My attention was drawn to this by BobDoneIt, A German in Canada who sends
out an Email-list to a circle of friends.
In the article below there are some interesting ideas for the possible
beginnings of a new 'Free-State' in America.
This one might go somewhere if only because it is non-whites who are behind it.
Comments?
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Lakota Sioux - The Bravest Americans

By Kathryn A. Graham

12/25/07 "Tribe" --- - And So It Begins

In an incredible irony, the very people that the United States have most
oppressed throughout our history may hold the key to freedom for all of us.

Few Americans remember the siege at Wounded Knee in the mid-1970s, but
perhaps they should. Members of the AIM, or the American Indian Movement,
occupied parts of Pine Ridge in protest over the brutal killings of two of
their own, the disgustingly mild prosecutions for those murders, and the
beating of the mother of one of those two when she attempted to seek justice
>from the U.S. government. The AIM were seeking their rights under U.S. law
and for the U.S. government to honor treaties with the American Indian that
had been ignored for more than a century. It was a lawful - and a peaceful
until attacked - protest.

In response, the FBI fired almost 200,000 rounds at the protesters (the
protesters did fire weapons in their own defense, but only over their
attackers' heads) in an illegal show of force that betrayed every ideal of
real freedom. The siege at Wounded Knee lasted 71 days. This was Waco
decades before Waco, largely ignored by the U.S. population due to media
indifference and the fact that the victims were not white Americans.

Later, the defense team for Russell Means and Dennis Banks was infiltrated
by a government informant, which led to perjured testimony and a very angry
judge who stated that the government was more interested in convictions than
in justice. South Dakota Judge Nichols was quoted as saying, "It's hard for
me to believe that the FBI, which I have revered for so long, has stooped so
low," and dismissed all charges against the defendants.

Apparently, all those years ago, at least a portion of our justice system
still operated as it was designed to do.

Leonard Peltier was not so lucky. He was tried in North Dakota, and was
sentenced to two consecutive life sentences in prison. He remains there
today, even though evidence recovered after the siege clearly showed that
the two FBI deaths were attributable to friendly fire. During his years in
prison, through his art and letters, Peltier has continued to work for
oppressed people everywhere.

Russell Means has remained free, and he has not been idle in the intervening
decades. A committed libertarian, he has written several books, run for
office on the Libertarian ticket, and continued to pursue a film career that
has made him a household face and name. Apart from that, he has bided his
time, waiting for just the right moment in history.

That moment has come. In September of this year, the United Nations passed a
non-binding Resolution on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Naturally,
Canada, the United States and Australia refused to sign, but this resolution
paved the way for a move that has been waiting in the wings, so to speak,
since the 1970s.

On Wednesday of this week, Russell Means led a delegation of the Lakota
Sioux people to the U.S. State Department and the embassies of Bolivia,
Chile, South Africa and Venezuela, declaring their secession from the United
States of America.

Means stated, "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." The lands of the Lakota Sioux encompass portions of
Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming and Montana. In the coming
weeks, they will take their diplomatic mission overseas to seek further
support.

Means also stated that anyone willing to renounce their U.S. citizenship
would live on Lakota land tax free, and that the Lakota would issue their
own passports and driving licenses. Since a large group of libertarians have
recently moved to Wyoming, this opens up some interesting possibilities for
a free society growing up in our midst.

The coming road will not be an easy one. I cannot see the U.S.
neo-conservatives leaving this alone. I imagine that there will be another
bloody and vicious siege taking place on Lakota land, but I also believe
that Means has timed his move correctly. If this happens as I fear it will,
the neo-conservatives will be the clear authors of their own destruction.
The American people have had enough!

You go, Russell!! You are the bravest and best of us, and the sanest and
best of America stands with you in the trials you will face over the coming
months and years.

Kathryn A. Graham, author of Flight From Eden and America Hijacked!.

Lakota Sioux - The Bravest Americans