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Linking Bin Laden to Geronimo stirs outrage
Published: 04 May, 2011, 18:47
Osama bin Laden (AFP Photo / Files / HO)
TAGS: Military, Politics, Human rights, Terrorism, USA
A top US Senate official with the Senate Indian Affairs Committee has objected to the US military’s use of “Geronimo” as Osama Bin Laden’s code name.
Geronimo was a Native American hero who spent years fighting the Mexican and American armies to remain free until his surrender in 1886.
Loretta Tuell, staff director and chief counsel for the Senate Indian Affairs Committee argued linking the hero to one of America’s most hated enemies was completely inappropriate.
"These inappropriate uses of Native American icons and cultures are prevalent throughout our society, and the impacts to Native and non-Native children are devastating," Tuell told the AP.
"Apparently, having an African-American president in the White House is not enough to overturn the more than 200-year American tradition of treating and thinking of Indians as enemies of the United States," Steven Newcomb, a columnist for the newspaper Indian Country Today wrote.
"It's another attempt to label Native Americans as terrorists," Paula Antoine of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe in South Dakota told AP.
Jefferson Keel, president of National Congress of American Indians noted that 77 American Indians and Alaskan Natives have died fighting for the United States in Afghanistan and Iraq and more than 400 have been wounded.
The Senate Indian Affairs panel had already scheduled a hearing on racial stereotypes of native people prior to the Bin Laden incident. Tuell said the inappropriate use Geronimo in the raid will certainly be discussed.
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The oldest aboriginal distribution of hue, from light to dark, in as much incomplete at this geological history, the 'white' European. Having taken the most territory of all. Having experienced the most historiography of war and peace. Having wrongfully conquered territory and destroyed worthy sovereign, is not unique in the full history of the planet earth. Neither is the entire range of hue displayed in all the races of the world in any instance the complete form of any particular race. Not since the people of the first creation's stellar collision has the earth generated itself completely in its first genesis. Indeed the history of the earth and its people's is like a miniature reflection of the original sin of stellar collision. That is sin, less than a sign of GOD. A mis chief of the 'Princes and Authorities' of all the earth. To simply depart the white europeans from America is merely to return geopolitical economy to its original state and reboot the same systemic failings that one rejected prima facie. Moreover the incomplete geology will reform to destroy all ones' gain by such a process.
Only resurrection generating behaviour will secure the youngest least powerful peoples' and only resurrection generating behaviour can save the oldest most powerful people's from geological reformation. Presuming any potential mono-racial victory in the world. All the stars of the universe, are in deep chasm of stellar collision and will exhibit the same reformative character, destroying each geological world in its turn. To leave us in the Pacific, having interrupted the momentum of conversion of the earth, and diminishing us to the point of true aboriginality is deepest insult and High Treason against the Treaty of Waitangi. Thus are all the people's of the earth gathered to us and to ignore this opportunity is to live in hell surrounded by the cackling ghouls of self-harm and vulnerability to the agents of disease, the armies of Satan. So do not imagine, all you races any pace will be escape...Praise God for people like Geronimo to fill ones' spirits in the mean time.