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Russell Means explaining the Republic of Lakotah’s withdrawal from treaties made with the US.

Russell Means recently gave an interview with The Final Call about the Republic of Lakotah’s secession from US treaties.  (Thanks to my favorite BLM Whore Who Just Can’t Wean Himself Off The Public Tit.)

The Final Call (FC): Specifically, what does the Lakotah sovereignty declaration mean and what is it based on?

Russell Means (RM): We unilaterally withdrew from our treaties and agreement with the United States of America. That is backed by Article 6 of the U.S. Constitution along with other amendments and also backed by the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties which the entire international community including the United States of America signed into effect in 1980. So legally, we have returned to the position we held prior to the signing of the treaties which makes us free and independent. According to national and international law, we are legally within our rights to be independent and free. Also, in the acts from Congress that enabled those five states to become states, those states expressly said they would not interfere with our affairs. Representatives of the freedom seeking Lakotah Nation signed and delivered the documents. We do not represent the tribal governments. The tribal governments are representatives of the United States and the colonial apartheid system of America. In order to save our people, our nation our language, our ways of life, our value systems, we have to withdraw.

FC: Geographically, how much land is covered by the Republic of Lakotah and how many people currently live in that territory?

RM: The area covers, two-thirds of northern Nebraska, one-half of South Dakota, about one-forth of North Dakota, twenty percent of Montana and twenty percent of Wyoming. Indians and non-Indians, about 1.5 million people live there.

FC: In your writings and speeches, you have drawn many parallels between the experiences of the indigenous people, the apartheid government in South Africa, and the occupied Palestinian territories. It appears that you are saying that wherever unjust land appropriation policies are found, they all have the same origins.

RM: Exactly! Hitler wrote that the American policy of creating reservations for the unclean and the unwanted was the perfect solution for race, and (using) that example he created the concentration camps for the gypsies, Jewish people and homosexuals. The Bantu Development Act of 1964 which institutionalized apartheid in South Africa is a copy of the Indian Reorganization Act of America which was passed thirty years before. What happened to us was the genesis and example for all land appropriations the world over—that includes Palestine. Our people are being exterminated, much like the African slaves were exterminated from their homeland and separated from their way of life. The apartheid system is the most lethal colonial policy ever created, and you have to hand it to the United States of America. They are very good at eradicating human beings in all ways physically, spiritually and economically.

FC: Are you expecting either mass migration into or out of the Lakotah territories as a result of this declaration?

RM: We know that there will not be a mass migration out of our territory. We’ve offered citizenship to anyone who wants to become Lakotah, provided they renounce their U.S. citizenship and apply for citizenship with our Nation. We know that all of those Americans and many of the Indian people in those states are not going to renounce their citizenship. We have no illusions about that, however, our nation will not have taxes and we will have individual liberty through community control.

FC: What will happen to those who live in the area but do not want to leave the land or their property they have purchased?

RM: The power we have is based on U.S. law. The negotiation tool that we will use with the city, county and state governments is the power to put a lien on any and all real estate transactions in that five-state region. What that does is that it puts the burden of proof on the seller of the real estate. They have to prove that the lien is invalid. Well, based on the U.S. Constitution, we own the land. Therefore, if we choose to do that, the real estate market in those five state areas will absolutely totally collapse. That is the power that we possess. They have a problem with their government because their government defrauded them. They bought property believing that the property was free and clear. It isn’t. We own it.

The rest.

Also, the website for Mr. Means’ total immersion school is up, and well worth a look.  (Thanks again to the Ballerina Welfare Queen.)

All right, the “motherfuckers” was all mine. But it added a certain, y’know, je ne sais quoi. (Thanks to Brenda Norrell.)

A month after the Republic of Lakotah reasserted its sovereignty, the United States and its state and municipal governments are still present and operating in the Republic. These foreign governments are being invited to meet with the provisional government of the Republic of Lakotah.

In order to recognize Lakotah sovereignty, the United States might have to admit it breached its treaties with the Lakotah people. While the breaches are numerous and obvious, governments do not like to admit that they ever do anything wrong.

History has shown that colonizers withdraw from their colonized territories and return sovereignty to the indigenous people. Even the United States has done this. The Republic of the Philippines, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau were all colonized by United States but are now all sovereign nations.

The Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau obtained their sovereignty through a Compact of Free Association, The Republic of Lakotah see this Compact as a legitimate model for dialog with the United States.

The Republic of Lakotah is now putting special focus on the Black Hills, The Black Hills are Holy lands of the Lakotah people. In 1980, the United States Supreme Court awarded money damages to the Sioux Nation for the unlawful taking of the Black Hills which now total over $1.2 billion. The Lakotah people refuse to take the money.

Russell Means, Chief Facilitator for the Provisional Government of the Republic of Lakotah said, “Would Catholic people take money and give up the Vatican? Would Muslim people take money and give up Mecca? Lakotah people want our sovereignty of the Black Hills restored and recognized by the world.”

Means made it clear that the focus on the Black Hills does not mean that the Republic is waiving its claims to other traditional Lakotah lands.

For more information about the Republic of Lakotah, visit http://republicoflakotah.com.

Means is a witless buffoon; his little cybercoup is taken seriously by no one but moonbats and the DBAB.

So sayeth anti-Churchill bloc leader Jim Paine, who, as Try-Works commenters Metroplex and Rama Lama Fa-Fa-Fa have pointed out, seems to be moonbat numero uno.

Why? Well, because Mr. Paine, in one of his innumerable apoplectic fits, has recently devoted his blog entirely to Russell Means and the Republic of Lakotah’s withdrawal from all treaties made with the US.

Leading some of us to wonder exactly what he’s so fucking frantic about.

Is it that Russell Means takes the US Constitution more seriously than Mr. Paine? After all, Mr. Paine’s stance seems to be that one should be willing to wipe their ass with the venerated document, as long as the only people suffering from said ass-wiping are fucking wogs.

Or is it that Russell Means takes property rights more seriously than Mr. Paine? Since, y’know, for all his rambling about rugged individualism and those who spend their lives at the government teat, it turns out that Mr. Paine’s been doing a bit of his own suckling over there on his semen farm.

And you can take that any way you want it.

For the slow posting. Things will continue to be slow for the next few days. In the meantime, if you ain’t already checked out the Republic of Lakotah, do. If this is a harbinger of the new year, then it will be a very good year indeed. Word is on the site that they’ve received a half million hits in one week alone. Meaning, a few hundred times what the Try-Works and all our esteemed enemies have received, combined. Which is as it should be.

While you’re at it, check out Mohawk Nation News, which has some of the best coverage of the Republic of Lakotah — not to mention, pretty much everything else — going.

Russell Means is declaring a withdrawal of the Lakota nation from treaties made with the United States. Which has all the usual assorted bigots and idiots alternately grinding their teeth and guffawing.

Leading one to wonder: given the fact that the US has refused to honor a single treaty it made with the Lakota nation — in indisputable violation of not only every professed property right principle of all ye so-called conservatives, but also the US Constitution — how long should the Lakota wait for said treaties to actually be honored?

Just a question.

And is the argument from said assorted bigots and idiots that all treaties made with the Lakota should be honored? Y’know, considering that to do so would be to actually, gasp, honor the Constitution. Which is, after all, what I thought was meant by being a fucking conservative in the first place?

Or, in this case, are the so-called conservatives — meaning bigots and idiots — in question only concerned with those property rights that, well, they and people who look like them happen to enjoy. Making them more than willing to consign the wogs to a sub-Saharan Africa life-expectancy for their own gain.

See, that’s kind of my take.

Which is why I’m calling ‘em fucking bigots.

The Lakota Indians, who gave the world legendary warriors Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, have withdrawn from treaties with the United States, leaders said Wednesday.

“We are no longer citizens of the United States of America and all those who live in the five-state area that encompasses our country are free to join us,” long-time Indian rights activist Russell Means told a handful of reporters and a delegation from the Bolivian embassy, gathered in a church in a run-down neighborhood of Washington for a news conference.

A delegation of Lakota leaders delivered a message to the State Department on Monday, announcing they were unilaterally withdrawing from treaties they signed with the federal government of the United States, some of them more than 150 years old.

They also visited the Bolivian, Chilean, South African and Venezuelan embassies, and will continue on their diplomatic mission and take it overseas in the coming weeks and months, they told the news conference.

Lakota country includes parts of the states of Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana and Wyoming.

The new country would issue its own passports and driving licences, and living there would be tax-free — provided residents renounce their US citizenship, Means said.

The treaties signed with the United States are merely “worthless words on worthless paper,” the Lakota freedom activists say on their website.

The treaties have been “repeatedly violated in order to steal our culture, our land and our ability to maintain our way of life,” the reborn freedom movement says.

Withdrawing from the treaties was entirely legal, Means said.

“This is according to the laws of the United States, specifically article six of the constitution,” which states that treaties are the supreme law of the land, he said.

“It is also within the laws on treaties passed at the Vienna Convention and put into effect by the US and the rest of the international community in 1980. We are legally within our rights to be free and independent,” said Means.

The rest.

By the way, you probably know this, but bigot and long-time Ballerina commenter William T. Sherman gets his name from General William Tecumseh Sherman, who negotiated the last treaty ratified with the Lakota. And then, when the US violated said treaty, lead the army against the Lakota in the infamous winter campaigns, attacking Lakota villages when the Lakota were least mobile and most prone to decimation by the elements. The intent of these campaigns was to force the Lakota to accept the US’s absolute right to violate its own treaties at will.

Sherman was never shy about expressing his final solution to the so-called Indian problem. In his own prophetic words after Captain Fetterman’s dunce-work, “we must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to their extermination, men, women and children. Nothing else will reach the root of this case.”

Bigot is rather the nicest thing one could call most of these racist motherfuckers.

Anyway, though Russell Means seems to be the spokesperson, at least in the above article, he is by no means the sole originator of the movement. For more, see the Lakota Freedom Delegation’s website.