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de Zausel - 08.09.2008, 12:06AIM Stories
Black Elk Speaks
And So It Begins
In an incredible irony, the very people that the United States have most
oppressed throughout our history may hold the key to freedom for all
of us.
Few Americans remember the siege at Wounded Knee in the mid-1970s,
but perhaps they should. Members of the AIM,
or the American Indian Movement, occupied parts of Pine Ridge
in protest over the brutal killings of two of their own, the disgustingly
mild prosecutions for those murders, and the beating of the mother of
one of those two when she attempted to seek justice from the U.S.
government. The AIM were seeking their rights under U.S. law
and for the U.S. government to honor treaties with the American Indian
that had been ignored for more than a century. It was a lawful -
and a peaceful until attacked - protest.
In response, the FBI fired almost 200,000 rounds at the protesters
(the protesters did fire weapons in their own defense, but only over their
attackers' heads) in an illegal show of force that betrayed every ideal
of real freedom. The siege at Wounded Knee lasted 71 days.
This was Waco decades before Waco, largely ignored by the U.S.
population due to media indifference and the fact that the victims
were not white Americans.
Later, the defense team for Russell Means and Dennis Banks
was infiltrated by a government informant, which led to perjured
testimony and a very angry judge who stated that the government
was more interested in convictions than in justice. South Dakota Judge
Nichols was quoted as saying, "It's hard for me to believe that the FBI,
which I have revered for so long, has stooped so low," and dismissed
all charges against the defendants.
Apparently, all those years ago, at least a portion of our justice system
still operated as it was designed to do.
Leonard Peltier was not so lucky. He was tried in North Dakota,
and was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences in prison.
He remains there today, even though evidence recovered after
the siege clearly showed that the two FBI deaths were attributable
to friendly fire. During his years in prison, through his art and letters,
Peltier has continued to work for oppressed people everywhere.
Russell Means has remained free, and he has not been idle in the
intervening decades. A committed libertarian, he has written several
books, run for office on the Libertarian ticket, and continued to pursue
a film career that has made him a household face and name.
Apart from that, he has bided his time,
waiting for just the right moment in history.
That moment has come. In September of this year, the United Nations
passed a non-binding Resolution on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Naturally, Canada, the United States and Australia refused to sign,
but this resolution paved the way for a move that has been waiting
in the wings, so to speak, since the 1970s.
On Wednesday of this week, Russell Means led a delegation of the Lakota
Sioux people to the U.S. State Department and the embassies of Bolivia,
Chile, South Africa and Venezuela, declaring their secession from the
United States of America.
Means stated, "We are no longer citizens of the United States of America
and all those who live in the five-state area that encompasses our country
are free to join us." The lands of the Lakota Sioux encompass portions
of Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming and Montana.
In the coming weeks, they will take their diplomatic mission overseas
to seek further support.
Means also stated that anyone willing to renounce their U.S. citizenship
would live on Lakota land tax free, and that the Lakota would issue their
own passports and driving licenses. Since a large group of libertarians
have recently moved to Wyoming, this opens up some interesting
possibilities for a free society growing up in our midst.
The coming road will not be an easy one. I cannot see the U.S.
neo-conservatives leaving this alone. I imagine that there will be another
bloody and vicious siege taking place on Lakota land, but I also believe
that Means has timed his move correctly. If this happens as I fear it will,
the neo-conservatives will be the clear authors of their own destruction.
The American people have had enough!
You go, Russell!! You are the bravest and best of us, and the sanest
and best of America stands with you in the trials you will face over
the coming months and years.
_________________________
Kathryn A. Graham, author of Flight From Eden and America Hijacked!.
~U-ne-ga-wa-ya~
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