Iron Eyes: US President Trump escalating oil war in ‘heartland of America’ | Warrior Publications

27.1.17

Iron Eyes: US President Trump escalating oil war in ‘heartland of America’ | Warrior Publications: “We, who are on the ground, have determined we don’t have the time, we don’t have the luxury to inaugurate another president. The corporate state has taken over our representative democracy here in America. Not only is Trump a threat to Native nations, as far as terminating the federal relationship we have, the treaty relationship we have, but America’s Constitutional rights are at stake,” he said.

And the battle lines, he said, cross the “Medicine Line” north into Canada.

“We are facing tyranny, we are facing a fascist state, we are willing to put our lives, our liberty; indeed people have put their limbs on the line. We are ready to make a stand. An unarmed, non-violent stand for a peaceful revolution. We have to understand that peace is not passive in any sense of the word,” he said. “We are going to have to stand up, we don’t have a choice, that’s south of the Medicine Line, that is up in First Nations territory with Kinder Morgan and other pipelines coming down. We’ll all have to stand up. The world is waiting for us to do that, the world will respond because we have a spiritual dignity and a connection we’ve kept alive to the water…and the sacred beings of this universe.”