From: Mike Wicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>From AREAN; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> THE CONTINUING SAGA OF THE ECO-RACISTS
>
> When I first confronted Sea Shepherd and its supporting organizations,
>over the issue of how they were handling their confrontation with the
>Makahs, I thought I was just dealing with people who were just
>opportunists who were using a tactic to win their issue. It seemed that
>they felt that they already had the support of most environmentalists and
>animal rights people and that none of these people would ever dare
>question anything they did. So they set out to increase their support
>base by joining with those who would be against anything that any
>Native people did. This was not the first time I had seen such people use
>what ever they felt they could use, including racism, to win their "issue".
>For that is an old "American" tradition. Winning a "issue" is more
>important than how you win. But the more I found out about these
>people, the more I find myself realizing there is much more to all this
>than I ever realized.
> Sea Shepherd and its supporting organizations represent a growing
>rightwing turn in parts of the environmental movement. It was in 1997
>that Sea Shepherd recruited the extremist rightwing anti-tribal activist
>Jack Metcalf in the campaign against the Makah people. Metcalf had a
>long history of not only being anti-tribal, but also a racist organizer for
>the "Wise Use" movement who was out to work in the interests of the
>corporations and white property owners. His goal was to open up public
>and tribal land to the interests he represented. Thus, he saw working
>with Sea Shepherd against the Makah people as a good opportunity to
>expand his campaign against the treaties between the First Nations and
>the U.S. Government. Sea Shepherd gave him what he wanted by also
>threatening those treaties.
> Then Sea Shepherd, and its supporting organizations, set out to
>arouse a racist backlash, not only against the Makahs, but also against
>Native people in general. The reason they went after Native people in
>general was that they hoped to force other Native people to side against
>the Makahs by making them suffer for the actions of the Makahs. Paul
>Watson made this very clear when he stated that "if the Makahs take a
>whale then all Indian people would suffer." Watson even went so far as
>to use Americian "patriotism" to advance his campaign in the same way
>it is used to arouse the Americian people against so-called foreign
>enemies. The idea was to create the image of the American people vs
>the enemy being the Makahs and Native people in general.
> The result in all this was a racist backlash that was carried on in the
>newspapers, radio and tv. Later it included many death threats, a bomb
>threat to a Native school, the harassment of Makah children, the
>harassment of Native people throughout the state of Washington and so
>on.
> Now I read in Sea Shepherd's web site that Sea Shepherd, Sea
>Defense Alliance and other such organizations have been showing up at
>recent campaign rallies of Sen. Slade Gorton and at one in Friday
>Harbor presented him with awards. Sen. Slade Gorton is another long
>time anti-tribal activist who many environmentalists know for his work in
>the interests of the timber and mining companies. In a letter posted by
>Sea Shepherd from Sen. Gorton he says; "I am more convinced today
>than ever before that we must bring common sense back to the
>relationship between this country, our laws and Native American tribes.
>All Americans should be subject to the same laws." If you do not
>understand what he is really saying let me explain it. He is using terms
>that have been used by not only by anti-tribal people but also by people
>against such things as civil rights which says that anything society does
>to correct any of the wrongs done to any group of people is some how
>taking rights away from white Americans. In this case it means
>eliminating the treaties between the First Nations and the U.S.
>Government.
> Sen. Gorton is a supporter of the Bush presidential campaign. And I
>find it rather interesting that Bush's father, the warmongering former
>president and former head of the CIA, on June 22 named Paul Watson a
>"Daily Point Of Light". In issuing this award Bush states "Your acts of
>generosity and community action exemplity the spirit of service and set
>a standard of excellence to which people of all ages can aspire." Given
>the service to the corporate community of Bush as the head of the CIA,
>as Reagan's Vice-President and then as President, we all know the type
>of service Watson was awarded for.
> Then yesterday I was sent a poem (see below) that was sent to a
>member of the Puyallup Nation by the Sea Defense Alliance
>"commander" Athena McIntyre that shows just how far the racism and
>hate has gone by some of the so-called environmentalists.
> I do not view all environmentalists as racist, even though this is how
>some have seen my words. I view myself as an environmentalist and I
>view the actions of Sea Shepherd and its supporting organizations as a
>sellout of the environmental movement. My view of environmentalism
>says that all things are connected and that we cannot sellout any part of
>the environment (such as Sea Shepherd has soldout those working on
>forest and mining issues) for the sake of one "issue". Also, we humans
>are a part of the environment and how we treat each other is directly
>connected to how we treat the rest of the environment. Thus, by using
>racism Sea Shepherd and its supporting organizations have become
>anti-environmentalists. And last, the real threat to the environment is not
>Indigenous People as Sea Shepherd claims, but rather the greed of the
>global multinational corporate industialization. Sea Shepherd, and its
>supporting organizations should be viewed as having joined the enemies
>of Mother Earth and the people.
> For The Well-Being Of
All
> Arthur J. Miller
>
> A HATE POEM BY SEA DEFENSE ALLIANCE "COMMANDER"
>Athena McIntye
>
>I AM NOBLE MAKAH WHALER!
> I LOOK UPON THE SEA
> FONDLING MYSELF, I WONDER
> WHAT THE JAPANESE HAVE FOR ME
>
> I'LL HONOR NOBLE WHALE
> BY DOING UP SOME SMACK
> AND WHEN I FINISH THAT
> I'LL DO A LITTLE CRACK!
>
> I'L SNIFF A LITTLE METH
> I'LL DRINK A KEG OF BEER
> THIS A GREAT CULTURAL TRADITION
> TIL A BABY WHALE GETS HERE
>
> I'LL BEAT UP MY WIFE
> LEAVE MY KIDDIES BEREFT
> THIS IS MAKAH TRAINING!
> AND TRADITION MUST NOT BE LEFT!
>
> TERRORIZE OLD WOMAN
> HER DEAD DOG LIES NEAR
> GOT TO HAVE SOME FUN, BOYS
> TIL' THE WHALE GETS HERE
>
> O LOOK HERE COME WHITE RAVEN
> SHE WRITING US A POEM
> WE'LL SEE IF WHITEY BUYS THE JUNK
> THAT COMES FROM THAT OLD CRONE.
>
> SEE MY NOBLE RIFLE
> 50 CALIBER YOU HEAR
> I WISH THAT I COULD LICK IT
> TIL THE WHALE GETS HERE.
>
> HA HA I'LL TELL OLD WHITEY
> A LOTTA "TRADITION" BUNK
> BUT, HECK IF HE DON'T BUY IT
> I'LL JUST GET PISSING DRUNK
>
> HE JUST MIGHT BUY MY GARBAGE
> YOU JUST CAN NEVER TELL!
> IF HE DON'T. I'LL JUST SCREAM "RACIST"
> WHEN I BLOW A WHALE TO HELL
>
> I JUST CAN'T WAIT TO DO IT!
> BLOOD AND GORE I LICK ANBD SUCK
> HEY WON'[T IT BE FUN BOYS
> WHEN THE WHITEFOLK ALL UPCHUCK.
>
> O GREAT CREATOR
> SEND A WHALE, BUT HECK
> I THINK WHILE I'M WAITING
> I'LL PICK UP MY WELFARE CHECK!
>
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