Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

August 11, 2009

MNN: Whititudes creating psychopathic dictatorships

WHITITUDES CREATING PSYCHOPATHIC DICTATORSHIPS
Mohawk Nation News
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MNN. July 7, 2009. The old Nazi genetic hygiene blueprint is being dusted off by today’s imperialist jerks. They want to exterminate those whose life they think is unworthy. Former US Secretary of State, fat-bellied Henry Kissinger, calls us “useless eaters”. The Rockefellers, IG Farben, Loeb and Krupp were some of the main research funders of this Nazi program.
The German holocaust was preceded by a prolonged economic crisis, inflation, food shortages, unemployment, lack of confidence in the democratic process, ideological crises, emergence of extremist political philosophies, a trend towards fascism and carefully staged propaganda bombardment . World War II was the one of the biggest organized mass murders in recorded history.
In 1933 the Nazis passed the T-4 law to carry out euthanasia on selected children. The target was 70,000. Victims were selected on political, economic and social basis. They were assessed by psychiatrists, studied and then murdered. They were killed with cyanide gas, morphine injections, chemical warfare agents or phenol injection directly into the heart. Their families were told they had gotten sick and died. No death certificates were issued. The bodies were secretly disposed of.
It took less than 30 years for psychiatrists to import their madness into science, politics and law for the Third Reich and beyond. [Psychiatrists – the Men Behind Hitler]. In 1941 the T-4 program was disbanded in favor of the “final solution” of the Jewish problem.
Psychiatrists and the military worked closely together to set the norms for those in power. Robert Malthus, Charles Darwin and Frederich Nietsche laid the ground work. Malthus 1766-1834 thought that populations grow so rapidly that they outdistance the food supply leading to poverty. Discourage the poor and lower class from having children, keep wages down and no welfare.
Darwin 1809-1882 created a fake scientific basis for the holocaust of the lower races by the higher civilized races. Racial purity programs were set up such as euthanasia and murder of the feeble-minded, crippled and sick.
Friedrich Nietzsche worked on the politics of hate. He preached that war is good, positive and to be embraced. He admired the refined Aryan aristocracy who took advantage of the weak. Those who disagreed with them were sick. Democratically inclined people were insane.
In the 1930s German doctors were invited to Canada to experiment on Indigenous children in the residential schools. [Hidden from History: the Canadian Holocaust].
Eye witnesses at the Kuper Island Catholic school in British Columbia described German-speaking doctors injecting them in the chest which caused deaths. Their families were told they had died of natural causes.
One ten year old Indigenous boy described how several of them were given two needles in the chest, one near each nipple. They fell down immediately and became dizzy. Some passed out and were taken away for special treatment and put in isolation. Their body became smelly and swollen and they would die.
Researchers used prisoners, mental patients and Indigenous children from reserves and residential schools. They experimented on erasing memory and personality, using drugs, electric shock and trauma-inducing methods which had been used for years in residential schools.
An Indian Affairs official said there was a gentleman’s agreement for the church to provide the kids. The Mounties delivered them to whoever needed a fresh batch of test subjects. The government, churches and residential school principles just had to turn over the dead bodies to get paid by the military. [IHRAAm Tribunal, June 12-14, 1998]. Remember when some pioneers became wealthy by killing us and selling our heads and scalps to the colonists?
Secret links between Nazi racial hygienists and the Canadian government continued after WW II. Part of the transition on Great Turtle Island was Project Paperclip. So Russians would not get them, over 1200 Nazi scientists were brought into US, Canada and Britain. They infiltrated the medical establishment.
Medical experiments were authorized through agreements between the government, the churches and the schools. Sara Hunter, a residential school survivor [Always Remember Love, 1999] described how a former German SS doctor code named Bob Armstrong worked for the Canadian military outside of Calgary from 1956 to 1958. He experimented on 25 abducted children who were killed slowly. In Ontario Indigenous children were brought to experimental labs by RCMP, who were residential school agents under the Indian Act.
Psychiatric associations were set up worldwide. They were an integral part of the German killing machine. When the war was over they moved on. They forgot that the Germans lost the war and turned out to be nothing more than Teutonic failures.
The fascists of today are using these same failed strategies to impose a dictatorial global government. Hard times are being created by economic, political and social pressure pushing us toward totalitarianism. The neo-cons think it is easier to sell an ideology that supports extermination of the social, political and economic dead weight. Today the poor that have lost their houses and live on the streets are seen as losers. They have become targets of the municipal governments.
From racial hygiene to Nazism to racial purity [or whititude] to one global order. We too learned from the tough school of experience! Let’s overcome them again without fear by asserting our human values as Ongwehonwe.
Kahentinetha MNN Mohawk Nation News, www.mohawknationnews.com kahentinetha2@yahoo.com Note: Your financial help is needed and appreciated. Please send your donations by check or money order to “MNN Mohawk Nation News”, Box 991, Kahnawake [Quebec, Canada] J0L 1B0. Or go to PayPal on website. Nia:wen thank you very much. Go to MNN “BORDER” category for more stories; New MNN Books Available now! Purchase t-shirts, mugs and more at our CafePressStore http://www.cafepress.com/mohawknews; Subscribe to MNN for breaking news updates http://.mohawknationnews.com/news/subscription.php; Sign Women Title Holders petition! http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/Iroquois
REFERENCES: Rev. Kevin D. Annett., Hidden from History: the Canadian Holocaust. Truth Commission into Genocide in Canada. 2001Roder, Kubnillus & Burwell. Pshychiatrists – the Men Behind Hitler. Freedom. Los Angeles. 1994.Neu & Therrien. Accounting for Genocide – Canada’s Bureaucratic Assault on Aboriginal People. Fernwood. 2003.[Unauthorized Entry: The Trust about Nazi War Criminals in Canada, 1946-1956, Howard Margolian bibliography].

Indigenous Delegation in Palestine


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California & Kansas Delegates Update: August 1-10, 2009


From the Ibdaa Cultural Center in the Dheisheh Refugee Camp, to the Aida Refugee Camp in Bethlehem, to Hebron, the Old City, Beit Ummar, the Shufat Refugee Camp and remnants of the Lifta village in Jerusalem, to Qalandia and Qalqilia, to the Al r'ad Center and the Balata Camp - we have been immersed in the sights and smells of Palestine and Israel over the past week. Check out the Connections and Journey sections of our blog. We have made many connections already - deep and intense between Palestine and Turtle Island/Aztlan; bringing together youth in refugee camps together who don't have the opportunities to travel much; serendipitously introducing our bus driver/olive farmer to a Palestinian fair trade organization that could export his product; and much more that you will learn about upon our return home.
For now, we have noted the similarities between the Palestinian indigenous experience and ours in the United States and Mexico - the massive agricultural destruction; settler tactics; the burning of lands, wreckage and deaths that precede occupation; land disputes; court entanglement; settlements; people having to work in settlements because roads/walls have cut through their lands and intentionally destroyed communities, families, infrastructure, agriculture, businesses...This week has been about learning and connecting. The week that follows will be about strategies for how to survive and thrive. We worked with the youth in the Balata camp to set up a blog to share their stories in Arabic: http://www.balatacamp1948.wordpress.com/. More to come! How YOU Can Continue Supporting Our Effort
The journey is just the beginning of a 100% grassroots effort to connect struggles and strategies of resistance. We plan to create a documentary film about the experience; a tri-lingual magazine (English, Spanish; Arabic); a music CD with Native and Palestinian artists; bring Palestinian youth to the United States to visit and stay on Native reservations and work with the youth; and much more. You can support these efforts in any of these ways: MAILING DONATIONS: You can send contributions directly to Delegation - P.O. Box 40597, San Francisco CA 94140.
ONLINE DONATIONS: We have also set up a Facebook Causes page where you can donate: Help Send Native Youth to Palestine! Or, if you are logged in to Paypal, you can also click here to donate safely online.
You can help organize or help promote a Report Back! When the delegates return to the U.S at the end of August, we will be carrying with us stories, images, music, and ideas generated during our time in Palestine. We are committed to using these to do organizing and education back home and we need your help! Invite us to come into your classrooms, youth groups, and homes. We hope that each report back can also be a fundraiser so that we can begin immediately collecting the funds we need to bring a delegation of youth from our partner organizations in Palestine to visit and work with us in our communities here in the U.S.
Help us produce our film! With the footage, images, and music we have been creating and collecting as we travel, we are producing our own film as a tool for our ongoing education and organizing. We need your help to make it happen and make it quality. We need funds for translation, sound and color correction, graphics, dvd production, and distribution.
Help produce and distribute SNAG Magazine! The next issue of SNAG Magazine is dedicated entirely to the images, art, and writing that the Native, Xicana, and Palestinian youth are creating. The issue will be published in three languages- Arabic, English, and Spanish! If you can use this as a tool in your classrooms, community organizations, libraries, or youth groups, contact us to pre-order copies that should be available by WInter 2009: indigenousdelegation@gmail.com. We are also collecting funds to translate, produce and mail the magazine out. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

August 10, 2009

Nine peacemakers arrested in Wisconsin


What we didn't think would happen during the Obama administration just happened: Peace activists were arrested for opposing war ...

Wisconsin Peacemakers: Janet Parker, (Madison – 2nd from left), Bonnie Urfer, (Luck – center), Joy First (Monona 2nd from right) , and Tom Haebig (not in the photo) crossed the line at Ft. McCoy today – to call for an end to wars, occupation, and militarism. Other anti-war activists crossing the line were Vicki Andrews of Grand Rapids, MN (left to right) , Alice Gerard of NY, Brian Terrell of Iowan, Gerald Paoli of Chicago, and Dylan Parkes, also from Iowa. AUGUST 10, 2009. CONTACT: NUKEWATCH 715-491-3813-or- Wisc. Net for Peace Justice 608-250-9240

NINE ARRESTED AT END OF 3-DAYPEACE WALK TO FORT McCOY
From Nukewatch and Wisc. Net for Peace
TOMAH, Wisconsin – Nine anti-war activists were detained at Mt. McCoy after walking onto the central-Wisconsin base to protest the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the continued U.S. possession of nuclear weapons.Five of the nine were ticketed and released from the site after being permanently banned from entering the base again.Four of the group were taken by U.S. marshals to Madison where they face federal trespass charges in U.S. District Court. The four had previously been banned from the base for earlier protests.All nine were part of a three-day walk for peace that began Aug. 7 near Camp Williams.The walk was also a commemoration of the U.S. atomic attacks bombings of the cities of Hiroshima August 6, and Nagasaki August 9, 1945, and an appeal for a moratorium on the use of armor-piercing shells made from waste uranium-238 known as “depleted uranium” munitions.Walkers carried dozens of placards along highways 12 and 21, principle among them were pleas: to bring all the troops home; to compensate the victims of the U.S. military occupations; to abolish nuclear weapons; and to inform the National Guard troops of all their legal rights.The four activists being held in federal custody in Madison pending arraignment are Brian Terrell, 53, of Maloy, Iowa; Bonnie Urfer, 57, of Luck, Wis.; Alice Gerard, 52, of Grand Island, New York; and Joy first, 55, of Madison, Wisc.The five ticketed and released pending arraignment are Gerald Paoli, 49, of Chicago, IL; Janet Parker 41, of Madison; Dylan Parker, 20, of Davenport, IA; Vicki Andrews, 64, of Grand Rapids, MN; and Tom Haebig, 72, of West Bend, Wisc.

No More Deaths Volunteer facing sentencing

Sentencing Tomorrow for NMD Volunteer

From: No More Deaths, Tucson

This summer is already on par to be one of the deadliest on record, and it will also be one of the busiest on record for No More Deaths. This past week alone, seven bodies were recovered from the deserts of southern Arizona. Despite a reduction in the number of Border Patrol apprehensions, the toll of the U.S.'s deadly border policy continues to grow - demonstrating the need for a strong and continued humanitarian presence.
On Tuesday, volunteer Walt Staton will be sentenced in federal court for his littering ticket. We are hoping for a strong show of support at the hearing, and all are invited to pack Magistrate Jennifer Guerin’s court room at 9:00 am (the courthouse is on the SW corner of Congress and Granada.)
The prosecutor prepared a lengthy memo to the judge asking for a harsh sentence, saying that Staton’s sentence should have a “strong deterrence effect.” They propose a $5,000 fine and five years of probation, including a ban from the wildlife refuge. Staton and his attorney will ask for a suspended sentence with no fine or probation.
Letters of support were delivered to the judge, including two from the Sierra Club and the Center for Biological Diversity—both groups asserting that poor US policy, not water jugs, present the biggest threat to the environment along the border.
You can purchase t-shirts and buttons with our new water jug logo from Peace SuppliesNo More Deaths volunteers were joined by other humanitarians from Tucson Samaritans and Humane Borders to show their commitment to providing direct aid to migrants on July 9 when thirteen more volunteers were cited for littering while attempting to leave water along migrant trails. Their action came as a heat wave began in southern Arizona, bringing deadly 110-degree temperatures to the desert along the border.
The next morning, No More Deaths received a phone call from the Department of the Interior asking if we would be able to meet with Secretary Ken Salazar in the near future. Seven people attended a meeting in D.C. with Salazar and his staff on July 19 to begin working towards a solution. (The Tucson Weekly: Meeting with the Secretary)
That meeting paved the way to another meeting with regional Fish and Wildlife staff and Mike Hawkes, the manager of Buenos Aires Wildlife Refuge. We presented them with a memorandum of understanding for an agreement where we can continue placing much-needed jugs of water if we also commit to picking up twice as much trash. We hope to reach an agreement later in August.In parallel to our desert activities, we are still working hard at pressing Homeland Security to provide better treatment to people in their custody, specifically to migrants in short-term custody held by Border Patrol. We met with Alan Bersin, the Border Czar, to discuss the findings in our report, Crossing the Line, along with other concerns.
On Capitol Hill, Senators Menendez and Gillibrand introduced a bill on July 30 called the Strong STANDARDS Act that contains requirements for short-term detention. Without the advocacy of No More Deaths, the issue of unregulated conditions in short term detention facilities would not have received this much deserved attention.
No More Deaths is grateful to all the volunteers putting time and energy into this wide array of issues - all with the goal of ending death and suffering in the desert.