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Descendants of Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse break away from USDescendants of Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse break away from USDec 19, 2007 WASHINGTON (AFP) — The Lakota Indians, who gave the world legendary warriors Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, have withdrawn from treaties with the United States, leaders said Wednesday. "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," long-time Indian rights activist Russell Means told a handful of reporters and a delegation from the Bolivian embassy, gathered in a church in a run-down neighborhood of Washington for a news conference. A delegation of Lakota leaders delivered a message to the State Department on Monday, announcing they were unilaterally withdrawing from treaties they signed with the federal government of the United States, some of them more than 150 years old. They also visited the Bolivian, Chilean, South African and Venezuelan embassies, and will continue on their diplomatic mission and take it overseas in the coming weeks and months, they told the news conference. Lakota country includes parts of the states of Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana and Wyoming. The new country would issue its own passports and driving licences, and living there would be tax-free -- provided residents renounce their US citizenship, Means said. The treaties signed with the United States are merely "worthless words on worthless paper," the Lakota freedom activists say on their website. The treaties have been "repeatedly violated in order to steal our culture, our land and our ability to maintain our way of life," the reborn freedom movement says. Withdrawing from the treaties was entirely legal, Means said. "This is according to the laws of the United States, specifically article six of the constitution," which states that treaties are the supreme law of the land, he said. "It is also within the laws on treaties passed at the Vienna Convention and put into effect by the US and the rest of the international community in 1980. We are legally within our rights to be free and independent," said Means. The Lakota relaunched their journey to freedom in 1974, when they drafted a declaration of continuing independence -- an overt play on the title of the United States' Declaration of Independence from England. Thirty-three years have elapsed since then because "it takes critical mass to combat colonialism and we wanted to make sure that all our ducks were in a row," Means said. One duck moved into place in September, when the United Nations adopted a non-binding declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples -- despite opposition from the United States, which said it clashed with its own laws. "We have 33 treaties with the United States that they have not lived by. They continue to take our land, our water, our children," Phyllis Young, who helped organize the first international conference on indigenous rights in Geneva in 1977, told the news conference. The US "annexation" of native American land has resulted in once proud tribes such as the Lakota becoming mere "facsimiles of white people," said Means. Oppression at the hands of the US government has taken its toll on the Lakota, whose men have one of the shortest life expectancies -- less than 44 years -- in the world. Lakota teen suicides are 150 percent above the norm for the United States; infant mortality is five times higher than the US average; and unemployment is rife, according to the Lakota freedom movement's website. "Our people want to live, not just survive or crawl and be mascots," said Young. "We are not trying to embarrass the United States. We are here to continue the struggle for our children and grandchildren," she said, predicting that the battle would not be won in her lifetime. SOURCE |
| obmar |
Sooner or later something like this will happen.
But in today's world, it does not seem to matter much any more. |
| Radiate_Truth |
Your right Obmar...
People get tired of waiting for or living off the crumbs under someone else's table. Funny thing happened New Year's Day... At least I think it's funny. I sent my husband to get us breakfast and coffee at Mickey D's down the street from where we live. The manager of Mickey D's was in the parking lot apologizing to the patrons driving up. She could not open the restaurant. Why??? She couldn't run the whole place by herself. Not one person scheduled to work that day showed up except the manager. The moral of the story... Don't pay, give your employees a decent wage or salary, incentive, reason to get up and work in the morning, a salary they can live off... Why should they care to get up in the morning??? It's not just their... Getting to be every where lately. Even where I work... 5 to 10 employees call in everyday. Call in sick or just make all sorts of things up, LIE, to keep from coming in this place to have to work cause they give them no real reason to come in here to work other than to earn pocket change. Every week or month, I see new faces cause no one stays. Some just started working, by first break some will leave, won't even say one word, just walk right out the door without anyone noticing, QUIT. |
| obmar |
No Jews to Blame? |
| Radiate_Truth |
No...
Someone else will write the same article but blaming the Jews for it. Give it time... You just wait, watch and see. |