1. What the Flag Means to Me, by S. Brian Wilson 2. Eye Of The Beholder : Independence Day for the Native Americans & Indigenous People
3. Patriotism and the Fourth of July By Howard Zinn 4. Put away the flags By Howard Zinn ___________________________________ What the Flag Means To Me by S. Brian Willson July 4, 2000 I was probably seven years old before it really sunk in that everybody in my town was not celebrating my birthday on July 4. It was an exciting day with parades, picnics, fireworks and, in my case, special birthday parties and gifts. I lived much of my young life with the extra boost of having been born on the day that our earliest political framers signed the Declaration of Independence, an historical act of defiance against monarchial colonial rule from distant England. I remember proudly carrying the U.S. American flag in one of the July 4th parades in my small, agricultural town in upstate New York. And for years I felt goosebumps looking at Old Glory waving in the breeze during the playing of the national anthem or as it passed by in a parade. How lucky I was to have been born in the greatest country in the history of the world, and blessed by God to boot. Such a blessing, such a deal! It wasn't until many years later, while reading an issue of the armed forces newspaper Stars and Stripes in Vietnam, that I began thinking and feeling differently about the flag and what it represents. There was a story about an arrest for flag burning somewhere in the United States. I had recently experienced the horror of seeing numerous bodies of young women and children that were burned alive in a small Delta village devastated by napalm. I imagined that since the pilots had "successfully" hit their targets, they were feeling good and probably had received glowing reports that would bode well in their military record for promotions. I wondered why it was okay to burn innocent human beings 10,000 miles from my home town, but not okay to burn a piece of cloth that was symbolic of the country that had horribly napalmed those villagers. Something was terribly wrong with the Cold War rhetoric of fighting communism that made me question what our nation stood for. There was a grand lie, an American myth, that was being fraudulently preserved under the cloak of our flag. It took me years to process this clear cognitive dissonance between the rhetoric of my cultural teachings and the reality of my own personal experiences. I had to accept that, either there was serious distortion in how I was interpreting my personal realities, or the cultural rhetoric was terribly distorted. Hmm. A dilemma! If I accepted the former, I could relax and feel good about being an "American." If I accepted the latter, I would experience a serious identity crisis, perhaps a nervous breakdown. But no matter how hard I tried, I could not ignore what my own conscience was continually telling me. I began a serious reflection that included careful study of U.S. and world history. When I was a teenager living near Seneca Indian reservations in western New York State I occasionally heard Seneca acquaintances utter "jokes" about how the "White man speaks with forked tongue." We thought it funny at the time. But then I discovered how my country really was founded. There were hundreds of nations comprised of millions of human beings--yes, human beings--living throughout the land before our European ancestors arrived here in the 1600s. The U.S. government signed over 400 treaties with various Indigenous nations and violated every one of them. And over time these original peoples were systematically eliminated in what amounted to the first genuine American holocaust. When I reread the Declaration of Independence I noted words I hadn't been aware of before: "He [the King of Great Britain] has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions." Honest history reveals that the very land upon which our founding fathers began this new experiment in freedom had been taken by violence and deceit, ironically using the same diabolical methods the framers accused of those already living here. It became obvious after extensive reading that my European ancestors did not believe that Indigenous Americans were human beings worthy of respect, but despicable, non-human creatures, worthy only of extermination. The pre-Columbus population of Indigenous in the Western Hemisphere is estimated to have been at least 100 million (8-12 million north of the Rio Grande). By 1900 this population had been reduced to about 5 percent of its former size. An Indigenous friend of mine, a Seneca man who had served the U.S. military in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, and then after retiring, discovered his ancestral roots as a native American, once remarked to me: "I call the American flag 'Old Gory,' the red representing the blood, and the white, the bones, of my murdered ancestors." When adding to our first holocaust the damage done to African cultures through forcefully seizing human beings to be slaves in order to build our early agricultural and industrial base, and the carnage from nearly 300 U.S. overt military and thousands of covert interventions in the Twentieth Century to acquire access to markets and resources on our selfish terms, we see there are actually three holocausts that have enabled the "glorious American civilization" to be what it is today. It is now estimated that Africa lost 50 million of its population to the slave trade, at least two-thirds of whom were killed resisting capture or died during the horrors of transit; an estimated 20 to 30 million people in the Third World have been killed as a result of U.S. interventions. Note that when other peoples all over the globe have attempted to emulate the spirit of our Declaration of Independence (a proclamation of self-determination), such as Vietnam explicitly did in 1945, our government not only has turned a deaf ear, but has done everything in its power short of dropping Atomic bombs to destroy their efforts to obtain independence. This is the foundation upon which we have built "America." Quite the karma! The founding of our Republic was conducted in secrecy by an upper class who insisted on a strong national government that could assure a successful but forceful clearing of western lands, enabling the safe settlement and economic development of previously inhabited Indigenous territory. Our Founding Fathers did not represent the common people. Some historians believe that if the Constitution itself had been subjected to a genuine vote of all the people it would have been resoundly defeated. Subsequently, what evolved is a political system run by plutocrats who perpetuate an economic system that protects the interests of those who finance their campaigns (a form of bribery). The U.S. government is a democracy in name only. Never have we had a government that seriously addresses the plight of the people, whether it be workers, minorities, women, the poor, etc. Whatever has been achieved in terms of rights and benefits for these constituencies, i.e., the people, has been struggled for against substantial repression, and the constant threat the gains will be subsequently lost. Intense pressures are applied by the selfish oligarchy which seeks ever increased profits, rarely, if ever, considering the expense to the health of the majority of people, their local cultures, and the ecology. What the West calls capitalism is nothing like what Adam Smith had in mind with his views of decentralized networks of small entrepreneurs working in harmony with the needs and forces of others in their own communities. What we have is a savage system of centrally institutionalized greed that is unable to generalize an equitable way of life for the majority of people here in the U.S., or in the rest of the world. It requires incredible exploitation of human and other natural resources all over the globe with the forcible protection of military and paramilitary forces financed or sanctioned by governments. It thrives on its own sinister version of welfare where the public financially guarantees--through tax loopholes, subsidies, contracts, and outright bailouts--the profitable success of the major corporations and financial institutions, especially, but not exclusively, in the military-industrial complex. Additionally, our monopoly capitalism defines efficiency by totally ignoring the true costs of its production and distribution. It conveniently forgets the huge ecological and human exhaustion costs (both being our true wealth). If these costs were included, the system would be finished in a second. The reality, upon honest examination, is that the economic system we call capitalism, now neoliberal, global capitalism, is cruelly based on a very fraudulent set of assumptions that justify massive exploitation. The reality, upon honest examination, is that our political system was founded, and has been maintained to this very day by substantive plutocracy, not democracy. So when I see the flag and think of the Declaration of Independence, instead of the United States of America, I see the United Corporations of America; I see the blood and bones of people all over the globe who have been dehumanized, then exterminated by its imperialism; and I see a symbol that represents a monstrous lie maintained by excessive, deadly force. It makes me feel sick, and ashamed. And I know that my opinions being expressed here will not be popular, even among some of my closest friends. But I cannot ignore the reality as I now understand it. I believe we are living one of the most incredible lies in history, covered over by one of the most successful campaigns of public rhetoric, ignoring empirical reality. It is truly amazing! I hope that one day we will end our willful ignorance and be able to see our transgressions, and beg, on our knees, for forgiveness, and then wail as we begin to feel the incredible pain and anguish we have caused the world as well as our own bodies, minds, souls, and culture. Brian's web site is: HYPERLINK "http://www.brianwillson.com www.brianwillson.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Eye Of The Beholder : Independence Day for the Native Americans & Indigenous People © Robin Carneen (revised with reference links : 7-2-06) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Independence Day is in the eye of the beholder, we are all truly free, we don't need the government's permission."~~~~Robin Carneen It will be Independence Day.... When the lands are given back to us and we don't have to do fundraisers or occupations to get them back http://www.eurekareporter.com/Stories/fp-05270408.htm http://www.wiyot.com/ When the Yellowstone buffalo are not hazed and killed by government agencies http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/ http://www.nativecalling.org/archives/list1999.html 1/28/99: Buffalo Slaughter(audio archieve) When rocks are not sold as souvenirs on Alcatraz Island http://www.cqservices.com/MyCQ/News/?V=3987 http://www.nativecalling.org/archives/list1999.html 10/21/99: Alcatraz: Thirty Years Later When Native American names, references, and images are not used as Sports mascots and/or for commercial selling of products whether it be a brand of RV or alcoholic beverages, etc http://www.allaboutall.info/article/American_Indian_Movement http://www.nativecalling.org/archives/list1999.html 2/10/99: The Fighting Sioux(audio archieve) http://www.nativecalling.org/archives/oldlist.html 7/25/96: This Bud's for You(audio archieve) http://www.nativecalling.org/archives/list2000.html 12/12/00: Who Owns Crazy Horse? When we can have equal time in our classrooms across the United States, to learn and speak our languages and have cultural curriculum as part of our every day school day, so it is not lost forever http://www.tribalcollegejournal.org/about/news.html#reform http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2/content_storage_01/0000000b/80/0d/6b/50.pdf http://www.rlnn.com/ArtApril06/LanguageIsLife.html http://www.nativecalling.org/archives/list1999.html 1/13/99: Saving our Languages(audio archieve) When we have funding in our schools so our children can learn, all our children...fund schools , not War http://www.aiefprograms.org/ When all tribes can be "recognized" and those that already are, understand the hurt and frustration of those that aren't for whatever reason an rally around them in their legal fight to gain & keep that recognition http://www.northregionems.com/native/Samish%20Nation.htm http://www.nativecalling.org/archives/list1999.html 10/5/99: Cashing In on Federal Recognition(audio archieve) When we can keep our casino monies and take care of our own or distribute it to those who come to us for help...not necessarily to balance budgets, but for needs in their own communities, even non-natives http://www.atniedc.com/philanthropyold/wisdom.htm When we all have health care, card carrying or not, "native or not" http://www.ihs.gov/ When we can have statues that also commemorate our own people...like Sarah Winnemuca http://www.indianz.com/News/2005/011036.asp When we can change an/or establish historical markers to reflect the truth and not glamorize the murders http://www.turtletrack.org/Issues02/Co07272002/CO_07272002_Gold_Greed_Genocide.htm When we can see curriculum in our school books and classrooms that are not romantisized and glossed over, when it comes to what really happened in and around Indian Country http://www.oyate.org/ When we don't have to ask permission to hunt and gather for sustenance, ceremony, or for medicinal reasons http://www.nativecalling.org/archives/list2000.html 4/27/00: Whaling Season (audio archieve) 2/24/00: Alaska's Subsistence War (audio archieve) When all Sacred Sites are protected forever from development & preserved for present and future generations to come http://www.wm.edu/law/cnews/print.php?id=1080670798&archive= http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1046812366 When our ancestor's remains or artifacts are uncovered/discovered, that the corporation or construction companies JUST STOP and finds a different place to build http://www.ndnnews.com/Repatriation.htm When DJ's on certain radio stations stop putting Indian people down and if it happens, they are confronted and asked to stop making racists remarks and show some compassion When we can get our Indian Trust $$$ back out of the US Government's hands http://www.indiantrust.com/ When we can get adequate and efficient housing for all Reservations and rancherias and there is no waiting list http://nativecalling.org/archives/list2001.html#02132001 2/13/01: Housing Crisis in Indian Country (audio archieve) When poverty dissipates and children and adults do not have to go hungry, whether they are "native" or not When we can get more of a variety of commodity foods and some fresh food...like eggs, milk, etc http://www.sondra.net/links/na-body.htm When we can all have enough land given back to grow our own foods or be given plant starts and/or seeds & the tools to grow individual or community gardens on the Reservations or Rancherias http://www.nativecalling.org/archives/list1999.html 1/25/99: Bringing Native Food Crops to Market (audio archieve) When our Tribal lands are stopped being used as toxic and nuclear waste dumps and/or pathways to transport these materials http://www.nativecalling.org/archives/list1999.html 10/28/99: Dumping on Yucca Mountain(audio archieve) 4/21/99: Toxic Hot Spots(audio archeive) When the US Government apologizes and is held to answer for the atrocities and genocidal acts it did against countless Indigenous people http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0526indianapology26.html When our President makes a visit to each Reservation and rancheria and finally realizes what he has contributed in trying to create a new "democracy" in the Middle East may not necessarily be welcome or will be the answer, because it is not working for Native Americans who are still waiting for treaty promises to be fulfilled http://www.internationalanswer.org/ When our ceremonies are not sold by those who disrespect the pipe, the sweat lodge, the Sundance and the things that help us heal and pray http://www.nativecalling.org/archives/list1999.html 9/30/99: Plastic Shamans(audio archieve) When we can get roads, power, phones, and computers to the Reservations and rancherias that are without these things http://www.eda.gov/Research/NativeAmerican.xml When we have a gym, clinic, wellness center, Boys and Girls Club, Cultural Center, college on each and every Reservation When we have more prevention programs and activities on the Reservations and rancherias http://www.naclubs.org/main/grand_opening.shtml When we have our own radio station on each Reservation and rancheria that wants one and/or that native people get more air time on existing stations...and that existing Native stations continue to get all the funding to need to broadcast http://www.civilrights.org/issues/indigenous/details.cfm?id=29616 When we have more kids graduate from High school, college, and vocational programs...When we have adults returning back to school and getting their GED http://www2005.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp/~krkvls/edu.html When we have less or no Indigenous people in prison and jail or political prisoners like Leonard Peltier wasting away awaiting a fair & just trial http://www.nativecalling.org/archives/list1999.html 11/24/99: Book-of-the-Month: "Prison Writings" (audio archieve) 2/4/99: Free Leonard Peltier (audio archieve) http://www.nativecalling.org/archives/list2001.html 3/29/01: Native Women in Prison (audio archieve) When we have more rehabilitation facilities, preferably offering traditional and Indigenous programs that will help those suffering from addiction get back and stay on the "Red Road" http://www.whitebison.org/ When women are not referred to by the name "Squaw" & men "Chief" http://www.tomjonas.com/squawpeak/squaw.htm http://www.nativecircle.com/offensivewords.htm When HIV/AIDS/ Domestic Violence/Suicide/Drug abuse/alcoholism/and other plagues on and off the Reservations and rancherias will not claim any victims http://www.ihs.gov/PublicInfo/PublicAffairs/Director/2005_Statements/NANAINA-Nov_18_05.pdf http://www.nativecalling.org/archives/oldlist.html 6/30/95: Living with AIDS(audio archieve) When Winona La Duke sits as President in the White House http://www.motherjones.com/news/special_reports/1996/01/laduke.html http://www.honorearth.org/aboutus/composition/staff/winona.html http://www.filmakers.com/indivs/Tbirdwoman.htm Please feel free to add to this list.... In closing, the following page is suggested for those who have not read the article recommending videos regarding Native American history, written by Sharon Pacione. Thanks to Janara for putting it on his site. http://www.sapphyr.net/na-active.htm Submitted in the spirit of freedom for all life, Sharon 444 *Sharon Pacione* [EMAIL PROTECTED] =============================================================== AlterNet Patriotism and the Fourth of July By Howard Zinn, AlterNet Posted on July 4, 2006, Printed on July 4, 2006 http://www.alternet.org/story/38463/ In celebration of the Fourth of July there will be many speeches about the young people who "died for their country." But those who gave their lives did not, as they were led to believe, die for their country; they died for their government. The distinction between country and government is at the heart of the Declaration of Independence, which will be referred to again and again on July 4, but without attention to its meaning. The Declaration of Independence is the fundamental document of democracy. It says governments are artificial creations, established by the people, "deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed," and charged by the people to ensure the equal right of all to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Furthermore, as the Declaration says, "whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it." It is the country that is primary--the people, the ideals of the sanctity of human life and the promotion of liberty. When a government recklessly expends the lives of its young for crass motives of profit and power, while claiming that its motives are pure and moral, ("Operation Just Cause" was the invasion of Panama and "Operation Iraqi Freedom" in the present instance), it is violating its promise to the country. War is almost always a breaking of that promise. It does not enable the pursuit of happiness but brings despair and grief. Mark Twain, having been called a "traitor" for criticizing the U.S. invasion of the Philippines, derided what he called "monarchical patriotism." He said: "The gospel of the monarchical patriotism is: 'The King can do no wrong.' We have adopted it with all its servility, with an unimportant change in the wording: 'Our country, right or wrong!' We have thrown away the most valuable asset we had -- the individual's right to oppose both flag and country when he believed them to be in the wrong. We have thrown it away; and with it, all that was really respectable about that grotesque and laughable word, Patriotism." If patriotism in the best sense (not in the monarchical sense) is loyalty to the principles of democracy, then who was the true patriot? Theodore Roosevelt, who applauded a massacre by American soldiers of 600 Filipino men, women and children on a remote Philippine island, or Mark Twain, who denounced it? Today, U.S. soldiers who are dying in Iraq and Afghanistan are not dying for their country; they are dying for Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld. They are dying for the greed of the oil cartels, for the expansion of the American empire, for the political ambitions of the president. They are dying to cover up the theft of the nation's wealth to pay for the machines of death. As of July 4, 2006, more than 2,500 U.S. soldiers have been killed in Iraq, <http://www.defenselink.mil/%20news/> more than 8,500 maimed or injured. With the war in Iraq long declared a "Mission Accomplished," shall we revel in American military power and insist that the American empire will be beneficent? Our own history is enough to make one wary. Empire begins with what was called, in our high school history classes, "westward expansion,"a euphemism for the annihilation or expulsion of the Indian tribes inhabiting the continent, in the name of "progress" and "civilization." It continues with the expansion of American power into the Caribbean at the turn of the 20th century, then into the Philippines, and then repeated Marine invasions of Central America and long military occupations of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. After World War II, Henry Luce, owner of Time, LIFE, and Fortune, spoke of "the American Century," in which this country would organize the world "as we see fit." Indeed, the expansion of American power continued, too often supporting military dictatorships in Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, because they were friendly to American corporations and the American government. The record does not justify confidence in Bush's boast that the United States will bring democracy to Iraq. Should Americans welcome the expansion of the nation's power, with the anger this has generated among so many people in the world? Should we welcome the huge growth of the military budget at the expense of health, education, the needs of children, one fifth of whom grow up in poverty? Instead of being feared for our military prowess, we should want to be respected for our dedication to human rights. I suggest that a patriotic American who cares for her or his country might act on behalf of a different vision. Should we not begin to redefine patriotism? We need to expand it beyond that narrow nationalism that has caused so much death and suffering. If national boundaries should not be obstacles to trade-- some call it "globalization"--should they also not be obstacles to compassion and generosity? Should we not begin to consider all children, everywhere, as our own? In that case, war, which in our time is always an assault on children, would be unacceptable as a solution to the problems of the world. Human ingenuity would have to search for other ways. Howard Zinn is a veteran of World War II and author of the bestselling book, A People's History of the United States. <http://alternet.bookswelike.net/isbn/10060528370> The following essay is an excerpt from Zinn's forthcoming book, A Power Governments Cannot Suppress <http://www.citylights.com/>. © 2006 Independent Media Institute. All rights reserved. View this story online at: http://www.alternet.org/story/38463/ . Published on The Progressive (http://progressive.org <http://progressive.org> Put away the flags By Howard Zinn On this July 4, we would do well to renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out America to be blessed. Is not nationalism -- that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder -- one of the great evils of our time, along with racism, along with religious hatred? These ways of thinking -- cultivated, nurtured, indoctrinated from childhood on -- have been useful to those in power, and deadly for those out of power. National spirit can be benign in a country that is small and lacking both in military power and a hunger for expansion (Switzerland, Norway, Costa Rica and many more). But in a nation like ours -- huge, possessing thousands of weapons of mass destruction -- what might have been harmless pride becomes an arrogant nationalism dangerous to others and to ourselves. Our citizenry has been brought up to see our nation as different from others, an exception in the world, uniquely moral, expanding into other lands in order to bring civilization, liberty, democracy. That self-deception started early. When the first English settlers moved into Indian land in Massachusetts Bay and were resisted, the violence escalated into war with the Pequot Indians. The killing of Indians was seen as approved by God, the taking of land as commanded by the Bible. The Puritans cited one of the Psalms, which says: "Ask of me, and I shall give thee, the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the Earth for thy possession." When the English set fire to a Pequot village and massacred men, women and children, the Puritan theologian Cotton Mather said: "It was supposed that no less than 600 Pequot souls were brought down to hell that day." On the eve of the Mexican War, an American journalist declared it our "Manifest Destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence." After the invasion of Mexico began, The New York Herald announced: "We believe it is a part of our destiny to civilize that beautiful country." It was always supposedly for benign purposes that our country went to war. We invaded Cuba in 1898 to liberate the Cubans, and went to war in the Philippines shortly after, as President McKinley put it, "to civilize and Christianize" the Filipino people. As our armies were committing massacres in the Philippines (at least 600,000 Filipinos died in a few years of conflict), Elihu Root, our secretary of war, was saying: "The American soldier is different from all other soldiers of all other countries since the war began. He is the advance guard of liberty and justice, of law and order, and of peace and happiness." We see in Iraq that our soldiers are not different. They have, perhaps against their better nature, killed thousands of Iraq civilians. And some soldiers have shown themselves capable of brutality, of torture. Yet they are victims, too, of our government's lies. How many times have we heard President Bush and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld tell the troops that if they die, if they return without arms or legs, or blinded, it is for "liberty," for "democracy"? One of the effects of nationalist thinking is a loss of a sense of proportion. The killing of 2,300 people at Pearl Harbor becomes the justification for killing 240,000 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The killing of 3,000 people on Sept. 11 becomes the justification for killing tens of thousands of people in Afghanistan and Iraq. And nationalism is given a special virulence when it is said to be blessed by Providence. Today we have a president, invading two countries in four years, who announced on the campaign trail last year that God speaks through him. We need to refute the idea that our nation is different from, morally superior to, the other imperial powers of world history. We need to assert our allegiance to the human race, and not to any one nation. 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