cleaning out the culutral biases in this document, as my own bias perceives
them to be:
1. unless your ancestorsx never left the olduvai gorge, you are not indigenous,
except by some special definition.
2. the documnet appears to create a special definition--
ongoing refusal to submit to what sociologists term " assimilation".
the document appears to say, in context to those of us who recall wounded
knee and can draw a resource map, that much of the planet's "nuclear" resources
cannot be made subject to assimilation, and other resoruces as well may be so
freed from the yoke of conquest.
the nations which are named as having voted against have done the poorest job
of annhiliating or assimilating people with more indigenous claims than the
present linguistic/cultural majority in other countries.
this statement >>might<< conform to some statments by the Master about the
leadership role to be had by first nations peoples.
it >>>might<<< further conform to a Statement that in the future there would
be more kings.
in my own fevered hopes, it might be an acknowledgement that all cultures are
based in religion, and that in matters of religion there can be >>>no<<<
compulsion.
thus, until the UHJ tells me what "gambling" is, and what to do about it,
other than, as the Guardian has already indicated, not use it as a Fund raiser
for the Faith, whether or not any one else devotes real erstate and resource to
its furtherance has nothing to do with me. and should the UHJ tells me such,
there would be no effect on my relationship to choices others make, other than
choosing to align with them, or not.
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