May 13, 2007

Tribute to mothers and women in Indian country














A tribute to women and mothers on this special day. (Photos Brenda Norrell. Photos of Blackfire band and Ofelia Rivas with Dalai Lama are courtesy photos.)

Ethnic Cleansing at Jamestown, America's Two-Headed Dragon

Commentary by Steve Melendez
Pyramid Lake Paiute, President of the American Indian Genocide Museum

Like Two-Headed Dragons, the United States and Canada conceal their own histories of ethnic cleansing and genocide, posturing for the world

HOUSTON -- An article of 1-18-05 entitled, "When French Settlers Were the Victims of Ethnic Cleansing in North America," by John Mack Farager tells how, “…colonial officials systematically rounded up approximately seven thousand French-speaking Catholic Acadians.”
Some were deported to France, others were deported to what is now Louisiana “…and became the ancestors of today’s Cajuns. Mr. Faragher is Arthur Unobskey Professor of American History at Yale University. His article begins, “In December of 2003 the Canadian government announced that Governor- General Adrianne Clarkson, the Queen’s representative in Canada, had signed a Royal Proclamation acknowledging responsibility for 'the decision to deport the Acadian people' from the British province of Nova Scotia in 1755, and regretting the 'tragic consequences.'”
It would be nice if Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip would announce a Royal Proclamation acknowledging the laws of ethnic cleansing in Jamestown, Virginia when they visit to help commemorate the founding of Jamestown 400 years ago.
One law said, “It is enacted that if any Englishman be murdered, the next town of Indians shall be answerable for it with their lives or liberties.” Losing their liberties meant that the parents would be deported or killed and the children enslaved. The children, it said, would one day be free on reaching the age of 24:“…or they be Twenty four Years Old, when he, she, they, or any of them, the said Indians so bound, is to be and are hereby Declared Free,Provided always that if any of the said Indians, after they are Free, do presume to Settle or Inhabit in any Indian Town, such Indian or Indians so settling or Inhabiting shall be Lyable to Transportation and shall be Transported beyond Sea to England or Some of the Iselands and there bound or Sold for Seven Years .…”
The children were freed at the age of 24, but only providing that they not attempt to re-inhabit any former Indian village or they would be deported and sold into slavery again. These are clearly laws of ethnic cleansing. This same law which can be found in the Laws of Virginia: Being a Supplement to Henning’s The Statutes At Large: 1700-1750 Pg. 41-43, went on to draw circular boundaries around two neighboring Indian Villages. It read: “… And be it further Enacted By the Authority Affor said that the Bounds for the Nottoway Indians Lands shall be Ascertained in manner Following (to Witt) the Bounds of the Land on which they now live shall be laid out by a Circle running three Miles Round their fort, … And Be it further Enacted that the Bounds for the Meheren Indians Lands shall be laid out as followes …as much land as will be Equal in Quantity to a Circle Three Miles Round their Town.”
This, in effect, made Indians illegal in their own land.
You would think that this perverted sense of the “rule of law” would come out of a place like Jonestown and not Jamestown. How does one reconcile the fact that such un-Christian-like values came out of Jamestown? Didn’t they just this past week plant crosses on the beach at Jamestown and rededicate America back to its Christian roots?
After all, what started in Jamestown did not end in Jamestown.
It was repeated over and over again, tribe after tribe.
In order to understand American history, one must understand John Smith, who was elected the President of Jamestown in 1608.
In David A. Price’s book, Love and Hate in Jamestown, we learn that John Smith was a mercenary and that he studied Marcus Aurelius, the Roman Caesar who expanded the Roman Empire by conquest for 20 years. It says he read Pyrotechnia which taught how to make gunpowder and hollow, exploding cannon balls, complete with a fuse. It says he read The Art of War by Niccolo Machiavelli.
If John Smith studied Machiavelli, then we have to consider that maybe America was also founded a Machiavellian nation.
We do have a separation of church and state.
Professor Neal Wood explains Machiavelli’s philosophy in the introduction of the book The Art of War, “War was war, a no-holds-barred contest. Victory is the aim to which all other considerations on the battlefield must be subordinated. Behavior toward the enemy is not subject to common moral considerations. Every type of trickery and violence is legitimate when used against the enemy. The ideal military commander is one capable of constantly devising new tactics and stratagems to deceive and overpower the enemy.”
As we stand on the high hill of history, we can look back on our past and see a pattern emerge from all the deceit, destruction and death.
We see every tribe that ever came into contact with the colonists being subjected to “every type of trickery and violence."
Think of all the treaties that were made as though they were never meant to be honored.
This is Machiavellianism--just another “stratagem to deceive and overpower the enemy."
Yes, America was founded a Christian nation and yes, America was founded a Machiavellian nation.
It is a separation of church and state that begins at the neck of the dragon. America is a dragon that honors God with one head while its other head is far from God.
This is what we have been seeing not only in America’s past but also in the present. Carrie Dann and the Western Shoshone out in Nevada may never have their Treaty of Ruby Valley honored because the false prophet head has given all its power to the war mongering “all-is-fair-in-war” head.
How else can you explain that American corporations have been paying death squads in Columbia? Or how can you explain that the United States was caught waging civil war in Nicaragua during the Reagan administration?
It is as though “regime change” is nothing more than a euphemism for “civil war” and “civil war” is nothing more than a euphemism for “genocide."
During our film festival here in Houston last year, we showed the documentary, Trudell.
The film begins with John Trudell reciting one of his poems that begins, “Babylon falling down…” This quote is from the book of Revelation 18 in the bible where God finally judges the “Great Harlot”, “Mystery Babylon” who says one thing and is out doing quite another.

Related links:
Commentary on the celebration of genocide in Virginia, "The Discovery Racket."
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/s_507328.html
It is also posted at:
http://www.pechanga.net/ (Native News section)
It is featured at Indianz.com:
http://www.indianz.com/

"The News Scam, Silencing Genocide"
By Brenda Norrell
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2007/04/news-scam-silencing-genocide.html

U.S. Role in Paramilitary Deaths in Colombia
Narco News
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2007/5/12/11400/0057

From the Most-Censored list, the Stop Lewis and Clark Movement:
http://www.stoplewisandclark.org/photos.html

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Mohawk Nation News: Canada's Political Con Game

MOHAWK SHAWN BRANT CHARGED – “LITTLE MOUSELINI” FANTINO GOOSE STEPS UP TO ONTARIO PLATE

Kahentinetha Horn
Mohawk Nation News
May 12, 2007.

Hey! Which comes first, corporate greed or state toadyism? In April the Mohawks of Tyendinaga reclaimed part of the “Culbertson Tract”, which was stolen in 1832. In 2003 talks began to repatriate our land and compensate us. Nothing happened.

We took over the quarry run by Thurlow Aggregates. We demanded that Ontario revoke the illegal license for the quarry. Meanwhile, the operator carried away 100,000 tons of rocks a year and dumped toxic waste into our ground. This seeped into our drinking water.

Where can we go to when a state is in cahoots with the thieves? Their only concern is blind greed and profit. Screw the environment! Screw anyone who gets in their way, like us! The corporate media coverage of our issues has made our actions look totally irrational. The public remains unaware of the assault on the environment we are trying to stop.

In desperation we blocked the CN rail line for 30 hours. It runs through our land without our consent. Dozens of trains were stopped.
CN Rail launched a $108 million civil suit against three Tyendinaga community members and the band council of the “Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte ”. They site “damages arising from a First Nations blockade of its tracks”. CN wants to ban all future blockades [and anything we do they don’t like].

Criminal charges have been laid against one of the Mohawks, Shawn Brant. This is very interesting. Despite all the crimes committed against us, ranging from genocide, theft and destruction of our environment, criminal charges have never been laid against “our” abusers. Canada waited until all the abusers and pedophiles in the residential schools were dead before looking at the crime. Now they are waiting for all the abused students to die off so they won’t have to pay compensation.

The decision to press charges came directly from Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner Julian “Little Mouselini” Fantino. His fascist tactics of intimidation should send a chill down the spine of any decent citizen who believes in the rule of law, but is afraid to stand up to police brutality.
The fascist state is one “goose step” away from domination. Fantino, our Little Mousilini, wants to make sure the trains run on time. There we are sitting on the train tracks, eating sandwiches, demanding law and order and trying to stop the imminent arrival of the Ontario storm troops, newly outfitted in black shirts just liked their fascist predecessors. Déjà vu! Or what?

The plan is to confiscate Indian “reserves” through phony civil suits in the colonial courts.

The corporations, like CN, or the waste management companies and developers, start the law suits against us. They're about our land and resources. They go to court, get a judgment against us, the band council and Shawn Brant! Then bingo! No more reserves! They think! The people hold the land and we have to surrender it legitimately. A court order won’t do it!

The corporations, federal/ provincial governments, police and Indian Affairs are all part of this nest of “cabalistic” vipers behind this scam. It’s their blind greed and knee jerk made up stereotypes about us. They think we don’t have a right to live, to our laws, decency, fair treatment, property rights and environmental protection.

It’s called “compounded theft”. CN Rail is a federal crown corporation suing the band council which is a colonial arm of the federal government. The railways used our money to build them.

These law suits are meant to stop our rightful opposition to abuse. We keep complaining about the theft and environmental damage to our lands. We keep making “silly complaints” against police brutality.

State police and civil courts have been co-opted into mercenary service for corporate greed. Anyone who opposes them had better watch out. They will face the full brutality of the state. The multinational corporations in British Columbia stopped opposition to clear cutting by suing the demonstrators and putting them in jail.

We are already into the long slide, back into the despotic age of feudalism that Europeans tried to escape by coming to Turtle Island . Who are the puppet masters in this evil revival of medieval tyranny?

The Supreme Court of Canada has declared that the Canadian state has an obligation to protect us. You can bet they won’t be hiring top ranking lawyers to defend us. We have to put on bake sales and raffles for pennies to defend ourselves. Shawn Brant gets his support from the street people of Toronto .

The Crown, Canadian and provincial governments do not want to come out in the open about what they ‘re doing. They’re happy to let “hit men” like CN and Little Mouselini do their dirty work. Their “goon squad” tactics failed.

Recently Ontario politician, John Tory, stated that anyone opposing the government “should be held liable”. What about him? As leader of the opposition, shouldn’t he be sued? Is the Parliamentary system being obliterated and everything will now be done by civil suits in the colonial courts?

He comes from one of the biggest law firms, Tory and Tory, which will benefit greatly from this tactic. The corporations involved have deep pockets which are the Canadian taxpayers. They turn on a big money tap right into off shore bank accounts of lawyers who work for law firms like Tory and Tory.

It’s a political con game. All the moves have been calculated to rip us off. They know we can’t mount a defense. Canada will only hire lawyers for us if it serves their colonial agenda which is to disinherit us and our future generations.

14,000 people just applied for 100 jobs at CSIS [the spy agency] in order to snoop on us and those who are being falsely fingered as “insurgents” and “terrorists”. In the new world order, you are either going to be a spy or be spied upon. You have to join the thugs so you don’t get beat up. The only people protected by the state are those working for it.

Recently the Conservatives did a lot of polling. They’ve demonize us as “gangsters, thieves and smugglers,” to win the next election.

This is disgusting! Canadians are living in government-inspired fear using us as their scapegoats. The “powers that think so much of themselves” are pushing the public to focus their hatred on us instead of the real corporate culprits who are enslaving them. How low can they go? The real issue of land and resource theft, environmental desecration and pollution are being deliberately hidden along with, the illegal toxic waste in the quarry.

This case should be thrown out of court. The railway company, the Canadian state and province of Ontario are all trespassing. They’re breaking international accords concerning environmental protection.

If all else fails, they’ll try to send in the troops to kill us. The world is watching, Canada !
There is no legitimate way for us to be heard in Canada . This should be properly dealt with by a neutral international court that does not have a vested interest in the outcome, not by a court of the colonizing state. We are under attack from all directions. Your support, comments, assistance and suggestions are greatly appreciated.

When Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his cohorts like Stockwell Day and John Tory are brought before the international courts for the crime of genocide, will the Canadian taxpayers have to pay for their defense? [Email Prime Minister http://us.f520.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=harper.s@parl.gc.ca; Indian Affairs http://us.f520.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=prentice.j@parl.gc.ca; Public Security http://us.f520.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=day.s@parl.gc.ca; Governor General http://us.f520.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=gg@gg.ca UN an anyone else you can think of]

Kahentinetha Horn
MNN Mohawk Nation News
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