-Caveat Lector- Professor Afflitto
I would like to thank you for your article, entitled, "Bury My Heart at Wounded ... Jenin", read at Media Monitors. [ http://www.mediamonitors.net/index.html ] It was disturbing on one level, though: I was thinking about writing something along the same lines. Now, you've done it and so much better of a job. I have been hesitant in writing my thoughts as I am not an expert in legal or Indian affairs and would hate to come off like Barney Fife with bullets. All pretense on my part aside, what you've written is very important from the American historical perspective. Some weeks ago, I all of a sudden got the insight that the real value of the on-going Middle Eastern TRAgedy in Unlimited Morbid Acts (TRAUMA) is the vicariosity that the Eastern Elites (EEs) enjoy at the expense of those whose blood is shed and whose lives' veins and arteries are eventually collapsed. The events in the American West were chronicled, reported, and serialised by those who made their livings off of pulp fiction and dime novels. It mattered not much how truthful the contents were so long as the EEs' imaginations could be ever titillated and stimulated with an insatiable appetite for the unrealities of the West. How many of the nation's leaders ever ventured west of the Mississippi except on railroad cars, reading yellowing printed pages, listening to the imaginings of companion travelers, hearing the yarns of those who had wits whetted and whistles wetted by those eager to float into the clouds of unspun cotton, having their puffy dreams fluffed by the otherwise thirsty dullards? Again, we find ourselves amidst a real Wild West Show, courtesy of that wizened and windswept oasis of holiness, the Holey Land, having been thrust back twenty- five centuries for the lifelike theme park recreation of tribal wars for the benefit of those whose only blood, sweat and tears would emanate from the boom-box. The daily dispatches from the region increase the intensity of the fixation on "good versus evil", "civilisation over barbarism", "right and might against wrong and unstrong". Our EEs, like so many vampyres risen after a lonnggg night's sleep, know from where the scent of sanguineous succor streams. Their peace now disturbed, they will never know it again until sated. Reason be damned!!! It's a hunger!!! A thirst!!! This all came to me when I was reading an article about the failure of the Federal government to properly abide by their promises, treaties, and laws with regard to the Original American Indian trusts. [One of these articles is at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25625-2002Apr21.html ] While reading about this, in between reading about the Middle East's version of events, it suddenly occurred to me that the same thing was going on, with the only difference being the side of the World and the wrong century. It's as if the whole collective consciousness of the Congress, the Supreme Court, and the Presidency has forgotten which country they serve and the history thereof. Perhaps this is a blessing disguised in that the various American tribes can now gain some sort of status improvement and inclusion; but perhaps not. Perhaps this is just to reiterate, reaffirm, reinforce notions that all is well with the status quo. When we speak of truth, justice, and the American way, something we (through our leaders) try to project on the nations around the globe, we do indeed speak with forked tongue, not forked like a snake, but forked like a four-tined cheap metal fork, each tine bent in a different direction. But this is no revelation, just mass amnesia among the EEs. What becomes even more distressing is when we have the 21st Century version of the war dance in the nation's capital, featuring such prominent professional proponents of pro-war propagandisement as BiBi Netanyahu. BiBi has now taken the leaders by storm. In their efforts to weather same, the sunshine of their reason and memory is shown to be overcast by cloudiness when BiBi instructs them on the meaning of September the 11th last, that the United States and Israel have been joined, bonded, fused by the fires of terrorists' . "Excuse me?!?" The myopic tunnel- visionists accept this despite the chronicles of NON-Original American Indian history. How many terrorist attacks have been focussed on the United States in the form of assassinations, riots, extrajudicial groups such as the Klu Klux Klan, the protesters against the KKK, or Olympian abortion clinic bombers? How many of Mother Nature's whims been endured, the fires, earthquakes, hurricanes, blizzards, and droughts? How many of our natural resources, our rivers, lakes, streams, wetlands, pasture lands, farmlands, towns, cities, how many of these have contended with pollution, some reversible, much not? And we have BiBi lecturing our leaders on adversity? Terrorism? The dangers of not keeping our words, promises, and legal obligations? And we haven't hardly had the time or inclination to instruct him on the meaning of the Original Americans in context. I was thinking about donating a copy of the original, uncut version of *Soldier Blue* with Candice Bergen, but I'd hate to get the right message taken the wrong way. I'd hate for it to be misconstrued as a further cause for "bondage". A<>E<>R Red River Rover of the North Grand Forks, North Dakota, US of A <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. 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