ANNA MAE AQUASH 29/FINALLY A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER WITH A SET OF BALLS!!!

All excerpts are in italics and from THE UNQUIET GRAVE by Steve Hendricks.

I don’t put a lot into race….never really think of myself as “white” of course I see color but I don’t base my friendships on it. I was raised a white American and am terribly proud of who I am. Not because of my color….I am one of the few people I know who isn’t afraid to look at myself  honestly good or bad. I know me. I love being American this is the greatest land with the greatest people.

Having said that this Indian history is hard to swallow there are very few redeeming white people in THE UNQUIET GRAVE  so far!! Monica Charles said awhile ago that the difference between her and I is that she fucking hates the police, and the whole “just us” system and I see them as public servants. My anger and horror of this isn’t that I have decided one way or the other who killed Anna Mae…but over the systematic corruption of our public servants who should be representing everyone!

Mark Thompson was bringing up the capitalist slave system a ways back and I have half dropped out of society for the most part.  Everything going on with the government, economy, Anna Mae for that matter happens because we are a divided. We allow ourselves to be divided. I say this to everyone complaining about the state of the world. Collectively we have asked for it. The races can no longer afford to be separate in ideology. We will either choose capitalism or we will choose the good of the people and the earth. One will lead us to survival the other to destruction.

Indians of course are discriminated against but the only way out is for people to unite. Not meaning we lose our individuality or culture but uniting. It might not be fair but the fact is unless whites are swayed into a different way of thinking about Indians their situation will not change rapidly. Unless collectively there are more people uniting for causes that are for all people much will stay the same.

Consider the Anna Mae case no matter your opinion there really is no evidence to convict anybody. There is a bunch of hearsay. Take a roomful of people divided and pointing fingers. You walk in and make 4 friends and decide that they are right and convict someone based on opinions. The general public fails to realize that the FBI could have easily picked another 4 people who have a whole different side. They could then pick another 4 people and yet a third opinion  and would  convict a whole different set of individuals. So far there is no evidence in this case.

Imagine being Arlo Looking Cloud behind bars and maybe he did it or didn’t….but the evidence is not there. He supposedly confessed. But under the influence of narcotics…If his last name was Kennedy he would be a Senator!!!!

There wasn’t one white person who liked me writing about this on alt.native. The Indians were divided. The FBI groupies don’tt like it. Most of my friends don’t like it. All in all I don’t give a shit even when I was in my teens I walked to my own drum. One Indian reading my stuff said that white people getting involved in Indian affairs makes things worse for them. I don’t believe that….I think if you are an Indian and you invest all of your hopes in some white people “fixing” everything you will be disappointed. The Civil Rights movement was successful because African Americans united and were able to also sway the majority of white people. It was successful because they were basically in charge of their own destiny. When the majority of people take action then things will change. Of course the majority of people can also do harm depending on what it is we want. Everything in the world is basically because that is what we collectively wanted. That is why I am beginning to admire reservation Indians they have the courage to not participate in the capitalist slavery system. I am sure that there are some who stay for other reasons….alcohol or mental problem. Just like in other poor areas where access to health care and education is lacking. I know a lot of white people who also choose not to participate in corporate slavery they live off the grid…grow their own food. I have a foot in each world. Woke up a bit late and can’t quite make the leap….either way!!!

I don’t have a tv in my house but when I am staying at the Red Lion I watch tv nonstop…lately everytime I am going past Nancy Grace the woman who does the crime stuff there has been no mention of the Anna Mae case. Its all about the white victims. Here is the CNN page for Nancy Grace e-mail her. No matter the side you are on the story deserves attention. See if they give a shit about an Indian woman who was murdered 30 years ago.

When someone complains to me now about the government I ask what have you done who have you written? ….nobody. My Mother does this and then uses the excuse that she doesn’t write good letters and her spelling is bad. Well guess what? America is made up of more than ivy league grads. And they aren’t too fucking smart either look at how much Harvard lost…8 BILLION DOLLARS

Everybody deserves to be heard and represented.

Anyway it still boggles my mind that the trial is being held in South Dakota. I just looked up what the percentage of people who voted for Barack Obama was in South Dakota – 45%. So the state is progressing in their issues of race. The worst states were  Utah, Oklahoma and Wyoming all in the low 30′s. Can you imagine what those places are like?? I live in Oregon and we voted 57% in favor of Obama and we still have many many issues concerning race. If John McCain had picked a different running mate then there might be speculation whether people were voting based on race….

Anyway to get on with the story AIM has taken over Wounded Knee and the FBI has set up roadblocks and President Wilson and his goons have set up a  roadblock to the roadblock. President Wilson will not allow the WKLDOC lawyers through to see their clients. They have sent a message to the FBI  who has talked to Wilson who has denied the request and the FBI…

…agents offered WKLDOC  their regrets. what could they do? The WKLDOCkers suggested that on occasion the FBI had been known to arrest lawbreakers, but their suggestion went unheeded.

Judge Andrew Bogue, one of the two federal judges in Sough Dakota and the judge of first resort for cases in the western half of the state, said he saw no reason why the goons should have to remove their illegal roadblock. Unfortunately, Supreme Court precedent left him no choice but to order the goons to let the lawyers through. The goons grudgingly let them pass.

The BIA and the FBI continued to support the goons anyway giving them shotgun shells, C-rations, two way radios,

Eventually the government parked an APC with the goons. the goons showed their gratitude by continuing to level their rifles at all travelers, federal and WKLDOC alike.

…one day the goons turned away mediators from the Justice Department on grounds that they were overly sympathetic to AIM. Wayne Colburn, the director of the Marshals Service, had by then grown tired of having shotguns pointed at him whenever he approached the roadblock. when he heard of the mediators being turned away, he grabbed tow of his marshals, puth the rest on alert, and sped to the roadblock to set the goons straight. FBI agents up the road had heard over the radio that Colburn was coming and tipped the goons who had rifles at hand..

Hoping not to inflame the Wilsonites any more than necessary, the marshalls left their guns in the van-a decision they soon regretted. Colburn gave the goons a choice: let the mediators through, or join him on a ride to jail. The goons said they intended to do neither….

“If there is going to be bloodshed,” one of the goons eventually said, “let it start here.”

Colburn later said he believed at this point that he and his men might well be murdered…..one of the marshals sidled back to the van on pretense of using the radio, grabbed a gun instead, and spun on the advancing goons. Colburn told them to get their asses up against the van.

As they did, an FBI agent appeared and told Colburn that tehre was really no need to arrest such good friends as these.

“If you’re3 not going to help,” Colburn answered, “you might as well get back up against that van yourself.”

The agent said he was under no obligation to follow the orders of a U.S. marshal.

“your ideas on jurisdiction,” Colburn said, “mean about as much to me as piss falling from the sky.” He told the agent to clear the hell out of the way, and the agent did.

Colburn took 11 goons to Pine Ridge for processing…

That night other goons reestablished the roadblock. Before Colburn could dismantle it again, FBI agents prevailed on the goons to temporarily disband it. They promised  that higher-ups in Washington wre at that moment working on a deal to let the oradblock stand….

Colburn demanded the roadblock come down…an arbiter agreed with him. That afternoon Colburn took the negotiators on Pine Ridge through the roadblock but were stopped by a teenager with a rifle. There was a standoff between Colburn and the teenager but an FBI agent stepped between them. The teenager blew a hold in a car radiator a few days later. He was never charged.

In fact the government had just decided to train the goons and put them on the federal payroll.

Of course I wish Colburn had made a stand for WKCLDOC being denied access to their clients…but like I said I’ll take what I can get!! Most of us are not concerned with others problems until they begin to effect us.

I was looking for something on the goons at Wounded Knee and found this by a band called REDBONE who I hear on Sirius all the time they wrote COME AND GET YOUR LOVE. Who knew there was an Indian band that got airplay??? Maybe everybody except me!

Anyway here is their song WOUNDED KNEE

and then COME AND GET YOUR LOVE

April 24, 2009 | Categories: Anna Mae Aquash, books, Indians, music, videos | Tags: AIM, Anna Mae Aquash, BIA, Come and Get Your Love, FBI, music, Redbone, Steve Hendricks, THE UNQUIET GRAVE, U.S.marshals, video, Wounded Knee | 3 Comments »