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Pacific Free Press was launched in March 2007 by Dutch-Canadian Richard Kastelein of V.O.F. Expathos, in the Netherlands along with Chris Cook - CFUV radio journalist and Editor in Chief of Pacific Free Press. Cook is based in , Victoria, British Columbia.

The site is a sister to Atlantic Free Press.

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Sam Seeking Injuns for War Party

Written by Mohawk News Network
Saturday, 28 June 2008
UNCLE SAM WANTS YOU! WARNING TO THE INDIGENOUS YOUTH FROM A CONCERNED ELDER by MNN Dear Native Youth. Take some time to read a few timely words from an elder, who has your well-being in mind. General George "Yellowhair" Custer Do not join the Canadian or U.S. military. They are violating the Two Row Wampum Agreement. Everywhere the Europeans went they put Indigenous people in the galleys of their ships. A few would be promised some benefit if they carried out some hideous deed against their people. Some were even freed. But they were never free. They helped their masters make holes in the hulls of our ancestral canoes to try to get control over the whole river of life. They think this is a tried and true method. MNN. June 27, 2008 - First corporations and governments create conditions of poverty and economic desperation. They give the youth the feeling that they have absolutely no options except to blow their brains out with drugs or alcohol. Then they stride in with banners claiming to be saviors, and that they know of an “honorable” way out. You belong! We want you! Be a man! Get a free education! Get paid! Defend your country! Be a hero! They are recruiting you to be their galley slaves for their fortunes and fascist agenda. The colonists are trying to remodel our canoe. They’ve got seats for us, as galley slaves. To qualify we have to stop using our minds and agree to follow their orders. The colonial states need cannon fodder for their illegal wars. You are the target, Indigenous youth of Onowaregeh, Turtle Island. If you join, you will end up disillusioned or in a body bag or seen as treasonous by our people. Don’t be fooled. A seat as a galley slave is not the same as a seat at the negotiating table. Since the invasion of Turtle Island, colonial governments have not respected or upheld our rights to our land, resources, self-determination, freedom and human equality. The blinded visions of the politicians and military are not bringing a better life of freedom and democracy to us, to the countries they invade or to their own youth who are so cruelly sacrificed to paranoiac delusions of grandeur. Once you slap on that uniform you belong to them. Did we ever have freedom and democracy? You bet we did. The U.S. Senate even recognized the Kaianereh’ko:wa [Great Law of Peace] as the basis of the U.S. Constitution. Today, the U.S. and Canada are taking away freedom and democracy from us and the people they invade. Don’t be fooled by Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s recent apology over the church and state’s orchestrated residential school genocide. Did you notice any changes in the Indian act to abolish the usurpation of supervisory authority that caused all of our problems? They’re not the boss of us. They never have been. But they still dream they are. They want us to be their patsies. They are trying to recruit us to commit the same crimes they committed against us. Don’t do to others what was done to us. Middle Eastern people are not our enemies. We know your situation is not easy. We know you are intelligent, strong, can think for yourself and find a better way. You will be made to kill dark skinned people for their land and resources. Should you return home from warfare your body may be filled with depleted uranium. These weapons are designed to kill the “victims” and to contaminate you for an early death to cut down on medical bills. “Depleted uranium” used to make “dirty bombs” destroys the soil and the poor people in these Middle Eastern nations. You will be fighting for greedy capitalists you don’t even know, who come from “Bay Street” and “Wall Street”. [London and the Vatican]. You are not even from “Main Street”. Indigenous youth, your time is needed at home to help take care of your loved ones. A wife and children are helpless without their protector. Military funerals are displays to reinforce nationalism. Our nationalism is to care for our families and lands. After trying for centuries to kill us off, they are coming after you, our children, to fill up their armies to die in their stinking wars? Indigenous youth, you could be ordered to kill your own people. There is no glory or ‘neat’ adventurism in slaughtering men, women and babies. We Indigenous have no beef against the Islamic world. They have no beef against us. We do not covet their land, resources and treasures [oil]. Turtle Island is ours. We don’t have to carry out mass murder against others to steal from them. Our mind, body and energy are tied to our land. We belong here. These European invaders are complete strangers here who are able to destroy and disrespect our land, turning it into a toxic waste dump almost unfit for us to live on. Indigenous youth, you are going to be told lies meant to make you hate the people you are going to be ordered to slaughter. Many of you will die. On the internet are many stories about a coming financial collapse or worldwide famine. There is no need for any of this. The people of the world can work together to make sure that everyone is decently provided for. The cartels have decided that certain of us are meant to starve to death. Your family will need you during the hard times that may be coming. Parents, our youth are too precious. We should not sacrifice them. We must cherish and protect them. We don’t want to cry later. Karakwine jasimon@sympatico.ca Fighting this border issue will cost money. MNN has none. Canada can dip into the pockets of 30 million people and all indigenous resources. We need counsel that will not be intimidated by this display of power. The establishment is apparently hiring top law firms to fight the Mohawks. Your financial help is needed. If you could send donations to the MNN legal defense fund, it would be greatly appreciated: MNN Mohawk Nation News, Box 991, Kahnawake [Quebec, Canada] J0L 1B0. See MNN Category: “ Warriors “ New MNN Books Available Now! The books below, email us: Mohawk Warriors Three - The Trial of Lasagna, Noriega, 20/20 $20.00 usd The On-Going Confusion between The Great Law and The Handsome Lake Code$20.00 usd The Agonizing Death of "Colonialism" and "Federal Indian Law" in Kaianere'ko:wa/Great Law Territory $20.00 usd Who's Sorry Now? The good, the bad and the unapologetic Mohawks of Kanehsatake $20.00 usd Rebuilding the Iroquois ConfederacyKaroniaktajeh$10 usd Warriors Hand BookKaroniaktajeh $10 usd Mail checks and money orders to... MNN P.O. 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Comments (2) Subscribe to this comment's feed False & Misleading Information About Depleted Uranium written by Roger Helbig, June 30, 2008 Thefollowing statement is totally untrue - " Should you return home from warfare your body may be filled with depleted uranium. These weapons are designed to kill the “victims” and to contaminate you for an early death to cut down on medical bills. “Depleted uranium” used to make “dirty bombs” destroys the soil and the poor people in these Middle Eastern nations" DU kinetic energy penetrators were used to destroy Iraqi armored forces. They are only good against tanks, so they have not been used since. DU, naturally occuring Uranium 238, found in everyone who is reading this's backyard, is not explosive and would make an extremely poor dirty bomb. It is not even used in bombs. They are designed to kill modern Soviet designed tanks, not to kill people unless they also happen to be tank crew in a targeted tank. It has not destroyed the soil anywhere. I see the "A War Against Truth" advertised on the side. The anti-depleted uranium crusade is fighting a war against truth; they may broadcast their lies from a 1000 lists, but they still remain lies. Want to learn about DU, go to www.depletedcranium.com or click on the link in my name. You can also write to me and I will connect you with genuine experts. DUStory-owner@yahoogroups.com - report abuse vote down vote up Votes: +0 A Response to Roger written by c, July 03, 2008 In Response to Roger Helbig - Depleted Uranium Champion (arbuthnot's experience with Roger: http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2007/02/16/they_ve_sent_helbig_after_me) You bring up some interesting points about two prominent opponents of Depleted Uraniums' deleterious effect on human and animal physiology. I've interviewed one of those, (and found it one of the strangest interviews I've ever conducted) but I don't see in your letter any mention of those effects. You mention DU munitions were developed as an anti-tank weapon. Is it only being used on tanks, Soviet or otherwise? The answer is clearly: No. The efficacy of DU-tipped ordnance is not a significant issue, as pertaining the pollution created by it. But, there are studies of similarly tipped, non-nuclear active elements that provide, if not equal, then near identical results; tungsten most prevalent of these. You mentioned in your previous comment, (not particularly respectfully worded) the fact DU is not an explosive; the damage done to people and, all living things by this material is the result of it's tendency to aerosolize on contact; the fine particles are then dispersed through the atmosphere where they are easily breathed in, and find entrance to the body through cuts, acne blemishs, pores, and are small enough to lodge in the body, ultimately able to corrupt the DNA structure. But, I'm sure you're aware of all this, and would denounce it all as lies. I expect too, you've seen the photographs taken of birth defects suffered by Iraqi children. Though his name now escapes me, the most famous of those photos were taken by a Japanese photo journalist. The army likely has volumes of documented illnesses among vets, though I suggest you canvas an organization like Veterans Against the War in Iraq to see what some of their members say. DU is admitted to have being used by America and her allies (Britain primarily) in: Iraq and Kuwait ('91), Yugoslavia ('99), Afhganistan ('01), and Iraq ('03-). Of course it has also been used on test ranges in the U.S., and by the Navy at Vilques Island, Puerto Rico for years. Check the health status of some of the "down-winders" of those facilities, and I think you'll find cancer "hot spots." Roger, it is clear, regardless of the absence of the Soviet threat, these weapons are continuing to be manufactured and used. Beyond the obvious moral oblivion America has now descended to, and what that means for the victims of its use, Depleted Uranium poses a great risk to not only those deploying it, but to all creatures in the proximity of its use. The deleterious environmental effects of this material are long-lasting, long after any illegal, or "santioned" military action, DU continues to represent a threat to the ecology of the planet; its half-life is estimated at 4.5 billion years. Finally, I suggest, if you are to educate people, you might tone down your ad hominem attacks on those holding opposing points of view, (ie. not calling them "liars," etc.) and refrain from equating "indepedents" as those incapable of holding down a paying job in the field; your confessed status as an "independent researcher" being a case in point. And, to answer your question: No, I will not remove any remnant reference to Drs. Rokke and Moren, though I don't believe I have any, based on what you have presented so far. cheers chris report abuse vote down vote up Votes: +0 Write comment Name Website Title Comment smaller \| bigger Subscribe via email (Registered users only) I have read and agree to the Terms of Usage.