"This is how it's done. When people are sitting on stuff that you want, you make 'em your enemy. Then you justify taking it." - Jake Sully - Avatar
There is two issues that I want to raise today, one in BC Canada and the other in Norway.
Reindeer are pictured in Kautokeino, a town in Finnmark county, located in the northeastern part of Norway, on March 16, 2017. (Photo: Getty) Full article can be found on inews.co.uk here.
The article quoted Mr. Asbjorn Kulseng, spokesperson for Landsbruk Direktorat, the governmental organization responsible for the cull:
“It is not based on planned mining or windfarms in the Sami pasture”
I call bull shit. These people have been stewarding reindeer for millennium over countless generations. How dare a government bureaucrat walk in to tell these people how best to manage the resource that they are responsible for and have stewarded responsibly for longer than anybody can remember. Governments lie and I see this as a government move to reduce the herds to make room for exactly what he said this issues was not based on; mines and wind farms. The corporate empires have the money to influence and lobby government. If they don't get their way, they also have the money to get court rulings in their favor.
The states monopoly on force is a resource that the corporate industrial complex has learned to manipulate and control for the benefit of themselves only. What chance does the indigenous peoples of northern Norway have against a juggernaut like the state and multi-national corporate empires? If people just read the article and move on, then no chance at all. These issues require action! Care to get involved, write letters, stand on the icy roads in the middle of winter?
Is Norway too far? How about something a little closer to home then.
(Members of the Gitdumt’en Clan build a check point on Morice River Rd. Photo: Laurie Hamelin/APTN) Source: aptnnews.ca. Full article found here!
If you are not aware of what is going on, in 2014 the Supreme Court made a ruling creating a new feudal tenure called 'Aboriginal Land Title'. You can read more about it in my post from months ago. The Unist’ot’en have not ceded their land to the Crown and consider the land theirs to govern, steward and protect. However the BC courts just granted an injunction for Coastal GasLink to have access to that land. The whole issue is marred by the fact that the Crown has their own form of governance in the form of a Band Counsel which fully supports the pipe line. Of course they do, they are in the pockets of the state and fully surrendered to the colonization process. However, the hereditary chiefs have not been and are standing their ground and setup a blockade to protect the land from corporate and government incursions, pollution, etc. The chiefs made a brilliant move by setting up a second blockade outside of the injunction area so that the court documents could not be served on the first blockade.
This is a clash of values. On one hand, we have a group of people who work hard to conquer the world and they do so by enticing others to go along with them. They use jobs, pipelines, oil, government benefits, privileges, etc as a benefit. They convince people that the use of force is a justifiable means to an end. They call it due process of law, but in reality it is nothing more than the use of force to push through agendas. The Crown claims allodial title to all the land. Period. Anybody disagree, you get the tip of the sword through the heart or the butt end of the sword to the back of the head.
But there is another group of people who value life, water, plants, animals, land and the very air we breath. They see themselves as stewards of the land, not owners. Their values dictate that it is their responsibility to protect all life as stewards for future generations. They don't value the money, jobs and benefits like the others do. They value peace, non-violence and consent. The warriors put up blockades stating clearly that nobody gains access without consent.
Consent is the foundational principle here that colonization fails to recognize. Like Jake Sully said in the movie Avatar, "When people are sitting on stuff that you want, you make 'em your enemy. Then you justify taking it." It does not matter if it is by force, lies, etc. They declare war!!!
Consent is always required when we deal with one another on any level, but especially at a spiritual level. The state knows this, but they are corrupt, greedy and blind to the power and authority of spirit. They don't care about their mother and they have abandoned their father for a false god. They are lost souls and they will do anything to get their way.
I call it genocide. Plain and simple. Violence of the most horrific and evil kind. If you depend on these projects for your own survival and employment then ask yourself a question: Are you willing to engage in violence to steal from others in order for you to maintain your dependencies and life style? Are you willing to admit that you are partially responsible for what happens to these people who are working hard to maintain their way of life?
Many will spout that the needs of the many out way the needs of the few, but I suggest to you that your needs are based on slavery, dependency and ignorance! There is a LOT that each of us can do to remove or eliminate our dependency on others or the corporate / government empires that have built up around us. The vast majority of people are so helplessly dependent upon the benefits and privileges of those institutions that they are willing to go to war against others to maintain that life style, benefits and privileges.
I stand on the side of the traditional white tribes of Europe, also known as the Sami People. I stand on the side of the traditional red tribes of Turtle Island as well. The line must be drawn and these people are drawing that line. The violence must stop and we must all stop to reevaluate our relationship, dependencies and way of life. There are other alternatives, but that will require foundational changes in how we govern ourselves and our relationships. I've dedicated the last 15+ years to this effort and I will not give up. My voice is strong and loud.
We have a lot of reconciliation to do, but that first requires that we heal ourselves, change our ways and walk a path of peace, freedom, respect and engage in consent. Force and violence is no longer tolerated in any form, whether 'legal' or not. The empires time is marked and that way of life is obsolete and no longer valid in the new world that is unfolding. Spirit now governs and spirit will not tolerate dependency, violence or force.
You can learn the hard way or you can open your heart and do the hard work to learn a new way. Either way, the choice is yours. My choice is to stand in your way any way I know how. For me, I chose the pen! What is your choice?
