Posted on 10/12/2021 3:11:02 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Hundreds of protesters led by Indigenous activists from across the country demonstrated in front of the White House on Monday to demand that Joe Biden stop approving fossil fuel projects and declare the climate crisis a national emergency.
The rally marks the start of five days of demonstrations calling for greater attention to climate injustices as Native American leaders and tribal members head to the capital to publicize their demands.
The demonstrations are part of People v Fossil Fuels protests, organized by a coalition of groups known as Build Back Fossil Free, who are urging the Biden administration take further action to reduce carbon-producing fossil fuel projects.
Monday’s demonstrations fell on a federal holiday in the US that until recently was officially dedicated to Christopher Columbus. However, spurred by national calls for racial equity and decolonization, communities across the country have over the years paired or replaced it with Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
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I might - just might - take these protesters seriously if they walked back to their homes in the wilderness where they live clothed in animal skins in shelters they have erected themselves.
This is all staged and coordinated. We will see the same protests using the socialist shock troops that are flooding across our borders. They will demand an end to capitalism and a re-write of our constitution.
Is that a scene from the Mel Gibson film “Apocalypto?”
Do these indigenous protesters represent all indigenous people? Because there are a lot of indigenous people who handsomely benefit financially from fossil fuel projects on their native lands and even from pipelines crossing their native lands.
In British Colombia they actually had indigenous people protesting ‘for’ a pipeline to cross their land.
Yes.
Great film. One of the very few modern stories to tell the sordid truth about brutal and barbaric practices of the pre-Columbian indigenous people.
In other words....pay them well and they step aside. They basically protest anything where they will not profit.
Remember Wyoming....and Cherry Valley and the massacre they wrought after DeNonville ripped through their territory.
The reality is, to shut down the economy of the “white man” altogether, and revert back to the days when the territory of what used to be known as “the United States of America” was a collection of some four or five hundred tribes of widely differing cultural and linguistic traits. From time to time, certain of these tribal units managed to create a relatively high level of civilization, such as the Mississippian culture centered in Kahokia (now in Illinois) or the Aztec empire centered in what is now Mexico City. But they always decayed back into broken and scattered tribes just barely out of the Stone Age, until white men, as explorers, landed and began making the North American continent into an extension of European culture.
The development and widespread use of coal, petroleum and later, natural gas, propelled this extension of European culture to an astonishing level of prosperity and innovation, such as the world had never seen before.
And now they want to knock us all back to the Stone Age.
This is going to involve an enormous die-back of the human beings now living on this planet, you know.
Let them freeze and starve in the dark, coughing out their last breaths in the grip of a malign series of diseases.
I wish I could say that last part was sarcasm, but that is just the vision that drives these Luddites. Equality and all that, doncha know.
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland’s daughter is an organizer/ protester.
And of course the wheel was not invented by any of the indigenous tribes of North America. It was first introduced by the Europeans to this continent.
This is simple history, but doing a search on this topic, you will find endless justifications on why the Indians were simply too smart to waste time on the wheel: it was not needed; it was counterproductive; they had canoes.
Anything but the simple (but apparently terrifying) truth that some cultures are superior to others both in intellect and invention.
At 10,000 lives a month, they sacrificed their peoples ...
Really, hey morons, so you don’t want us to drive to your casinos then? Okay. I won’t...
Do these indigenous protesters represent all indigenous people?
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Those Reservation Indian Tribal activists are paid handsomely by their Democrat masters, with the lion’s share of the payouts going to the ruling families - the protestors you see get little or nothing.
Most of US citizens of pre-Colunbian descent long ago left the reservations. The ones we see are labeled ‘reservation wonders’ by their once brothers.
A friend went to Alaska. The people he visited fished for a living. There was a pile of checks on the table from the government for a utility easement that passes through the Alaskan’s lands, a brand new Bronco in the drive and a few snow machines parked nearby.
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Oh they are so poor! Coastal Washington tribes get all the welfare benefits, timber money, whaling money, halibut money, salmon money, firework money, tobacco money, pay no federal income tax - so much so that when we bought fish from them, they kept their all cash money in chests of drawers - more than one was stuffed full - mostly $100 bills. As for boats - when their skiff engine ran out of gas they go get another boat - abandoning the old one.
The plains Indians and other western tribes got horses from the Spanish. They learned to ride/breed/keep horses from the Spanish. It enabled them a more effective way to hunt migratory animals like bison.
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