Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

January 18, 2010

Bush Formula for Genocide in Disaster

Bush Formula in Disaster: Deprivation, militarization and genocide

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/
Photo: Obama appoints Bill Clinton and George W. Bush to head Haiti Relief Team

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Updated Jan. 19, 2010
Martin Luther King, Jr., stood for justice and truth in the face of tyranny and oppression. Today, we remember and honor him.
President Obama's appointment of George W. Bush to lead the Haiti relief, with Bill Clinton, should sound an alarm.
During the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Bush established this pattern, now being carried out in Haiti: Deprive the people of food and water and militarize the zone. As people become more desperate, continue the genocide of people of color with force by the military and assassins like Blackwater/XE. Steal as much land as possible. Permanently displace as many people of color as possible and separate children from their families. Funnel money into private contractors and partner with corrupt politicians. All along, coop the media and deceive the public.
The US is now planning to send Haiti refugees to Guantanamo.
The Red Cross delivered no aid to Houma Indians during Katrina
It is important to remember that during Hurricane Katrina relief, that American Indian Nations donated millions of dollars to the Red Cross, to help Indians hard hit. The Houma Indians in southern Louisiana, the largest group of Native Americans devastated, did not receive a penny of aid from the American Red Cross, according to Houma Nation Chairperson Brenda Dardar Robichaux. It was private citizens and stores that did come to the Houmas aid.
On the other hand, the International Red Cross should be recognized for documenting the US military's torture of detainees in Iraq, as revealed in federal court in Tucson, during the trial of two priests, Franciscan Fr. Louie Vitale and Jesuit Fr. Steve Kelly, who stepped across the line at Fort Huachuca Army Intelligence Center in southern Arizona. Vitale and Kelly knelt in prayer to draw attention to Fort Huachuca's role in the US torture in Iraq and Afghanistan. --Censored News
In the news:
Wall Street Journal: General to Head US Relief in Haiti
Wall Street Journal - Yochi J. Dreazen - ‎Jan 14, 2010‎
President Barack Obama named former presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton to serve as co-chairs of the US relief efforts in Haiti. ...
WASHINGTON–The Pentagon appointed a three-star general to head the rapidly expanding U.S. military relief effort in Haiti, which is shaping up to be one of the biggest—and most challenging—American humanitarian missions in years. Lt. Gen. P. K. Keen, the deputy director of the military's Southern Command, has been tapped to lead a new joint task force devoted to Haiti. Gen. Keen, who is already in the country, will be charged with managing the half-dozen large ships and roughly 8,000 military personnel who will soon be in or near Haiti, which was devastated by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake that may have killed tens of thousands of people.
President Barack Obama named former presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton to serve as co-chairs of the U.S. relief efforts in Haiti.
U.S. Special Operations forces managed to reopen Haiti's airport to round-the-clock relief flights, and an assessment team from the Air Force arrived at the airport Thursday afternoon to further expand its operations.
Read article:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704281204575003173316615894.html?mod=WSJ_World_MIDDLENews
Democracy Now: Bush destroyed Haiti's democracy:
http://i1.democracynow.org/2010/1/15/bush_was_responsible_for_destroying_haitian
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Tellis: Let's put a spoke into Quebec's false claims to Nationhood now!



Let’s put a spoke into Quebec’s false claims to Nationhood now!

By Kenneth T. Tellis

So far the people of the province of Quebec are simply avoiding any mention of what will happen to Indian Territory which they claim is part of Quebec, by simply over looking the fact that the indigenous Indian Tribes were here for millennium Thus the territorial claims lie firstly with the indigenous people of the region and not the Métis (Quebecois) that stayed on the territory of New France that was ceded to Great Britain by France on February 10, 1763.

The Ungava Territory was renamed New Quebec and was put for governance under the province of Quebec but was never part of New France and thus was never ceded to Britain by France, it was purchased by the Canadian government from the Hudson Bay Company of London, England. Since the all the Cree Territory was not part of New France, Quebec has absolutely no claim to it should it ever separate from Canada.

It is now up to the Aboriginal People of the Cree Territories, plus all other territories that are belonging to the indigenous peoples, which about two-thirds of present day Quebec also be part of the new province. That the indigenous peoples of the said region now form their own government and make their own laws, besides declaring that they are henceforth an independent province and not part of the province of Quebec. That all claims past and present to their TERRITORY by Quebec are now null and void. They should begin by issuing of documents such as driving licenses, birth certificates, marriage licenses etc. and establish these in fact to obtain international RECOGNITION. To go to the United Nations and state that they are NO longer part of any European colonial settlement or venture but an Aboriginal Nation now out of the control of Colonialist that seized their lands by military conquest and subterfuge. That they are rid of their colonial masters and have thrown off the yoke of European imperialists and seek recognition as all those countries of Africa and Asia did after centuries of European colonial domination. North America is after all the final frontier of de-colonization and the return to the indigenous peoples of all their territory stolen by the European colonial powers.

Now when the sword is at the throat of the Métis Nation of Quebec, we will see how far they can go to annex native lands that were never theirs to begin with in the past or the present.

Photo: 'First walking outside' Cree/Unesco



UPDATE by Kenneth T. Tellis
Karl Marx said that if you want to destroy a people, first destroy their historyIt was after reading this theory that it occurred to me that this theory could not apply to the Métis society of Quebec, while it may well apply to other societies.
So I began to think out and write the reasons for this. Till the Catholic prelate Abbé Lionel-Adolphe Groulx of Vaudreuil came upon the scene there was no such thing as Québécois or Canadien history that one could to speak about.
So, to offset this issue Abbé Lionel-Adolphe Groulx began to manufacture an ersatz history for Quebec. He was in fact really writing a fairy tale that was to affect the very basis of society in the province of Quebec. People, began to believe his ersatz history as being something very real, when it was really the result of a troubled mind that had decided it was going to create a history out of thin air.
The Québécois were not a very intelligent people to start with and the ideas of Groulx gave them both hope and a new vision of how they could create both a culture and a history and a country based upon his views. The only thing lacking with this idea was that it was plainly fiction and not the reality of Quebec (New France) from its early days under the ancient régime till the British took over in 1763. But as we can see the whole idea was pitted with inaccuracies from beginning to end.
As a people the Québécois were neither resourceful nor intelligent and thus used every means to teardown the history and culture of other peoples. The reason for this was apparent, because I was one of those persons who one of these Québécois misfits attempted to debase out of his inherent jealousy. I had written an article on the Journey of the English Language which upset Québécois Colonel Blimp René Sauvé who claimed to have been a Colonel in the Canadian army so much so that he wrote that I had no idea about languages. The article I wrote received praise from overseas sources and it was quoted by many others as being an excellent piece.
Since most Québécois do not have the expertise or experience in the area of history, language or culture they immediately try to find fault with the work of those who are not from their own community as being valueless. Thus these clueless individuals assume that they have achieved greatness by condemning the work of those who do not belonging to their society.
Of course there is a parallel here set by the Nazis in the early 1930s who attempted to manufacture a Teutonic culture by borrowing from the work of other cultures and passing it off as Teutonic culture. Not one of the Québécois leaders from René Lévesque down really had or belonged to a distinct Québécois culture, because none ever existed. That is the reason why Abbé Lionel-Adolphe Groulx tried to fabricate a culture for the Québécois, where none had ever existed before.
There is of course the misconception that Québécois society accept people from other ethnic groups, but that is a fallacy, since the Québécois are trying very hard to remove anyone from Quebec that does not have a Québécois background. There is also overt discrimination similar to that of South Africa, but a lot closer to Nazism.
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Read more by Kenneth T. Tellis and more on Indigenous issues at:http://www.parkavenuegazette.com

Olympic Resistance Network: Dave Zirin in Vancouver

POLITICS IN THE RING: DAVE ZIRIN IN VANCOUVER!
Award-winning sports writer Dave Zirin will be speaking in Vancouver on the politics of sport and mega sporting events on January 20 and January 21, 2010. You will not want to miss him!
Wed Jan 20 @ 2:30-4:30
MBC 2290, SFU Burnaby campus
Organized by Teaching Support Staff Union (TSSU), email organizer@tssu.ca
Wed Jan 20 @ 6:30 pm. Maritime Labour Centre, 1880 Triumph Street (corner Victoria Drive).
Suggested donation $10, no one turned away.
* Dave will be available for a book signing, People’s Co-op Books will have his books for purchase. Organized by Olympic Resistance Network, olympicresistance@riseup.net
Endorsed by: Vancouver Action, Submedia, No One Is Illegal, Anti Poverty Committee, Council of Canadians, Warrior Publications, Impact on Communities Coalition, Streams of Justice, Student Christian Movement - UBC, 2010 Watch, 2010 Corporate Campaign.
Thursday, Jan. 21, 4pm
UBC - Student Union Building, room 205
Organized by UBC Social Justice Centre.