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CIA Killed JFK

26 Wednesday Apr 2017

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How I Became Convinced

-by Bill Watkins 4/26/2017

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Over fifty-nine years have passed since the murder of JFK, and here we are.  To me, the facts are there.  The testimony, the evidence.  All pointing away from the “official” Oswald story.

And when taken as a whole, held to the light, facts and evidence point to the Central Intelligence Agency as the likely killers of our country’s 35th president.  I could dive in here with all I have, or I could back up, recall how I got here.  The latter course seems wise, as the treacherous forest of November 22, 1963 is best navigated without emotion, when inspecting for legal guilt or innocence.

***

I grew up on the military right wing.  My father was Navy, his brothers were Navy.  One of them was Chief of Naval Operations from 1982-5, then went on to serve as George H.W. Bush’s Secretary of Energy.  That is right wing.  That is as right as you get.

On that extreme right wing you will find sympathy for war, covert operations, secrets and anything thought to contribute to “National Security.”  When Iraq invaded Kuwait, and Bush put American soldiers there to fight, I cried “Gung Ho!!” and “Go get’em, boys!!!”  And if the JFK assassination ever came up in conversation or thought, I saw two sides to the issue, one blaring—one a distant murmur.

The blaring “truth” to me at the time was that Lee Harvey Oswald killed Kennedy, because it was in my textbook, and my family never disputed this claim.  I had not studied, nor had little use or care regarding the law, constitutional or otherwise that might frown upon condemning a man as guilty of a crime without a trial.

I mentioned a “distant murmur,” and that was this wacky conspiracy theory group of “kooks,” always worried about stuff, never accepting what the government told them.  Those weirdos didn’t want to go and win wars like Trump, were communists or close to it, and nothing they said really mattered.

***

Then I got sober in March of 2002.  Before that, I had a spiritual awakening in 1995, so had begun to adore truth.  Some twelve years into my sobriety, Oliver Stone’s JFK was playing repeatedly on HBO, and of course I repeatedly passed it up, knowing Stone to be one of “those conspiracy kooks.”

The CIA had me, I later understood.  All their propaganda, the pains they take to infiltrate media, something they prided themselves in abroad and at home—from influencing Latin American elections to blaming Kennedy for the murder of a Vietnamese head of state.

I was locked into the hype and hoopla of American exceptionalism;  that we were the greatest country on earth.  It must be true because my government and military told me so…  But when that dang JFK movie aired for the fourth time in four days on my television, my spiritual recovery told me to open my mind and watch it.

On October 24, 2014 I had a Political Awakening while watching Oliver Stone’s JFK.  I was not yet Convinced of the facts around the JFK murder;  I was now just interested, shocked by the plausible story I was watching that painted the U.S. Government in a shady light.  The Oswald story began to look like the terd that it is, and I started to investigate.

The Road to “Convinced:”

There are two major primers to apply, if you wanted to follow my personal path to becoming convinced of Oswald’s innocence and CIA’s guilt for the murder of JFK:

1.  Watch JFK by Oliver Stone.  Good overview, and an entertaining way to start.

2.  Read On the Trail of the Assassins by Jim Garrison, and browse A Farewell to Justice by Joan Mellon.  You might not be convinced yet, if you do those primer steps.  But you will be ready for…

***Mark Lane:

Read Rush to Judgment, and you will become convinced before you are half-way through, that CIA killed Kennedy.  I wrote this piece, after I had finished Rush to Judgment:

https://travelingpoet.net/2017/03/28/the-coup-of-1963/

It’s very hard to become more convinced than “convinced,” but of course one keeps studying, investigating and verifying.  I moved on to Mark Lane’s second book, A Citizen’s Dissent;  it was while reading it that I first considered writing a movie screenplay about Mark, his defense of Oswald, and indicting CIA.

Before writing anything, though, I started reading Mark Lane’s third book, Plausible Denial.  It was by reading this book that I could feel more confident publishing against CIA and on behalf of the framed Lee Harvey Oswald.

Plausible Denial was damning to CIA and Howard Hunt.  The trial that it depicted was Hunt v. Liberty Lobby (1985 in Miami, Florida)—in which a jury sided with Lane that CIA and Hunt were involved in the JFK murder.

http://www.libertylobby.org/articles/2000/20000207cia.html

You may not know about Hunt v. Liberty Lobby, because that is how the CIA likes it.

In that case, the testimony of Marita Lorenz was introduced.  Marita had nothing materially to gain by putting herself on a hit list, but offered the truth out of her conscience to right past wrongs.  Though I was already convinced before reading her deposition, her placement of CIA’s Howard Hunt, Frank Sturgis and Anti-Castro Cuban CIA shooters in Dallas on November 21, 1963—Hunt the bagman…

Was the nail in the CIA coffin for this “job.”

The half-sick, half-patriotic organization that began half a ruse on the White House steps in 1946, with their cloak and dagger ceremony, had finally been hurt and scared enough to off the President of the United States, their supposed boss.  Kennedy had threatened to dismantle the CIA after the Bay of Pigs failure, had fired superspy Allen Dulles, the godfather of American espionage.

Kennedy was talking “peace” everywhere he went, closing the divide between black and white, Soviet red and our red, white and blue.  He was not even going to allow CIA their Vietnam.  He had to “go,” Hunt and others diabolically decided.  So some Anti-Castro Cubans and CIA killers shot and killed JFK, cowardly from behind some bushes, covered with police and Secret Service uniforms;  and of course aided by the complicit Dallas Police Department, whose mayor was the Kennedy-fired Deputy CIA Head Charles Cabell’s brother, Earle.

Oswald’s affiliation with FBI kept Hoover in line, CIA mapping out a cover-up, putting Allen Dulles in the middle of Johnson’s Warren Commission to protect the agency from any close scrutiny.  Obfuscating, hiding, destroying and “classifying” documents.  CIA omerta and promises of “national security.”  Every criminal organization has to have a legitimate front and plausible deniability, so there you go…

***

This article should not have convinced you that CIA killed John F. Kennedy, but I hope there is a map laid out for those who seek to find.  And to the CIA:  God bless you to better.

Top Ten Reasons the United States is Not Exceptional

25 Tuesday Apr 2017

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-by Bill Watkins 4/25/2017

American Exceptionalism1

10.  We were founded on Native blood.

9.  We too often forget God, Great Spirit, and Nature.

8.  Democracy, or “People-Rule,” is a fallacy.  People are not that powerful.

7.  We condoned the sin of Slavery for almost ninety years, and still have not paid for that sin.

6.  We allowed the CIA to kill John F. Kennedy.

5.  We still allow the CIA to carry on who-knows-what with the blank check we give them.

4.  We still push Native America out of their lands with every day we ignore history.

3.  We still mistreat African-Americans, who deserve reparations for what happened to their ancestors.

2.  Philippines.  Korea.  Iran.  Vietnam.  Guatemala.  El Salvador.  Chile.  World War I Propaganda and censorship.  Truman’s two bombs on innocent civilians.

1.  The formal founding of the “Central Intelligence Agency” with cloak and dagger ceremony at the White House in 1947, killing the UN Charter of 1945 and its goal of World Peace.

Founding Fathers -- Native American1

Notes and Hope:

We could be a great Nation.

The day we stop.  Listen to God.  The Native Nations.  The United Nations…

Good Bye Los Angeles!!

25 Tuesday Apr 2017

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Some Thoughts Before I Go:

-by Bill Watkins 4/24/2017

***

God, give me the wisdom
to say something of value.

Amen.

***

Greetings, “Los Angeles,”—a Tongva/Gabrielino land.

We cannot always look forward, or up at the next skyscraper or project.

It is wise to look back, to make sure our past is okay.  Mended and tightly made!

***

Wherever native peoples are buried, we must have recognition, designated posts and plaques, remembrance of the first caretakers of God’s land.

We should now and forever, institute SPACE on our panels and councils FOR NATIVE PEOPLE TO JOIN AND PARTICIPATE.

For the Los Angeles City Council, for instance, TWO seats should be made available for First Peoples to fill.

Those seats would not be voted in by the public, but by Native Councils—like the Los Angeles Native American Indian Commission.

The County Board of Supervisors should reserve at least one seat for this purpose…

***

We have inherited other evils besides native neglect, like the sin of slavery committed so many years ago.  No matter how much time passes, a sin will fester and cause problems until it is examined and amends are made.

Every “American” should reflect on what is the proper reparation to offer African-descended people, who can claim descendancy to people brought here in chains against their will.

Emotional debts must be paid, just as financial ones—if we are to be a thriving community.

***

With a proper council that includes native people, and with a mind to repair past sins to African Americans and anyone else wronged by government policies:

It would be time to clean up the city and county of Los Angeles, and to budget the enforcement of every law and code on the books.

Right now, it is obvious that many codes are not enforced.

And aiming especially at Education:

NONE OF THE CODE IS CURRENTLY TAUGHT IN SCHOOL.

We need to Teach Law, if we hope that the community will Obey and Respect the Law.  (https://travelingpoet.net/first-step-education/)

I have personally taught law and law code to Children ages five and up!!  It can be done. It must be done.  (https://travelingpoet.net/2014/04/01/law-dragons/)

Here is the little book I have begun for this purpose:  Law For Kids

***

We could do so much more.  We could be so much more.

We could have clean streets and sidewalks, metros, metro platforms.

And Clean is Safe!  Ask my dad, John F. Watkins of forty-plus years in the Steel Business.

We could expand City Personnel to include job offers to homeless and formerly homeless—BEGIN A PEDESTRIAN STREET CLEANING CORPS!!!!

https://travelingpoet.net/clean-l-a/

***

Mayor visits to Dodger games, spouting about sports and Funding PARTIES must be curbed in favor of mass Clean-up efforts, Law education, noise reduction, and a Budget overhaul of both the City and County resources.

Let us move away from controversial, unproven, non-universally accepted Health and Science concepts.

To push non-emergency western “health care” on citizens should be outlawed in the same way that the Church and State are separated.

“Health” is defined by all differently.  (https://travelingpoet.net/2017/03/23/what-is-health/)

The same could be said for “religion.”

So, Government:  Stay out of it.

Build us roads, infrastructure.

Keep trying at Security, and study real defense/martial arts—keep moving away from lethal weapons.

Killing is Never Defense.  (https://travelingpoet.net/2016/03/07/the-old-argument/)

***Adopt a fifty-fifty budget (City of Los Angeles — Budget Proposal)—keep it simple!!!  May we stop playing God with Government funds, pray to one, fix some roads and PAY OUR DEBTS!!!

Start and end with prayer.  With supplication to the Great Spirit, to “God,” to a Higher Power than us; consult with native peoples, and invoke wisdom.

***

Fireworks and Noise:

Please, God, help us Put the Foot Down on Illegal fireworks.

Help us Re-Think Helicopters and Sirens.

The loud, metal, brutal force of industry kills the healing peace of our land in its natural state.

Help us all to see the poor philosophy of “helping” a household or individual with a robbery by KILLING THE PEACE IN A TEN MILE RADIUS with loud airplanes and sirens.

Our authorities are supposed to Keep the Peace, not destroy it.

Shhh!  God is working a masterpiece.  (https://travelingpoet.net/2014/01/22/chess/)

Bad things happen.  Do not make bad things worse by making a bunch of noise.

I challenge emergency services to take a walk in the woods and reflect on Real Health.  No person should consume flammable liquids.  Start your safety program there, by Never “drinking” alcoholic beverages.

Most emergencies come from carelessness and diabolical drinks/drugs.

Abstain and join me in more quiet, respectful living!

***

(Another reason to be wary of Dodger Games, Mr. Mayor, and Laker support.  Sports are full of gambling (money+emotions), Alcohol rampant.)

Focus on our roads, sidewalks, adopt a more humble face, and one not so easy to sell himself and Los Angeles:

Especially when this place is so dirty.

Trash litters in every direction, from gutters to sidewalks, to our Metro services—often the first look we give tourists.

Yesterday, I could hardly see the pay screen at a Gold Line pay kiosk, through the dirt, grime and graffiti.

We need an adequate PLAN, just like with fireworks, to stamp out that problem.

We need to expand City Personnel, START HIRING EVEN DAY WORKERS!!

“We need bodies,” I have heard the Animal Services Department utter.

Stop looking for perfection, favorites, or someone for a thirty year tenure and GET PEOPLE OUT WORKING TODAY!!!!!!

The Homeless doesn’t have to be a problem.

They are a Work Force, waiting to be tapped!!!!

***

So decide. Decide, like I did, when I gave up DRINKING a flammable, volatile chemical “sold” as DRINK fifteen years ago.

Start caring about yourself and others, as I did, when I took that step toward health. (https://travelingpoet.net/2014/03/14/you-learn-to-care/)

Read and study the Native way, read Kent Nerburn’s great collection, a cheap buy online that will change your life:

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=the+wisdom+of+native+americans

***

I am off to Livingston, Montana—Crow Country.

Please keep a prayer and thought for me, and when you do, let Tongva Nation help you in Los Angeles.

Let the Gabrielino Tribe rise to help you protect this land.

Hoist up the L.A. Native American Indian Commission, and may it vote into reserved spots key players in determining wise courses of action.

God is real.  Call it by any name you choose.  That is not religion, which is organized.  Spirituality, your walk with God—is yours.  Bring its rewards, wisdom and charity, into your council chambers and bring God, Spirit, and Nature back to this community.

Quiet our sirens and choppers, and hear the parrots, escaped from that South Pasadena store fire so long ago.

Smile.

After we clean up, take in a ballgame, but not until we clean up, and enforce every code on our books.

Dissolve the heliport in favor of a great foot patrol outpost.

A non-lethal, giving one.

—Love and Highest Peace
Forever.

Bill “Naked Horse” Watkins
Honorary Tongva
http://www.travelingpoet.net

Firework Worksheet

Health and Safety Code Amendment — Asset Forfeiture Applied to Illegal Fireworks — Watkins Proposal 2016

Consumer Fireworks Ban — Watkins Proposal for Gomez — CA — 2016

You Learn to Care

Dear LAFD Commission

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Fireworks -- Margaret Note

Before Religion

09 Sunday Apr 2017

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—by Bill Watkins 4/9/2017

Native American Health3

We used to live on the earth.

Before concrete, metal, helicopters and sirens.

Humankind has been at war with nature and Powers greater than ourselves forever.  We have tried to organize, defeat cold and hunger of course.

We began to paint on cave walls, make art, seek eternal life and our place in an eternal life cycle.  That expression was valued in some cultures, not in others.

Native American thinking always placed God’s art—nature itself, before human achievements.

“Yes, Niagara will be Niagara a thousand years hence!  The rainbow, a wreath over her brow, shall continue as long as the sun, and the flowing of the river—while the work of art, however carefully protected and preserved, shall fade and crumble into dust!”

—George Copway, Ojibwe Tribe

“White man’s pictures all fade, but the Indian’s memories last forever.”

—Indian Guide (1882)

Those quotes are two of hundreds that changed my life a couple summers ago, when my wife picked up Kent Nerburn’s The Wisdom of the Native Americans and brought the book to a beach trip up the central Californian coast.

Nerburn compiled a masterpiece, from a culture that was not obsessed with writing history, but actually engaged in living as one with its nature.

“The white people must think that paper has some mysterious power to help them in the world.  The Indian needs no writings; words that are true sink deep into his heart, where they remain.”

—Four Guns, Oglala Sioux

***

There are benefits to civilization;  without benefits, it never would have happened.

But the devil is weaving quite an enticing maze, battling the Creator like us, for control.  The devil loves the speed with which people drive “progress” forward.

The devil loves forgotten history, repeating mistakes, and forgetting creation.

Ingratitude another favorite.  The disease of “more” more and more engulfing people, unless…

***

Unless we stop.  Go back.  Remember our part in this…  Be grateful for the ground, and perhaps consider traveling to our people’s first ground.

Track your way back to where Earth spawned you.  Be at home.

Re-engage with the cycle of life, and find the eternal in the first eternity.

The one before religion.

Retribution Now!!

07 Friday Apr 2017

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It’s Time to Pay ALL Our Debts

-by Bill Watkins 4/7/2017

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We owe almost twenty trillion dollars, worldwide.

Worse than that: we owe for our sins.  Wrongs committed in the past.

Wrongs don’t amend themselves by ignoring them.  They don’t suddenly become right with the passing of time.  In fact, they often get worse.

Are the Cherokee people still crying for being kicked off their land?

Does the inner-city black population remember the chains and murder of slavery days?

The days of illegal removal, treaty breaking, slave trading may literally be over, but none of them will ever be forgotten.

Especially when there has been no overt amends made by the United States Government.

Its constitution was ratified on Native American blood.

Its White House was constructed by the whip of slave owners, black people kept like lower animals by a conquering, oppressive ruling class.

The symbol of that oppression occupying the White House today.

The Republican concept of “American Exceptionalism” is laughable in many ways:

1. There is a denial of real American first people. Their rights and land stripped by white invaders who call themselves “American.”

2. We are a slave nation.  Because we outlawed slavery in 1863, does not mean we have fully made amends for our participation in that sin.

3. The Second Amendment is a sad perversion of the Sixth Commandment.  A sad Justification for Murder.

4. We are hypocrites to Host and Claim Membership at the United Nations, which is for Peace-loving nations.

5. We are a war nation, a conquering one, set on overt and covert military domination of the world, especially since the covert CIA was ratified in 1947, two years after the UN was formed for World Peace.

6. CIA killed John F. Kennedy.  Covered it up, and has been in control of the U.S. Government ever since.

And now suspicions swirl around a so-called president, who clearly benefited from a Russian spy operation to help him get elected in 2016.

We are not exceptional, but could be.

You have to go back, make amends for our sins.  Then the present clears, the future can be bright.

Restore Native American rights and land. Obey treaties and contracts made.  Resist the temptation for greed and other evils leading to short term gains, long term pains.

Pay off that near-twenty trillion dollar debt, one year at a time until it is gone.

When free of that yoke, turn to black people, and let us offer a restitution grant to allow an African-descendant to return to his or her land.

To decide with full will, if the United States is where they want to be.

Helicopter Patrols Violate Fourth Amendment

05 Wednesday Apr 2017

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-by Bill Watkins 4/5/2017

4th Amendment Flight

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

***

If the noise isn’t bad enough to cause a change to be made, could Constitutional Law?

Helicopters, low-flying planes of any type: have no constitutional right to be low and loud above our homes.

What would Adams or Jefferson say about the noise?  About the invasion of privacy caused by the search by loud aerial patrols of our communities?

Someone war-minded would argue that helicopters are issued at the request of officers on the ground, a process meant to resemble “probable cause” for a search.

Where is the Civilian Oversight of this process?  Judicial oversight?

Officers will back their own, as will the pro-flight FAA, said to “monitor itself.”  FAA does about as well as the Alcohol Industry at monitoring itself.

As Big Alcohol thinks it’s okay to advertise their dangerous products to a percentage of child viewers, Big Aviation pushes a narrow view of Safety Oversight, that ignores noise.

And all of us seem to be ignoring the Constitution.  Our Privacy.  The Environment.  Peace and securing it above even the competitive “need” to “catch bad guys.”

I rarely hear criminals or suspects.  I hear helicopters.  Sirens.

Police are the real criminals here.

Concepts for a Native American Revival

03 Monday Apr 2017

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Developing a Native American
Political Party “Platform”

—by Bill “Naked Horse” Watkins 4/3/2017

Native American Health10

Written the truth fails.

Truth is under words, in trees, under God.

Only by asking God to bless paper and words,
may these words help other souls.

***

God,

Present yourself and bless these words,
this computer, ink and paper—

may they transmit your truth and will.

We are a hopeless clan of mortal souls,
unable until blessed to achieve
greatness and good.

I ask for a blessing, so that these words may
matter, have meaning and help others.

Amen.

***

The truth is now in the words, the paper or screen in front of you with power to help and inspire.

The Native Political Party

Before the white man came, there was a direct relationship between the land and its people, a Great Spirit connecting all with life.

There was no separation.

It was not religion.  Not organized or words on paper.  Great truth and tradition was passed down through the generations, the ancestors lived forever in the spirit, and an eternal cycle between the ground, the sky and people prevailed.

Various white men and women came from across the sea.

Some were very religious, had a great book, and had come to worship freely from it—out of the sharp criticism and oppressive persecution emanating from kings and queens, ruling hard over their original land.

We welcomed these religious people, helped them adapt to living in the land that became “America,” shared in feasts with them.

It was a honeymoon, a merging of culture, and it was good, blessed both by the Great Spirit and the God of the pilgrims’ great book.

***

Another type of white man came, men in armor, carrying weapons of war, building forts.  Warriors.  Adventurers.

These men were closed and scared, but even they opened to our trade, and were grateful for our help when suffering from our harsh winters.

We fought against their fears and against them.  Weapons were brandished.  People lost their lives in the fear of competition.

It was this group, and their kind who came after them, who mounted war against the original American people—until those people were killed, displaced and moved off the land God had given them.

The great chiefs struggled with the white advance, wondered why a people would leave the land of their fathers, come across an ocean to steal another people’s land.

Often, the white men in armor claimed to believe in the great pilgrim book, but we constantly noticed a difference between their words, stated beliefs, and actions.

An evil wind can affect any person, people, clan or tribe.  Dishonesty, fear, disillusion, and confusion can infect anyone.

We pray for the armored white conqueror and their descendants, that they find peace within themselves.  That they remember their fathers and mothers, originally buried not on our land—but across the sea, in Europe.

The white man and his descendants are welcome here, especially the pilgrims who follow the great book, and who seek fulfillment in living a good life, free to worship in their own way, free to be the people God wants them to be.

The violent conqueror, on the other hand, is an enemy—not to us, but to God.

We only have prayer for those violent people, who suffer from a severe disease called “more,” and who are rarely satisfied.

If there is anything else besides prayer, the action to stand up to the evil in the “conquering” instinct would be written in the pages of Mahatma Gandhi’s book, the one read and utilized by the great justice chief, Martin Luther King Jr.

There is a path back to our inheritance.  But that path is back through the Devil’s own lair.  Greed, gluttony, sloth and pride adorn the gate back to our homes.

Guarding that door are the canons of Andrew Jackson.  The fear of General Custer.  The doctrine of Monroe, the vanity of Jefferson, and greed of the 49er.

They are still there.  They guard the apparent “right to be wrong.”  The “right” to leave the land of one’s father, to steal another’s land.

***

And for that gate and those guarding it we pray our highest prayers, wish our best thoughts, so that Hope may come to them.

And when hope and thoughts of home come to them, the Great Spirit of this country will fill their hearts.

They will remember their own Celtic cross, the peace of a far off tribe at one with the land of their ancestors.

The World Spirit will remember itself, happy to be remembered.

The Past wakes and becomes a wonderful part of our new and improving Present.

The gate will open, and the people will be once again a part of life’s eternal cycle.

***

Opening the Gate:

We must work within the white man law, to appeal to its courts for recognition, marks for our peoples’ graves, plaques and historical mapping.

We were and are here.

And we will be heard.  We will fight for our lives, which in concrete and metal is incomplete.  If we must “buy” our own land back, we will save money and buy it.

As for a Party Platform:

1. Paying Our Debts

The first priority of a responsible government is to be clear of all debts.

a. Financial

If we owe 20 trillion dollars, then set up an immediate plan to pay 20 trillion dollars back to our creditors.

b. Moral

If a contract or treaty was made by the U.S. Government, it needs to be upheld.

Any breaking of a treaty or contract by the U.S. Government must be looked at, studied, and if appropriate—amended.

Truth is paramount.  If war or Monroe Doctrine, “Manifest Destiny,” or an insatiable desire for gold and land was at play:

Let us admit the truth.  Yes, we broke a contract for gold, for land.

“We did not trust the native people.  We were afraid to live next to native people.”

We muscled native people out, so that we could set up our modern society, with walls, concrete, metal, sirens and air machines.

Prayer plays into this.  Prayers from the conquered.

***

Can we think of native people more?  How would that benefit white man’s civilization?

I hereby challenge the native people to take our wisdom, our love for the land, and become missionaries into the white man’s world—as they did to us with their great book.

We must take our views to them, before they destroy our environment.

***

Black people were brought here against their will in chains, were beaten, and forced to work as slaves for hundreds of years before finally given a level of freedom in Lincoln’s Civil War.

In paying our financial and moral debts, African-descended people must be considered, a stipend or grant for travel back to lands their descendants left unwillingly.

A stipend of $20,000 for travel for each black person would cover some of the punitive damages, while prayer and recognition for lives lost should continue to be invoked with holidays, days or months of reflection.

***

2. Build Infrastructure

The old days of native isolation and innocence did not require roads.  But native people understand the need to support the mix of society in the United States.

If we are to have roads and bridges, they should be beautiful and functional.

After debt is paid, attention should be paid to building.

***However.  When there is a doubt, to leave nature naked is to give the Great Spirit a direct gift.  The freedom of beasts, people, and vegetation to grow and cycle as God intended is the ultimate blessing.

Not just to God, but to ourselves.

As much as possible, leave God and nature alone.

Take what we need, but no more.

Give thanks to God, and leave resources behind for the next generations.

3. National Security

My father expressed concern recently about a poorly supported military becoming a paper tiger, a soft target, and a poor deterrent to attack from within or abroad.

Lethal weapons are an abomination.

Lethal force is abhorred by God.

Martial artists know the value of 100 percent commitment to physical fitness, sharp eyesight and care—attention to every detail of a ready force for self-defense.

The martial artist knows the pressure points.  Knows how to kill.  Knows the darkest parts of life.

But in knowing the dark, stays in the light.  Weapons and lethal force are never used or paraded around.  The Tao Te Ching:

Weapons are the tools of violence;
all decent men detest them.

Weapons are the tools of fear;
a decent man will avoid them
except in the direst necessity
and, if compelled, will use them
only with the utmost restraint.
Peace is his highest value.
If the peace has been shattered,
how can he be content?
His enemies are not demons,
but human beings like himself.
He doesn’t wish them personal harm.
Nor does he rejoice in victory.
How could he rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?

He enters a battle gravely,
with sorrow and with great compassion,
as if he were attending a funeral.

***

The Chinese is our brother.  Our sister.  The earth our mother.

Great Spirit wants us to be at peace, to live in harmony with nature, to use restraint.

“Thou shalt not kill” from YHWH’s law is stepped on too carelessly by the United States Bill of Rights’ 2nd Amendment.

Self-defense is fine.  But killing is wrong.

An attacker’s heart does not have to STOP BEATING for them to no longer be a threat.

Lethal weapons are for the fearful and weak.  God bless them to be strong and learn to “turn the other cheek,” as the great Nazarene rabbi once said.

The Indian Law of Karma applies as well.  Killing breeds killing, violence violence.

Forgiveness?  Forgiveness yields love, peace and more forgiveness.

And without honesty and honor, the Great Spirit departs our communities, and we are alone with the Devil.

CIA, secrets, covert operations are an abomination, and should end.

United Nations is good.  Native American nations should be admitted as full members.  Only peace-loving nations should be members, and therefore the United Nations should immediately leave the United States.

The United States is not a peace-loving nation.

Its CIA, its covert operations, its murder of JFK, RFK, MLK and John Lennon and locked up “classified” documents is the great evil keeping the United States from following the UN charter of 1945.

Truth must be told.

All killing must cease.

No man or woman is greater or less than another man or woman, under God.

Murder and killing is the ultimate judgment of another human being.

It must stop.

Know the dark, keep the light, may we be ready for attack, but if attacked restrain our actions to restore peace as soon as is possible.

If anyone is hurt in combat, we are to mourn all those lost, the attacker too.

We shall pray most for the attacker, for those sad souls who crashed the planes into the World Trade Towers in 2001—not just their victims.

Imagine the sad, confused life that ended in such a horrible suicide.

May we develop a foreign aid posture, that helps as many people as possible feel good about Life, so that suicide or murder becomes abhorrent to them, not a viable “way out” or option.

We believe that murder and crime has nothing to do with real religion, and that religions should not be grouped together or blamed when crimes happen.

“Terrorism” is a word that divides evil.

Dividing is the way of the devil.

Crime is crime.  Evil is evil.

We are wise to simplify names for this, to deal with each case differently, and to NOT use words that tend to cause prejudice.

***

Health and religion should stay separate from government affairs, as every single human being have different paths and definitions for those terms.

Government should help with roads, infrastructure, pay off debts, and gather for clever, strong, well-prepared non-lethal national defense.

To know the worst, do the best, is the way of the peaceful warrior.

That tiger is not made of paper, but of God’s truth, power, wisdom and might.

***

Great Spirit,

Thank you for the words.  We know
they are blessed because we asked you
to bless them.

Amen.

—Submitted in Hope,

Bill “Naked Horse” Watkins
Former Welsh Conqueror
On Behalf of Native American People
Native American Party
April 3, 2017

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