Posted on 09/14/2013 6:47:53 PM PDT by markomalley
The protesters who uprooted a 9/11 memorial display at a liberal arts college in Vermont claimed they were defending Abenaki tribal lands and taking a stand against U.S. imperialism.
The Abenaki tribe’s response? “Disgusting.”
Don Stevens, chief of the Nulhegan Abenaki Tribe, said his tribe did not approve of the actions taken by five people–including one student–at Middlebury College last week. (RELATED: Student destroys 9/11 memorial, citing U.S. imperialism)
“We didn’t know anything about this and if we had we certainly wouldn’t have sanctioned it,” he said in a statement to The Addison Independent.
The 9/11 memorial display consisted of 2,977 flags placed in a field on Middlebury’s campus. The flags represent the nearly 3,000 people who died in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. The College Republicans and Democrats have cooperated to erect the display annually for years.
But this year, liberal activists uprooted all the flags on the pretext of defending the Abenaki tribe’s rights. The field is tribal land, they claimed, and Native American beliefs prohibit disturbing the earth on hallowed ground.
But Steven said there’s no evidence that the field is an Abenaki burial site. And even if it was, the flags would be a welcome presence.
“Our burial sites honor our warriors and their bravery,” said Stevens. “Putting flags in the earth to honor bravery would not be disrespectful.”
Two people admitted to participating in the destruction of the memorial. One is a student, Anna Shireman-Grabowski. She is also a contributor to Salon.
The college condemned the incident as vandalism, and is investigating.
“There is always something to learn from differences of opinion,” wrote Middlebury President Ron Liebowitz in an email to The Daily Caller. “In this case, the disrespectful methods of the protesters overshadowed anything that might have been learned from the convictions they claimed to promote. We will not tolerate this kind of behavior.”
The Leftists respond:
“Too bad, so sad, we win, you lose, teabaggers...”
HEAVENS NO!
however witl the stream media cover this up?
“Our burial sites honor our warriors and their bravery,” said Stevens. “Putting flags in the earth to honor bravery would not be disrespectful.”
Not the lefts kind of “indian” at all..
“The Abenaki tribe’s response? “Disgusting.”
Obviously they aren’t “real” Native-Americans.
The day after the vandalism, there should have been 20,000 flags put in the ground.
And bikers standing guard.
Let the weenies try to start something then.
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Student Protesters Rip 2,977 American Flags Out of Ground at 9/11 Memorial (Because Indian)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3066414/posts
Need volunteer guards, 24/7
If they endanger me or attack me for trying to stop the sacrilege, yes, they get shot.
Only an idiot would stand by and let it happen.
I could see an armed guard with paintball or BB guns yeah. Rapid fire this punks.
“And bikers standing guard.
Let the weenies try to start something then.”
Makes me wonder if we’re not going to become everyone’s “thin black line”, eventually.
America Hating Leftist Pukes.
Just like Obozo.
Oh please, get a grip.
What they did was terrible and I hope they get the punishment the deserve for it. But you are over the line with your fantasies of shooting people.
Few Americans know that the American Indian tribes have in past proven themselves repeatedly as extremely patriotic.
As soon as word got to the reservations of World War I and II, long lines formed at the federal offices hoping to enlist, long before the government was able to take enlistments.
In World War I, one of the eastern tribes declared a separate war against Germany, and because they were not an invited party to the armistice, they still considered themselves at war with Germany, with just a “resumption of hostilities”, when Germany declared war in World War II.
For decades many tribes enlisted entire male high school graduating classes, as a group, into the Army and Marine Corps, on condition that they be allowed to train together during their basic training.
The Abenaki people are part of the Wabanaki Confederacy, which was the first nation to sign a treaty with the US in 1776. And because of this treaty, members of this confederacy who hold Canadian citizenship can serve in the US military, and have, in recent years in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
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