“He organized the families into the clans, and then he set up the leaders of the clans. He established that the league of peace would be matrilineal and that each clan would have a clan mother. Thus, he established in law the equal rights of women. He raised the leaders of each clan, two men, one the principal leader and the second his partner. They were to work together for the good of the people. He called these two men “Hoyanah” or the “good minds”, the peacemakers: and they were to represent their clans in council. This, he established the principle of representation of people in government. Henceforth, he said, these men will be chosen by the clan mother, freely using her insight and wisdom and ratified by full consensus of the clans, chiefs and Grand Council of Chief of the Five Nations.”
What they never told us
By Oren Lyons
with the resources of the
American Indian Law Alliance
March 26, 1993
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The following is not directed at anyone in particular. So if it sounds like I’m talking to you, then I probably am…
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Anyone who has read what Jesus had to say would know that Christianity does not follow Jesus’ teachings on any conceivable level. But rather, the good Christian seeks to use Jesus as a flag, under which to carry out his intentions. These intentions are –and have ALWAYS been– STRICTLY COMMERCIAL.
“Christendom” has recently outgrown the need for it’s holy relic –proclaiming science as it’s new talisman– and now reveals itself to be the atheist entity it truly is. But one does not have to read the bible in order to enlighten oneself to this fact. One need only to consider the amount of gold in the pope’s bedchamber!
Why do people place so much value on GOLD, anyway? Can someone please explain this to me? Is it because it’s “pretty”? Because it’s “rare”? Because it doesn’t corrode? Because it has low electrical resistance? Is it because a man can dangle it in front of a woman’s face, and she’ll let him touch her boobies?
I have a theory that if you really want to find the lost treasures of the Pharaohs, you should probably start at your local jewelry counter, and work your way out from there! One dynasty has been raiding the tombs of the previous dynasty since time immemorial. And it never made a god-damned bit of sense to me!
What does money REALLY buy? Well, for one thing, it buys your subjugation! It shouldn’t take a whole lot of thinking to come to that conclusion. After all; who’s face is on the coin?
I know most of you THINK that you are serving yourself by amassing huge piles of money in hopes of creating a better life “for your children”. But you really need to ask yourself: “Is this work I get up to go do every day really necessary?” “How much of the earth am I willing to destroy, simply to increase my bank account?” “Which is worth more: my new SUV, or the mountain I had to level in order to PAY for it?”
“Good Christians” get downright VIOLENT when you ask them these questions. So do “Good Businessmen” and “Good Politicians”. All “Good Patriots”, no doubt!
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We think only of ourselves, in the here-and-now! We don’t care if the world ends tomorrow, just as long as we are “entertained” today! And as for our children? Well, as we see it: “Our lives sucked, so why shouldn’t theirs?”… “It’s GOOD for them to have to do some work; it builds character!”… “One must always strive to better oneself!” “Yadda, yadda. yadda…”
This is OUR philosophy! I know this because YOU raised me up to believe in it! YOU berated me, belittled me, battered me, and imprisoned me whenever I refused to accept it! ALL OF YOU hard-working, well-intentioned, well-to-do ‘pillars of society’!
And I’m not talking about the police, or their masters on Capital Hill… I’m talking about Joe Six-Pack, with his over-sized pickup truck, and his over-extended mortgage… Who doesn’t want to have to “breathe the air” of someone whom HE considers to be “squandering his hard-earned tax money”!… A man who sees the people around him as nothing more than a collection of lazy ingrates, who don’t appreciate how good they have it here in the “Land of the Free, Home of the Brave” –a land which HE fought so hard to defend!… A man who knows nothing about “reality”, save for that which is presented to him by the advertising industry!
Joe Six-Pack: A man who can’t stand the thought of living in a world populated by people who aren’t JUST LIKE HIM!
And thanks to guys like Joe, now we’re all locked into a system that we can’t escape! We can’t stop building new strip malls and Wal-Mart super-centers, because we need the “resources” that these industries provide.
The city produces NOTHING! The earth which we have trampled under our feet now refuses to grow anything more than weeds! And even in places where it IS still fertile; it makes no difference, because we’ve forgotten long ago how to plant a seed! Not that it matters, because we don’t have the corporation’s permission to provide for ourselves anyway!
We –as servants of the gold– have been reduced to nothing more than mere TENANTS of the land. And like ALL tenants, we have little respect for our landlord’s PROPERTY. We resent his laying claim to it; and we trash it at every opportunity (that is, whenever we think we won’t get caught)!
And when we are sure that they are watching us, then we DO what we are told to DO, when we are told to DO IT… And we resent EVERY WAKING SECOND we have to spend DOING IT!
By our purchasing power, we silently acknowledge that the wealthy may do as they please; and the rest of the world can complain about it as loud as it wishes, just as long as nobody gets in the way! This way we can ALL enjoy a minimum level of violence!
We are expected to be good consumers. And when we are not being good consumers, we are expected to be good servants. And if we decline to be good servants, then we can easily be made slaves. And if we refuse to be made into slaves, then we can just as easily be made to disappear!
We are so well conditioned to this reality, that we willingly send our only true wealth –our CHILDREN– through however many years of schooling our masters deem appropriate, for the sole purpose of having them subjugated as well!
THIS IS OUR ONLY VALUE TO THE LANDLORDS! They care about nothing else! No god; no country; no just and noble cause; NOTHING! Just US serving THEM, until there is NOTHING LEFT TO CONSUME!
And now our population has grown to such incredible numbers –supported entirely by this energy infrastructure that we all voted into existence– that we now face a TERRIBLE day! And in this day, we will find ourselves –friend & foe; brother & sister; father & son– viciously slaughtering each other for want of mere sustenance! Imagine an 8-year-old child chewing on his dead mother’s carcass, and you will have seen a vision of our only possible future!
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Ah, but YOU are OPTIMISTS! YOU will not allow such a day to come! YOU will bring a New Day! A New World Order! The Final Solution!
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Well, let me tell you, Mr. & Mrs. Hubris… I’ve heard just about enough out of you! I’m sick of hearing about your Utopian Dream! YOU –in you relentless pursuit of power and pleasure– have all but killed the earth I love! And if I thought for one second that I stood even the slightest chance of succeeding, I would exact vengeance on each and every one of you! ALL SIX BILLION OF YOU!
But, don’t think for ONE SECOND that I am trying to portray myself as innocent! I have my computer, upon which I am writing this tyraid; which was paid for by my work. I have my house, and my vehicles, and my storage shed full of yard equipment; all paid for in the same manner. I have my bicycle, which I spend many hours riding around my decaying town, while listening to ‘great wise men’ speaking; who’s words were brought to me by virtue of my internet connection, and downloaded to my mp3 player. I pay my taxes as an act of avoiding violence.
I have never seen a “wild earth”; nor do I claim to have any idea of how to live in one. So I can only hope that, in some lame act of repentance, I might be among the first to die! Given that the final decision rests in the hands of the wealthy, this will most surely be the case.
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“Peace and Love are the solution”, sings the optimist’s insufferable mantra. Well, I’m here to tell you that Peace and Love died 10,000 years ago, somewhere between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers. It’s just taken this long for the bodies to bleed-out! Not really a long time, in God years!
God (Yahweh, Allah, The Great Spirit… whatever you want to call him) is quite REAL! And so are his prophecies! “Into the whole world, shall my prophecy go. Only then, shall the end come” was his saying. And the prophecies given to MY ancestors don’t say: “This will happen, UNLESS…”. They simply say: “This WILL happen!” Believe them, or no, it makes no difference. What God wants, God gets; God help us all!