In Haditha, a group of U.S. Marines murdered some 19 Iraqi civilians in order to strike "terror" into the hearts of the Iraqi's living there who want to protect their land and families from the horrific and genocidal U.S. Military. Murdered. I believe that those murdering Marines will get away with their crimes, but even worse than that, I believe the criminals in the white house and elsewhere will get away with it. By the way, it is said that this is not the only horrific massacre enacted by our troops.

Terror, however, is not doing property damage like ELF does. So calling organizations like ELF a terrorist organization has to do something for the U.S. government. What it does, in my opinion, is narrows the focus of the terrorism discussion to groups that do no harm to their fellow human beings. Alleged Domestic Terrorist organizations do nothing but property damage. Terror has been redefined within U.S. borders to a populace that is largely stupid and or has no time to look behind the scenes of the lies the U.S. propogates. It focuses on creating fear. A scared populace is a populace that is easy to control.

I got fired from a job for speaking out against the war prior to and when it actually started in Iraq. My boss told me that the U.S. should kill every single Iraqi and Afghani because she was scared. She wants the U.S. to commit genocide for the simple fact that she is scared of a people who have done no actual harm to her, nor are they likely to do so. What was she scared of? Were there Iraqi's and Afghani's waiting under her bed for her to go to sleep so they could easily kill her? She was scared because she was told to be scared by the United States Government. There were no REAL threats to her life or limb. No tanks rolling up and down the streets. She has lived in a nation that has not had a direct attack on its soil since they committed genocide against the Indians. Why is she so important that someone would want to come from a foreign nation to kill her? How fucking arrogant. The only reason she is scared is because she has been told to be scared where as actual people who live in fear of bombs and U.S. Marines are not as valid because they have to be wiped off the face of the earth so one wont jump out from under her bed and go..."BOO!"

 

Mindsets

When a certain friend of mine and I get together, we discuss politics. We both have great desire to change everything in the whole world. We have the great desire to end war and we both have chosen not to become like those that we struggle against, namely, the cruel and horrific United States Government.

We usually get into discussions about two of the most horrific genocidal maniacs that still walk the earth, Henry Kissinger, responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of people for the wealthy in South East Asia, South America, East Timor, etc. With the stroke of the pen, the man has murdered hundreds of thousands of people. With complicity, the man has murdered hundreds of thousands of people. And still, phsycho as it is to us, this horrific genocidal maniac piece of shit is not only still allowed to walk somewhat freely on the earth (there are three countries he won't go to because he is wanted there for crimes against humanity), but he his still held up as some sort of hero in many communities. America...we really Love our killers.

The other psyco piece of shit we usually talk about is Donald Rumsfeld. It doesn't take much research to understand that Donald Rumsfeld is a chicken hawk. The man has no experience in the field of war, yet it is his hand that guides the genocidal American occupations against the peoples of Iraq and Afghanistan. The man is responsible for the complete fuck-up that are the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. Tens of thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands of people are dying because of his crappy, often stupid, planning of the occupations and the wars in those nations. The Generals that have to deal with his stupid decisions want him off the post. So you see, not only are all of the Iraqi and Afghani civilian deaths and otherwise on his hands, but the senseless deaths of every American soldier as well. He is also responsible for the oppression in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as within the ranks of the military who have to put up with the STUPID decisions of this most genocidal of chicken hawks.

We often discuss what it must be like to be in those mindsets. We discuss what it must feel like to think that the murder of so many people is somehow OK for any reason. What is it like to be in the head of Donald Rumsfeld [the idea shakes my soul]? What is it like to be in the head of Henry Kissinger [ibid.]? Two of the most horrific genocidal maniacs walking the earth this day. Two horrific killers who are held up as heroes in many communities. Two criminals who sould be arrested and put on trial, but whose privilege keeps them safe from the justice they deserve.

"TONIGHT! ON 'SICK SAD WORLD!'"

 

Drogheda

On September 11, 1649, Oliver Cromwell, hating Catholics, attacked the city of Drogheda in Ireland killing not only almost if not EVERY human being (man, woman, child, elder), but, I am told, all the livestock and burned down the whole town as well.

I was talking with a friend yesterday and telling her that the Wounded Knee Massacre was in a manner the symbolic death of what Indians once were to who we are now and how we still face the fight today. Most, if not all of us Indigenous in this occupied nation have faced one form of massacre or another in facing the horrific brutality of America in our common histories. I've read of the massacres of my people in the book "An Arrow in the Earth," a biography about Gen. Joel Palmer. There are way too many massacres. But that of Wounded Knee is a powerful symbol not only for the death of the indigenous people, but also where we were reborn in this modern world via the AIM occupation in 1973.

My friend, who told me of The Drogheda Massacre yesterday, described that as a similar focal point for the Irish like Wounded Knee is for the indigenous of this occupied nation.

In the beginning of July, Rhonda and I will be flying to Minnesota, renting a car, driving across South Dakota on a pilgrimage, as it were, to Wounded Knee and Bear Butte. We will be at Bear Butte on July 4 for the kick off of the encampment there in hopes of protecting the area from the colonialist fucks who have no soul in the area and pray to the great god of "green frogskin" in the town of Sturgis where the loud and disturbing motorcycle rally happens every year.

I'm a little nervous about visiting Wounded Knee. I don't know why. I know it will be good. I know it will hurt. I know it will inspire. I know it will help in my determination to get everything back. I know I will cry. And I will think of my friend...and I will think of Drogheda...and I will think of the massacres enacted against my people...and I will think of the cruelty happening in the world today...and I will pray that all the cruelty stops.

What would it be like to live in a world without war?

 

Cops and Feds Have a Blast

Don't think that the type of behavior these prison guards are displaying is a rare incident. Prisons are not a good healthy place and the guards are usually as criminal if not more so than those they are housing.

It also shows that this is a nation without honor.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/21/national/main1736630.shtml?source=RSS&attr=HOME_1736630

Thursday, June 22, 2006

 

I'm Lucky to be Alive

As I continue reading Winona Laduke's book, "Reclaiming the Sacred," I must admit...I feel lucky to be alive. I mean...America's attempt at genocide against us Indians...Oh Lay! What the fuck!?

The depths of the genocide America has enacted upon the indigenous nations of the hemisphere is amazing and almost unfathomable as I read about how museum curators are reluctant to return things like the foot of a baby that was cut off as a trophy by a soldier at the Wounded Knee Massacre in order to get her moccasin. And her foot is still in it...mummified, they say.

It is a poem. A poem of the depths of the most brutal sorts. A poem of death and murder and genocide that has created this nation like the rape of women, destruction of earth, genocides of other nations, lynching and enslaving blacks, brutalizing and slaughtering Chinese immigrants, and the list goes on and on.

It's a poem. A Red Nigger babies foot, cut off as a trophy, kept in a museum by people who don't want to return their trophies, their Red Nigger baby's foot, like a lucky rabbits foot, like genocide, like a sweet scalp, like stripping Pawnee graves and stealing the clothes off of the carcasses of the deceased for sale, profit, or amusement.

It's a poem, like bullet ridden cradle boards, also stolen from the Wounded Knee Masscre, like the skulls with bullet holes in them housed in the Smithsonian, University of Oregon, Peabody Museum, All of them ALL OF THEM want to keep their trophies of the long gone..."lost"...Red Nigger race. Reminders...reminders...reminders of the dominance, fucking us up the ass like dogs showing their dominance, who's the boss? who's the master?

"Say Uncle?" "FUCKING UNCLE ALREADY!"

And I'm lucky to be alive, and Rhonda is lucky to be alive, and Felicia is lucky to be alive, and David is lucky to be alive, and Eli is Lucky to be alive, and Clifford is lucky to be alive, and Trevino is lucky to be alive, and Mikhelle is lucky to be alive, all of us Red Niggers are lucky to be alive...

As we have faced...

and continue to face...

one of the most horrific genocides ever in it's scope,

intesity,

and continuation...

And I am here to tell you that I WANT IT ALL BACK!

And NO! I will not treat you
in the manner you have treated me
or my people
because that behavior
is absolutely reprehensible
and well...
in my opinion...

...wrong...

So don't start thinking about yourself/worry about deportation/and all that stupid bullshit you all so often do when I tell you to your face/that I want it all back/instead.../think of that lucky babies foot/that little red nigger lucky babies foot/housed like a trophy/like a mistake made by your god/to be corrected/a problem to be solved/think of her/she is a poem/a beautiful living being/destroyed by american's like you/in order to create/this great nation we allege it to be/a nation that by mere rule of force/never has to pay for its crimes against humanity...

lucky red nigger babies foot/
trophy in a museum/
where lucky curators/
refuse to do what is right/
in order to keep their little trophy/
lucky red nigger babies foot/
mummified in her moccasin/
from the genocidal massacre field/
known as Wounded Knee/
a poem/
a poem about america/

and I...
like all the Red Nigger race...are lucky to be alive...as you continue to possess our dead...like you would your dining room table...where you eat potatoes...taste the corn...that are grown...i'd like to say...on the dust of our bodies...but they are housed in museums and universities instead...like the Smithsonain and University of Oregon...

while the lone white man
remains eternally alone
on Memaloose island
who wanted to be buried with his indigenous brethren
having lost faith in his own people
but they stole them from him
and now he is alone...
alone...
alone...
and I am lucky to be alive...
all of us indigenous are
lucky to be alive...
lucky to be alive...
lucky to be alive...

and i want it all back

 

God...Tell Me if I'm Wrong...

I've read some of the bible, but only got as far as Lott and his daughters, at which point the irony and two faced behavior that Christians display so offended me.

But what also offended me was...God Loves killing and punishing. Through abuse and acts of genocide against his own creations, it seems that God admits constantly he totally fucked up in creating us humans. But wait...

Many Christian humans today are admitting that God is a total fuck-up in their behavior. "God...What the fuck is up with these trees? What the fuck were you thinking?" Clear-cuts. "Homo's! WHAT THE FUCK! God...What a stupid fucking piece of shit you are?" Bash the queers. "Indians...PLEASE! My God, God! PLEASE!" Wipe them off the face of the earth. "Mountains..." shaking lowered heads. "God..." continue shaking heads. Top the mountains. "Women...What the fuck were you thinking in giving them minds of their own and not having them born with leashes around their necks. FUCK, GOD! CAN'T YOU GET ANYTHING RIGHT!" Oppression of women in most all socieities.

In the bible, God has committed so many genocides and attrocities as to prove that he absoutely hates his creations and wants to do nothing but punish, torture, rape, and murder his own... Now, here is a different way of looking at Satan.

Satan is supposed to be everything that God isn't, right? God is said to be this glorious loving and beautiful being. Yet, as evidenced in the Bible, the book of God as it were, he is portrayed as a brutal, genocidal, abusive, lean mean killing machine. Satan, being what God isn't, wouldn't that make Satan kind, loving, compassionate, caring, etc.?

Just wondering.

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

 

The Genocide of Science

I am currently in the throes of reading "Recovering the Sacred," by Winona Laduke (who, by the way, will NOT be on the July 6th "Mitakuye Oyasin").

You all know how I feel about the alleged sciences of archaeology and anthropology and how I believe that it is used to minimize the historical and current act of genocide, here is what Winona has to say.

"The sociopathy of the United States rests on the colonialist history and, in particular, on the awesome weight of genocide. In attempting to dispel this burden, science has been instrumental." (pg. 76)

"Lewis Henry Morgan, the "father" of American anthropology, published the first ethnography of a Native American nation in 1851. Historian Robert Bieder notes that although Morgan was "critical of the insentsitivity expressed toward Indians by government policies to promote civilization among tribal peoples," he was responsible for placing the process of acculturation within biology, thus strenthening both the political and the academic arguments that would justify the collecting of human remains. Morgan's biological determinism allowed American policy and the collective American psyche to divorce itself from the responsibility later associated with colonialism--that is, the colonizers' responsibility to care for the colonized. As Bieder explains:

"The shift from an emhasis on external characteristics linked to the environment to internal characteristics linked to heridity allowed Americans not only to retain confidence in the American environment as a positive force for change but also to place the fault of Indian deficiency on their biology and heredity. This freed Americans from having to assume responsibility for the condition of trabal peoples and their future."(pg. 76)

In other words, the blame for the genocide of us Red Niggers is placed on our biological deficiency and NOT the actions of the Americans. It's not your fault, it's ours. Archaeology and anthropology are Jesus and have thus saved Americans from having to face justice for their genocidal activities. Science has told them so.

For those of you offended by my use of the term, Red Nigger, I will qualify it as this. Indians are not seen as human. We are characitures and pieces of a cultural historical past that no logner exists today. Thus, the reference to Indians as Red Niggers is legit, in my opinion, because we are still not seen as existing today and are therefore a "problem" to be solved by the colonialists who now have control over our societies and use tools like alleged "science" to prove that our genocide is not their fault, but our own for our biological deficiencies.

 

A Couple of Movies

I watched the documentary, "Manufacturing Consent." It is a documentary about the thinking of Noam Chomsky and his activism. It was released, I believe, in 1992. It is still relevant today. It is a discussion of how Americans are limited in their time so when they seek information, they do so for the most part via the mainstream media. Mainstream media controls the content of the conversation within the borders of the United States. The work to disinform, misinform, etc., the American populace in order to keep them stupid so the ELITES can get away with their horrific crimes. It was great watching people try to shut down his arguments and discussions. One of them in a very republican way, shouting him down to get in the last word at the end of a debate. Winning by overwhelming use of force. Americans...*sigh* An excellent film! If you haven't seen it, find it, rent it, watch it, and know that it is not what you see in the media that is important, but what you don't see.

I also watched "Radio Bikini." It is about the two nuclear bombs set off in Bikini Atoll in 1946. First, this required the forcible removal of the people who already lived on the island (an act of genocide). The islanders had no idea what was happening. Then there was all the preparations for the alleged "test," which seems more like a show of force in my opinion. What was to follow was absolutely sick. After the first bomb was set off, the U.S. sent in their ships to survey the damage...without any forms of protection from radiation. Scientists already knew that exposure to radiation could cause cancer and many other health problems, but this was an opportunity to study the health effects on humans by exposing THEIR OWN TROOPS to radiation. A month later, a second bomb was set off underwater to study its horrific effects. Within 10 hours after detonation, U.S. ships were at ground zero and many people were exposed to HIGH LEVELS of radiation. Film footage showed geiger counters being used on the men exposed and they were peaking. Turns out, as a naval seaman stated in a 1987 interview throughout the film that none of the service men were not informed of the effects of radiation exposure, let alone what it was. This, as well as many other forced exposures of our own military to radiation suggests that the U.S. was doing "medical experiments" in seeing the effects of radiation by ILLEGALLY exposing their own mean to explore the long term healt effects. The naval seaman they were interviewing, they initially only showed from the shoulders up. Then he started talking about the swelling of his left leg and how his leg had to be removed. They panned out and you see the man sitting in a wheel chair with both his legs missing and his left hand so swollen to look like something out of a Flintstones cartoon. He talked about the swelling of his right let so much that it split from the back of his knee to his heel and had to be removed. The fucking U.S. government did this to the man without his knowledge or permission in order to PLAY with the effects of radiation...this...on their own military.

 

Life A Go-Go

My honey, Rhonda, wound up working late last night, and I became worried at 8pm when she wasn't home. I walked to the corner store and called from the pay phone (my cell is now completely shut off). I called and left a message when she didn't answer.

I went home and watched a movie until 9pm when I became more worried. I walked back to the corner store and called and this time got her as she was heading toward me on Lombard.

I reluctantly informed her that I worry about getting worried. When with my former wife, I was attacked for worrying. So, not only do I feel the anxiety of wondering what is happening with my honey, Rhonda, when she is coming home late, but I also feel anxiety from old memories of being attacked for worrying about the people I Love. More things to look at and get over.

I plan on handing in my application to go to Portland Community College Cascade Campus today. I am excited. This will be the furthest so far in which I have ever been into going to an actual college. Now that I know what I want to do, I am even more excited.

TODAY, COLLEGE! TOMORROW, I TAKE OVER THE WORLD!

just kidding

 

And Yet Another Mass Slaughter

The United States Military just murdered 13-15 chicken farmers in Iraq. They were sleeping at the time. Initially, of course, they are called insurgents...just like the people the Marines murdered in Haditha.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0620-06.htm

 

Ramadi About to be Razed

Here are a couple of stories of the U.S. efforts to continue its genocidal practices against Iraqi civilians as they are about to raze the city of Ramadi where an estimated 150,000 civilians are not able or refusing to leave their homes. The city is surrounded, and the U.S. will start a slaughter that reminds me of how Columbus and the boys used to round up a 100 or so Red Niggers and have them surrounded, circle them, pull their swords joyously, and hacked every last Red Nigger in the group until all (men, women, and childre) were dead.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061906T.shtml

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062006L.shtml

Monday, June 19, 2006

 

Life Gets Worse in Iraq

Life is getting much worse for people who live in Iraq, especially those who have jobs because they live in danger of being kidnapped or their family members being kidnapped and held for ransom. They also live with death threats should they be working for the Americans.

However, it looks great if you have stock in Bechtel or Haliburton or some other genocidal corporation that makes billions off of the war.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061906L.shtml

Sunday, June 18, 2006

 

Suzanne Swift

In the Register Guard article, it states that Suzanne Swift was, "...coerced into a sexual relationship with a sergeant..." You know, where I come from, that is called RAPE!

http://www.registerguard.com/news/2006/06/15/home.php

You can also read an interview with Suzanne Swift's mother on Democracy Now by Amy Good man.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/15/1410258

Do what you can to support this woman in getting out of the horrific organization known as the U.S. military.

 

Watada

Ehron Watada, the lieutenant that refuses to go to Iraq after educating himself about the criminal war, was in town on Saturday to discuss his actions. He faces up to 2 years in prison, and is willing to accept those consequences. It was a good talk, and he is a man of peace, though not a claimed pacifist or claiming non-violence. His reasoning was how could he send his men into what he believes to be an illegal war, because, it is.

Jeff Patterson was there as well, as well as many vets who now resist war and realize its destructive bullshittiness. Jeff Patterson was the marine, one of three, to refuse to go to Bush Sr.'s illegal war with Iraq. The two others were forcibly carried onto the planes. Patterson was lucky in that he got media attention.

However, there was no mention of Suzanne Swift, which bothered me.

My question was not asked either and I was overlooked several times when I raised my hand. I had even written out the question as instructed, but it never made it into Watada's hands. That's fine, especially after getting pushed out of the alleged list of peace. I'm used to these types of things and know that if I was more forceful, I could have asked my question, but it was really of no significance.

I talked with a woman there on the e-mail list who liked the discussion I was bringing up at the Watada event. She was upset that I got pushed out. I informed her that I'm used to that type of behavior against what I have to say. People don't like having their narrow minded views challenged or expanded upon. I told her that this is not the first time that I've experienced such behavior from white people. Thus the title of my book, "Tremble in Fear Before the Soft Pudgy Indian." A lot of people don't like hearing what I have to say.

I was just discussing with my honey that how can one declare themselves to be peaceful and non-violent if they don't define what is and isn't violence and non-violence. I live in a place of privilege where I have the PRIVILEGE of living a non-violent peaceful life, but will NEVER declare myself a pacifist or non-violent. I am neither, I just live in a space where that is possible for me.

This particular alleged peace group also refuses to deal with the more personal issues of violence. They are willing to deal with the violence of war, but not the violence of racism, sexism, police brutality, genocide, reservations, racial profiling, domestic violence, rape, poverty, homelessness, etc. They are narrow minded elitist, exclusivist, racist, sexist, and one of their members I've witnessed being verbally abusive. This man declares himself to be some guru of peace by being against war, but refuses to deal with the personal wars that narrow minded piece of shit declares against his fellow activists for not worshipping for the god he likes to believe himself to be. He is a poser, and he heads this alleged group of peace.

And then, to top it off, the other liberal white male is attempting to discuss with me some of my political discussion that I was putting on the list after telling me he agreed with the alleged guru of peace that such discussion had no place on this list. I refuse to respond as this apparent to faced maneuver has nothing to do with any civil resistance action that they told me was the only purpose of this list.

So, I leave them to go play with each others genitals and pretend that they are doing something in this world with their exclusivist, racist, sexist, elitist behavior, but they get to pat each other on the back while people right in front of their faces are falling to many wars that happen right in front of their faces. It all seems to be about giving themselves brownie points and getting boy scout badges for being, at best, anti-war, because they definitely don't embrace peace as a practice.

Anyway, enough of discussing this bullshit.

I am PROUD of people like Watada, Swift, Patterson, Funk, and the many others in the military resisting this war and all illegal wars. Some of the best fighting is done from the inside. These guys have the eyes and hearts of those on the ground. They get ostracized and take many a personal risk in coming out against war. They get threatened by their own and can face a very real violent retaliation for their behavior. But they also find good alliance amongst their fellow military personell and can have an influence on them.

Like the old saying goes: "What if they gave a war and nobody came?"

Friday, June 16, 2006

 

...and Yet Another Failure

It is frustrating for me, as I again have attempted to stick my nose in a movement that seemed interesting, but are not open to the ideas of others. But I refuse to give up altogether.

I have made many attempts at starting movements with complete failure. Many! I have made many attempts to join other movements, only to find I cannot work with the group for one reason or another.

My newest failure was working with a peace group. I thought an e-mail list was a chance at a forum to speak with the people. Discuss ideas. Implement them. Discuss definitions of "violence" and "non-violence." Find ways to create unity with other communities. But such was not the case. It is, as I've been told, only a forum in which to discuss civil resistance. I can't play the game of narrow-mindedness when there is so much involved.

I see violence as many things that happen in our world. Homelessness is violence. Rape is violence. Domestic violence is violence. Pollution is violence. The reservations system is violence. War is violence. Supporting war is violence. Racism is violence. Sexism is violence. Genocide is violence. To me, violence is a broad issue with many definitions.

I am reading "Reclaiming the Sacred," by Winona Laduke. The Vatican and Arizona State University committed violence against the Apache with their gencidal (using the UN Convention, article 2c) telescopes raping the mountain top. Stealing the water from the Hopi, Dine, Zuni, Klamath, etc., is violence.

But the violence I see this peace group fighting is the war in Iraq. But there is so much more violence, like that listed above. Violence is defined with a narrow scope.

My honey, an Indian who can pass (as it were), has experienced racism and verbal abuse from the head of this peace organization when she was with him. I've even witnessed a verbal attack he did on her and intervened along with her son against his verbal violence against my honey. This man alleges himself to be a man of peace. He considers himself to be non-violent. However, not only has he verbally abused my honey, he has many people who have attempted to ally themselves with him and have turned away. He seems to Love adoration and anyone who disagrees with him is to be shut out. Liberal white men of peace, I have a tendency to hate the two faced assholes.

This group seems to be headed by two of these liberal white males. Although things are done in a facade of a consensus, their ideas conform around the ideals of these two liberal white males. The ideas conform to their ideas of what is peace and non-violence. Basically, they are peace fascists.

I guess I'm not easy to work with, either. I try to broaden the scope of ideas to be inclusive in spaces where there is a lot of exculsivism. I try to broaden the knowledge base and ideas. I don't work well in a cage. I have ideals like linking up with other groups that most exclusive based groups are unwilling to do. I want to link with others. I want to create unity. I just don't see it happening down here at the bottom (as it were). I can unite with a few individuals. I can unite friends with other friends. But I cannot unite with narrow minded exclusivist groups or individuals. Yet, at the same time, I have to if unity is to be achieved. But it is so difficult to unite with exclusivist who will spend a lot of energy shutting out discussion or working on getting me to leave.

Another thing that bothered me about the peace group, besides the institutional racism, sexism, and exclusivism of the leaders, is the lack of support from people of color. There are people of color on the list. However, my honey and I are the only people of color that directly participate. That says a lot because many people of color take issue with the war and violence as well. Fuck! Blacks in this city face the violence of racism daily! Why are alleged peace groups incapable or unwilling to link with people of color? Why are alleged non-violent peace groups unwilling or incapable of dealing with the violence dealt to the black community through the city, state, and federal agencies?

So, I removed myself from yet another group, though I plan on continuing my participation in one action that takes place on a weekly basis. I can find myself participating in that action, just not participating with the group. I could find myself supporting and possibly participating in their actions, but don't see a whole lot of use as long as they remain narrow-minded and exclusive in their scope.

To narrow it down to a few sentences, I guess I just can't work with alleged peaceful, alleged non-violent, liberal white male saviors who have come to save the world if we would only listen to their narrow minded racist sexist scope of global issues and never look at the violence and war that exists within the communities in which they live or they may be committing themselves.

So, there you go, folks. Another failure at attempting to participate or starting out a movement. I understand what Corbin Harney said when he told me that what we need is numbers. But it is so hard to get those numbers together on anything but their own self-interests for the most part. I still haven't given up, however, and look forward to the lessons of the many future failures that will be coming my way in creating a world with justice, no war, no racism, no sexism, the honoring of human rights, etc.

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