New Blog

Dear Readers,

Due to the completely inadequate service offered to me thus far from Echo, the overtakers of Haloscan, I have decided to start a new blog because I cannot figure out how to get the a-holes off of my blog so I can post comments easily.

pudgyindian3-eugene.blogspot.com

Having put up the demanded $10 to continue with their newly formatted services, I have found that my user name and ID are not a part of the Echo service, nor does my blog exist within said service. I was able to manage my comments for a day or so, however, after receiving my $10, they haven't heard of me. Hmmm!

I have already made a new post about Steve Martin on my new blog. I am using Blogger comments with moderation. There were two comments about Paul Watson, one by kk and the other by someone I forget that never appeared in the new Echo format and thus were never published, I apologize.

I am a luddite to an extent. I went through all the html code looking for a hint as to the potential removal of Echo/Haloscan from this blog, and it has lead to nothing but anger and frustration. Much easier to move on.

See you at the new site.

Sincerely,

Eugene Douglas Johnson

The word is "Fear"

I was hiking up Hamilton Mountain, near Beacon Rock, in Washington.

My now ex-wife took me there. It was to be some sort of exercise for my psyche or some sort of armchair psychological bullshit (yet not bullshit) she had planned in her head for me. I was to hike it alone.

It wasn't the first time she did such things. Fear. Fear was a damned big way in which I ruled my life at the time. Fear. Fear was what I called into existence in my life. Fear.

The first such exercise she had me do was to hike up to the second bridge on the Balche Creek trail in Washington Park by myself, about a half-mile one way. Doesn't sound too scary, does it? Except, it was to be done at night. Her idea, I chose the time that was right for me.

I kept a little flashlight with me just in case. and headed up the trail. I used the flashlight once for a brief second, but that was all. I trudged up the trail in the dark. The darkness was like a warm blanket. But the blanket housed every demon my mind could conjur. Every demon I heard and hadn't heard of was on my trail, right behind me, ready to eat me, cannibalize me. Every demon! EVERY DEMON KNOWN AND UNKNOWN! And I was determined. Determined.

When it would get really bad, I made myself stop, wait for them to catch up. When it was worse than that, I would stop, and turn around, and face them in the darkness. I made it to the bridge, I made it back, and I only let myself feel that free form of nightmare hard breathing panic just once. Just once I ran, and after a few feet, made myself stop. Just once. Tears running down my cheeks, I stopped, breathed deep a few times, straightened high and proud waiting the imending death or torture or whatever it is the demons I gave word and existence to right behind me, and...it didn't come. I am...alive...to write this.

And so, I'm high as a kite or higher...higher I'm sure...on Bhang, a bastardization of the East Indian traditional marijuana chai. And I'm heading up Hamilton Mountain, glad to be in the hills (during the daylight) and away from my now ex-wife (ex for a good reason). I hadn't hiked this four mile stretch pretty much uphill. Four miles, one way, uphill. I saw many wonderful beautiful sights on that journey. One spot, there were lots of switchbacks. I had my head down and hiking fast to get to who knows where? The top? Suddenly, the trail is getting narrower. Hmm. Then it is barely noticeable. Hmm. Then, there is a large boulder in front of me blocking the trail. The trail doesn't go over it. The trail doesn't go around it because there is nothing but down on one side. My mind strated to make sense to my situation.

Let's see, narrow trail, steep hill on left side of rock. Nothing on right side of rock. WFT? I thought in my rather extensively high mind. I look to my left, steep hill, grass. I look to my right...DOWN! NOTHING BUT DOWN! WTF!?

My heart fell into my shoes in a feeble attempt to add weight to my feet to keep me from falling off the cliff. The trail, 8" wide, 1 foot, didn't matter, way high. HIGH! No earth to the right. HOW THE HELL DID I WIND UP HERE? WHY THE HELL DIDN'T I PAY ATTENTION? I'M F***ING HIGH! TOO HIGH TO BE THIS HIGH!

I leaned to the left with my hard, rapid, nightmare breathing. One hand on the earth hoping that there is magnets in my palm to hold me to the earth, stone, and grass.

I can hear a distant laugh in my head. Not a "You're such a stupid f***ing idiot" laugh like I thought, at first. It was the kind of laugh where, say, a child feels unsafe and gets panicky, but there is an adult there to keep them safe, like learning to swim.

"Stop," the voice smiled.

"Fuck you!" I responded.

"Stop."

"Fuck you!"

"Stop."

"Fuck you!"

I stopped. I kept my face and eyes down.

"Now look."

"Fuck you!"

The argument went back and forth for a few, but I knew I had to listen. I looked out. It was beatuiful. It was the most beautiful view I had ever had of the Gorge. I was still terribly scared.

"Now, face out. Have your toes facing out, your back to the hill, stand up straight, and look."

Holy cow. What are you asking of me?

I did as instructed, but only for a breath, and then got my ass back to the real trail where I missed the switchback. I hiked to the top and back down.

To Start the Year with a Word

One time...
One time...
I was getting high with these Rastas in Belize, South America.
This cat ran out of rolling papers, so
he just pulled out this bible
and started reading the first chapter of Genesis
right.
The first page of the bible
front and back.
We was all just quiet,
listening, ya know.
When he was done,
he ripped the page straight out the bible
and rolled the fattest spliff I ever saw.
Straight up!
You know! Straight up!
and that's when it struck me, you know,
in the beginning was the word,
you know what I'm saying,
and God said
"let there be"
and then there was
knawm sayin'!
He said it
and that's the power of creation
that's the power of MCin'.
We call things into existence.

(as best as I can make from Saul Williams', Purple Pigeons, intro.)

What shall I call into existence?
What shall you call into existence?
What shall we call into existence?

Where the "Final Solution" Really Began

I have finished reading "War Against the Weak," by Edwin Black. One of the most disturbing people discussed in it was Edwin Kasten-Ellenbogen. What was interesting about this semi-Nazi doctor interned at Buchenwald for being a Jew was the work he did for the Nazi's. You see, Edwin Katzen-Ellenbogen was a eugenicist. But wait, he wasn't just into Eugenics, he studied at the racist Cold Water Springs. But wait, he helped Woodrow Wilson when he was a governor in the early part of the 20th century create sterilization laws for the state he was governor of in the 19teens (I forget the state).

After running from the Nazi's all over Europe, he was finally arrested and deterred at Buchenwald where he enjoyed working with his Nazi brethren as a psychologist and hypnotherapist and enjoyed killing directly, and indirectly, French Communists. Nice fella, this ally of American Eugenics, Woodrow Wilson, Genocide, and the Nazi's.

The things you learn when you read history the U.S. and other governments would much rather you forget. Forget, erased, kinda like "Nineteen Eighty-Four" don't you think. "Vaporized" I believe is what they called it in the book. But thanks to Edwin Black, folk like Edwin Katzen-Ellenbogen, their alliance not only with the Nazi's, but how their ideas of Eugenics were nurtured in America, not Nazi Germany. Hmmm?!

I have also read a bit of "Nazi Nexus" by Edwin Black. I haven't finished because after the chapter on Henry Ford, I have read the material in "War Against the Weak," "IBM and the Holocaust," and am listening to "Internal Combustion," which has some of the other material. I had not known that Henry Ford was a HARDCORE JEW HATER! Henry wrote a book called "The International Jew," a Jew hating book, in the '20's. He printed a paper for a while that he forced his car lots to promote and sell. A Jew hating propaganda paper called the "Dearborn Independent." Hitler referred to "The International Jew" and Henry Ford in the original version of "Mein Kampf." Jew Hating Henry was even awarded one of the highest civlian honors from the Reich which he refused to give up despite the protests. The things you learn when you read a book. I found it most interesting that after Henry Jew Hater submitted to Jewish protests and relented on his Jew hating propaganda and forced America to stop printing his Jew Hating book, "The International Jew," Adolf edited Henry's name out of the newer versions of "Mein Kampf," again, reminscent of "1984," by George Orwell.

Feh, all that aside, I think you should read "War Against the Weak" and or "Nazi Nexus," by Edwin Black, for the following quote:

A leading Virginia racist and eugenicist, John Powell, explained his state's inter-racial marriage eugenic prohititions in these words: "Of course, laws against intermarriage cannot solve the Negro-problem in any of its aspects--industrial, economic, political, social, biological or eugenical. They can, however, delay the evil day and give time for the evolvement of an effective solution...a real and final solution." Virginia eugenicists were determined to wipe out more than just blacks. They also wanted to do away with Indians, mixed-race families and poor whites--a group that state officials collectively called "Mongrel Virginians." In fact, the state actually published an official reference pamphlet entitled "Mongrel Virginains" to expound on the issue.

--Pg. 24, "Nazi Nexus." the quote is from the 1920's.

upgrade

I am in the process of being forced, as it were, to upgrade my comments for $10. I like to call it extortion, but there you go. I could not figure out how to get the asshole Haloscan comments off of my blog and thus put up the money to upgrade, unwillingly. If I don't, I think I'd basically have to start a whole new blog in order to get just the regular Blogspot comments. I am basically a luddite and cannot figure this shit out all that easily. "Say uncle. Say uncle." ...uncle...

Wounded Knee

Today is the anniversary date of the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890. May we never forget, may the Lakota receive justice and remittance. It is said that at least one fella was still alive when they buried them in this mass grave.

Comments on Paul Watson

I'm not sure what will happen to these comments tomorrow, so I wanted to save them as a post. I will probably revert the comment stuff to blogger tomorrow.

Eugene

Paul Watson has more compassion, more bravery and more intelligence than you. What have you done to save the Great Whales? What have you done at all with your life? You are taking up space that is better used by beings of compassion and intelligence. Go away. zJ | 12.28.09 - 12:34 am | #

Unfortunately these comments are doomed to disappear in two days, the reason being that Haloscan is now charging and I plan on reverting to the comment section offered by Blogger. No doubt in my mind Paul is a brave dude. Compassionate, that is less measurable in this sense. Compassion is not a measurable attribute. And as far as your last comment, have you read anything else that I have written on this blog? What do you think of it if you have? My points were and are just what I stated in these posts. It is seriously questionable Paul Watson was at Wounded Knee is '73. Wallace claimed he didn't remember Paul, did not name anyone during that siege, nor would he have given him the name already belonging to Frank Clearwater. No one that was actually there remembers Paul Watson. There is regular talk about some mysterious photos showing him there but no one will post them on the internet for the rest of us to see. We are just supposed to accept out of hand that these photos exist, that it is actually Paul Watson in them, and that it was of Wounded Knee in '73. Eugene Johnson | Homepage | 12.28.09 - 3:41 pm | #

Paul used "Binky" Thompson, IMO, as a way to pit Indian against Indian. A wonderful tool used from the good old days to the present to keep Indians fighting amongst themselves for the gain of a third party. It is done great and small. My wife and I have seen this type of behavior even amongst many local activists. Paul also allied himself with some racist anti-environmental congressfolk at the time because he beleived the "enemy of his enemy is his friend." Slade Gorton and Jack Metcalf were there names. These folks openly expressed a dislike for Indians throughout their careers. Gorton made his fortune from the Gorton fisheries who purchased their fish from industrial trawlers out of Norway. Industrial trawlers lay waste to the ocean floor and thus, the environment of the whales I would assume, wouldn't you? Paul did not go to the Makah in a peaceful manner. Like the U.S. government, he was there to FORCE his personal ideals upon a people because...well...isn't it obvious? If someone disagreed with you and you wanted them to see how you see things, wouldn't you have a talk with them? Wouldn't you open up a line of communication? Wouldn't you try to see things from their perspective? If not, would you try to force your own personal beliefs upon another or another group? What would you call that? Being superior? Arrogance? Warlike? Destructive? Do you truly believe coming here and telling me Paul has more compassion than me changes the facts that he allied himself with powerful racist anti-environmentalists to further his attack on the Makah? That he used "Binky" as a tool for said gain like he used Slade and Jack? That he made some serious racist comments like "we've become the Indians and the Indians have become the cavalry." In order to force his personal beliefs and opinions upon the Makah, he also did his best to disrupt ceremonies and celebrations that the Makah use. Tell me, if I came to you and whatever group/s you may belong to and try to forcefully impose my beliefs upon you, what would you think of me? What would you think of the folks that follow me? Eugene Johnson | Homepage | 12.28.09 - 3:57 pm | #

And as stated, what about the campaign of mis-information? What would you think if, say, I came to you and your organization and said that you are a bunch of meat eating capitalists. Then, even though you may or may not be either, started a campaign which is easily refutable? The Makah have a treaty right to hunt whales. Treaties are the supreme law of the land according to the constitution, which means the Makah have a legal right to hunt whales and the U.S. and Paul and his buddies have no legal right to stop them. Even in the light of these facts, Paul and his buds continually informed the public without any substantiation that the Makah whale hunt was ilelgal. The Makah, as stated got their quota from the indigenous Russian quota, a total of 120, but were held to 20 a year for five years. In that five years, how many whales did the Makah kill? One. Yet, Paul and his buds continually stated that since the Makah were going to whale again that they were going to hunt whales into extinction. Who was it that hunted whales into extinction? Was it the Makah whaling that depleted the whales to near extinction in the late 19th and early 20th centuries? Who was it that did that? Eugene Johnson | Homepage | 12.28.09 - 4:04 pm | #

I will probably always hate Paul. He has not truly come forward to discuss his alleged Wounded Knee II experience with any WKII vets. He has never come forward to any WKII vets to discuss the issue around his naming. He has never discussed with his own community openly why he allied with two of the most racist and anti-environmental congress types at the time. He has never discussed openly tokenizing "Binky" in order to do the age old method of getting Indian to fight amongst Indian (didn't work, BTW). And, as with all...what do they call them...cult of personality?...folk will always hold on high Paul Watson as a great super hero without question as to any of these things. I basically have a hard time stopping myself even though I know issues such as the truth, racism, allying with racist and anti-evironmentalists, tokenizing Indians for you own gain, etc., will never stop. And folk like you will never question Paul. We all need our own personal Jesus so we don't have to take up our own responsibility. Someone else is doing it for us. Also, never heard Paul speak out against industrial trawling. Has he? I don't know. I haven't listened to all the speeches he's made throughout his life, but those I have heard, until that event at e-law, he always talked about how the whale was killed and looked him in the eye and asked him to be the savior of all whales. No one else. I question that. No doubt he saw the whale, but he is not the whales personal savior. If he was, why'd he ally with Slade and Jack? Why doesn't he sit with WKII vets and stir their memories? Why doesn't he post those photos? Why doesn't he drag members of his crew along to tell their stories and experiences? His crew members are allgedly in it to save the whales, too. Why aren't their stories as important as his? It is not just me whose motives you should question. It is everyone's, including Paul's. And what have his methods brought? Have the Japanese stopped whaling? Has anyone stopped whaling because of Paul? Has the environment gotten better because of Paul? What else does Paul do besides lecture and chase whalers to save the whales because it isn't just the whalers killing them? You do know that, don't you? Makes a damned good television show, though, doesn't it? How'd you like the way he was profiled then turns his face to the camera to record his great and personal glory? Eugene Johnson | Homepage | 12.28.09 - 4:16 pm | #

Eugene, what is the deal with Indymedia? vi | 12.28.09 - 9:00 pm | #

Shusli corrected me and informed me that Indy Media did not censor her. They were having technical difficulties and a comment she made didn't show up for two days. Me, on the other hand, have been rather inflammatory toward some of their great unquestioned heroes, in fact I believe it was Paul Watson. I pretty much said the same thing, but in rather colorful speech. I get a little tired of non-Indian types using Indians for their own gain. Happens all the time, great and small. Folk lie or take the little bits they want for their own. Indy Media folk told me repeatedly they were not censoring me and that they do not censor. I think what the fella called it, in fact, was "enhanced moderation" in order to keep right wing folk off of the forum. Since then, however, Shusli and I have talked with several other folk who claim they have been censored as well by Indy Media. Eugene Johnson | Homepage | 12.29.09 - 4:27 am | #

Addendum to: The Not So Great, Great Paul Watson

Shusli and I have made over the years that vegans seem to accept the story of Paul Watson without question. Kind of like "the enemy of my enemy is my friend."

I have met some very awesome vegan types. We met some in the summer (who are no longer vegan) and I've known of one other who are the ONLY vegans I have personally met or been in contact with that do not consider themselves far above god simply because of their dietary choice.

I do not seem to be able to post a comment on indy media. Shusli and I both allege that we have been censored by Portland Indy Media who claimed in the past that they do not censor. For some reason, I do not seem to be able to make a comment to the forum from this computer and have asked that the author of the post in an e-mail to post a comment I have made.

This is a comment I have read on Indy Media that I will quote here from the comment section of the post of the e-law dual between Paul Watson and Ward Churchill in March of '99:

Missing authentication of venorating evidence for Paul's "Nativity"

26.Dec.2009 01:04

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Vegan Cabal

link

Hello Jim, Thanks for commenting about this. Someone I spoke with who previously was a Sea Shepherd crew member saw the photos from Wounded Knee that Paul talks about. She affirmed Paul's story and we laughed because we've been fighting for liberation and sovereignty more determinately every day to live. That is a powerful force, to save our grace and satisfaction into the indeterminate ending. A sentiment that "there is absolutely no excuse to not set them loose" nails another clincher on the coffin of abusive industries in modernized concentration camps for "fur-wearing" beasts of the wild, all creative opulence beckoning early releases from hellish lamentation. ...


For some reason, the mysterious Paul Watson at Wounded Knee photos never seem to be shown but to a simple few. Why aren't these photos posted on the internet and circulated throught the Netosphere? Could it be because that maybe, possibly, could be, that there are Wounded Knee vets, folk who were actually there, who would see those alleged photos and refute them? Maybe? Hmm? Why is it that no one who was there (including the dozen or so "actual" WKII vets who were there that I personally asked) recall such the great and glorious Jesus Christ like savior of the "buffalo of the sea" Paul Watson. I mean somebody who claims such greatness as a white man honoring Indians and being the one and only Jesus Christ of the whales, Paul Watson, should be remembered by MANY if not ALL of the WKII vets, wouldn't you think? Tell me, military combat vets, I have heard that your memories are rather clear about the people around you at the time of combat. If that is true, wouldn't you think that during a 72 day seige where Paul Watson claims that he played many important roles and was allegedly given the name "Greywolf Clearwater" would be remembered by his comrades, especially considering his self-proclaimed heroics? Don't you think, military combat type vets? I think.

Now here is my more important point:

A friend of mine said he found a website where non-Indian folk talk about how great Indian stuff is, like sweating and "four-directions" and Love of nature, blah, blah, blah...WHATVER! So my buddy made a post on their stating that Indianness isn't a few momentary glimpses by non-Indians into our ceremonies. He said in a big part, it is about making community. These folk asked what they could do then. So, he told them all about the issues of what is going on with the Crow Creek in the IRS land grab and what is happening to their people from the power company and just exactly how they can help. What he has received since has been...silence.

Indians are for the most part only as important to non-Indians as to what meaning they have in the lives of said non-Indians. For example, if the self-proclaimed Jesus Christ of the whales, Paul Watson, was at Wounded in '73 during the seige and actually did do the heroics which he claims to have done and no one who was actually there seems to be able to corroborate, then listen to how he tells the story. It is not told like it is a plight of Indians against a far more fearsome and better armed power illegally occupying there land and supporting an illegal puppet government to the death and detriment of MANY Indian people. Paul Watson tells the story in how it enhances the true greater story, the story of Paul Watson.

Paul Watson is not the only person guilty of this type of behavior. Shusli and I see it all of the time all over the place. It happens great and small. There are also many non-Indian folk who do honest work to help indigenous people. How often do you hear their stories? Not often. Why? Because, oddly, they don't make it about themselves. Indigenous life does not become an accessory to their lives, like a turquoise bracelet or genuine Indian beaded necklace. It is not about how great they are for helping us Indians, it is about humanity and struggles for justice along side the Indian. Not so with Paul Watson's story. Listen to it.

And as far as being supportive of "liberation and sovereignty," but only for cute fuzzy animals, what about the liberation and sovereignty of the Crow Creek? Lab rats? Women? The plants you eat? The oceans? The homeless? All Indians? Poor white folks? Blacks? The middle class? Oh, that's right, it is not your specific narrow minded scope and definition of what "liberation and sovereignty" are. Thus, you being vegan and far superior to all other non-vegans and spirits and all other forms of life cannot be wrong in your own personal narrow minded scope. You are just too holy for the liberation and sovereignty of anything beyond your simple narrow focus.

The Not So Great, Great Paul Watson

If you want to know how great Paul Watson is, just ask him. He'll be more than happy to tell you.

In memory of fellow Paul Watson exposer, Peter Webster.

Inspired by a post on Portland Indy Media by Jim Lockhart.

A BIG THANKS to my wife, Shusli, for turning me on to this post.


PAUL WATSON IS A "POS"!

I first heard of Paul Watson on KBOO. He was being interviewed by Andrew Geller as he was heading up the coast to go fight against the Makah whaling effort. During this conversation, Paul Watson seemed like a pretty interesting fella. Something didn't seem altogether right about him, but then show me an activist where everything is altogether right about them. Then Paul made a comment that taught me to hate him forever, "We've become the Indians and the Indians have become the cavalry." Odd, however, the Indians were not seeking to slaughter women and children as the cavalry so bravely had in the past. But after the Makah got their one and only whale, a little incident happened in Forks, Washington.

After the whale was taken in May of '99, me, Skip Mahawk, and my ex-wife headed up to Neah Bay to get some of our own answers. Skip knew a fella in Forks and we stopped on the way. There we were informed by this man's wife that she worked or volunteered for Neah Bay's Head Start. They had brought a bus load of children down to Forks to watch a local school baseball game. When they pulled into town, there was a group of anti-Makah whaling protesters. These brave and glorious protesters seeing that the words "Makah Head Start" were printed on the side of the bus bravely attacked. They hit the sides of the bus with their protest signs screaming threats to the children (all aged 6 years and under) and few adults inside as well as numerous racial epithets. The bus load of kids managed to escape before the glorious and brave protesters could tear the little kiddies limb from limb. Now, who has become the cavalry?

We had brought some recording equipment with us, and Skip's friend gave us the name of a fella in Neah Bay that would be willing to talk with us. Mr. H. (not using his full name for his and his family's safety) had a lot to say about how the community had reawakened in the renewing of their whale hunting rights. More singing of traditional songs, less drinking and drugs, less depression, etc. They also told us of how Sea Shepherd Folk managed to force themselves into schools in Neah Bay to preach their anti-Indian anti-whaling propaganda to the kids up there. Mr H. also informed us of how the great Paul Watson and his Sea Shepherd Society and the Sea Defense Alliance and others would harass their ceremonies prior to and after the successful whale hunt. Those brave SELF-PROCLAIMED white Indians Paul Watson and his various thug allies, how quaint. I also asked Mr. H. about Alberta "Binky" Thompson.

You all remember "Binky" Thompson, right? I'm sure the great Paul Watson has forgotten his little Red N**ger tool by now. As the issue of the whale hunt was coming to a head, the great Paul Watson and the Sea Shepherd Society paraded a Makah elder around to denounce her own peoples efforts. I saw "Binky" speak at the "End Corporate Dominance" conference at Portland State University. Little old grandma crying for the whales and denouncing her culture and her people. She also claimed that pro-whalers had killed her dog, though she had absolutely no proof, and I bought it, kinda, at first. I gave "Binky" a hug, and so did a whole lot of other folk. But something just doesn't sit right with me when someone accuses a specific group of committing a crime that they can't prove when they have an agenda.

Mr. H. told us what he knew about Alberta "Binky" Thompson. Makah people had little respect for Alberta Thompson as an elder because she never did anything to warrant respect from the people. I asked about her safety in Neah Bay, where she lived, considering what she had done. Mr. H. said people just leave her alone like they always did. There was no threat to her safety. (I saw her at "Makah Days" a few weeks later and she was sitting around eating and having a good time pretty much by herself).

Paul Watson attached himself and his organization to "Binky" because he realized he could use her as a propaganda tool not against her own people, but to convince non-Indians that Makah elders were against the whaling and those against the whaling were being terrorized by the pro-whaling Makah. So the Sea Shepherd Society takes "Binky" on tours of their boat and offer her all sorts of little gifts and lots of undeserved unwarranted attention for one reason and one reason only, so they can use her as a tool for their own ends of attempting to stop Makah Whaling. I have only a basic understanding of psychology and the patterns in which people behave having studied them in personal life and in the greater civilization through observation, reading, and history, and so I don't come up with this accusation by simply pulling it out of my ass. It is a common method to use someone as a tool for people to gain an ends to their own means. In my opinion, however, the ends was not, is not, and never really has been getting the Makah to stop their whale hunt, especially in the case of the great racist Paul Watson.

[side note: I wonder if in that new TV show about the great (big fat and ugly) Paul Watson if he ever has had his little Red N**ger token on, Alberta "Binky" Thompson. I kind of doubt it because "Binky," being accused (and rightfully so) of being an attention whore herself, just might take away some of the attention from where it should be, on the great Paul Watson.]

Armed with this information, I started listening carefully to lectures by the great Paul Watson. I started noticing a pattern. Paul Watson was talking about the great Paul Watson. If you get a chance, and you will if you go to the Portland Indy Media article linked above, listen to Paul Watson talk about how great he is. Whales seem only a back drop in the life of the great Paul Watson according bo Paul Watson. However, you will notice that the great Paul Watson is proven a liar by Ward Churchill.

Paul Waston wrote a book about one of his favorite subjects, Paul Watson. In this book he claims to have been at Wounded Knee during the seige of '73. Even makes a few statements about events that actually happened during this time. Claims he was given a name by Wallace Black Elk during a sweat. That name was "Grey Wolf Clearwater." Paul said that Wallace told the great Paul Watson that he was on this earth to save the Buffalo of the sea, aka, whales. Odd, however, no one who was actually at Wounded Knee in '73 remembers the great Paul Watson. Now, for anyone who has been in a high stress situation such as a seige and a firefight, you are gonna remember those around you, especially someone as great as the great Paul Watson, wouldn't you think? Why doesn't anyone who was actually there remember him? Ward does claim that Paul could have been amongst the many folk who came and offered aid to those beseiged but was gone within 24 hours. It is a possibility, but rather doubtful. Ward Churchill asked Wallace about the naming and Wallace stated that he didn't name anyone during that seige. In fact, Wallace stated he wouldn't have given anyone two names ever and he especially would not have named him Clearwater, considering Frank Clearwater. It would seem that again, Indians are just a tool for the great Paul Watson to agrandize the life of the great Paul Watson. Red N**gers are just tools, tokens, and backdrops (just like whales) in the life of the great Paul Watson.

During this time there was a misinformation propaganda campaign enacted by the anti-whaling organizations. At the e-law conference panel about the whaling just prior to the taking of the whale, the great Paul Watson was telling the folk that the hunt was illegal, a clear and provable lie. Article 6, section 2 of the U.S. constitution states that treaties are "the supreme law of the land." In the Makah treaty it states that with the theivery of most their lands under the illegal conquest and occupation of the U.S. government that the Makah maintain their right to hunt whales. To state that the Makah have no legal right is to state that the U.S. constitution is a lie.

Also stated was that the whale hunt was gonna kill more whales. The Makah received their quota from indigenous Russians. The Makah could take 20 a year for five years, even though the indigenous Russian group actually gave up 120. 1, count them, 1 whale was taken in that five year period. That means 119 whales were NOT killed during that time.

Johnathan Paul was trying to propagandize on behalf of his Sea Defense Alliance organization that the Indians were going to sell products made from the whale. Funny, the Makah had sent their lawyer to sit on the panel (the Makah were too terrified to come themselves because of the actual Cavalry mentality of the alleged activist community toward them). When asked to respond, this is what he said, and I paraphrase from memory: "It is true the Makah asked me to ask the International Whaling Commission if they could sell products made form the whale because they have a treaty right to do so. So I asked. The commission said no. I told the tribe what the commission said, and they were fine with that. They will not be selling any products made from the whale." (Later, Jonathan Paul and I almost got in a fight behind the law building at the U of O. The great Paul Watson's ex wife was even involved. I forget what her name was as she was screaming at me and those with me that she was 1/8th Cherokee and therefore had some sort of supremacy over the Makah [never clearly explained]. Then again, her name doesn't really matter in the life of the great Paul Watson). It wasn't until after our little vocal altercation was ended (being photographed prolifically by a photographer from the Register Gard, though I do not believe any were published) that I noticed Jonathan Paul's bicep was about as big as my head. I have since joked with many a person that he may have sent me to the hospital had we come to fisticuffs, but I would have left him with a nasty pinch he wouldn't have forgotten for about 2 days. Jonathan Paul is now in prison for his activist work, which is bullshit. The man should be free and roaming the earth, even though I don't personally care for him all that much.

About 2 or 3 years ago, Shusli had contacted a young Makah woman about the whaling issue, shortly after the Makah's second attempt to kill a wounded whale near Neah Bay. (The attempt failed, the Navy or some group like them killed the whale and let it sink to the bottom). Shusli and I and others had a call-in program on KBOO about the whaling issue and we were talking about the great piece of s**t Paul Watson, and what his actions against the Makah meant. I went on my usual accusatory tirades of Paul Watson being an ego maniac and a liar and that whales meant only as much to Paul in how they can elevate the life of the great Paul Watson. A fella called in claiming to have been a crew member on the Sea Shepherd and that my accusations about Paul are true. He is an ego maniac, he is a racist, and whales do only mean as much to him as how he can stand upon their greatness in order to elevate his own. I also find it interesting in how few to zero of his crew members are on any lecture circuits. I never hear him mention their names other than some are former members of the SEALS (bfd). Why can't we talk with them? Why are they never on tour with him? Why does he hog all the glory? AND WHAT ABOUT THE WHALES?

I have seen clips of Paul Watson's TV show. I've seen the video of him on the helm. I can just imagine him telling the camerafolk the proper angles to get of him, how he will turn his head at a certain time and share with the world his glorious and fat ugly face. But here is another issue I have with Paul...WHAT ABOUT THE WHALES?

Whales are facing many more issues than just whaling. Truthout did a big expose on the U.S. military dumping tons of its poison gas cannisters into the bottom of the ocean. Any mention of stopping that for the whales? Any mention of stopping the industrial pollution for the whales? Any mention of the current global climate change on the whales? Any mention of the U.S. military using their sonar on the whales? Any mention of the indigenous further north and their issues in subsistance hunting whales? Anything about whales at all? All I've seen is the great Paul Watson and his (nameless?) crew members chasing down Japanese whalers. Mind you, I do not support industrial whaling under any disguise like that which the Japanese are doing, but where are the whales? What is happening to the whales? Mind you, it is more than just industrial whaling that is killing them. And all I see are Paul Watson and crew going after whalers. Nothing more. The show is about the glory of the great Paul Watson and to a lesser extent, the Sea Shepherd Society, and to an even lesser extent, the crew members. WHAT ABOUT THE WHALES?

Paul Watson, the Sea Shepherd Society, and their whole crew and supporters can GO F**K THEMSELVES! Industrial whale hunting is only part of the problem. In my opinion, because the Makah issue was getting so much publicity is the ONLY reason Paul and crew went up against the Makah. Paul was latching on to their publicity and making it his own. Had the cameras been gone, had their been little to no attention paid to the issue, I doubt Paul would have ever shown up, nor any of those other f**king a**holes. In fact, Paul would have probably been saying, if asked, the same s**t I said above, "The Makah have a treaty right to hunt whales. They had voluntarily given up that right when the industrial whaling came close to making whales extinct. Now that they whales are coming back and they received thier quota from the indigenous Russians, not only will their at best be the same amount of whales legally taken every year, but their may be even less should their hunts not be as successful." But the Makah got a lot of media, and what better for an ego maniac in his constant personal self-promotion. Whales? yeah, Whatever.

Don't get me started on some of the alleged leaders of the alleged Peace Movement, either!

40 States Unemployment Funds Will Dry Up Within Two Years

Read the whole story here.

I guess this, along with being cut down to 3 days a week at my job, are signs that the ECONOMY IS IMPROVING! Might be a good time to read "1984," which is next on my list.

Currently, as stated previously, I am reading "War Against the Weak," by Edwin Black. This book is about how the U.S. using eugenics as an alleged science (nothing to back it up, no studies, etc., kinda like Kennewick Man) to create a master race of white folk while elimating the rest of us, including lower class white folk, all of us being too feebleminded to be born multi-millionaires. So, here would be an interesting excercise in eugenics.

The "master race" types with Carnegie and Rockefeller money keep stating that it is natural for us lessers to be wiped out. It was a natural progression for Adolf and friends to slaughter Jews, Sinti, Roma, etc. Natural.

What should naturally happen to the lessers too feebleminded to have a job? That's right! According to the eugenics movement of earlier this century and what may remain of it today amongst the monied classes, the lessers should take their lumps and starve out and die. This is American thought of the master race, perfected with joy and help from the Americans in Nazi Germany.

This eugenics pattern seems to fit over what is happening to the Crow Creek folk, what is being done to the Palestinians by Israel, and I'm sure a whole lot more.

The Next "Mitakuye Oyasin"

On Thursday, December 24th, on "Mitakuye Oyasin," we will be talking with Tiokasin Ghosthorse host of "Indigenous Voices" on WBAI, Crow Creek tribal chairman Brandon Sazue, and Moses Brings Plenty on the illegal theft of Crow Creek land by the IRS to sell to a wind power company for development and the many other issues of oppression facing the Crow Creek today.

Tiokasin will be discussing the same issue on the East coast earlier in the morning.

WBAI NY "First Voices Indigenous Radio" w/Brandon and Moses and Eric Klein. Eastern Time 10:10 - 10:29 AM continue at 10:31 to 10:43.

Tune in, December 24th, 6-7pm PST to KBOO 90.7fm in Portland, 100.7fm in the Willamette Valley, 92.7fm in the Gorge.

Economics and Eugenics

Unfortunately, I have plenty of time to write considering I have been given the day off of work. It seems the the economy is improving so well [for billionaires] that my small company saw fit to give me the day off. You see, they aren't billion dollar bankers stealing tax dollars to maintain their misstresses after they made horrific financial errors. I mean, it's not like those billions in our tax dollars should go to the folk those assholes swindled to keep them in their homes. Fuck them! They Ain't Rich! I shall be looking for a part time job, now. Thank goodness the economy is improving...for billionaires who are given billions in our tax dollars.

So, here are some interesting bits from "War Against the Weak," by Edwin Black.

"Sanger's book, Pivot of Civilization, included an introduction by famous British novelist and eugenicist H. G. Wells, who said, "We want fewer and better children...and we cannot make the social life and the world-peace we are determined to make, with the ill-bred, ill-trained swarms of inferior citizens that you inflict upon us.""[pg. 130 "War Against the Weak"]

Margaret Sanger, for those of you who don't know, helped found Planned Parenthood. I agree with her as far as women having reproductive rights, but she was also a eugenicist, a believer in the master race. And she was IRISH! Irish aren't part of the master race! Irish and Scots I've heard referred to as the Niggers of Europe. C'MON! Margaret was still a eugenicist even after WWII, when most folk got to see what eugenics was really all about in Nazi Germany. Eugenicists here kept on talking euthenasia, but dismissing it.

H. G. Wells. George Orwell and H. G. Wells were friends for a while, until George wrote a criticism about him living in a fantasy world of visioning a utopia without seeing reality. Orwell's Utopia was what he saw in Barcelona, Spain when he arrived where everyone got along and worked together, only later to be betrayed by the Stalinist communists which eventually led to the long running Franco fascist government of Spain. H. G.'s was more along a eugenicist line, and he became a rather unhealthy great big fat fuck, didn't he?

I have other quotes, but I won't get into them right now.

What I find most interesting is that the alleged science behind the eugenics (Greek for "Well-Bred") movement was all but non-existent. Folk like Margaret Sanger, H. G. Wells, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Walter A. Plecker, musician John Powell, and so many others based their belief on was just that...a belief. There was literally little to no scientific foundation. The science seemed to be all pulled out of their racist, classist, sexist assholes. All of these folks despised charitable organizations (what the fuck is Planned Parenthood, if not a charitable organization?) because they believed that the lesser folk (aka, white trash, blacks, indians, mexicans, italians, eastern europeans, etc.) should be allowed to starve to death when it came to their time. No, we shouldn't help one another, but euthenize them through complicity. Shit, if America had it in it (and it was heading that way), there would have been gas chambers here before Adolf got them going in Europe.

"Feebleminded." What the hell is feebleminded? There is, of course, no clear definition of "feebleminded," but this helped the Eugenics movement sterilize many of the lower classes. You see, it wasn't really about the "master race," because most of the folk that believe/d that shit were a mighty fucked up and rather useless bunch of scum, except maybe Margaret Sanger who did at least struggle for women's reproductive rights. The eugenics movement made sure that you could be sterilized for being diagnosed as "feebleminded." There was, however, absolutely no clear definition of feebleminded, just like there is NO EVIDENCE that whites, let alone any other race, is the master race. But, Oliver Wendell Holmes of the U.S. Supreme Court in the Carrie Buck v. Bell case decided that Carrie Buck was feebleminded and worthy of sterilization.

Carrie did well in school, which makes one question the allegations of "feeblemindedness," but since when does actual evidence count in a U.S. court room? Carrie's mother was institutionalized by a copper in Virginia. His family generously took Carrie in because they needed some cheap slave labor, she was about 8 at the time. At around 18, Carrie was raped and got pregnant, and the copper had her institutionalized. The eugenicists wanted a test case to legalize all the illegal sterilizations they were performing already, and managed to get it all they way to the U.S. Supreme Court. They had Carrie, her mother, and her two month old daughter diagnosed as feebleminded. Not that they were, the eugenicists coerced and fabricated the diagnoses, but that is how the U.S. legal system works. Not only did Carrie do well in school, but her daughter, also taken in by the alleged generous copper, also did well in school, but died at 8 from a brief illness.

The eugenicists seem more interested in killing folk before they are born than they do in creating healthy human beings living in healthy environments.

You all have to read this book.

Even so, how much will all this shit matter in an economic collapse?

Auschwitz Sign Update

Auschwitz sign theft re-enacted

(UKPA) – 31 minutes ago

Three men who confessed to the brazen theft of the infamous "Arbeit Macht Frei" ("Work Sets You Free") sign from the former Nazi death camp at Auschwitz have re-enacted the event for investigators who said the crime might have been commissioned.

Polish media have reported, without citing any sources, that a person living in Sweden could be under suspicion.

Krakow police spokesman Dariusz Nowak did not say why investigators were looking at the possibility of the theft being organised, but said that "indeed it looks like someone is behind it".

Mr Nowak said foreign police have been notified and are working on the case but refused to elaborate.

Police found the sign on Sunday - cut into three pieces and hidden under snow in the woods - and arrested five suspects in northern Poland.

Officials said three of the five men have confessed to Friday's pre-dawn theft of the sign, which is a symbol of Nazi Germany atrocities during World War Two.

Prosecutor Piotr Kosmaty said the three who had confessed were taken back to Auschwitz to show investigators how they unscrewed and tore the sign, which weighs 66 pounds (30 kilograms), and is 16 feet (five meters) long, from the gateposts.

Mr Kosmaty said the two other men had denied any involvement and, further, denied being at Auschwitz.

In Krakow, police displayed the broken sign for journalists. It was cut into three parts, with each part bearing one of the words. Some of the steel pipe that formed its outline was bent and the letter "i" was missing from the word "Frei" because it had been left behind during the theft. It was recovered at the scene.

She said experts will be analyzing the sign "millimeter by millimeter" for clues as to how it was cut up and by whom.

Work Shall Set You Free

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2009/12/2009121992456163487.html


The "Work Means Freedom," sign from above the Auschwitz Death Camp museum has been stolen. You can link the article from English Al Jazeera above. An investigation is being done into the theft.

In my mind, I am starting to put a lot of shit together. The connections between the eugenics movement ("War on the Weak" by Edwin Black), to what is happening to the Crow Creek Indians in South Dakota, connected to WWII through eugenics, connected to corporations and fascism, to how we work today, to the Gulag system in Russia, to the Spanish Civil War, to George Orwell, to the current wars and the greed and need for corporations to steal the remaining resources of the world for the few, etc.

"Work Means Freedom." "Work Shall Set You Free." Maybe a corporation stole it to help motivate their workers?

I am currently listening to a biography of "George Orwell" by Gordon Bowker. I have yet to read "1984," but have read "Animal Farm" in high school which I also have coming in from the library in book and CD form. All of these things are becoming connected in my mind and I am unable to put the words clearly to blog. Eugenics, George Orwell, Spanish Civil War, current work environments of myself and those I Love, Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize, World War II, World War I, Vietnam, everything around me now and into the future, for a while anyway. I can't put it into words yet, what I am seeing in my head, but I will. Give me time. Maybe lots of words, maybe just one or two.

[side note: Listening to this biography of George Orwell, I see that he was a very strange fellow, and still rather amazing. He was very misogynist yet worked best with women. He was racist, hating Scots, yet lived among them and enjoyed their company. Goofy fella. But it made me remember a time at Aloha High School where I was taking an English Literature course taught by Dean Johnson who described the odd behaviors of, if I remember correctly, Edgar Allen Poe. Tim (last name forgotten) made mention that writers seemed like rather weird folk. Dean agreed. Tim then asked Dean if he was a writer. The whole class burst into laughter.]

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Theft of Crow Creek Land by the IRS

Shusli found this information on the Derrick Jensen Forum. We made mention of it on "Mitakuye Oyasin" yesterday as well. The land grab is so that a wind energy corporation can make money without having to pay anything to the Red Nig...er... Indians whom the land belongs to. Alleged green energy also seems to help contribute to Native American genocide, but ain't that the way the U.S. government works.

Also, check out this video made about other suffering that the Crow Creek have to put up with because they are Indians who aren't suffering enough according to the U.S. and corporations. It is disturbing (though you don't see dead bodies, you see what helps make dead bodies). Please help these folk as best you can.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGVc1QG63AM


Crow Creek Land Is Not for Sale

CROW CREEK RESERVATION, Friday, December 11, 2009—Brandon Sazue’s camper sitting in the middle of the prairie presented a lonely but inspiring image as we drove up Wednesday afternoon. Despite the bitter cold and wind, the young Crow Creek tribal chairman was taking a stand against the United States theft of any more Dakota lands, telling us “Crow Creek land is not for sale, and it never will be.”

Symbolically placing his camper under a wind data tower, Sazue has committed to remain on this parcel of land as long as it takes to achieve justice. The land is part of the 7,112 acres recently stolen by the United States government in what amounts to a 21st century land grab. Because the land is not currently held in trust, on December 4, 2009, the Internal Revenue Service used that as an opportunity to claim it and auction it off as a means to settle what they assert is a delinquent $3,123,790 tax bill. Though most of the Crow Creek reservation is situated within the poorest county in the United States, the land under dispute happens to contain world-class sites for the harnessing of wind power. As the world’s fossil fuels dwindle and alternative energy sources are increasingly sought after, Crow Creek lands also become increasingly more attractive to outside interests. Whoever develops the site for wind-energy stands to make a fortune. This connection is not lost on Chairman Sazue.

Anyone who understands the history of the Dakota people since invasion and conquest cannot help but be stunned by this attack on the tribal lands of people who have already suffered so much. After the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862, the U.S. federal government and the State of Minnesota initiated polices of genocide and ethnic cleansing against Dakota people in our beloved homeland. White Minnesotans hanged thirty-eight Dakota warriors, rounded-up and force-marched our populations to concentration camps in Mankato and Fort Snelling, then forcibly removed us from Minnesota to fulfill Governor Alexander Ramsey’s genocidal call for extermination or forced removal. Dakota people were loaded onto boats that went down the Mississippi River and then up the Missouri River on a journey that was so horrendous, a missionary at the time compared it to the Middle Passage of the slaves. Under gun and bayonet, our ancestors were brought to Crow Creek in 1863. Thus, Crow Creek began as a concentration camp.

The trauma to Dakota people only continued there. Within the first few months of arrival at Crow Creek, hundreds of Dakota people died from the dreadful conditions. In fact, the missionary John P. Williamson wrote “Nearly all the small children died in 1863.” The heartbreak from those events are still felt today. The people of Crow Creek live with that legacy, as do the rest of us with ancestors who were subjugated on these lands. After 1862, the United States government left our people with so little. Now, even what little we have is under attack again.

Sazue’s stand in defense of the land is a rallying cry to the rest of the Oceti Sakowin (Seven Council Fires) of the Dakota Oyate (Nation). Though fierce winter weather has so far kept supporters from camping out next to Sazue, a steady stream of allies offering prayers, songs, food, supplies and encouragement continues throughout each day and even more people show their solidarity through phone calls and emails. We know more of our people will be coming. Like Chairman Brandon Sazue, we will not allow these lands to be taken. We will stand with him.

Waziyatawin, Ph.D.

waziyatawin@gmail.com



Crow Creek Supporters:

In addition to your presence and prayers, we need supplies at the encampment site. The first objective at the site is staying warm. We need people to help cut, haul or donate wood to keep a fire going, lumber for building windbreaks and shelters, sandbags, blankets, sleeping bags (especially those made for below 0 temperatures), hats, scarves, mittens, boots, tarps and tipis.

Oceti Sakowin and other Indigenous relatives, please bring flags from your communities to show solidarity with the Crow Creek Oyate. Everyone bring banners—7,100 acres is a lot of ground on which to maintain our presence.

In addition, we need food, flashlights, cookware, tools (shovels, axes, saws), concrete blocks, matches, and water containers.

We also need people who have other gifts to encourage these resistors to U.S. land theft. Drummers and singers, your presence and support would be most welcome.

Supporters may stay in the tribal hall. Please bring your own bedding and linens. Showers will be available at the motel.


If you can donate some goods, please
call this number to arrange a drop-off at a south Minneapolis location:

651.283.3495



DONATING MONEY....

Crow Creek Sioux Tribe
Attn: Chairman Brandon Sazue
P.O. Box 50
Ft. Thompson, South Dakota 57339

If you have any questions you can call:

Tribal Chairman's Secretary, Carol Quilt at (605) 245-2221

SIGNING THE ONLINE PETITION.....

"Crow Creek Sioux Land is NOT For Sale"
hosted on the web by PetitionOnline.com, the free online petition
service, at:
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/CrowCrek/
<http://www.petitiononline.com/CrowCrek/>

CONTACTING OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS.....

In Minnesota Contact:

Senator Amy Klobachar: 302 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, DC
20510, phone: 202-224-3244, fax: 202-228-2186. Metro Office: 1200
Washington Avenue South, Suite 250, Minneapolis, MN 55415, Main Line:
612-727-5220, Main Fax: 612-727-5223, Toll Free: 1-888-224-9043

Senator Al Franken, 320 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, DC
20510 (202) 224-5641. Saint Paul Office: 60 East Plato Blvd Suite 220,
Saint Paul, MN 55107 (651) 221-1016.

White House Comment Line: 202-456-1111
Switchboard: 202-456-1414

Here’s a link that will take you to an email form:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

And one to the senate:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm