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Nov-02-2012 19:39printcomments

Truth, like the Air We Breathe

An Open Letter and Appeal to Dennis Banks, the American Indian Movement, and People of Good Will

Kevin Annett
Kevin Annett

(NANAIMO, Vancouver Island) - You are more hated by white society than we are, because as one of their own, you are exposing their crimes. That is why I have adopted you as my son and given you this name Eagle Strong Voice, and the protection of our Crane clan. Whoever attacks you, attacks our people.
- Anishinabe elder Whispering Wind, Louis Daniels, to the author, May 4, 2007, Winnipeg

Dear Dennis,

I have read the words that appear to come from you, in which you echo the untruths that have been concocted about me and the work I do: lies circulated by the very same forces that have attacked you and other AIM leaders over the decades, and have sought your destruction.

Having never met you, it's hard for me to imagine how you can know that much about me, besides what certain shadowy persons have "told" you. It is unfortunate and unjust that you have chosen to comment about me without even coming to know me and what I do in a week, or even speaking to me first.

I don't need to tell you how insidious are the poisonous methods of character assasination, rumor and gossip, and how powerful and destructive a tool they have been in the government's war to destroy AIM and anyone who challenges the genocide of indigenous people.

Indeed, you yourself have been the target of such "badjacketing" tactics by the FBI, when one of their operatives, a criminal named Douglas Durham, infiltrated your organization in the 1970's and became your personal bodyguard and assistant.

From that strategic position, Durham pit AIM members against one another and helped to factionalize and destroy your organization, using precisely the same methods and lies now being employed against me and the historic work of our International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State.

Now, I can't explain why or how people like "Lydia White Calf", the wealthy white woman whose last name is really Biddle, can pose as a friend and supporter of mine for years, and then in barely a day suddenly come to hate me, and lead a hysterical campaign to "expose" me, based on nothing. What she does has no honor in it, any more than it has truth.

But I am surprised and saddened that as someone who has already experienced how effective are these kinds of smears and badjacketing by the state against movements like ours, you have so quickly fallen prey to it once again. For the things you allege about me on a pathetic and fraudulent website called "Stop Kevin Annett.com" are not only grossly untrue, but have been created by those same state operatives who seek to conceal the evidence of genocide in Indian boarding schools that I have unearthed and made public at enormous personal risk and cost for the past twenty years.

In a joint radio interview he and I did several years ago, your AIM co-worker Russell Means commented,

"America needs a Kevin Annett down here to hold it accountable for its genocide".

Russell also said to me over the phone afterwards,

"I'm not surprised that the feds are trying to badjacket you like they did me. It's what they do to the true warriors".

I cannot judge what has compelled you to believe unsubstantiated lies about me, and to make the public declaration against me that you have. In justice, if you still disseminate those lies after today, I will expect you to substantiate those claims about me with evidence more than second hand allegations, and state how and why you came to believe such disprovable things.

From my own sources, I know who has influenced you. They themselves have received funding from Canada's covert arm of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police since at least June, 1998 to infiltrate and bad jacket the work I am doing. They have helped to destroy two of the organizations I helped establish, and I believe are responsible for the deaths of at least four of my aboriginal co-workers.

All of this evidence will be presented publicly in the course of our Tribunal.

But that isn't the ultimate issue, and I refuse to play the government's covert game by shooting back at you, and thereby adding fuel to the civil war they are concocting between us. The issue, after all, is their crimes against humanity.

Besides, I do know that anyone who survives the horrors of state assaults like you have is left permanently marked by it. Practically every day, I work with the survivors of the Indian residential schools genocide - without pay or recognition, I should add. And it is sad but true that those who have been traumatized and abused can so easily be manipulated to abuse and attack others.

As Russell Means commented about you after the Douglas Durham incident, as is noted in Ward Churchill's book about the FBI's destruction of AIM,

"After Durham's infiltration, Dennis (Banks) became paranoid about everybody"

I hope this isn't in fact the case, and I am certainly not your judge and jury. I know what it's like to not know who to trust, or believe. Only the Great Mystery can ultimately know the truth in our words and hearts; but as part of that Mystery, we carry truth in us and rely on it as the very air we breathe.

And so I know, after many long nights and bitter personal losses, that this truth is ultimately our only comfort and weapon in times like these, facing the murderous lies and oppression that we do.

But allow me to focus on what matters, which is the struggle to defend all of our children, our nations and the land we share from that which is threatening us - and to bring home for a proper burial, and to bring to justice those responsible for, the hundreds of thousands of native children killed by Christian churches and their "Indian schools".

That struggle is at a critical point in history, as is the work I have done to link up survivors of Christian Genocide in nine countries to bring charges in a global common law court against the Vatican, the British Crown and the government and churches of Canada.

This week, we are posting online some of the exhibits and evidence of mass murder and 34 crimes against humanity in the residential schools across Turtle Island. And so the offensive to stop this truth has escalated, as is apparent by the growing assaults by internet smear specialists like those who are so crudely maligning me, with your help.

Because the fate of so many, living and dead, is now in our hands, I would like the chance to sit with you in circle and speak like men and as equals about these many grave matters. In the tradition of both of our peoples, that is the Natural Law and the justice owed by sovereign men and women towards one other.

I have in fact been commissioned to do so by clan mothers of the Haudenosonee nation, who presented me with the Two Row Wampum flag of equality and peace three years ago at Kahnawake, and asked me to carry its message to my people.

Under the authority of that original Two Row treaty of understanding between our people, I request that we come together to find the truth and make it known to the world.

Unlike my shadowy detractors who hide behind pseudonyms and lies, I have never concealed myself away from the light of public inspection. I have based all that I have claimed on hard evidence and with the full permission, which can be proved, of eyewitnesses to Christian genocide. But the fact is that I am not the issue. The guilt and the crimes of corporate Christian America and Canada are.

I look forward to the coming weeks, when our Common Law court will commence, and we will directly challenge the crimes of the Vatican and the state.

Our aim, and my aim, is to bring down these genocidal institutions and reinvent our culture to cleanse it of its genocidal heritage, and actions. I hope you'll join me and others in this task, and opportunity.

In the guidance of my ancestors and in friendship, I am Kevin Annett Eagle Strong Voice

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A Canadian clergyman, Kevin Annett has for nearly twenty years led the movement to bring to light and prosecute atrocities in Christian “Indian residential schools”, and win justice for survivors. Expelled in 1995 from his former United Church of Canada for exposing murders in that church’s Indian residential schools, and persecuted and blacklisted for his efforts, Kevin is now an award-winning film maker, author, social activist and public lecturer who works with victims of church violence and genocide all over the world. In 2009, he helped to establish the five-nation International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State, which is seeking to indict church and government leaders for crimes against humanity.

As a result of Kevin’s tireless efforts on behalf of native people, the Canadian government was forced to issue a public “apology” and reparations program concerning Indian residential schools, in July of 2008. In giving him the name Eagle Strong Voice in 2007, Anishinabe elder Louis Daniels declared, “Kevin Annett is doing what few of his people have done, and that is to speak about the crimes they committed against many of our nations and their children. He has earned a place forever in our hearts and history. He is a brave and prophetic man. I ask everyone to welcome him and heed his voice.” And scholar Noam Chomsky wrote in 2006, “Kevin Annett is more deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize than many of those who have received it.”

For more information on Kevin and his work, contact him at hiddenfromhistory1@gmail.com, and see these sites:

www.hiddennolonger.com
www.KevinAnnett.com
www.itccs.org
www.hiddenfromhistory.org

Special thanks to Bill Annett


See the evidence of Genocide in Canada and other crimes against the innocent at www.hiddennolonger.com and at the website of The International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State at www.itccs.org .


Messages for Kevin Annett can be left at 250-591-4573 (Canada).

Watch Kevin's award-winning documentary film UNREPENTANT on his website www.hiddenfromhistory.org

"I gave Kevin Annett his Indian name, Eagle Strong Voice, in 2004 when I adopted him into our Anishinabe Nation. He carries that name proudly because he is doing the job he was sent to do, to tell his people of their wrongs. He speaks strongly and with truth. He speaks for our stolen and murdered children. I ask everyone to listen to him and welcome him."
Chief Louis Daniels - Whispers Wind
Elder, Turtle Clan, Anishinabe Nation, Winnipeg, Manitoba

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James Harder Canada December 29, 2014 2:57 pm (Pacific time)

Eagle Strong Voice ??? Does this person have a posted affidavit or is this blog the only verification of this support?


Lydia White Calf November 3, 2012 6:16 pm (Pacific time)

"A Good Day To Die" The Dennis Banks Documentary Supporting South Dakota Reservations Page
IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM DENNIS BANKS PLEASE SHARE!
"this is Dennis Banks and yes I have joined a great amount of people to expose and halt this human imposter Kevin Arnett or whatever last name he now uses."
"http://stopkevinannett.wordpress.com/2012/11/01/dennis-banks-cease-and-desist-order-to-kevin-annett/

Editor: What is it you guys seek to do besides remove support for Native Americans?  Word is you guys are being paid to bring this man down by the same powers that put indigenous people in a terrible spot in the first place.

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