<!--QuoteBegin-dhu+Dec 23 2008, 05:17 PM-->QUOTE(dhu @ Dec 23 2008, 05:17 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Ancient Struggle Continues, Scholars Remain Clueless
By Brannon Parker Â
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First, there is the matter of "grey and black propaganda" through which U.S. covert agencies, working hand in glove with the mainstream media, distort or fabricate information concerning the groups they have targeted. The function of such a campaign is always to deny with plausibility public sympathy or support to the groups in question, to isolate them and render them vulnerable to physical repression or liquidation. As concerns AIM, grey propaganda efforts have often centered upon contentions (utterly unsubstantiated) that the "Indian agenda" is to dispossess non-Indians of the home-owner, small farmer or rancher type living within the various treaty areas. [This flies directly in the face of the formal positions advanced by the AIM and associated groups working on treaty land issues.
AIM has consistently held that it seeks lands held by the U.S. and various state governments (such as National and State Parks, National Forests and Grasslands, Bureau of Land Management areas, etc.) as well as major corporate holdings within the treaty areas. Small landholders would be allowed to remain and retain their property under "landed immigrant provisions" or, in some cases, naturalization.] In terms of black propaganda, there have been a number of highly publicized allegations of violence which, once disproven, were allowed to die without further fanfare. This has been coupled to "leaks" from official government sources that AIM is a "terrorist" organization. [This is based on testimony of a single informer at a hearing at which the AIM leadership was denied the right to cross-examine or to testify.]
The propaganda efforts have, in large part, yielded the desired effect, souring not only the average American citizen's perception of AIM, but-remarkably-that of the broader U.S. internal opposition as well. The latter have been so taken in upon occasion as to parrot the government/corporate line that Indian land claims are "unrealistic," "not feasible," and ultimately a "gross unfairness to everyone else."Â Some books on the subject:Blood of the Land:
The Government and Corporate War Against the American Indian Movement, by Rex Weyler.New York: Everest House, 1982. Loud Hawk: The United States Versus the American Indian Movement, by Kenneth S. Stern.Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994. http://aimovement.org/mckiernan.htmlhttp:/...m/siege.htmlThe Role of AIM Leaders in Indian Nationalism
<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->[right][snapback]92136[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->The dispossessed native American Traditionalists may not even ask for their "5 villages" (in a continent that is actually entirely their own) without it being decried an offense equal to blaspheming against the christian gawd, and having as consequence that the US punishes them for this "intolerable blasphemy".
How do those traditionalists bear it? How can the rest of the world bear such infuriating injustice? Oh, but I overlooked that much of the rest of the world holds to the same jeebusjehovallah as the US and therefore sees nothing wrong in this at all.
By Brannon Parker Â
[...]
First, there is the matter of "grey and black propaganda" through which U.S. covert agencies, working hand in glove with the mainstream media, distort or fabricate information concerning the groups they have targeted. The function of such a campaign is always to deny with plausibility public sympathy or support to the groups in question, to isolate them and render them vulnerable to physical repression or liquidation. As concerns AIM, grey propaganda efforts have often centered upon contentions (utterly unsubstantiated) that the "Indian agenda" is to dispossess non-Indians of the home-owner, small farmer or rancher type living within the various treaty areas. [This flies directly in the face of the formal positions advanced by the AIM and associated groups working on treaty land issues.
AIM has consistently held that it seeks lands held by the U.S. and various state governments (such as National and State Parks, National Forests and Grasslands, Bureau of Land Management areas, etc.) as well as major corporate holdings within the treaty areas. Small landholders would be allowed to remain and retain their property under "landed immigrant provisions" or, in some cases, naturalization.] In terms of black propaganda, there have been a number of highly publicized allegations of violence which, once disproven, were allowed to die without further fanfare. This has been coupled to "leaks" from official government sources that AIM is a "terrorist" organization. [This is based on testimony of a single informer at a hearing at which the AIM leadership was denied the right to cross-examine or to testify.]
The propaganda efforts have, in large part, yielded the desired effect, souring not only the average American citizen's perception of AIM, but-remarkably-that of the broader U.S. internal opposition as well. The latter have been so taken in upon occasion as to parrot the government/corporate line that Indian land claims are "unrealistic," "not feasible," and ultimately a "gross unfairness to everyone else."Â Some books on the subject:Blood of the Land:
The Government and Corporate War Against the American Indian Movement, by Rex Weyler.New York: Everest House, 1982. Loud Hawk: The United States Versus the American Indian Movement, by Kenneth S. Stern.Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994. http://aimovement.org/mckiernan.htmlhttp:/...m/siege.htmlThe Role of AIM Leaders in Indian Nationalism
<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->[right][snapback]92136[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->The dispossessed native American Traditionalists may not even ask for their "5 villages" (in a continent that is actually entirely their own) without it being decried an offense equal to blaspheming against the christian gawd, and having as consequence that the US punishes them for this "intolerable blasphemy".
How do those traditionalists bear it? How can the rest of the world bear such infuriating injustice? Oh, but I overlooked that much of the rest of the world holds to the same jeebusjehovallah as the US and therefore sees nothing wrong in this at all.