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"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)"

Mosheim, TN, USA
female, age 108
single, 1 child
Speaks: English
Joined Mar 27, 2007

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WHAT IS MEANINGFUL TO ME . . .

"In Germany, they came first for the Communists,
And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist;
And then they came for the trade unionists,
And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist;
And then they came for the Jews,
And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew;
And then . . . they came for me . . .
And by that time there was no one left to speak up."
~Pastor Martin Niemoller

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"The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot." ~~ Mark Twain

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"So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men."
-- Voltaire.

"If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad."

--James Madison

"It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
--Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

"The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press, and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent."
--Charles Eliot Norton

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Incitement To Disobedience

I wish that I were able to incite
Young men in every land to disobey
For wars will cease when men refuse to fight.

To kill our brothers for a nations right
Is not a method we can use today.
I wish that I were able to incite.

When leaders threaten to resort to might,
I know that idols all have feet of clay.
For wars will cease when men refuse to fight.

The cause of peace is shared by black and white
And freedom fighters show a better way.
I wish that I were able to incite.

Non-violent resistance has no bite
While undecided pacifists delay.
For wars will cease when men refuse to fight.

With power to reinforce in what I write
The things that protest-singers try to say,
I wish that I were able to incite
For wars will cease when men refuse to fight.
- Tom Earley

"This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."
~ Chief Seattle, Native American

Apology for Abuses at US Indian School

In the spirit of the White Bison Prophecy, join us in signing this petition supporting a US apology and healing for the widespread abuse of Native American children at the nearly 500 schools funded by the US government to assimilate Native American people.

U.S. GOVERNMENT -- APOLOGIZE!

"We the people from all the four directions living upon this planet believe Native Americans voices have gone unanswered for far too long. We have witnessed many wrongs in history none are equal to what the Native American has suffered.

The sad truth is these wrongs still exist, natives living in poverty, barely surviving in broken trailers with no running water, plumbing, electricity or heat. The same conditions you see on those commercials asking people to donate money to the children of third world countries.

The only difference is, it's happening in the United States of America to Native Americans..."

This issue has been ignored and unacted upon for much too long.

Please sign and promote this important petition!

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/send-the-crc-to-the-senate

"The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) (United Nations, 1989) has been ratified by 193 State Parties (countries). The only two who have not ratified the convention: the United States and Somolia. Both of those have signed it, indicating the intent to ratify. The United States signed the CRC in 1995 under President Clinton. It has been stalled in the Bush administration (it has yet to be sent to the Senate for ratification), as George W has blatantly expressed his opposition to the Convention."

In memory of Nia

Remember the Children
"Our love, or our lack of it . . . will in the end be an expression of ourselves: of who we think we are, of what we want to be, of what we think we are here for.
~Thomas Merton

Chief White Cloud (James H. Rheamount)
Beloved Grandfather and Spirit Guide

The Wounded Knee Massacre
(December 29, 1890)

Under cover of the night on December 23, a band of 350 people left the Miniconjou village on the Cheyenne River to begin a treacherous 150-mile, week-long trek through the Badlands to reach the Pine Ridge Agency.

Although Chief Big Foot was aged and seriously ill with pneumonia, his group traversed the rugged, frozen terrain of the Badlands in order to reach the protection of Chief Red Cloud who had promised them food, shelter, and horses. It is reported that both Big Foot and Red Cloud wanted peace.

On December 28, the group was surrounded by Major Samuel M. Whitside and the Seventh Calvary (the old regiment of General George Custer). Big Foot's band hoisted a white flag, but the army apprehended the Indians, forcing them to the bank of Wounded Knee Creek. There, four large Hotchkiss cannons had been menacingly situated atop both sides of the valley overlooking the encampment, ready to fire upon the Indians.

A rumor ran through the camp that the Indians were to be deported to Indian Territory (Oklahoma) which had the reputation for its living conditions being far worse than any prison. The Lakotas became panicky, and historians have surmised that if the misunderstanding had been clarified that they were to be taken to a different camp, the entire horrific incident might have been averted.

That evening, Colonel James Forsyth arrived with reinforcements and took over as commander of the operation. The Indians were not allowed to sleep as the soldiers interrogated them through the night. (It has been reported that many of the questions were to determine who among the group had been at Little Bighorn fourteen years earlier. In addition, eyewitnesses claimed that the soldiers had been drinking to celebrate the capture of the ailing Big Foot.)

The soldiers ordered that the Indians be stripped of their weapons, and this further agitated an increasingly tense and serious situation. While the soldiers searched for weapons, a few of the Indians began singing Ghost Dance songs, and one of them (thought to be the medicine man, Yellow Bird, although this is still disputed by historians) threw dirt in a ceremonial act.

This action was misunderstood by the soldiers as a sign of imminent hostile aggression, and within moments, a gun discharged. It is believed that the gun of a deaf man, Black Coyote, accidentally fired as soldiers tried to take it from him. Although the inadvertent single shot did not injure anyone, instantaneously the soldiers retaliated by spraying the unarmed Indians with bullets from small arms, as well as the Hotchkiss cannons which overlooked the scene. (Hotchkiss cannons are capable of firing two-pound explosive shells at a rate of fifty per minute.)

With only their bare hands to fight back, the Indians tried to defend themselves, but the incident deteriorated further into bloody chaos and the 350 unarmed Indians were outmatched and outnumbered by the nearly 500 U.S. soldiers.

The majority of the massacre fatalities occurred during the initial ten to twenty minutes of the incident, but the firing lasted for several hours as the army chased after those who tried to escape into the nearby ravine. According to recollections by some of the Indian survivors, the soldiers cried out "Remember the Little Bighorn" as they sportingly hunted down those who fled -- evidence to them that the massacre was in revenge of Custer's demise at Little Bighorn in 1876.

Many of the injured died of exposure in the freezing weather, and several days after the incident the dead were strewn as far as approximately two to five miles away from the original site. By mid-afternoon on December 29, 1890, the indiscriminate slaughter ceased.

Nearly three hundred men (including Chief Big Foot), women, and children -- old and young -- were dead on the frosty banks of Wounded Knee Creek. Twenty-nine soldiers also died in the melee, but it is believed that most of the military casualities were a result of "friendly" crossfire that occurred during the fighting frenzy.

Twenty-three soldiers from the Seventh Calvary were later awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for the slaughter of defenseless Indians at Wounded Knee.
Contributed by Lori Liggett - Bowling Green State University,
American Culture Studies Program - Summer 1998

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Hometown	Wherever I am at the time
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Birthday	Dec 18, 1900
Languages	English
About Me	I live as happily as I can, and try to give happiness to others. Otherwise, I try to give happiness to others, and live as happily as I can.
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Pets	Personal Servant to 3 Cats, Guardian to 4 Dogs
Activist Aspirations	Enthusiastic
Political Leaning	Very Liberal
Religions	Zeitgeist, Divine Justice
Eating Habits	Yes
Wild Fact About Me	How wildly private I am (get it?) Worse? I have a chronic condition (technically, described as "wild hair up my arse") I take no medication for it, but I am fortunate to have friends who forgive me for exhibiting the symptoms of the disease.
My Philosophy	It's more important to make a significant impact on one person than to be superficially known to many.
What Gives Me Hope	Opening my eyes in the morning and realizing I'd pre-programmed the coffeemaker.
If I were Mayor, I'd make the world a better place by	Resigning.
What/who changed my life and why	My grandfather, Chief White Cloud (James Rheamount) (Oneida tribe, Wisconsin). I was born on the same day as he and he is forever my ideal man. My next choice would be Marlon Brando.
What Bugs Me	CENSORSHIP!!!!, Control Freaks, Intolerance, Bullies, Meanness, Hypocrisy!
Passions	Truth, children, discovery
Inspirations	children
What Scares Me	War - Cruelty - Greed - Indifference
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Role Models	Chief White Cloud (James Rheamount)
Quotation	A life spent repeating famous quotations is much less than one inspiring them. (me)
Interests	Spirituality/Philosophy, humor, history, Antiques/collectibles, children
Books	Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, psychology, Chocolates for Breakfast, The Stand by Stephen King
Music	R and B, country, blues
Movies	A Streetcar Named Desire, Angela's Ashes, Schindler's List, Sophie's Choice, Besieged, Terms of Endearment, Pulp Fiction, Shawshank Redemption, The Constant Gardener, Slingblade, Manhattan, Annie Hall, Monster's Ball, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
TV Shows	Californication, history channel, Biography Channel, Discovery Channel, THE TUDORS ON SHOWTIME
Favorite Foods	Pasta, chocolate, stir fry
Favorite Places	Maui, My Room, beach
Can't Live Without	TRUTH!!!!!, humor
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