From the pages of Indianz.com:
U.S. moves to stop Oglala Lakota hemp farm
THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 2002A federal judge on Tuesday ordered an Oglala Lakota family to stop planting and harvesting hemp on their South Dakota ranch after tests showed traces of marijuana and cocaine.
U.S. District Judge Richard Battey granted a temporary restraining order against Alex White Plume and his family. The White Plumes have come to national prominence for asserting a sovereign right to grow hemp on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
[. . .] The dispute here is one of scientific and legal debate. Hemp and its illicit cousin marijuana both contain an active ingredient called tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).
In marijuana, a certain amount of THC gives users a characteristic "high." Hemp doesn't do that.
Recognizing the difference, the Oglala Lakota Tribe in 1998 passed a law that legalizes hemp, which can be used for a number of purposes. The most significant use on the cash-strapped and equity-poor reservation is for homes.
"The people used to have the buffalo for our food, clothing and shelter," said former President Joe American Horse at the planting of hemp seeds in April 2000, on the 132nd anniversary of the Sioux Nation Treaty of 1868. "Now, hemp can do that for us."
Given what happened to the buffalo, that may not be the best comparison to make.
Technically, this is a national sovereignty dispute. As in:
Stating the USA does not make treaties with ethnic minorities but only with other sovereigns, [Program Manager for Slim Butte LUA and former President of the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council Jim] American Horse said he is prepared to exercise the self-determination inherent in the Oglala Sioux Tribe as a successor government under the Treaty of 1868.
I'd suggest that if they want to be taken seriously, they should start blowing shit up, but. . . no, I'm already on a watch list.
If they want to be taken seriously, they should start blowing shit up.
And remember, one corpse in a dinner jacket is worth a dozen in uniforms!
What? It's their land, they can do whatever the fuck they want. Or is anyone suggesting the farmers in Zimbabwe should quietly accede to Mugabe's insane little directives?
Issues are always so much clearer when they involve someone else, aren't they?
Good of you to comment on Mugabe's "directive." I thought I was the only one paying any attention to that situation.
"When we said sovereign nation we didn't realy mean, you know sovereign."
The Zimbabwe thing really bothers me, because while it is seriously fucked up, most of the coverage provides zero context. It's just "Evil African dictator attacks the most productive members of his country, poor innocent white people who just magically appeared there one day."
I saw some reports about the use of Anthrax in Rhodesia, but that seems to have dropped off the radar.
And now some tourist will accuse me of being an apologist for Mugabe.
Is there a way to have an IQ test for visitors, or something to screen out the moronic?
Not to minimize the current death count...but I wonder how many people were killed in the process of stealing that land in the first place?
Is what I'm wondering.
As I recall, the current "prime suspect" in the FBI/CIA's investigations on the whole anthrax mail issue, Dr. Steven Hatfield, was semi-somewhat-kinda-maybe-justalittlebit involved in the Rhodesian era biowarfare... a bit more here: http://www.iacenter.org/ft-detrick.htm
The Death count for american soil?
The Current CONSERVATIVE esitmate based off of new england journals and other such availalbe dats suggests that the actual death toll was somewhere near 17 million. That's just in North Anmerica.
Care for some lite reading?
A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas, 1492 to the Present
by Ward Churchill...240 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.17 x 8.52 x 6.02
Publisher: City Lights Books; ISBN: 0872863239; (January 1998)
And a nice one on my home town:
A Poison Stronger Than Love by Anastasia M. Shkilnyk... Yale Univ Pr; ISBN: 0300033257; (March 1985)
damn, got me all uppity just thinkin about it.
PS: I know the White Plumes personally... I used to live next door to them. don't believe the Govt. Hype - most of them are good folks, but like any family, they got a few bad apples in tha bunch. Particularly Harlan, I really dislike that sunuvabitch.
Heh, and I forgot IT IS NOT THIER LAND... it is held in trust by the Us Government... which is like giving your big brother you allowance to hold on to when he's got a hot date with the local easy piece in 20 minutes.
reminds me of the kids in the hall sketch at the laundromat where the guy wants to buy the rights to say that he owns the other guys underwear... but he still gets to PHYSICALLY KEEP his underwear...heh...lmao.. ok, now it's rediculously funny.
I forgot something... TEHCNICALLY soviergn dependant nations (reservations) are NOT allowed to trade with anyone but the FEDs. Can't be lettin all that uranium and buried nuclear waste bein sold to terrorists now (although the goin concern was commies back in the day. Damn, I miss teh cold war)
They often enter into trade agreements with states, but it is all regulated by the BIA or the DoI... both federal agencies.
And this is why a diverse readership is good. People point out when I'm talking out of my ass. Thanks, dog.
Where you been lately?
I've been know to dispense ass wisdom as well.
I've been hanging out with Mr. Sanborn and doin some time on the powwow trail. My Judge Dredd job burned down in a wild fire :P... ah well, next year!
Ouch. Anybody hurt, or lose their house or anything?
Either I tuned it out, or the media decided fires boring and stopped covering them.
So what now, Mister I-Am-The-Law?
I was thinking about becoming a culutre vulture and selling beads and trinkets to the white folks to survive (the idea makes me giddy with poetic sumthin or other)... otherwise I'm entering a CDC porgram and then I'm gunna umm.... sell beads and trinkets to the white folks to survive
No one got burned down or hurt... and interesting aside is that the guy in charge was instructed by invisible forces to burn down those cabins years ago... somethin ta do with insanity and canibalism that popped out there back in the early 70s when they moved everyone from the village to new ultra modern facilities (with septic tanks leaking into my groudnwater supply)tsk tsk tsk... somebody didn't listen to his anscestors.