Yesterday
I heard Radio 4`s programme Great Lives it was on the life of Sitting
Bulk of the Sioux. He resisted the destruction of the Sioux by the
American state. It would have been impossible for the USA to be
formed without the liquidation of the Sioux. Sitting Bull did what
was necessary to resist. He turned to violence after a mass hanging
of the Sioux. It was the biggest hanging in history and the gallows
formed a gigantic rectangle. He took the name Sitting Bull after
lighting and smoking his pipe in the midst of a battle.
The
bullets raged around him without one hitting him. He was seen as a
mystic figure and contributed to the ghost dance movement. It was an
attempt to restore the old ways and return the Sioux to their former
glory. He new that there was no alternative but to rise up and fight
back. The massacre of the native people of North America was genocide
worthy of a he Third Reich it was sustained, planned and systematic.
Sitting Bulls resistance was brave, necessary and clear. He was
betrayed and shot.. how dare Trump and his bullies moan about
immigrants . It is the Europeans who settled there as immigrants .
It's is the murderers of the American state who peddled the
propaganda that the Indians were savages....it was the biggest
projection and displacement in history. The vile acts of the USA were
passed onto to the natives and the myth of the wild west was born.
The problem is that too many people still think through a lens of
John Wayne and the cowboy fantasy. I don't think Trump has ever read
a history book or ever understood the meaning of truth and justice.
Sitting Bull should be remembered and celebrated ..
And
now Trump sacks the Director of the FBI in the middle of his
invistigation into links between Trump's campaign and the Russians.
Not even Nixon went this far . Fascism is coming to the USA....Nixon
tried to fire the special prosecutor into Watergate and the Attorney
General refused not this time.....Watergate unfolded slowly I wonder
if it will be similar here...
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