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Indian Tribe Bans Blogger for Telling Truth
The existance of quasi-independent nations, called Indian tribes, continues to perpetuate a series of dictatorships in America. I’ve noted on several occasions that Native Americans gleefully accept citizenship with its rights and privileges while maintaining Third World living conditions and thug dictatorships. Here is another example.
Grand Forks Herald
The Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa has banished somone from its reservation for the second time since creating an “exclusion code” in 2006.
But the banished individual this time is not a suspected drug dealer, high-risk sex offender, or someone who has committed a serious crime. He’s an Internet blogger.
Friday, the Turtle Mountain tribal council banished North Dakota political blogger Rob Port from the reservation after a column critical of the reservation appeared in a state political magazine.
Port, of Minot, is webmaster for SayAnythingBlog.com, a political Web site.
The tribal resolution says Port’s column was “injurious to the peace and seriously threatens the general welfare, health, safety, political security and prosperity of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, its members, and other tribes in the state of North Dakota.”
Port is under fire for a column that ran in the January issue of The Dakota Beacon, a political magazine published monthly in North Dakota. The column also appears on Port’s blog.
Titled “The Appalling State of North Dakota Indian Reservations,” the column stems from Port’s daylong experience at the Turtle Mountain reservation, where he says he spent about 15 hours “going around neighborhoods and knocking on doors.”
In his column, Port talks about the conditions of the homes he saw and the people he came into contact with while on the Turtle Mountain reservation.
He writes that living conditions on the reservation are “abhorrent” and continues with: “Most of us would probably consider living in a squalid apartment in a nasty housing complex a pretty serious consequence for not getting ahead in life, but it seems to me as though most of these Indians are perfectly content to live there. Probably because they don’t know any better. They were likely raised in housing projects by their parents, who in turn were probably raised in housing projects themselves.”
Port’s column also calls for an end to reservations and “cradle-to-grave entitlements.”
Eight tribal council members voted to exclude Port from tribal lands. Tribal Chairman David “Doc” Brien signed the resolution into law Friday.
When you gamble at Indian casinos, buy gasoline or cigarettes at Indian stores, you are supporting these little thugocracies. And it is your tax money that allows these little princes to reign while keeping “their people” in poverty.
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Here is my response to dumb Indians…..
I have requested Indians did not want to be an issue on a trash blog. Governor Hoeven advertises the North Dakota hero’s blog sayanything when it has two really bad sites such as this one:http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/more_on_jess... the Melissa Manhunt satellite provided recently shut down sites. Yet there are still nude photos.
Tony Bender and Steve Cates endorse this site.
These people will not let me on there because I know this.
Not one of them has the balls to look me in the eye and say the things their saying.
Check on bsnorrell and Indianz.com…
Lik;
You know what I seem to recall your name on that ban also. I don’t see the point of trying to debate with you. Your just a pawn in an area you can’t possibly grasp. And their watching you…pothead.
Xene – you were banned for posting the same comment over and over again to various threads. You weren’t “censored”, so enough with that.
Native American people will not stand down.
Yes you will. You will ban anyone who points out the problems, allowing the problems to fester. You’ve already stood down.
There are a few things I didn’t mention. I have been censored as well as all of the Turtle Mountain Area. I am still censored. The Article published in the Dakota Beacon by Steve Cates depicts Reservations as slums. It portrays the people of Reservations as uneducated generations of drug addicted, prison living, welfare, child abusing, and appalling. There was not word about real issues that might draw some attention to the actual improvements that are necessary on the Turtle Mountain Reservation. Such as the roads needing to be repaired because of the deaths on these roads for such a populated area. Rob Port in 15 hours condemned All Reservations in North Dakota and the people in them. The Dakota Beacon kept this unknown to North Dakota Tribes from December 22, 2006 until April 24, 2007. This magazine is read by our Governor Hoeven and all the political affiliates. Rob Port then proudly adds it to the sayanythingblog “Taking Back North Dakota” site for response. The Potowatimi Tribe has officially put up notice that if Rob Port tries to mention their tribe he will be baned also. Red Lake is getting bashed by bloggers now. Recently Red Lake had 10 die in school shootings. Does America care that this activity is raising Red Lake school violence again. Every city and country is visiting this site. Washington DC has been on it many times. The Bureau of Indian Affairs has been on it. It is Just that the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa has acted.
Native American people will not stand down. We are not political pawns. The Republican/Conservative of North Dakota shamefully are exploiting the Indigenous people of North Dakota. We disapprove of being an issue with such a dishonorable group of the United States dregs of society. The President and all of the U. S. Government should be bull whipped for allowing society to reach the lows that it has reached.
Rob Port continues to post and taunt his new found fame courting with a Nation that in all of North American History continue to honor their origin. If the United States wants to take what little land I have left you can kill me first. As the world watches your continued ignorance and greed. And you continue to build your cities on our peoples bones. Add mine first to the new collection.
“an american indian” said, If it weren’t for people like you, we Indigenous Americans wouldn’t be stuck living on reservations. Not one treaty signed by your people was honored and you stole our land. Stuck us on reservations hoping we would die out.
I didn’t do anything. I’m safely assuming that the author of this blog didn’t do anything either. We didn’t steal anything. We didn’t stick you anywhere. For all of the talk about “ignorance” from “an american indian”, he sure is ignorant of the situation.
I posted recently to my own site about the Hopi and Navajo tribes in Arizona and their quest to control Forest Service Land off of their reservation and prevent ski area expansion at Arizona Snowbowl.
http://www.ski-blog.com/2006/09/the_hopi_tribe_goes_all_jerry.html
Here is an excerpt:
I seem to remember 9-11 being caused by 19 hijackers with knives crashing jets into buildings and farm ground. Even if you are a nutjob conspiracy theorist, 9-11 was at worst caused by George Bush. I never thought it was caused by skiing. I am declaring a skiing jihad. From this point forward, I will attempt to cause calamity across the globe by offending the deities of the Hopi tribe by desecrating their sacred land with my two planks. Gotta say, me thinks that the 9-11 hijackers were not real concerned with the Hopi Gods when they were chanting Allah Akbar and crashing planes into buildings. But that is just me.
How do they expect us to take them seriously when they throw crap like this out there? This is a serious lawsuit and it is just retarded to throw out the rhetoric that they are using. They ought to be ashamed. But if their Gods are behind 9-11, we are all in trouble. I think their Gods should probably be more upset about the fact that 50% of Arizona Indians have diabetes, their only real source of income for the reservations is casinos, there are massive alcohol problems among the tribes, and the Indians traded away vast amounts of their deity’s land for trinkets and beads. As I said, if the worst that their God has done to punish us for our disobedience in those matters was 9-11, I think we are safe to make snow there.
Your comments just show how ignorant you are. If it weren’t for people like you, we Indigenous Americans wouldn’t be stuck living on reservations. Not one treaty signed by your people was honored and you stole our land. Stuck us on reservations hoping we would die out. Now you want to go and try to blame us for our living conditions? It seemed we lived pretty well before the Europeans came. And as far as the money from the government goes, ask the government why there’s a lawsuit against them for overdue rent, land claims, etc and they have not paid us. We’re talking billions of dollars we are owed. So, before you shoot your mouth off again and show your ignorance about history, why don’t you get a real book and read about it.
[Editor: There's a word for folks like you. Sore loser. You're not forced to live on reservations. You choose to. Ask yourself why the chiefs and the tribal councils live so very well, while so many ordinary fellow native americans do not. Ask yourself where all the money from the casinos is going. And ask yourself why, in tribe after tribe, dissent is being punished by expulsion.]