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Hate Crimes, Coal Mines and The Plight of the Navajo

Updated:12/27/2000

Stop the insanity!

Domestic violence is unconstitutional (Article IV, Section 4), and motherhood is not a mental illness!

Jeremiah 1:8 Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD.

December 2000

26th -- Wakefield, Mass: Seven people were shot in the Edgewater Technology building -- allegedly by ex employee Michael McDermont. He was apprehended. Edgewater Technology is an Internet and Software Consulting firm.

Good news: Also on the day after Christmas, the hostages from the Marsailles hijacking were released.

November 2000:

13th -- Los Angeles, CA: Homeless woman Margaret Mitchell, presumably with a form of PTSD or Rape Trauma Syndrome, was shot at close range by an LA Police officer, whom knew she was disabled. She died.

Good news: On the 24th, I saw a peace sign in the clouds in northern Colorado. It was above a Total Gas Station.

April 2000

A teenage gang related shooting at the Washington Zoo in D.C. on African-American family day (April 24th) results in the death of six people including a twelve year old.

On Easter Sunday, Pope John-Paul is quoted as saying "Help the nations to overcome old and new rivalries, by rejecting attitudes of racism and xenophobia."

Military stationed in Kosovo are crushing weapons and ammunition.

Please believe in freedom, and in the Spirit of freedom -- especially freedom for women. Freedom is peace and love. Freedom is the Truth. Freedom is Love's Mother.

There was NO need to terrorize a young boy and his mother's sisters with guns and several large hostile men. Bring Elian back to those who love him and love his mother; don't send him to work in labor camps or to get beat up by the man who battered him and his mother. Children are creative; they don't lie. They don't lie about abuse, as a matter of fact they usually downplay it. Children only lie to people that smack them in order to not be smacked. It hurts. I am positive I would not feel sane if they had attacked my adoptive mother and myself and my family with guns and death threats after my birth mother was suddenly killed when I was four. What message is this that you are trying to communicate to this young child? Elian saw everything you did and sees you as responsible adults with something to teach and some love to give. Please don't listen to a word Bill Clinton says or any orders he gives. He doesn't even care if this war he started kills his own young children; why would he care about anyone elses? Why would he make good decisions for other people's children? Love is a "man of war" (quoted from scripture) not a god of war. Love doesn't start wars.

December 1999

A man bludgeoned his wife, small daughter and small son with a hammer. His wife and daughter died. His son lived.

September 1999

Everett, WA: A woman was found with broken legs and arms, covered in vomit and extremely ill, stuffed in the prow of her boyfriend's boat. He had beaten her up. Apparently he had left her there for months. She is in intensive care, now.

August 1999

Buford Furrow entered a community center in LA and started shooting at Jewish children.

July 1999

An 4470 acre Arizona wildfire caused 100 families to evacuate their homes on the Fort Apache reservation.

June 1999:

Two boys were just killed out here in a local gas line explosion. My condolences to the families. It's reminiscent of the two gas line explosions at the north and south end of the I5 corridor running through Washington state about two years ago. Three women were raped on Western Washington University's campus this last year alone; the last woman was brutally raped in the bathroom by our computer labs by two creeps. Three years ago, a girl named Crystal was shot in broad daylight by her violent ex-boyfriend at Whatcom Community College. (The ex-boyfriend thought she had started seeing an old friend of mine) A construction worker tackled him and he went to jail. Two years ago, another girl was shot out here by her husband (who then shot himself); he was a brother of one of my semi-abusive ex-boyfriends. She's in a wheelchair now. It's a dubious miracle

May 1999 - Seattle

Hate groups called the school on the Makah reservation and threatened to kill hundreds of Native American school children. They made a bomb threat. They put hostile boats in the water and forced the tribe to accept Coast Guard escorts.

Their excuse

"We don't like you hunting a whale."

Ironically, 80 whales showed up dead on the beach the morning of the hunt. Perhaps it was the devil's doing, or the government's. (Is there a difference?)

April 1999

Thirty-eight students were shot, and twelve were killed at Columbine High in Littleton, CO on April 20th, the anniversary of Hitler's birthday by fellow students Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris. Klebold and Harris then shot themeselves. Greg Zanis, a local carpenter erected fifteen crosses for all the students who died on this day.

March 1999 - Columbia

I would like to offer my condolences to the families of biologist, Terry Freitas, photojournalist and activist Laha'ena'e Gay, and Menominee Thunderbird Woman, Ingrid Washinawatok killed on March 4, 1999. They were down in Columbia to aid in the cause against rainforest destruction for cattle farming, coffee growing, and drug trades. I find these deaths deeply disturbing.

To the US Government:
Reestablish the tribal status, standing and sovereignity of the Menominee tribe promptly and without fail. In my mother's name. Undo the damage you've done in my home state. Repeal PL 93-197.

Everyone knows that you arranged these murders. No bloodshed will profit you or your industries.

Isaiah 10:1-4Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless. What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches? Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captives or fall among the slain. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.

It's completely unnecessary to hit below the belt during political debate, advertisement or media coverage with women; I'm quite positive you don't know what you're talking about. Very capable, competent and brilliant women can confuse date rape with love; men aren't any more intelligent on the subject. Don't hit below the belt and don't vote for anyone that does it!

"During the ensuing years (meaning 1492 to present day), various administrations promulgated a range of disastrous and ineffective policies upon Indian people. Policies with names like 'relocation', 'assimilation', 'reorganization', and 'termination'...."

-Senator Campbell
"Reflections on the Columbus Centennial"
1992.

more information can be found on the Indigenous Environmental Network.

Free Leonard Peltier!

I honestly believe he's innocent. Regardless, even if he did kill white male officials (who were not elected -- i.e. not God's elect) it is moral, ethical and right to fight back and defend the sixty four people who were shot by FBI during this war on Native Americans. Let him go. He did nothing wrong; no matter which way you look at it.

Toxic Spill Clean up number:1-800-424-8802

This article includes updated info from June 7th and May 11,15, and 27th

Crapping on Your Neighbor

Editorial written June 7, 1999

I recently went down to Kayenta, Arizona about a month ago to research reports of deaths, genocide, and relocation of the Navajo people to make way for a coal and strip mining operation. To my distress, I discovered that things were worse than I thought. PL 95-531 signed by Nixon in 1974, and PL 104-301 signed by Bill Clinton on Columbus Day, 1996 authorize the relocation of over 14,000 people to a nuclear spill site in Arizona and Nevada off the Rio Puerco River. Clinton intends to finish this process by February 2, 2000. To date, 4000 people have died from the radiation. In addition, in 1973, Richard Nixon signed both the Menominee Termination Act (PL 93-197) and the Klamath Termination Act (PL 93-102). The Menominee are located in Wisconsin, and the Klamath are located in Oregon.

In addition to that, the entire reservation is severely and deliberately polluted from several old coal, uranium and other mining operations. All of their groundwater and their few flowing rivers are loaded with poisons and are purplish green as a result. The mock "government" is doing its contrail experiments (complete with biological pathogens) over this, as well as other areas of the United States. It is a miracle that people are still alive. In the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it states in Article 29, paragraph 3: "These rights and freedoms (including your right to life) may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations." This illegal (according to the Lord's laws) mining practices can be attributed to the Metalliferous Minerals Mining Act of 1918 -- passed by congress which permits outsiders to mine on Native American land without their permission.

I disown these people responsible for this kind of socio-environmental havoc from my race. Our non-elected government (whose officials are chosen - including the president - by Electoral colleges, with votes only being counted in case of a tie. Most often, these people are chosen from among the ranks of the freemason's guild.) is not my government at all. We, the people, have very little choice or say in instilling these psychopaths with power. In addition, most of the large corporations are also headed and established by white misogynist freemasons, including the railroad companies, mining companies and power companies.

I took the opportunity to purchase the mid-May 1999 issue of News From Indian Country, a Native American publication from Hayward, WI, my home state. I read stories of abuse to rival Christina Crawford's in "Indian Boarding Schools, The Hurt That Never Goes Away" where they use coat hangers to beat children's heritage out of them when they take them from their Native American parents. I also read a story about the commonplace practice of raiding a Native American store in "Feds Raid Native Store for Feathers, Claws." This article was about Fort Cherokee store in Williamsburg, Virginia, owned by Cathy Moore. They took every craft and art piece that had feathers or claws on it. I also read the article "Court Rules Against Tribes in Nuclear Industry Case" where the supreme court and federal government ruled that the tribes do not get to sue for damages caused by nuclear radiation in tribal courts.

Since I heard about Columbus' acts of genocide in Hispanola when I first began attending college, I have gone beyond being shocked by this kind of behavior, although not disgusted or dismayed. All the bibles I've ever read repeatedly outlaw oppression and murder. To do these things in God' name is nothing but profanity. It is pure treachery, not to mention completely depraved to declare a peace treaty, then commit war and genocide for 500 years, and then turn around and say "no violence please." It's the same kind of mentality that goes along with killing someone who has surrendered by stabbing them in the back. Its despicable. These men who have seized power in this country and passed it on to their disciples are not part of my race. They must belong to the devil, and they only look, sort-of, like me.

My race would've honored our peace treaty (Thanksgiving) and not conquered or killed the 260 million Native people who have died due to murder since the complete desecration of that peace treaty made in God's name or turned it into such a gluttonous hypocritical feast. We would not have committed the brutal theft and devastation of these lands since it was drawn up. Breaking this and so many other treaties are pure, unadulterated acts of war. God doesn't condone this or anything like it. Although it is not my fault I was born on three-quarters stolen land, the fact remains that it is still stolen land. My tribe is multicolored and honorable, but I suspect there are mostly only women in it. It is a complete insult to us and our intelligence that these people who look, sort-of, like me, discredit my race by doing such things and keeping my gentle and honorable tribe out of power with violence if they deem it necessary. I disown you oppressive people.

My birthright was clean air, clean water, bountiful forests, and food without poisonous chemicals in it, as my grandparents were born to. I was raised to respect, honor and tell the truth by a beautiful Cherokee woman that many would, quite foolishly, refer to as a "half-breed." My "blood" and the adult men in my life kicked me around for no reason as a child. There have been four wars since I was born (one is too many). May God preserve our children from this legacy. So many children hate mine because they see with their eyes and hear with their ears just fine and they think that these oppressors belong to my race. Their parents do nothing but encourage it.

Our children have the right not to see divided colors, as is natural to them. Children should not suffer for the sins of their parents. They have the right to be taken, by force if necessary, to protect their lives from the violent and oppressive of any color - but not by those who are equally oppressive. They should be taken before they become attached to and learn to love their oppressors, because bigots will pour their subtle and not-so-subtle poisons of racial/gender based hatred right into children's wide open little minds through their innocent desire to parent-worship. Bigots never have anything to say or teach of value, and they almost never care about their own children. Bigots don't know the first thing about love, and children are people exceptionally vulnerable to their charms. A sperm cell is not an entitlement, and children are not objects to be owned or possessed. A father is a man who loves his children without reservation, not a penis or its owner necessarily.

The violence and oppression must stop. Human borne suffering may, in some cases, breed compassion, but it more often just spawns hatred. The society of freemasons, initially established by the British, must not be allowed to continue stealing power and position in this beautiful land. This pollution is deliberate genocide of all gentle people (for if the polluter is so stupid that they say "Well, gee, I didn't know that would happen," s/he should not be allowed to play with dangerous chemicals in the first place. But, we all know actual stupidity has little to do with it.) Also, it seems to me that all the evil is being concentrated upon the gentle, peaceful tribe of the Navajo, who are the last to occupy some of their ancestral lands. We, the free and honorable, won the War of Independence, and the civil war, so get out! You are not my government, chosen by the people, for the people, and I will not - do not serve you. God save us all from the "White" House, the UN, and all other enemies of liberty, justice and peace.

(The tribes have photographs, written veterinary reports documenting abuse and mistreatment of confiscated livestock, and have experienced destruction at least 28 sacred Anasazi burial sites by Peabody Coal.)

This poem by Pastor Martin Niemoller has been very inspiring to me. "First They Came For the Jews"

Gramco, NM

5/11/99

Statement of Robert Mike, Navy Seal, tribal elder, and Navajo Code talker:

"I used to herd sheep. I have a useless life now.
My brother had to hoist me out of a well, once. See that river down there. The water is polluted from what the coal mining companies dumped in there." (purplish-green)

Statement of John Doe:

"I'm a crazy Indian from Oklahoma, and we're having a good time. It's all good. We respect other people. This is our sanctuary, people understand one another. People unite out here. We respect other people.

"If we aren't worth it, then get over it. There's no sewer here, and we're hurting out here. Native American's are world wide, because we understand one another.

"The Hispanics are all moving in, they raped a little girl next door. We live where the last strip-mine was at and the water is poisoned underground.

"Nevel Shopping Center owns this place. We have to buy bottled water. They used to grow corn out here, but we can't grow crops out here anymore (because of the pollution).

"It's all good. You gotta do what you gotta do.

"Oh, and we need new roads out here."

On behalf of Vincent Smith, First Marines, who is losing his hearing, he wants to know where his veteran's benefits are so that he can fix his collapsing roof.

5/15/99

The Plight of the Navajo

Peabody Western Mine is located on sacred land across the street from the Navajo National Monument. PL 95-531 signed by Nixon in 1974, and PL 104-301 signed by Bill Clinton on Columbus Day, 1996 authorize the relocation of over 14,000 people to a nuclear spill site in Arizona and Nevada off the Rio Puerco River. Clinton intends to finish this process by February 2, 2000. To date, 4000 people have died from the radiation.

5/27/99

Peabody Western Coal Company - www.peabodygroup.com
B ph:(520)677-3201, fax:(520)677-3273, safety hotline:1-800-533-5352

"Black Mesa Mine" TM Lennon 5/13/99

When I walked into the Kayenta office on May 13th, I was a little dizzied by how immense the mine site(s) are. The operation was visible for miles before I got there, due to a miles long, half a mile elevated slurry pipeline that goes at least twenty miles down the mountainside. It was the ugliest thing I've ever seen in my life. Crude little tubes are planted in the earth like some horror from The Lorax by Dr. Suess. Immense piles of coal were everywhere.

"First pile of coal on the mountain" TM Lennon 5/13/99

I also was not impressed with the use of a Native American image on all the the warning and safety signs around the mine. The mine is not operated by Native Americans (although the miners are mostly local Navajo), and the signs left me to wonder if they are trying to convince the people who work here (also Native) that this kind of environmental and social havoc is condoned by the tribe. There are also "No trespassing" signs everywhere that are enforced against the people who live and visit here, especially if they are Native.

"No photos, please, I'm shy...." TM Lennon 5/13/99

They do not allow picture taking on their site, but I took some from the road anyway, since it is public property. Bourgeois American-English blue-bloods don't have cultural objections to picture taking that I know of.

I used the shower on the site, which is open to anyone, since I was filthy from my bus trip. There was no lock on the door or privacy in the shower area: scary, and very disturbing.

In the office, I talked to the receptionist. She seemed ill at ease and more than a little frightened. When I got there, she was talking to someone else who was asking about personnel files. She informed them, "We don't keep personnel files." This also disturbed me, because what if someone is killed or injured on the site?

The office had several plaques and posters on the walls. One gave dire warnings about an unexplained "human plague." On April 25, 1995 they won an award from Social Services for child abuse prevention, which is proudly displayed by the door. There was a poster on sexual harrassment written in complex English, as were all the informative flyers posted on workers rights. Nothing was written in Navajo or Hopi. A corporate man type person breezed throught the room, and would not respond to me until I had spoken to him a few times. Also, by the door, was a flyer with six corporate names on it, including the president, Howard Carson, v.p. and managers. In the office I was given two Fact sheets, Pulse magazine, and Peabody Group Worldwide Integrated Energy Solutions

I asked her if they did tours. She didn't know, and went to ask her supervisor. He said, "No, not unless you call and get it cleared first." I was thinking about getting water samples to be tested and observing management to find out if the miners are being treated with dignity and respect. I was also curious about the number of hours each is required to work. What measures are taken to insure air quality, and how are they enforced?

Both magazines I was given are written in technical or vague English (same with the signs), even though Eastern's website is written in English, French and Spanish. Most of Peabody's sites are located in areas dominated by Native Americans or other ethnic groups. Most of their employees do not speak English.

Pulse magazine is brightly colored and full of lots of bright shining faces. John Wasik, general manager of their Ravensworth, Narama strip mine in Austrailia says "Ravensworth had a lost time injury/frequency rate we are not proud of."(pg 4) This mine discharges its waste water into the Hunter river.(pg 5). Peabody and Eastern intend to create more strip mines in New Delhi, India and in China. (pg 9)Raghu Reddy, Business Development Director says,"Closed markets mean that technologies were all domestic. Technologically, India was cut off from the rest of the world."(Pulse magazine, 9)

"Silo/tank saying 'We take safety seriously'" TM Lennon 5/13/99

According to Pulse Peabody Group intends to, or has already dropped provisions totalling $1.9 billion for future payments on Black Lung excise taxes and Abandonded Mine Land fees in order to adopt a "pay as you produce" policy.(pg 11) The company is "pioneering a program to establish an association of pinon pine and fungi in the nursery." They intend, or already have begun installing the fungus on the roots of the pines. The article explains no scientific basis or study, and this fungus producing program was pioneered in 1995.(pg 15) All the Labor Management Positive Change Process (LMPCP) people are white. In 1990, Peabody's average injury incidence rate was "more than twice the national average" says Dave Beerbower, vice president of safety and Industrial hygiene (pg 26) He is also the designated media contact for Eastern Group, as explained on that website. All of their scholarships go to the children of their CEO's.(pg 28)

According to Worldwide Integrated Energy Solutions, Peabody Group uses a GPS satellite for operations.(pg 5). An unknown author says, ""wind generation, biomass, solar and others represent and insignificant source of fuel," also "Austrailian coal will be a primary beneficiary because of fast growing Asian demand for coal." (pg 6) (A large portion of the coal purchased is done by Japan). The Energy Information Administration for Peabody projects a 47% increase in Austrailian coal exports. The are looking forward to impending deregulation.

One fact sheet is full of numbers and brags about sales in their opening year and in 1997. It also talks about several of its other strip mines - Seneca Coal Co. in Hayden, CO, Big Sky Mine in Colstrip, MT; Powder River Mine in Gilette, WY; Patriot Mine in Henderson, KY; and Lee Ranch in Grants, NM. Peabody and Eastern also owns American strip mines in Illinois and Indiana, as well as at least four strip mines in New South Wales, Austrailia.

Peabody Group owns 24 mines in the U.S. It is a subsidiary of Eastern Group/British Power International (Gas, Electric, etc.) which is located at Crown House, 51 Aldwych, London WC2B 4AX (ph: +44 (0) 1473 554745, fax: +44 (0) 1473 552939), and headed by Phil Tuberville, Eastern's Chief Executive. I could not find the owner's name. Eastern Group was bought out by Texas Utilities on November 7, 1995 at 1601 Bryan Tower, Dallas, TX 74201 (phone: (214)812-4600/(800)460-3030) Texas Utilities also owns the Texas Solar Energy Society which is theoretically promoting solar power. They are located at PO Box 1447, Austin, TX 78767-1447 (ph (512)326-3391/(800)465-5049)

TXU (Texas Utilities, now named "TXU") is a corporation managed by David Anderson, Investor Relations Manager, Dr. James Fishkin, Chair of the University of Texas and Chair of the Department of Government, and Mike Jarboe, the Y2K program manager. They intend to aquire, or build a nuclear power plant on Comanche Peak, near Glen Rose, TX by the year 2000.

Amos 5:11-12You trample on the poor and force him to give you grain. Therefore, though you have built stone mansions, you will not live in them; though you have planted lush vineyards, you will not drink their wine. For I know how many are your offenses and how great your sins. You oppress the righteous and take bribes and you deprive the poor of justice in the courts.

"Drinking Water Source" TM Lennon 5/13/99

The people who live here must get and haul their water from this tank. It is located dead center of the mining property. They originally had wells which all dried up due to the mining activities. A sign in the hauling area says "Keep this area clean or we will shut it down." They would like people to come down there and help with resistance, hauling water and farming. You can find contacts in the bibliography, and the telephone number for support follows.

All in all, I was disgusted, disheartened, and overwhelmed by the ugliness of it all. These people show no respect for livestock, have destroyed sacred land, and have run over people with their bulldozers. The Kayenta mine has a blasting site that extends several miles into residential/farming area. Due to time constraints on my trip, I was not able to follow throught on a tour of the mine. I'll leave that for someone with more scientific and investigative expertise. It sure seemed to me that the powers that be in this situation are concentrating all their evils upon the Navajo, which is unconscionable.

"Bible Church on the Mine Site" TM Lennon 5/13/99

Jeremiah 22:17
"Yet your eyes and your heart
Are for nothing but your covetousness
For shedding innocent blood and
Practicing oppression and violence

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5/16/99

Two nights in a row I heard screams.

The pinons are oozing sap like they are bleeding. Me and the three boys who were staying on the property found one that looked like it had been exploded from the inside out. The tree literally looked like its heart had exploded and it was gushing sap all down the trunk.

Luke 24:31 - Jesus said, "For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?"
(Other eerie descriptions of this situation can be found in Job 24)

Other Mining Nuisances

5/28/99

I discovered the Black Mountain,KY strip mine when I was researching Black Mesa. This strip mine is owned by Jericol Mining, Inc. A subsidiary of an unknown parent company. It's located in the Upper Clover Fork of Harlan County, KY. The mining company removed the entire mountain top. Jerichol's phone numbers are (423)869-4755 and (606)837-2840. Relevant websites: www.uky.edu/RGS.AppalCenter/blackmountain.html

Occidental Petroleum Company http://www.oxy.com/index.htm might be of interest to the reader. They are displacing the U'Wa tribe down in S. America. Three people were murdered because of their investigation -- see the beginning of this article.

I passed through Mexican Hat, UT, and was taken down near the old VCA uranium mine, which is also on the Navajo reservation.

Between Aneth, UT and Towaoc, CO (which is on the Ute reservation) I saw nothing but oil drilling.

I also had an opportunity to pass through Craig, CO, the site of Trapper Minewww.tristateget.org/info/craig.html 80 yr old strip mine owned by Tri-State. At the edge of town I saw a sign with masonic symbols on an inverted pentagram with "Anita #41 : 544 Breeze St..." printed on it.

And, talk about bad white corporate energy, The World Famous Mining Museum is in Butte, MT, about 80 miles or so away from Peabody's Blue Sky Mine in Colstrip.

Another mine site Tower Colliery http://www.baynet.co.uk/colliery

Local nuisances

Georgia-Pacific At present, dumping copious and illegal amounts of mercury into our bay. They have had two explosions in the past five years. They ignore environmental laws, and they have highly toxic (ie deadly) chlorine gas that everyone is very concerned about. http://www.gapac.com/

Trillium Corporation A notoriously irresponsible local logging and development company that is known for destroying hillside and drainage foliage, causing harmful mudslides. They like to buy the most beautiful and rare lands and destroy them. http://mwwpr.com/clients/trillium.html

Diablo Lake: local. Isn't it beautiful?

We live by a live volcano.

Please Don't Litter!

I feel poisoned. I said a prayer to Spirit that the bloodshed of my people - my family would no longer profit or contribute to the evils of the oppressive. I said a prayer to reverse the polarities on any "blood magic" involved. I say it in my heart, soul and spirit every time somebody sheds my blood through rape or other means. May all your "money" magic be undone, white WASP. May you feel every bit of pain and torment you visit on others.

Book to check out Keepers of the Water Al Geddicks - (608) 784-4399 on the Menominee

T.M. Lennon
TMLennon@ivillage.com www.geocities.com/TheresaMarieLennon/OddyseyT