Standing Rock: Do Something to Help
The police in North Dakota are now threatening to go in and destroy the water protectors camp at Standing Rock.
Large numbers of veterans from around the country are presently making their way to Standing Rock to stand alongside the people. It will be interesting to see how the police deal with that.
In the meantime you can make a phone call to defend the native people. See below by Penobscot nation (Maine) member Sherri Mitchell.
Custer’s Ghost Rides again- This time he’s riding in on the back of a big black snake. On December 5th, which is Custer’s birthday, the U.S. Army Corps is threatening to forcibly remove thousands of Native people and their allies from Sioux Treaty lands.
These lands were granted to the Sioux Tribe in the Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1868. The treaty was signed two years after Custer was sent in to kill all the Cheyenne and Dakota Sioux, so the U.S. could steal their lands. Custer failed, so the U.S. begrudgingly signed the Treaty.
Treaty law is one of the supreme laws of the land, second only to constitutional law. Treaties are signed agreements made by two or more parties. Legally, signed agreements cannot be changed without the written consent of all parties. Unfortunately, the U.S. has never been very keen on following their own laws, especially where Indians are concerned. In fact, the first U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding the tribes was in violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the Constitution. In that decision, the SCOTUS used religious law, specifically the Roman Catholic Rules of Conquest under the Christian Law of Nations to justify the taking of Indian lands (see Doctrine of Discovery). So, it should be no surprise that they have summarily violated all treaties with the Indigenous nations of this land. The U.S. breached the Treaty of Ft. Laramie in 1944, under the guise of the “Flood Control Act,” which was simply cover for the further taking of Indian lands for gold mining.
Now, nearly 150 years later, the U.S is back in Sioux territory with bigger weapons trying to complete Custer’s mission. And, they have chosen Custer’s birthday to make their stand. You get to watch as history repeats itself. The question is whether you will watch quietly or if you will stand up and do something about it.
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Call the Army Corps of Engineers and demand that they remove DAPL from their lands: (202) 761-5903
1 Comments:
Treaty has the exact weight of Law according to articles 4 and 6 as the constitution itself. Trumps advisors apparently either don't know or don't care about that, and the same for Mr Trump as they intend to break away from OAS, NATO and the U.N. with merit or not.
Treaties presumably have to be renegotiated once they're ratified by Congress. Not that there's been any real enforcement of that. The "sinking" of the Maine, Lusitania and the Pearl Harbor on each occasion was considered a breach of the treaty.
I wonders, yes I does, if they're timing the planned New Trail Of Tears to coincide with the Pearl Harbor anniversary and if so, what kind of provocateur action they've got ready?
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