Russell Means checks in with his as-always reasoned & balanced (and completely unrehearsed) take on today's decision, written (allegedly) in response to Truthforce's lament. (ht Leah):
If you’re an American Indian in the United States of America, whether you are a Lakota or a Navajo, a tenured professor or a Nobel Peace Prize winner, or an elected president of another country, you will not receive justice in any form from the white people of America.Taste those bitter, frustrated tears of unearned victory denied. Savor them. Yesssss.
They attacked Vine Deloria, Jr. (on the day of his funeral), Rigoberta Menchu and Evo Morales. An Indian on a reservation can’t get justice. And a tenured professor can get unconstitutionally thrown out, vindicated by a jury of his peers in a court of law, and it doesn’t matter.
Everyone I’ve named cannot fight back. Evo Morales has to worry about being the president of a country; Rigoberta Menchu has to continue working for her people. Vine Deloria is dead. Indian people on reservations have no power of any kind. Only Ward Churchill has the ability to fight back and win, and it’s still not good enough. They still quash him.
The American Indian has been living at Guantánamo Bay since the founding of the United States of America.
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Just avoid public bathrooms.
jgm () (URL) - 07 July '09 - 22:01
Well, Well, Well! Russel Means rounds up the usual suspects. Unfortunately, he needed to do more research. Vine Deloria studiously avoided speaking out on Churchill - either for or against - suggesting that he wasn't a believer of Churchill's scholarship or pontification. Rigoberta Menchu's Nobel was received for a work largely written by someone else, and which fabricated parts of the story to make her appear more sympathetic than she really is. H-m-m-m-m, do I detect a pattern here?
Orson Buggeigh - 07 July '09 - 22:37
Means says, ". . . [American Indians] will not receive justice in any form from the white people of America."
Or from the black people of America. Is he not aware that Judge Larry Naves is black.
Linda Sue Grimes - 08 July '09 - 03:03
What in the sweet hell does Means think the judge's ruling has to do with the ability of an indian to get a fair trial? Churchill isn't even close to being an indian, and surely even Means knows that.
Klaymore () - 08 July '09 - 05:19
Russ shows he can't count. The 99% of REAL American Indian columnists who have called FAKE INDIAN a phony, faker, liar, cheat, loser, loud-mouth, etc.
Russ -- pity on you and your mental blindness.
Frank () - 08 July '09 - 06:17
But Frank, any indian who doesn't agree with Means has been colonialized, haven't you heard? Therefore they don't know what they're talking about, and must be protected from themselves (as has so often been the case with AIM, by murder if necessary).
No doubt Judge Naves has also been rendered incapable of rational thought by White Male Mind Control (all rights reserved).
It's really the perfect argument, since it applies equally to any dissenting viewpoint without requiring the smallest degree of introspection or deliberation.
Klaymore () - 08 July '09 - 07:32
K: what of Quantum?
Inconvenient fact that even Russ might have a problem with -- those 99% of columnists have MORE American Indian BLOOD-QUANTUM than FAKE INDIAN.
Yes, Russ would claim they are brain-washed. Their answer: yo Mama, Russ. We run our turf -- you run yours.
Frank () - 08 July '09 - 07:45
Frank, you're right about everything except Means having a problem with facts. Means doesn't give a shit about the facts, and he never will.
Klaymore () - 08 July '09 - 22:56
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