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Dear Friends:
As
people gather for the Thanksgiving holiday there is a brutal obscenity
being carried out in our name at the Standing Rock protests of the
Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) project in North Dakota.
Police
forces have ramped up their brutality by dousing land and water
protectors in streams of water in 22-degree temperatures, targeting
people's faces with "non lethal" plastic bullets and intentionally
targeting the testicles of men with the plastic bullets. Sadism has now
overtaken the "law" enforcement drones doing the bidding of their
corporate bosses in the oil industry.
Earlier
this week a police fragmentation grenade nearly took off the lower arm
of a 21 year-old young woman at the demonstrations. Police blocked
ambulances from reaching those injured at the site (one could consider
this a war crime). It took over 6 hours to get that grievously wounded
young woman to medical care and despite the care she has received she
may yet lose her arm.
The
non-tribal police forces at Standing Rock have been clearly infected
with a kind of mass evil - Native Americans refer to such a thing as Wetiko. (You can learn more about this phenomenon in a book by Paul Levy.)
The
brutal irony of this state sanctioned violence on behalf of corporate
interests during this week of the annual Thanksgiving celebration of the
first gathering of Pilgrims and Native Americans is the height of
national hypocrisy. (The Pilgrims would have starved to death but for
the generosity of nearby tribes.)
Please consider making a donation to the Sacred Stone Legal Defense Fund
to make it possible for some level of representation and sliver of
justice for our brothers and sisters who are facing the state-sponsored
brutality being carried out in our name.
If your local law enforcement agency is participating in the genocidal
abuses in North Dakota make it known you do not approve of your tax
money being used for oppression of fellow citizens.
To
local, state and federal law enforcement officials involved in this
ongoing travesty know that we recognize your abusive behavior as the
fascism it is. What you are doing and the sickness in which you act has nothing to do with "protecting and serving"
the citizens you have taken an oath to protect. You have aligned
yourself with criminals; you do the work of criminals. You bring shame
on your departments, defile our Constitution and we citizens see you for
what you are: the forces of fascism.
For an update on the situation in North Dakota and a powerful interview with the father of that maimed young woman go to: http://www.commondreams.org/
Democracy Now! has a good Standing Rock update at: https://www.democracynow.
Please pass this appeal on to your contacts.
Please,
friends, do not compound the injustice being perpetrated this holiday
weekend by ignoring what is happening; we cannot turn away. An injustice
to one is injustice to all and silence in the face of injustice is
consent.
Please join me in making a donation of any amount you can afford to the Standing Rock legal defense fund.
My thanks to all of you.
In solidarity,
Mark L. Taylor
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