Posts Tagged ‘National Guard’

Police didn’t shoot because they were out-gunned.

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Grenade maiming protester’s arm still not covered at numerous national so-called “news” channels. (How is Kim Kardashian, by the way?)

‘Nothing to See Here’ Headlines Conceal Police Violence at Dakota Access
Contact:

Michael Knudsen, Medic Coordinator and Standing Rock Sioux Tribe ethno-botanist Linda Black Elk, PhD – medichealercouncil@gmail.com

Update on Sophia Wilansky
On November 21st as a direct result of the violent police response at Standing Rock towards unarmed people opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline, a 21 year old woman from New York City, Sophia Wilansky, was severely injured when a concussion grenade thrown by police hit her left arm and exploded. Sophia was heading to bring water to the unarmed people who were being attacked for several hours by Morton County Sheriff forces. The Morton County Sheriff’s Department has stated that she was injured by a purported propane explosion that the Sheriff’s Department claimed the unarmed people created. These statements are refuted by Sophia’s testimony, by several eye-witnesses who watched police intentionally throw concussion grenades at unarmed people, by the lack of charring of flesh at the wound site and by the grenade pieces that have been removed from her arm in surgery and will be saved for legal proceedings.Sophia was safely taken out of North Dakota for emergent surgery and is currently in stable condition. Below is her statement as conveyed by her father, lawyer Wayne Wilansky.

“At around 4:30am after the police hit the bridge with water cannons and rubber bullets and pepper spray they lobbed a number of concussion grenades which are not supposed to be thrown at people directly at protesters or protectors as they want to be called. A grenade exploded right as it hit Sophia in the left forearm taking most of the undersurface of her left arm with it. Both her radial and ulnar artery were completely destroyed. Her radius was shattered and a large piece of it is missing. Her medial nerve is missing a large section as well.  All of the muscle and soft tissue between her elbow and wrist were blown away. The police did not do this by accident – it was an intentional act of throwing it directly at her. Additionally police were shooting people in face and groin intending to do the most possible damage. Sophia will have surgery again tomorrow as bit by bit they try to rebuild a somewhat functioning arm and hand. The first surgery took a vein from her leg which they have implanted in her arm to take the place of the missing arteries. She will need multiple surgeries to try to gain some functional use of the arm and hand. She will be, every day for the foreseeable future, fearful of losing her arm and hand. There are no words to describe the pain of watching my daughter cry and say she was sorry for the pain she caused me and my wife. I died a thousand deaths today and will continue to do so for quite some time. I am left without the right words to describe the anguish of watching her look at her now alien arm and hand.”

A fund set up by friends and verified to help with Sophia’s recovery is set up here:
https://www.gofundme.com/30aezxs

The Standing Rock Medic Healer Council deplores the ongoing use of violence by the state of North Dakota to address the concerns of the thousands of people peacefully assembled at Standing Rock to insist on the right to clean healthy drinking water.

Water is Life, Mni Wiconi

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We coordinate medical and healer supplies, human resources, and other types of medical/healing aid between the following groups:

1. All the camps who Stand With Standing Rock (Oceti Sakowin, Sacred Stone, Red Warrior, Sicangu-Rosebud, and others)
2. Standing Rock Emergency Services
3. Indian Health Services
4. Standing Rock Tribal Council
5. Mni Wiconi Integrative Health Clinic
6. The greater allopathic & healer community

This group is specifically to connect those of you wanting to offer support to those of us on the ground coordinating aid.

Sioux County Dakota and the Standing Rock Reservation have a US Health & Human Services designation as a Medically Underserved Area. This designation is given to with less than a 62 Index of Medical Underservice (IMU) out of a possible 100. Sioux County has an IMU of 20, indicating a sincere need for qualified practitioners to support the health of the local community as well as the needs of the water protectors maintaining the camps.

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A year and a half late to the party… A fucking year and a half, an illegal coup and a fucking war or three…

How Many Neo-Nazis Is the U.S. Backing in Ukraine?
Not all the members of the Ukrainian ultranationalist militias the U.S. is training have SS tattoos, and not all espouse fascism. But enough do to be worrisome.

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In early 2014 the United States and Europe made deals with Ukrainian fascists to overthrow the democratically elected Yanukovych government.  These fascists have paramilitary organizations of violent thugs (Right Sector, Svoboda, et al.). These have been brought into the new so-called “National Guard” and are now being trained by US military.

Nazism of Ukraine’s US-Backed Government Is Hidden by Western ‘News’ Media

z“Soldiers of ‘Azov’ Teach Students to Shoot a Grenade Launcher and Throw Grenades”:

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Kz75IWt8YuA

“The members of the Guard are Superman and in a way Superman is a member of the Guard.”

-Zack Snyder

From Mother Jones.

“As part of their “Soldier of Steel” ad campaign, the National Guard went all-out in tying in their name and brand to the popularity and mythology of the Superman franchise. This included some commercials and theater spots that Snyder himself filmed with Guard members, essentially painting them as real-life superheroes.”

Superman Wants You
to Enlist in the National Guard
Stop this Nazi Empire; I want to Get Off.

Propaganda in the Cinema 101

Fake recruitment scenarios.  Real war:

“More than 400,000 National Guard troops have served in Afghanistan and Iraq, according to a congressional report.” (link)

The Iraq War, and arguably the Afghanistan invasion as well, were war crimes under international law, Crimes Against the Peace, the “supreme international crime.”  These are codified in the UN Charter which the United States is a party to (and wrote), and ratified:

“All Members shall settle their international disputes by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security, and justice, are not endangered.

All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.”

It is an indisputable fact that the Bush Junta lied repeatedly to drum up support to invade Iraq.  Deceptions concerning “weapons of mass destruction” were employed repeatedly to present a false self-defense argument to the Congress and to the public.

National Guard units were an instrumental part in committing this war crime against Iraq.  Their participation in these massive war crimes makes them culpable and responsible for the atrocities that befell that nation at the orders of the US leaders.  That is the glorious heroism that Zack Snyder is selling to children today: Crimes Against Humanity.  We are good because we’re us.  No further justification needed.

Casualties of the Iraq War

“The Lancet study’s figure of 654,965 excess deaths through the end of June 2006 is based on household survey data. The estimate is for all excess violent and nonviolent deaths. That also includes those due to increased lawlessness, degraded infrastructure, poorer healthcare, etc. 601,027 deaths (range of 426,369 to 793,663 using a 95% confidence interval) were estimated to be due to violence. 31% of those were attributed to the Coalition, 24% to others, 46% unknown. The causes of violent deaths were gunshot (56%), car bomb (13%), other explosion/ordnance (14%), airstrike (13%), accident (2%), unknown (2%). A copy of a death certificate was available for a high proportion of the reported deaths (92% of those households asked to produce one).[34][35][36]

Opinion Research Business (ORB) poll[edit]
Opinion Research Business (ORB) poll conducted August 12–19, 2007, estimated 1,033,000 violent deaths due to the Iraq War. The range given was 946,000 to 1,120,000 deaths. A nationally representative sample of approximately 2,000 Iraqi adults answered whether any members of their household (living under their roof) were killed due to the Iraq War. 22% of the respondents had lost one or more household members. ORB reported that “48% died from a gunshot wound, 20% from the impact of a car bomb, 9% from aerial bombardment, 6% as a result of an accident and 6% from another blast/ordnance.”[28][29][30][31][32]

Here’s a question for the so-called “Supermen.”  When criminals get away with highly profitable crimes, what does that bode for the future?

P.S.

Not in Snyder’s imperial recruitment propaganda…

Reporting from Greenfield, Calif. — The story of the California Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion of the 184th Infantry Regiment is mostly in the record books now: 17 soldiers killed, more than 100 wounded…”

For lies.

For empire.

For oil.

For global intimidation.

Sorry if reality doesn’t mesh with the bullshit they bulldoze at you.

boston

Apparently the men in photos were National Guard CST Civil Support Team, but this is not confirmed by the government.  This government has no obligation to respond to the people’s requests for information.  Likely this stonewalling by government is a tactic to INCREASE CONFUSION about this event and ensure that MISINFORMATION spreads.  Why would the government want to increase the misinformation out there concerning what happened in Boston?  As I said, it’s a tactic.

Read about the indisputable, long term relationship between the Tsarnaev brothers’ uncle and the CIA.

This CST development brings up more questions than it answers.

  • Why was the National Guard Civil Support Team looking for a Weapon of Mass Destruction at the Boston Marathon finish line, if there were no warnings about such a thing?
  • And what the hell good are they?
  • And where are the bomb sniffing dogs?
  • Were the bomb sniffing dogs finished with the “exercise” at the time of the actual bombings?
  • Was that the “exercise?”
  • Did US intelligence, such as CIA know about the Boston Marathon security procedures and specifically the time frame of bomb sniffing dogs at the finish line of the race?

UPDATE

The alleged suspects, the Tsarnaev brothers, have ties to CIA, and here are some must-read articles following up: