Reparations Now, Political Discussions Later.

A Letter To President Obama: Black Mesa Trust

December 11, 2009

The Honorable Barack H. Obama
President, United States of America
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, D.C. 20500

Dear Mr. President,

I write to inform you of a tragedy and national disgrace occurring on the Hopi and Navajo Indian Reservations in Northern Arizona.

This month, on Hopiland, we are observing the month of Kyamuya, the time of rest, reflection and renewal, the time for staying in our homes and for telling the old stories, for sharing ancient teachings and wisdom with the youth who gather round us. They look to us with eager eyes and listen with open hearts and minds. They know they are gathering the truest wealth for living a good life, for living in our Hopi Way. They gather ancient teachings for the time when they will be called to do what I am now fulfilling: the responsibility to carry forward that our ancestors have given to us. Since time immemorial, it has been so, but, this year, more than most, correction and renewal seems especially critical.

I do not tell these children what now burdens my heart, and which I am petitioning you to address. Bodies of those who told the stories and shared the wisdom before me do not rest easy. As I write these words, bulldozers and gigantic shovels are ripping through ancient graves and dislodging my ancestors from their sacred rest in Mother Earth. As I write these words, Peabody Energy Company, with the approval of your Department of the Interior, is strip mining the history and the sacred from the ancestral lands of the Hopi people. The burial grounds and cultural sites that are our living museums and cathedrals and academy of our Hopi Way are being dynamited from under our feet.

Since 1970, strip mining started on Black Mesa, the heart of Hopi land. It is expected to continue for 16 more years. In the process of strip mining for coal, untold numbers of our ancestral villages, burial sites, rock art, and religious shrines have been and are being systematically destroyed by Peabody Western Coal Co., a subsidiary of Peabody Energy. To send the coal to Los Angeles they tap into our wells and aquifers using a million gallons of pure drinking water every day to send coal slurry through pipelines. Hopi wells have dropped in some places by 80 feet, making our traditional subsistence farming impossible.

It is not easy to explain to our children about the tragedy, about the obliteration of all traces of their ancestors. It is painful and confusing to have to explain to them that their government does not hold what is sacred to them of any importance.

This is occurring on your watch and on mine. It is the shame of our generation. It is the shame of our contracts with Peabody Energy and the shame of selling our birthright. It is the shame of Hopi who were coerced into signing the 35-year leases with Peabody and federal agents who do not seem to be concerned with the damage they wreak, and it is the shame of the Department of the Interior, which is charged with looking after our long-term well-being.

Things have changed with your election. The forces that are now destroying the resting places of our ancestors no longer hold absolute sway. The way to a brighter world is before us if we choose it. The time of desecrating the graves and the spewing of poisons can and must come to an end. There are new technologies and new fuels available for a healthier world. And, where there was once only disdain and dismissal, there is now growing respect for indigenous knowledge that has sustained the peoples for millennia. It is time to create historic change and you can bring it about.

Please, Mr. President, command those who answer to you; those in the Office of Surface Mining who are entrusted to perform the studies and select options regarding strip mining on Black Mesa. Instruct them that your administration is to be guided by a wiser and wider agenda. Inform them that a new spirit of mutual respect and concern is to be the rule when dealing with Native people and that OSM and others must re-evaluate their decisions regarding Black Mesa and other indigenous lands on the basis of mutual respect and sovereignty. Instruct them to take their trust responsibility to indigenous peoples seriously, and demand they give full consideration to cultural issues (along with those of air and water, etc.) as they move forward in their findings and decisions.

And, please, Mr. President, do not let the process be blind and deaf to the culture and ancient Way of the people whose lives and future are at stake. Do not let OSM dismiss the need to preserve the land sites in which Hopi history and teaching is encoded. Do not let federal officers under your control disgrace the bones and burial places of my ancestors.

You and your Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, have the historic opportunity to bring environmental justice to the Hopi people and all indigenous people whose lands are being desecrated by mining and logging industries.

Kwakwa (Thank you),

Vernon Masayesva

Executive Director

Black Mesa Trust

cc: U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar

( Emphasis added by me )

"Underground Internet Station Reporting. Dubya Dubya D9. News as it happens." ~L$P the Most High

Dear Mr. President Obama,

   The collapsed democratic Union that you inherited from a paranoid and myopic republic has a few months left until you are legally required to let it be led by Donald J. Trump. Not quite Mr. T, it's D.J. T.
    Think of me as a forgotten two of hearts. My agenda is nothing less than world peace. My motive is all the beautiful babies. My talking points are the left eyeballs of G.H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Jeb Bush and Billy Bush. Any legal concerns can possibly be addressed by the National Lawyers Guild of New York City.




    The heart of the coup on Democracy is a U.S.A. supported by abusive liars, thieves, murderers and global corporations. Only Jesus can stop them. We can teach them. We can deny them. We can be them.

"Because a Klan backed misogynist internet troll is going to be delivering the next State of the Union address. And that is not normal. It's fucked up."~John Oliver 11-13-16



Mr. President, as you have said Mr. Trump is pragmatic. Turn the heel and unite against the Bush Cartel. The whole world is watching.



So play the cards you have been dealt.



Respectfully Hoping, 
       el Duderino

This is a rush transcript from "Your World with Neil Cavuto," August 8, 2007. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.

NEIL CAVUTO, HOST: This is a FOX News Alert. Did something the president of the United States told us today move the markets today? They were up big much of the day, and then ending up even bigger. Another wild day for Wall Street, but a very big day here in Washington as we sat down with the president of the United States for an exclusive one-on-one on these big market swings, on the housing market, and mortgage problems, on calls for a bail-out, even on Barry Bonds' record home run last night.

We sat down for a rare chat inside the United States Treasury where the president was talking up the economy. Topic number one today though, those trapped miners in Utah.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

CAVUTO: Mr. President, always great to have you.

GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Thank you, sir.

Testify

Bill of Rights

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

"My administration will be more supportive of the good works done here than any administration in the history of this country because I understand the power of faith, that faith can change lives."
-- George W Bush, still refusing to admit that "faith-based" programs have not been shown to be more effective than secular programs, and yet still ignoring the facts that (1) "faith-based" programs are typically unfair in thier administration and hiring and (2) "faith-based" programs more often than not exploit thier often-captive audiences to make sales pitches for "The Lord," at Notre Dame University on May 24, 2001

Proselytism

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Proselytism is the practice of attempting to convert people to another opinion, usually another religion. The word proselytism is derived ultimately from the Greek language prefix 'pros' (towards) and the verb 'erchomai' (I come). Historically in the New Testament, the word proselyte denoted a person who had converted to the Jewish religion. Though the word proselytism was originally tied to Christianity, it is also used to refer to other religions' attempts to convert people to their beliefs or even any attempt to convert people to another point of view, religious or not.

"Our new faith-based laws have removed government as a roadblock to people of faith who hear the call."
-- George W Bush, quoted from Aaron Latham, "How George W Found God," George Magazine, September, 2000

"Our plan will not favor religious institutions over nonreligious institutions. As president, I'm interested in what is constitutional and I'm interested in what works."
-- George W Bush, promoting his scheme to funnel tax dollars into religoius "charities" which will not be held accountable for discriminating against nonreligious and other-religious workers, and the validity of which religious groups are worthy of being funded will be decided by the government (Bush has already stated that the Nation of Islam will not qualify), at the annual National Prayer Breakfast, for which organizers refused to release a full list of attendees, February 1, 2001, quoted from Conrad Goeringer, "Bush Promotes Faith at Prayer Breakfast: Bipartisan Support for New White House Office," AANEWS 881, February 2, 2001, from American Atheists

"It is fitting that we have a National Prayer Breakfast. It is the right thing to do, because this is a nation of prayer. I know, from firsthand knowledge, that this is a nation of prayer. See, I work the ropelines a lot, and I hear all kinds of things on the ropelines. But the thing I hear the most, the comment I hear the most from our fellow citizens, regardless of their political party or philosophy, is, Mr President, I pray for you and your family, and so does my family. That's what I hear. I turn to them without hesitation and say, it is the greatest gift you can give anybody, is to pray on their behalf."-- George W Bush, although the Encarta World Dictionary of the English Language displays noknown meaning for the word ropelines, this is where our President tells us he obtains his "Statistics of Small Numbers" with which he backs up his claim that such a large percentage of the populace practices the religious ritual of prayer to such an extent and with such fervance as to justify describing the United States as "a nation of prayer," during his speech before the 51st Annual Congressional Prayer Breakfast, quoted from "President Bush Addresses the 51st Annual Prayer Breakfast" (February 6, 2003) ††

“I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.” ~ King Bush II "the lesser"

[I encourage] employers to permit their workers time off during the lunch hour to attend the noontime services to pray for our land.
-- George W Bush, ordering the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance which was held on September 14, 2001, quoted from Josh Karpf, "Atheism in the New Holy War"

"Anybody who is in a position to serve this country ought to understand the consequences of words." --George W. Bush, interview with Rush Limbaugh, Nov. 1, 2006

"This crusade, this war on terrorism is going to take a while."
-- George W Bush, using a loaded term which recalls the Christians' Medieval wars against Muslims in the so-called Holy Land, after stepping off the presidential helicopter on Sunday, September 16, 2001, quoted from Jonathan Lyons, "Bush enters Mideast's rhetorical minefield " (Reuters: September 21, 2001). Bush later apologized for this remark.

"That's called, A Charge To Keep, based upon a religious hymn. The hymn talks about serving God. The president's job is never to promote a religion." --George W. Bush, showing German newspaper reporter Kai Diekmann the Oval Office, Washington, D.C., May 5, 2006

Catholic schools carry out a great mission, to serve God by building knowledge and character.... By teaching the word of God, you prepare your students to follow a path of virtue.
-- George W Bush, helping to soften the blows of justice in asking (requiring, really) taxpayers to bail out Roman Catholic schools through a publicly funded voucher program after numerous Roman Catholic parishes and dioceses being held financially accountable for clerics who terrorized and molested young boys and girls over a period of decades in the pedophile priest scandal, at a White House ceremony whose audience included more over 200 Roman Catholic officials; quoted from American Atheists Press Release, "Bush off Key in Singing Praises of Parochial Schools" (January 12, 2004: source citation based in part upon American Atheists' president Ellen Johnson's written response to this incident)

"I tell people, let's don't fear the future, let's shape it." --George W. Bush, Omaha, Neb., June 7, 2006


"You know, when I campaigned here in 2000, I said, I want to be a war President. No President wants to be a war President, but I am one." --George W. Bush, Des Moines, Iowa, Oct. 26, 2006

"Wisdom and strength, and my family, is what I'd like for you to pray for." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 2, 2007

"Suiciders are willing to kill innocent life in order to send the projection that this is an impossible mission." --George W. Busy, Washington, D.C., April 3, 2007

"Some call this civil war; others call it emergency -- I call it pure evil." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., March 28, 2007

"And one thing we want during this war on terror is for people to feel like their life's moving on, that they're able to make a living and send their kids to college and put more money on the table." --George W. Bush, interview on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Jan. 16, 2007



"I couldn't imagine somebody like Osama bin Laden understanding the joy of Hanukkah." —at a White House menorah lighting ceremony, Washington, D.C., Dec. 10, 2001


"The only way we can win is to leave before the job is done." --George W. Bush, Greeley, Colo., Nov. 4, 2006 (Watch video clip)

Constitution

A constitution is a system, often codified as a written document, that establishes the rules and principles that govern an organization or political entity. In the case of countries, this term refers specifically to a national constitution defining the fundamental political principles, and establishing the structure, procedures, powers and duties, of a government. Most national constitutions also guarantee certain rights to the people.


"Tyrants and dictators will accept no other gods before them. They require disobedience to the First Commandment. They seek absolute control and are threatened by faith in God. They fear only the power they cannot possess -- the power of truth. So they resent the living example of the devout, especially the devotion of a unique people chosen by God."
-- George W Bush, blaming the Holocaust on godlessness, rather than on Christian anti-Semitism of Martin Luther, St Paul, and the Jesus of Matthew's and John's Gospels, and ignoring the fact that Adolf Hitler repeatedly called himself a Christian, pretended to be obeying Christ, and cannot be shown to have been an atheist, at the National Commemoration of the Days of Remembrance at the US Capitol on April 19, 2001, quoted from Freedom From Religion Foundation, "Bush's Holocaust Remarks Distort History, Scapegoat Freethinkers" April 25, 2001

Preamble to the United States Constitution

The preamble to the United States Constitution consists of a single sentence (a preamble) which introduces the document and its purpose. The preamble neither grants any governmental powers nor inhibits any of its actions, but serves to explain the reason behind the U.S. Constitution.

The Preamble neither grants any powers nor inhibits any actions; it only explains the rationale behind the Constitution. The preamble is a basic statement of purpose that precedes the constitution. The Preamble, especially the first three words ("We the people"), is one of the most quoted and referenced sections of the Constitution. Indeed, they are the three most important words in the Constitution as they denote the Constitution did not come from a king or an emperor, but from the people themselves.

The Preamble states:

“

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

”

"I'm the commander — see, I don't need to explain — I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being president." —as quoted in Bob Woodward's Bush at War



~~ King Bush II "the lesser" has legitimized the destruction of our ancestor's oaths. He decrees his interpretations of morality and religion through lies and murder.~~


"God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them."
-- George W Bush, according to Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, from minutes acquired by Haaretz from cease-fire negotiations between Abbas and faction leaders from the Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Popular and Democratic Fronts (circa, June, 2003), quoted from Arnon Regular, "'Road map is a life saver for us,' PM Abbas tells Hamas" (Haaretz.com: June 27, 2003), quoted from EvilOz (The Iterative Record)


~All of our justice has become corruption.

~Our children read the words of our Constitution then look at the world around them (that we are making) and then (surprise!) fail our delusional, outdated and racist tests. Then they numb themselves with drugs like their parents do and everyone gets paranoid because the very government meant to protect us now locks us up for what we do to Ourselves.

"There ought to be limits to freedom."
-- George W Bush, complaining about a website (www.gwbush.com) critical of him, at an Austin Press Conference, May 21, 1999, quoted from www.gwbush.com and the Democratic Alliance, "Yes, They Really Said It!"



"The very first act of the new Bush administration was to have a Protestant Evangelist minister officially dedicate the inauguration to Jesus Christ, whom he declared to be 'our savior.' Invoking 'the Father, the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ' and 'the Holy Spirit,' Billy Graham's son, the man selected by President George W Bush to bless his presidency, excluded the tens of millions of Americans who are Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Shintoists, Unitarians, agnostics, and atheists from his blessing by his particularistic and parochial language.
"The plain message conveyed by the new administration is that George W Bush's America is a Christian nation and that non-Christians are welcome into the tent so long as they agree to accept their status as a tolerated minority rather than as fully equal citizens. In effect, Bush is saying: 'This is our home, and in our home we pray to Jesus as our savior. If you want to be a guest in our home, you must accept the way we pray.'"
-- Alan M Dershowitz, in "Bush Starts Off by Defying the the Constitution," Los Angeles Times, January 24, 2001



"I ask Americans to bow our heads in humility before our Heavenly Father, a God who calls us not to judge our neighbors, but to love them, to ask His guidance upon our nation and its leaders in every level of government."
-- George W Bush, National Day of Prayer Proclamation, January 20, 2001, one of his first acts as United States President, quoted from "President Bush Announces Religious Agenda on Inauguration Day: Bush Presents Himself as 'Determined Foe of Church-State Separation,' Says Americans United," January 20, 2001

"I believe God did create the world. And I think we're finding out more and more and more as to how it actually happened." (( notice he refers to the Creation of our world in the past tense of a fatal worldview ))
-- George W Bush, interview, US News, "George W Bush: Running on his faith," December 6, 1999

Dear Messrs. President

You both have an impossible task as long as the Bush family patriarch holds his secrets from us all.

Mr. Obama,

     I have more love and respect for you than any other President or lawyer in my life. You only broke my heart on a few key points...
Restoration of indigenous rights.
Ending covert assassinations as policy.
Ending the Bush wars.
Freeing many more prisoners.

But thank you for your dignified service.

Mr. Trump,

     When you accept the fact that you cannot fulfill your promises to your world class standards, remember that the eyeball at the top of the pyramid remains the former head of the C.I.A., George Herbert Walker Bush. Please also remember that there also remains the only peaceful President in my lifetime, Jimmy Carter. The pre-coup U.S.A. is still alive and kicking... it is the only ally you will ever need.

Thanks for making America great again, gentlemen. Goodluck and Godspeed.

American Aristocrats

If the people knew what we had done, they would chase us down the street and lynch us

• George H.W. Bush to journalist Sarah McClendon, December 1992, in response to the question, "What will the people do if they ever find out the truth about Iraq-gate and Iran contra

• Whose life would be on my hands as the commander-in-chief because I, unilaterally, went beyond the international law, went beyond the stated mission, and said we're going to show our macho? We're going into Baghdad. We're going to be an occupying power — America in an Arab land — with no allies at our side. It would have been disastrous. We don't gain the size of our victory by how many innocent kids running away — even though they're bad guys — that we can slaughter. ... We're American soldiers; we don't do business that way
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  • G.H.W Bush
    
  • A statement to a reunion of Gulf War veterans (February 28, 1999) as quoted in "Bush tells Gulf vets why Hussein left in Baghdad" by S.H. Kelly, Pentagram March 3, 1999

Ever since i was 6 years old, the Bush and Clinton families have fought each other for the rule of the free world


This age was ushered in by Bush I, a former CIA Director, who was elected Vice President to a cowboy actor President with a degenerating brain and severe memory loss


"You cannot be president of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial and the Civil War and all that stuff. You can't be. And we are blessed. So don't feel sorry for — don't cry for me, Argentina. Message: I care." — G.H.W. Bush ... speaking to employees of an insurance company during the 1992 New Hampshire primary

"I'm for Mr. Reagan, blindly." – G.H.W. Bush in 1984

There is a God and He is good, and his love, while free, has a self imposed cost: We must be good to one another

GEORGE H.W. BUSH, RNC acceptance speech, August 18, 1988

I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God

GEORGE H.W. BUSH, news conference, Aug. 27, 1987

Boy, they were big on crematoriums, weren't they

George H.W. Bush, Comment made on tour of Auschwitz

lets fix this clusterfuck

Its all for the kids, always will be. Acknowledging this is the trick.


This is one way it happened to one kid...

When they were 3 years old it was the 200th anniversary of their Nation. The leader was a southern, born again Christian who wanted peace to come to Jerusalem and the entire world (Jimmy Carter). He recognized the need to stop using fossil fuels, and was hated for it, forever. In the election of 1980, the High Priest of LSD (Timothy Leary) ran for president against a Hollywood actor (Ronald Reagan), whose vice president happened to be the head of the CIA (G.H.W. Bush). The next president made corporations as powerful as governments... and allowed Congress to interrogate him about getting a blowjob (Bill Clinton). Then the son of the former head of CIA, (Bush II the lesser) used his governor brother and a state Supreme Court to force himself into power. Then we lost all our rights, legally.

This is the fourth Reich.

So now we have another election in a year.

Since the last two elections were obvious fakes, manipulated by Christian fanatics, how will the media possibly reinforce the numbing lies of our Dual Party apathy?

The Democrats are pretending they won't be corporate whores by projecting diversity. A woman, a black man, look at all the glorious options our rigged faux democracy has to offer! Vote for us, we will let the corporations rape you... but we can all pretend it is getting better every day!

The Republicans are pretending they aren't white power fascists by offering a Vietnam PoW, a Morman zealot and now their Reagan trump card... another actor. Vote for us, we are going to kill people so nothing changes... do it for our God, for our fallen... and if you don't care about any of that stuff vote for someone who knows how to deliver great lines!

Mr. King Bush the lesser,

Tear down your lies.

At this point, you have led your people to the level of using Patriotism as an excuse to be social assholes. Bleating sheep. Killers with a mythical purpose and no plan.

Vote for a Navajo grandmother 2008.

Vote indigenous,

Vote Dine'







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Dear Mr. President, we need a Medicine Woman for Attorney General.

Sir,

With all due respect you are a lame duck so why not end on the sweet notes of peaceful revolution?

End the War on Drugs with a visionary, not a Bush Cartel lackey.

Liberdad

So today we call the 4th of July, Independence Day... 2007 years after the Roman Government crucified Jesus of Nazareth for criticizing the society and culture... and Jews chose him to die.

We have a fearless leader.

We are well fed, well educated and well armed.

We are ready for anything.

We await the promised return.

We have political parties, corporations and secret societies conspiring to subvert freedom in favor of power and security.

We have MASSIVE MEDIA across the entire globe. It is broadcast across the universe as well, for about 100 years.

On this 4th of July, i challenge ANYONE to ask our King Bush II "the lesser" what today is a celebration of.

After he replies with some rhetoric that could legally be construed as unconstitutionally oriented...

one more question , just one...

"Mr. President, what, exactly are we celebrating independence from?"

and regardless of his reply,

he would be revealed publicly as a Traitor.

We the People thinking for the Fed

Mr. President, Senators and Congressman,

    Please explore the notion that this CoVid virus is turning into a financial probe involving Russia and China determining how much it costs to subsidize the U.S. economy for a year.
    Because Brexit, and stolen land on Turtle Island.

Dear Mr. President

i and i
really Hope
Our Troops
have access
to
Our Occupy Streams

The whiny warmonger wants what, exactly? United States of Israel, perhaps?

"It’s time for Democrats who distrust President Bush to acknowledge he’ll be commander-in-chief for three more years," the senator said. "We undermine the president’s credibility at our nation’s peril." ~ Joseph Lieberman


Joseph Lieberman is a fascist warmonger. It is shocking that someone with a supremely pathetic voice could advocate so strongly for murder. How fucking dare he advocate war of any sort... there are only a few cowards that would fear a fight with him. While the U.S.A. backs Israel as they bomb Palestine and not one Muslim voice is on our radio or television. So now that we have destroyed Iraq he beats the war drum for Iran. America listens to his council...

SHAME

"I think we've got to be prepared to take aggressive military action against the Iranians to stop them from killing Americans in Iraq." ...june 18, 2007... "and to me, that would include a strike over the border into Iran."

"We've said so publicly that the Iranians have a base in Iran at which they are training Iraqis who are coming in and killing Americans. By some estimates, they have killed as many as 200 American soldiers," Lieberman said. "Well, we can tell them we want them to stop that. But if there's any hope of the Iranians living according to the international rule of law and stopping, for instance, their nuclear weapons development, we can't just talk to them."

He added, "If they don't play by the rules, we've got to use our force, and to me, that would include taking military action to stop them from doing what they're doing."

Lieberman said much of the action could probably be done by air, although he would leave the strategy to the generals in charge. "I want to make clear I'm not talking about a massive ground invasion of Iran," Lieberman said.

"They can't believe that they have immunity for training and equipping people to come in and kill Americans," he said. "We cannot let them get away with it. If we do, they'll take that as a sign of weakness on our part and we will pay for it in Iraq and throughout the region and ultimately right here at home."

---

Sen. Joseph Lieberman

This is is how he defended the war crimes at Abu Ghraib, "those who were responsible for killing 3,000 Americans on Sept. 11, 2001, never apologized."






Lieberman has been one of the Senate's most consistent supporters of Israel, an advocate of the Iraq War, and a defender of the United States' use of torture against "enemy combatants". ^[3] On domestic issues, he holds liberal views on some economic issues, though he is a supporter of free trade. Lieberman has also voted with Republicans on some ethical issues, and is one of the Senate's leading opponents of violence in video games and on television. Lieberman describes himself as being "genuinely opportunist," saying "I agree more often than not with Democrats on domestic policy. I agree more often than not with Republicans on foreign and defense policy, whatever gets me elected."^[4]


In February 2007, Lieberman spoke before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in support of the confirmation of Sam Fox as ambassador to Belgium. Fox, a prominent Republican businessman and political donor, was a contributor to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth campaign in 2004.^[51] Fox is also reported to have donated to Lieberman's 2006 Senate campaign.^[52]
Lieberman never served in the military. A spokesperson told the Hartford Courant in 1994 that Lieberman received an educational deferment from the Vietnam War draft when he was an undergraduate and law student from 1960 to 1967. Upon graduating from law school at 25, Lieberman qualified for a family deferment as he was already married and had one child.^[1]
Lieberman is an Orthodox Jew, though he was less observant in 1965 when he married his first wife who was a Reform Jew. Since the death in 1967 of Lieberman's grandmother, a deeply religious immigrant, he found renewed interest in religious observance. His second wife, Hadassah, is also an observant Orthodox Jew. "Hadassah calls herself my right wing," says Lieberman.^[8] In Lieberman's 1988 upset of GOP incumbent Senator Lowell Weicker, his religious observance was mostly viewed in terms of inability to campaign on Shabbat. This changed when Gore chose Lieberman as his running mate; a Lieberman press officer who spoke on condition of anonymity said:

“

He refers to himself as observant, as opposed to Orthodox, because he doesn't follow the strict Orthodox code and doesn't want to offend the Orthodox, and his wife feels the same way.[8]

”

The Liebermans keep a kosher home. Nonetheless, some Orthodox Jews have voiced concerns^{[citation needed]} about the Liebermans' omissions, such as Mr. Lieberman's conduct of business matters on the Sabbath^[11] , and Hadassah's infrequent covering of her head.^[12]

Lieberman has said that there is currently "a constitutional place for faith in our public life."<sup>[13]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lieberman</sup>








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Freedom my ASS, Mr. President

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Lenape
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Lenape
Total population Only 2 pure Lenapes left (As of 1999)
Significant populations in United States (Oklahoma, Kansas, Wisconsin, New Jersey)
Canada (Ontario)
Language English, Delaware
Religion Christianity, other
Related ethnic groups other Algonquian peoples

The Lenape or Lenni-Lenape (later named Delaware Indians by Europeans) were, in the 1600s, loosely organized bands of Native American people practicing small-scale agriculture to augment a largely mobile hunter-gatherer society in the region around the Delaware River, the lower Hudson River, and western Long Island Sound. The Lenape are the people living in the vicinity of New York Bay and in the Delaware Valley at the time of the arrival of the Europeans in the 16th and 17th century. Their Algonquian language is also known as Lenape or Delaware.

Contents

* 1 History
o 1.1 Early Lenape society
o 1.2 Colonial times
o 1.3 The nineteenth century
* 2 Lenape nations today
* 3 Notable Lenape Indians
* 4 References to the Lenape in literature

History

Early Lenape society

Although a different order may have prevailed earlier, in Colonial times Lenape families (like many other Indian peoples) were (are) organized into clans based on a common female ancestor. Phratries, which were groups of two or more clans, were (are) identified by an animal sign. Three Lenape phratries emerge in the early historical record: Turtle (Unami), Turkey (Ungalachtigo), and Wolf (Munsi). These phratries are not political divisions, but rather 'flavors' of individuals common to all discrete bands of Lenape, which together make up the Lenape 'tribe' -- although the very notion of 'tribe' is misleading, suggesting a uniformity that does not exist.

Early Indian 'tribes' are perhaps better understood as language groups, rather than as 'nations.' A Lenape individual has identified primarily with his or her immediate family and friends, or village unit; then with surrounding and familiar village units; next with more distant neighbors who speak the same dialect; and ultimately, while often fitfully, with all those in the surrounding area who speak mutually comprehensible languages, including the Mohican. Those of a different language stock -- such as the Iroquois (or, in the Lenape language, the Minqua) -- were regarded as foreigners, often, as in the Iroquois' case, with animosity spanning many generations. (Interestingly, ethnicity itself seems to have mattered little to the Lenape and many other 'tribes,' as illustrated by archaeological discoveries of Munsee burials that included identifiably ethnic-Iroquois remains carefully interred along with the ethnic-Algonquian Munsee ones. The two groups were bitter enemies since before recorded history, although intermarriage, perhaps through captive-taking, clearly occurred).

Overlaying these relationships is that of the phratry. Phratry membership is matrilineal; that is, a child inherits membership in a phratry from his or her mother. On reaching adulthood, a Lenape traditionally marries outside of his or her phratry, a practice known by ethnographers as "exogamy", which effectively serves to prevent inbreeding even among individuals whose kinship was obscure or unknown.

Early Europeans who first wrote about Indians found this type of social organization to be unfamiliar and perplexing. As a result, Europeans often try to interpret Lenape society through more familiar European arrangements. As a result, their early records are full of clues about early Lenape society, but were usually written by observers who did not fully understand what they were seeing. For example, a man's closest male ancestor was usually considered to be his uncle (his mother's brother) and not his father, since his father belonged to a different phratry. Such a concept is often unfathomable to early European chroniclers.

Land is assigned to a particular clan for hunting, fishing, and cultivation. Individual private ownership of land was unknown, but rather the land belongs to the clan collectively while they inhabit it(see New Amsterdam for discussion of the Dutch "purchase" of Manhattan). Phratries live in fixed settlements, using the surrounding areas for communal hunting and planting until the land is exhausted, at which point the group moved on to found a new settlement.


Colonial times

The early interaction between the Lenape and the Dutch was primarily through the fur trade, specifically the exchange of beaver pelts by the Lenape for European-made goods.

According to Dutch settler Isaac de Rasieres, who observed the Lenape in 1628, the Lenape's primary crop is maize (corn), which they plant in March after breaking up the soil using metal tools traded by the Europeans. In May, the Lenape plant kidney beans in the vicinity of the maize (corn) plants to serve as props. The summers are devoted to field work and the crops are harvested in August. Most of the field work is carried out by women, with the agricultural work of men limited to clearing the field and breaking the soil.

Hunting is the primary activity in the rest of the year. Dutch conqueror/settler David de Vries, who stayed in the area from 1634 to 1644, described a Lenape hunt in the valley of the Achinigeu-hach (or "Ackingsah-sack," the Hackensack River), in which 100 or more men stood in a line many paces from each other, beating thigh bones on their palms to drive animals to the river, where they could be easily killed. Other methods of hunting included lassoing and drowning deer, as well as forming a circle around prey and setting the brush on fire.

The quick dependence of the Lenape on European goods (editors note: the preceeding is a lie), and the need for fur to trade with the Europeans (editor's note: it is the Europeans who always NEED), eventually resulted in a disaster with an overharvesting of the beaver population in the lower Hudson. The fur source thus exhausted, the Dutch shifted their operations to present-day Upstate New York. The Lenape population has fallen into disease and decline. Likewise, the differences in conceptions of property rights between the Europeans and the Lenape resulted in widespread confusion among the Lenape and the loss of their lands. After the Dutch arrival in the 1620s, the Lenape were successfully able to restrict Dutch settlement to present-day Jersey City along the Hudson until the 1660s, when the Dutch finally established a garrison at Fort Bergen, allowing settlement west of the Hudson.

The Treaty of Easton, signed between the Lenape and the English in 1766, removed them westward, out of present-day New York and New Jersey and into Pennsylvania, then Ohio and beyond -- although sporadic raids on English settlers continue, staged from far outside the area.

The nineteenth century

The Lenape were the first Indian tribe to enter into a treaty with the future United States government during the American Revolutionary War. The Lenape supplied the Revolutionary army with warriors and scouts in exchange for food supplies (since they were fucking relocated) and the promise of a role at the head of a future native American state.[1].

The Lenape are continually crowded out by European settlers and pressured to move in several stages over a period of about 175 years with the main body arriving in the Northeast region Oklahoma in the 1860s. Along the way many smaller groups split off in different directions to settle, to join established communities with other native peoples, or to stay where they were and survive while their brothers and sisters moved on. Consequently today, from New Jersey to Wisconsin to southwest Oklahoma, there are groups which retain a sense of identity with their ancestors that were in the Delaware Valley in the 1600s and with their cousins in the vast Lenape diaspora. The two largest are:

* The Delaware Tribe of Indians (Bartlesville, Oklahoma)
* The Delaware Nation (Anadarko, Oklahoma)

Most members of the Munsee branch of the Lenape live on three Indian reserves in Western Ontario, Canada, the largest being that at Moraviantown, Ontario where the Turtle clan settled in 1792.

The Oklahoma branches were established in 1867, with the purchase of land by Delawares from the Cherokee nation; two payments totalling $438,000 were made. A court dispute then followed over whether the sale included rights for the Delaware within the Cherokee nation. In 1898 the Curtis Act dissolved tribal governments and ordered the allotment of tribal lands to individual members of tribes. The Lenape fought the act in the courts but lost, the courts ruling that in 1867 they had only purchased rights to the land for their lifetimes. The lands were allotted in 160 acre (650,000 m²) lots in 1907, with any land left over sold to non-Indians.

In 1979 the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs revoked the tribal status of the Delaware living among Cherokee in Oklahoma, and included the Delaware as Cherokee. This decision was finally overturned in 1996. The Cherokee nation then filed suit to overturn the recognition of the Delaware as a tribe.

In 2000 the Delaware Tribe of Western Oklahoma took possesion of 11.5 acres of land in Pennsylvania [2].

Lenape nations today

* in Colorado:
o Delaware Tribe of Colorado
* in Delaware:
o Nanticoke Indian Tribe
* in Kansas:
o Christian Munsee (Swan Creek and Black River Chippewa and Munsee)
* in New Jersey:
o Nanticoke Lenape Indians
o Ramapough Mountain Indians
o Unalachtigo Lenape
* in Ohio:
o Delaware Tribe of Ohio
* in Oklahoma:
o Delaware Tribe of Indians (Bartlesville, Oklahoma)
o Delaware Nation (Anadarko, Oklahoma)
* in Ontario:
o Moravian of the Thames First Nation
o Delaware of Six Nations (at Six Nations of the Grand River)
o Munsee-Delaware First Nation
* in Pennsylvania:
o Eastern Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania
o Laurel Rige Lenape Tribe
o Lightning Valley Lenape Tribe


Notable Lenape Indians

* Tamanend -- leader who according to tradition negotiated treaty with William Penn

French and Indian War era:

* Neolin -- the "Delaware Prophet"
* Teedyuscung -- "King" of the eastern Delawares
* Shingas -- Turkey clan war leader
* Tamaqua -- Turkey clan civil leader, aka "King Beaver"

American Revolution era:

* White Eyes -- Turtle clan civil leader
* Killbuck (Gelelemend) -- Turtle clan leader
* Buckongahelas -- Wolf clan war leader
* Captain Pipe -- Wolf clan war chief


References to the Lenape in literature

The Delawares feature prominently in The Last of the Mohicans, a novel by James Fenimore Cooper.

The Delawares are the subject of a legend which inspired the Boy Scouts of America honor society known as the Order of the Arrow.

Thank You Mr. LaGreca !!!

http://www.observer.com/2011/10/exclusive-occupy-wall-street-activist-slams-fox-news-anchor-in-un-aired-interview-video/

FOX: "Alright, fair enough. You have a voice, an important reason to criticize myself, my company and anyone else. But, let me ask you that, in fairness, does this administration, President Obama, have any criticism as to the the financial situation the country’s in…?" 

~ This is the kind of logic/media being vomited on "Christian Conservatives"
to justify White Power
and Bush II stealing two elections
and wars.

All in the name of corporate spreadsheets that see war and prisons as growth industries.

How twisted must White Power become...
that the advocates of a "hands off" government
invade, imprison and kill

thinking the Prince of Peace will reward them and theirs ~
justifying their hate and shame
with victorious love?

When for-profit media ceases defining Conservation or Christianity we all win.
Even Rush Limbaugh, even though he will likely whine about it.
Even the Bush Cartel, even though they will likely have surrendered their left eyeballs- live on National television.

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/10/why_did_the_new_1.php

on the bReach @ Nor Man D

Voter I.D. laws are Eurotrash Gestapo inflicted by the perVasiVe rot of 3 decades of G.H.W. Bush and his failing kartel.



It is a psyop myth that U.S. national elections can be swayed by a horde of illegal immigrants. When the warmongers surrender their wars Presidential elections can resume the pomp and circumstance they intended. It can be a global fiesta eVery 4 years instead of a 365/24/7 incessant lie that reacts to the detritUS of HiStory.



~ the only reason I would want a confederate flag on my car is if President Obama put it there and told me to pick up Pauline Whitesinger and Mr. Dan Blackgoat. Preferably after I caddied for him and Tiger Woods.

"History is not something to be shunted onto the backs of our children." Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Thank you, Mrs. President

For reclamation of the word SAFARI !!!




Alls i want for Keshmish is to caddy for Mr. Tiger Woods !!!

Democratic King ~ I love you Mr. Carter

Please publicly address the Bush Cartel.
For the People.
For Peace!

I have been independent of political parties my entire life, but was raised Very republican. Born in 1974, the first President I can personally remember in office was you, and I remember people hated you. Mostly because they could only get gasoline every other day, and there were long lines. Also because you were not killing hostage takers. But those are early childhood memories, fuzzy and obscure. Most conversation was about Nixon back then.

But then the head of the CIA stole our Nation from you, with an actor suffering Alzheimer's.
Then his sons did it again.

Please help end this coup

 

Same Old Shit

I am glad Mr. Obama beat John McCain and became president.

Ralph Nader would have been even better.

A traditional, indigenous Dine' (Navajo) grandmother/freedom fighter like Pauline Whitesinger would have been best, in my opinion.
( http://blackmesais.org/2008/12/ancient_ways/ )

I hope to live to bear witness to a State of the Union address that is translated into English from an indigenous tongue.

That said,

the U.S.A. is still ensnared in the seesaw battle of Republicans and Democrats.

At this point both sides are warmongers.

The primary difference right now is that when Republicans wage war it benefits the U.S. economy, when the Democrats do the same our economy weakens.

In my 35 years of life there have been 4 wars, one started by Dwight Eisenhower and the other three by George W and H.W. Bush.

All three of those men are Republicans.

Democrats are not capable of maintaining peace.

Something has to change.