Watching and listening to all the comments jokes and memes about the Pope well let me ask you this are you a member of any organization?
Anyone? Well then don’t complain join today join ISR you really can’t speak on this unless you’re building an organization that intends on rivaling the empire. And genocide isn’t funny. We understand the whole humor as a coping mechanism thing, but you should be frustrated enough to turn that frustration into organization. You mock yourselves with these joke memes. The children tortured by the residential schools hoped we would liberate them or one day get justice for them not laugh at the situation. If you don’t know what to do about the situation, then join an organization and we will show you…. What happened was a travesty from the natives and the Pope. The Pope and the Vatican continue to dance around any admission of guilt. The elephant in the room is legal claims to the land by indigenous peoples. Indigenous land claims are still being undermined to this day with things like the supreme court vs. Oneida nation. The decision from this case continues to make land theft law thanks to Ruth Baader Ginsburg who made one of the most heinous genocidal legal decisions of all time by doubling down on manifest destiny, and the doctrine of discovery. Restitution is owed to the indigenous of the western hemisphere. In all actuality it is us as revolutionary indigenous government and indigenous peoples themselves to seize restitution because it will never be willingly given to us. We will free ourselves. This is where our elders need more political education. What we are seeing is more examples of how our elders are politically illiterate to our detriment as a people. I say this because i have witnessed the sting of elders who insisted on leading who left the land poisoned for 300 years by making rookie mistakes. We just don’t have that kind of time left. Our elders incessant need to be tokenized is the “Germs Of Rot” that Fanon was taking about in his quote. #NotYourTanto
Material change has long been abandoned for symbolism and empty symbolic gestures are often celebrated by indigenous peoples because of our lack of political education. What’s worse is the Pope was taken to a burial ground and had proximity to our dead. This indicates that in some cases even symbolism is lost to us and we have become oblivious to spiritual warfare and allow him to do spells on us. To give a headdress and an Indian name to the Pope is ludicrous. Many of our own native youth don’t have a native name and so many are struggling. This is Stockholms Syndrome. The whole thing shows a lack of true leadership of those tribes… It reiterates the fact that if indigenous nations were doing their job, had a correct anticolonial power stricter and sought power over the colonist instead of sovereignty under there would be no need for I.S.R to exist. They gave an native name to boot seriously? We are one of the last peoples to not be fully humiliated on this earth. Once they humiliate you, they try to take you out. Once you become pathetic the next step is to kill you. People in the international community and potential allies could get the wrong interpretation when they see the pictures going around with the Pope in a headdress. (Headdress symbolizes great deeds done by the wearer) This symbolism is like a backwards medicine. A spell? a Psy Opp? Mind Control and propaganda. There is a second less used meaning of the term “rape culture” it extends to the undermining of the physical and political boundaries of indigenous peoples. A picture is worth a thousand words. A thousand bad words in this case. The Pope and the Vatican are involved in a land theft racket. The actions of some of our elders do not speak for the rest of us and it is as if they have learned nothing from generations of torture. Land, culture, language etc. all this is included in restitution and the sum is so large that colonists will never be able to pay it. It would sooner happen if colonists would just leave our continent and let us begin repairing it on our own. The pope should have been banned from Turtle Island and he should have been met by a security force with armed warriors to repel his visit yet indigenous people were left with a bill for 35 million dollars for his visit. The Vatican has become the largest landowner on the planet due to this religious genocide. The church is responsible for the deaths of millions and left survivors with mental health issues. It’s time to get our way of life back to save this whole planet and future generations… and here at ISR we aim to do just that everybody seems to be so mad but what have you done to change that have you joined an organization yet to secure yours and your family’s future? Individuals don’t create revolution only organizations do that. Requests to rescind the doctrine of discovery will continue to fall on deaf ears. As Kwame Ture teaches us nonviolence only works if your enemy has a conscious. Some people celebrated the Cree woman who sang Oh Canada in Cree but it should not be celebrated. Celebrating this will only teach the youth that its ok to negotiate with terrorists and to sing songs for baby killers. Pow wow culture, you know its not traditional right? Do we really just want to do a grand entry with the Pope that bad? I.S.R call for an end to symbolic gestures. They have us wasting material resources going on walks to raise awareness for MMIP when combat and self-defense programs are more effective. At this rate we will perish, and we refuse to follow leaders who are politically illiterate. Always listening to our elders is an outdated cultural practice that is not serving us at this juncture. We are not relics. We are not frozen in time. Self-determination has become a lost art. Dialectical materialism barely considered and not in an organized way. This whole display drives home the need for an indigenous dictatorship. It brings into sharp focus the pettiness of human beings which we cite as the need for this dictatorship in the first place. Many non-natives don’t know why natives go to church and perhaps some natives don’t know by now, but we were divided up amongst the churches as if we were their property. Our religious symbols corrupted by theirs. We could only have our dances if we did it under a cross and an amerikkkan flag. We have come to identify with our captors it’s called Stockholm syndrome. The Vatican may offer some crumbs, but those crumbs will come with shackles.
The decolonization of Turtle Island is inevitable. Colonialism needs to be destroyed and replaced. We must continue to build the fledgling pan indigenous government to keep them out. Ripping them down is not enough. Only then will we gain control over our own destinies on our own land. We can become what we are supposed to be we can trade our own wares, natural resources, honey, corn, tobacco, maple syrup. Seize the means of production. And arguably most importantly set our own environmental standards. So once again I ask what are you doing about it ? If your not in an anti colonial organization that aspires to rival the empire then let this be your wake up call. Tap into an organization that strives for righteousness and the ability for of all of us to live on this planet.
“Some of you need to seriously need to reevaluate your life and your teachings and where you’re great grandchildren may be living and how’. -I.S.R Officer Debbie Boone. Descendant of the great Iroquois Nation
Written by Debbie Boone and The Invisible Warrior Mko Vieux
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