From: Ernie Karhu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> YOUR SUPPORT IS URGENTLY NEEDED!
>
> The Dine'h people at Big Mountain, Arizona, desperately,
> urgently need your help to stop the human rights violations being committed
> against them by the United States government. They have been given the
> ultimatum that they are to be off their sacred land of Big Mountain by
> February, 2000. The media has been curiously silent about this entire issue.
> The Dine'h people need your help to force the national media to make public
> the atrocities that they are having to endure. They also need your help
> to continually remind Congress, the President and Vice President that the
> laws that were enacted to cause the mistreatment of the Dine'h people must be
> repealed. Time is running out for the Dine'h people--and for us all.
>
http://members.xoom.com/senaa/index2.html NOW.
DINEH AND HOPI
ARE BEING FORCED OFF THEIR LAND!
December 31, 1999 is the Deadline, says the U.S. Government
IS THE U.S. GOVERNMENT GUILTY
OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS?
Animals confiscated, elderly Dineh people denied the right to gather
firewood or get water, and other basic human rights violations.
Why have the national news media, usually so quick to jump on any story
of significance, who have seemed so sympathetic toward American Indian
rights in recent years, been so silent about this atrocity?
The "Pot Calling the Kettle Black?"
How can the leader of one nation accuse another of violating people's
human rights and launch armed attacks against that country when the
accuser is committing similar crimes against his own people?
What is the pattern here?
How does this fit into the larger picture?
"The tendency of power to increase itself, particularly when
exercised by a single individual... would terminate in virtual
monarchy.... The Executive department has become dangerous....
As long as the love of power is a dominant passion of the human
bosom... so long will the liberties of a people depend on their
constant attention.... The danger to all well-established free
governments arises from the unwillingness of the people to believe in
the existence... of designing men.... History, ancient and modern, is
full of such examples. Caesar became the master of the Roman
people and the senate under the pretense of supporting the
democratic claims...; Cromwell, in the character of the protector of
the liberties of the people, became the dictator of England, and
Bolivar possessed himself of unlimited power with the title of his
country's liberator.... The tendencies of all such governments in their
decline is to monarchy... and, like the false Christs whose coming
was foretold by the Savior, seeks to, and were it possible would,
impose upon the true and most faithful disciples of liberty. It is in
periods like this that it behooves the people to be most watchful of
those to whom they have intrusted power."
President William Henry Harrison
George Washington referred to this [tendency] in his Farewell Address,
1796: "A small but artful and enterprising minority.... are likely, in
the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which
cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert
the power of the people and to usurp for the themselves the reins of
government;... This leads at length to a more formal and permanent
despotism. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually
incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute
power of an Individual... [who] turns this disposition to the purposes
of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.... Ill founded
jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against
another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. - It opens the
doors to foreign influence and corruption."
Machiavellianism
"n. The theory and practice of power politics elaborated from
Machiavelli's The Prince: envisaging: (Machiavellianism), namely
( 1 ) seizure, maintenance, and extension of absolute power by the
nicely graduated use of guile, fraud, force, and terror;
( 2 ) control by the ruler of all avenues of communication, thus
facilitating the deliberate molding of public opinion;
( 3 ) the employment for surveillance and terrorist activities of
subordinates who can be disowned and liquidated by the ruler, who
thus escapes the blame for their atrocities."
It appears quite clear that we are seeing such a crisis on our own soil!
The "foreign influence" of which George Washington warned is already
taking place.
It has been almost 500 years since Machiavelli argued that any
action is permissible to gain and keep political power; that the
end-justifies-the-means; that creating crisis is necessary to
concentrate control.
Unfortunately, after reading Machiavelli, can we watch or otherwise view
the news on the net and here in this post without wondering if there is an
enemy behind the enemy? Is this just Clinton? Can one person be that
powerful? Or is this a generic conspiracy of power: Power corrupts!
In baseball there is a saying, "Keep your eye on the ball," in global
politics its "Keep your eye on who's ending up with more power!"
So what can we do?
GO TO: http://members.xoom.com/senaa/index2.html NOW.
READ ABOUT IT AND GET INVOLVED.
THEN:
REPEATEDLY CONTACT THE MEDIA.
REPEATEDLY CONTACT EVERY CONGRESSMAN.
REPEATEDLY CONTACT THE PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT.
REPEATEDLY CONTACT THE UNITED NATIONS.
DEMAND that the American public be made aware of these
crimes perpetrated against the Dine'h people by the U.S.
government.
DEMAND that Public Laws 93-531 and 104-301 and S1973 The
Navajo Hopi Land Dispute Settlement Act of 1996, signed into law by Bill
Clinton, be REPEALED.
DEMAND that ALL civil, Constitutional and human rights be
fully and immediately restored to the Dine'h people.
DEMAND that the Dine'h people be compensated by the U.S.
government for the extreme hardship that it has inflicted
upon the Dine'h people.
DEMAND that the Dine'h people have all livestock returned to their
possession in healthy condition.
DEMAND that rebuilding, repair, and renovations of the
Dine'h homes begin immediately so these people can live
decent, healthy lives.
DEMAND that Peabody Coal Company be made to comply with
federal mining regulations and replenish the water supply
taken from the aquifer that lies beneath the Hopi and Dine'h dwellings
so
that the Hopi and Dine'h will once again have sufficient water for
themselves and their livestock.
DEMAND that Peabody Coal Company (PCC) and the Mojave
Generating Station (MGS) be ordered by the EPA to clean up the air, water
and soil that they have contaminated since their openings in Arizona and
keep their pollution to an absolute minimum.
DEMAND that PCC and MGS abide by the Dine'h people's rights to free
expression of religion, including the preservation of their holy sites
such as Big Mountain and others.
DEMAND that a thorough clean-up be conducted of the area
contaminated by uranium mining and that it be done in such a manner that
contamination levels in the streams will return to levels at or below the
recommended "safe" level of radiation.
THE RIGHTS OF EVERY INDIGENOUS AMERICAN HANGS IN THE
BALANCE!
WE MUST UNITE AND ACT AS ONE TO HELP THE DINE'H PEOPLE!
IF WE ALLOW THESE ATROCITIES AGAINST THE DINE'H TO CONTINUE, IT WILL TIP
THE SCALES TO SUCH A DEGREE THAT WE MAY NEVER BE ABLE TO RECOVER.
GO TO: http://members.xoom.com/senaa/index2.html NOW.
READ ABOUT IT AND GET INVOLVED.
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