Victory at Standing Rock
As soon as our good friend and beauty shoppe raconteur and bon vivant PKM marched to the frozen wastelands with thousands of his fellow vets, tyranny blinked!
We’re proud of him and you, Jane (married to him)! Get him back safe and let’s hear the tale. You two are ready to lead.
Thank you Obama!
1I was listening to my favorite Native radio show here in Abq, when he made the announcement! He was so excited. He promptly went thru his archive and found an Indian/Custer rock song! Awesome warrior music. I’m so excited too!
PKM and Jane (married to him), thanks for your participation in making this happen 🙂 I really want to here your story about this adventure PKM.
2PKM and Jane: Thank you for your service. Past and present.
3As a veteran I am proud that even though I was not involved, as soon as veterans got involved, the BLM caved. Let’s hope Hair Drumpf doesn’t go berserk over Twitter about this.
4Every once in a while, the good side wins. Problem is that our wins are often only a stay of execution, whereas their wins lead to destruction of what we were trying to protect, so we have to win every time and they need to win only once. But it IS a win, and congratulations and thanks to PKM, Jane, and everyone involved!
5Best news post-election.
6I am thrilled over this, just giddy with victory. Thank you to PKM, the vets, and most of all, my courageous, beautiful Indian sisters and brothers who’ve been there for up to 9 months. You are beautiful.
What happened on the Rock can be replicated wherever we need to. We can and must invest our hearts and souls into protecting what the NaziKKK may attack. We must not forget that there are truly Millions of Us and We are Powerful.
[BTW, if you’re wondering, I’m 1/16 Santee (aka Dakota) Indian.]
7Debbo, your second paragraph, a call to arms, is excellent! Thanks.
8That battle might have been won but I don’t think the war is over.
9Congrats to everyone. For once, some good news for our First Nations people.
A tale: Bro and I went touring the West a few years ago. Toward the end of our journey, bro wanted to visit “Custer’s Last Stand”. I’m not a scholar about that incident by any means, but I’ve done my reading and know the history that led to that confrontation. Long story short, I refused to get out of the car. I had no interest in honoring in any way the troops who took part in that attempted slaughter of native peoples who were protecting their land from encroachment. I guess Native Americans have to still do it today.
Just FYI: I also refuse to go into The National Musem of the American Indian until they change the name. Indian is like calling an African-American a negro. Not right. Boy, this country still has alot of growing up to do.
10Oh, thank God!!! I just pray that under the new Administration (if you can call it that) the stand down will not be nullified!
11Aloha and E Ale È to all the true patriots (PKM&Jane esp-too).
A battle won, a war to press on.
What I can’t understand is how every government ‘authority’, from the county mounties, state police, federalés and mercenary hired guns, run roughshod over the most decent people just expressing themselves in a completely peaceful manner.
And at the other side of the spectrum, when true subversives and self-avowed ‘enemies of our nation’ literally raise armed rebellion(s), even seizing government (our publicly-owned) property, like lands, roads, and even a National Park/Refuge (and wreaking extensive damage), threaten peoples lives (and livelihoods), those government ‘authorities’ essentially DO NOTHING physical or violent, stand back and down, and allow those traitorous vermin to act out for weeks, months, while taking no forceful counter-action whatsoever! Not even one drop of water against them.
The 2ndA seems to trump the 1stA every time.
And it is a “war”, as I’ve been saying and writing for fifteen years or more. The JBS’ers, RWNJ’s, Repthugs, talibangelicals, etc., have known it all along and acted accordingly (all-out combat mode all the time, not a hint of simpering “bipartisanship”).
And we’re still (mostly blindly) following the same failed ‘leaders’ to oblivion. Remember “oblivion”, where the Republic Party was headed, just a few years ago?? And really would have gone, had we had people with actual leadership ability at the top of the Democratic Party at all levels.
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BTW, I’ve got a nice pic of my kids standing in front of Gen. Custer’s hometown statue (he did have it coming…IMO).
12PS: I’d head for the bunker after that previous comment, but it’s flooded ATT:
http://radar.weather.gov/radar_lite.php?rid=crp&product=NTP&loop=no
Almost four days of rain and it’s still pouring down (likely until this afternoon), local rivers are now above flood stage and rising. At least it’s not too chilly out, should hit lower 70’s shortly.
13I am grateful and celebrate that we have won this battle. I do not for one minute believe that the oligarchs are giving up. We have more battles to fight. It will be a test of our resolve.
14The battle has just begun, I iz afeerd. Drumpf’s crew want to privatize federal lands on Indian Reservations and extract oil and natural gas and the hell with treaty rights and the will of the inhabitants. With this bunch of eco-terrorists running stuff they will prolly get their wettest dreams come true.
15Let’s breathe a sigh of relief but don’t go home yet. It’s not a final quit on the project. It is stalled so that an environmental impact study would be done – it was supposed to have but wasnt. Typical kleptocratic behavior, do it now and then apologize, sort of. Anyhow, it’s a breather, but not done yet, and even if the project is shut down there will be a mess of lawsuits, which would end up costing more than if they just put the darn thing where it was originally planned.
16Best news of the week. That’s not saying much.
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