Today, let the one of to five per cent of the US population
who are the richest and overwhelmingly, and specifically
white men or their women or if gay their men should give
thanks for having the privilege, and clearly the disgraceful
arrogance of their power to take what wasn't theirs from
the Indians to whom it did belong, this land of the "free."
Yeah, "free," free to rape, torture, pillage, kill, enslave,
and yes to put a huge number of Indians in concentration
camps, euphemistically referred to as reservations, as this
would supply the white man, particularly the rich and super
rich white man with more slaves, as not enough were at
the time were available for the rich white man in Europe,
and especially Western Europe. Sure the sovereign in
England and others like he had brought many such as
the Irish into slavery after taking what wasn't theirs by "
brute force of the sword, but they had not yielded enough
slaves for their "majesties." Bringing over slaves from
Africa would help the rich white man, but he "needed"
even more slaves to carry out the "proper duties" of
serving their "majesties" in the way that their "majesties"
had great desire of becoming accustomed to. Thus the
Indians in this land of the "free" were just what the
sovereign in England and later his rebellious subjects,
the white ones, and especially the rich white men would
absolutely demand, and would do so more brutally than the monarch
in England ever had once the new United States with all its
"freedom" accompanied by black slavery for at least 80 years
of its existence came into being as an independent country.

The British sovereign, which had been the English sovereign,
as the monarch in England had only been for England, but in
1606 with the whole island of Britain having one sovereign for England,
Wales, and Scotland, a British sovereign was coming into being,
and in the Act of Union of 1707 officially became the one monarch,
and the entire island one country made up of those three countries.
This monarch would put relatively tight limits on white settlers in
the 13 colonies infringing on Indian land. Furthermore all those in
lands which became part of this sovereign's empire were then
British subjects with all rights of same. Whereas with the new
"republic' of the United States, Indians, the indigenous people
weren't citizens, blacks who were in slavery also weren't citizens,
women had no rights of citizens regardless of race or color. Add
to that white men without property had no minimal say in things
political with only New Hampshire not having property ownership
requirements for voting.

Olive Dickson, a Canadian hsitorian has shown that Indians
had at least minimal voting rights in Canada in 1857 in her book
entitled Canada's First Nations. This Metis, person of part Indian
and part European ancestry, also points out that during the 1870s
that one Indian who led an uprising against the Canadian government
would go on to be elected to parliament twice even though never
allowed to take his seat. Try picturing that coming close to happening
in this land of the "free," where these most minimal of voting rights
for Indians didn't come through until 1924 with a treaty. From Dickson's
book it's also clear that Canada never carried out such a grand crusade
and genocide against its Indians as did the "good old USA." The British
influence seems to have had a role in this, as the British authorities
including the monarch had never had such a backward attitude toward
the Indians.

Yes, "freedom" wasn't free, and it really wasn't at all for Indians.
These native people in this land that a monarch in England had
brought under his rule, would now be misruled much more brutally
by the "freedom loving" USA, where at least the rich, and especially
the rich white man knows he's free, "free" to rape, torture, kill, pillage,
and enslave others to suit his needs and greed and other weird
desires to dominate and make a pile of money off of, in this case the
land that wasn't even his in the first place. Damn Lee Greenwood,
"full enslavement and tyranny ahead for the rich white man."

It was a case of the wonderful, flowery, idealistic rhetoric of the founding
fathers giving way to the reality of "meet the new rich white man bosses/
same as the old rich white man bosses" with different dialects with last
shots fired in that war for "independence" and against George III's empire,
and this was definitely BTW, before the Who.

This is a day to remember that the rich white man and his flunkies
would kill or incarcerate Indians and even some others showing the
slightest willingness to resist the rich white man's rule, "the white
man's burden" or to use a complete sentence as a blood from
the ghetto would do, "The rich white man is the burden."

America on this day celebrates a day that really is a day of living a
lie of democracy even existing where the indigenous people of said
country have so completely been deprived of their most basic of
rights including ownership of their own land and by government genocide
against them, almost their own existence as a people. As William Cullen
Bryant once said "No lie can live forever, because truth crushed to earth
will rise again"-- not too bad for a European Caucasion, if I as someone of
that same European Caucasion persuasion can say so.

But as Martin Luther King Jr would put it so well, "Injustice anywhere
is a threat to justice everywhere," and what Dr King said especially
holds true in this case of injustice and oppression of Indians, the first
nations of this country whom European tribes such as mine robbed
them of, and now is the time to right this wrong and to give amnesty to
Leonard Peltier, as the political prisoner he is, who simply chose, as
did others of his people to defend themselves against an evil, oppressive
government helll bent on literally attacking these native people for just
standing up for themselves and demanding their right to self government.
It's time for a new deal for the truly forgotten man and woman, the native
Americans, with a Marshall Plan for them, and it's way the hell overdue.