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Illegal Aliens - Die free Current mood: confused Category: Life

FIGHTING TERRORISM SINCE 1492

So there are people in the United States who believe that the people they refer to as illegal aliens do not have a right to our support and understanding. They claim that their children are invading our schools. They claim that these less than american invaders have no right to any support from the government or public at large.

They claim that they are invading us, and that we owe them nothing. They claim that their presence is a threat. They claim that affording these people the same rights as the legal or naturalized residents of the US is insane.

I hope so. Historically speaking these same people’s ancestors ? as immigrants to the US (European invaders) who by todays standards and in the reality of our history would be declared terrorists by any political or governmental faction afforded some extra-special rights to the native brethren of this land of ours. These actions were the derivative source of their perceived power and claim to the lands they came to occupy. An excerpt from an article previously posted on the Manataka website offers up the following example:

Who are the illegal immigrants?

Here is a small tale about the rights afforded to a legal citizen of these United States near the turn of the last century.

In 1890, Sitting Bull was dragged from his cabin on the Standing Rock reservation in South Dakota by Lakota policemen appointed by white authorities. One of the officers killed the defenseless chief with a shot to the head.

A few weeks later, the St. Louis Republic in Missouri editorialized:

“So when Sitting Bull was surprised and overpowered by the agents of the Great Father, he set his greasy, stolid face into the expression it always took when he was most overcome by the delusion that he was born a native American from native American ancestry. Disarmed and defenseless [sic] he sat in the saddle in which he had been put as a preliminary to taking him to prison, and without a change of countenance urged his handful of greasy followers to die free. This idiotic proceeding he kept up until he was shot out of the saddle. So died Sitting Bull. So was removed one of the last obstacles in the path of progress. He will now make excellent manure for the crops, which will grow over him when his reservation is civilized.”

Sitting Bull might have been one of the last obstacles to Anglo settlement of the West, but his killing wasn’t the last abuse of Native Americans by any means. Abuses of property and rights continue to this day, and they spring from the same destructive immigrant practices such as greed and elitism that were brought here by foreigners long ago, which help to explain why illegal immigration is of special, if grim, interest among some Indians. JoKay Dowell, a media consultant and Quapaw-Peoria-Cherokee activist based in Park Hill, Okla., has been closely following developments related to illegal immigration. She views the matter from a Native American perspective.

“The immigrant nation that is the U.S. has a short memory,” she said, “and is in denial of their own historical facts: they are descendants of immigrants who came here and took, either by force, coercion or dishonesty, lands and resources and banned the religions, languages and cultures of the original indigenous peoples of this continent. Now those descendants of Uncle Sam’s immigrant children fear the karma of their ancestor’s actions. But those they fear do not come to take, destroy and claim. They have always been here and always will be.”