Thread: Is Our Sovereignty Lost?

At the time Reza also stated that he and Tonatierra were working "for the electoral redistricting of Phoenix in order to increase Latino political representation." Does any American believe that they were simply working for representation for all, or could he possibly be working to put in place a radical form of representation?

For answers to that we have to delve more into who Tonatierra are and what they have been busy doing.

In October 2000, an event was held in "TEOTIHUACAN" under the Council of Indigenous Organizations and Nations of the Continent (CONIC) to form a declaration and what emerged was the Treaty of TEOTIHUACAN. The treaty was put together during 5 working groups and signed by 36 indigenous organizations. According to an interview with Tupac Enrique Acosta, the principal officer of TONATIERRA, 5 their mission was to organize all of the "indigenous people" into groups to oppose what they refer to as the "colonization". They look to reinforce the "Original Nations of the Continent".

The TREATY OF TEOTIHUACAN is a mutual commitment among the Indigenous Nations, Pueblos and organizations at the continental level, empowered by the Jurisprudence of Indigenous International Law

There are references to Aztlan throughout the page referring to locations by their traditional names as they see them, such as "Izkalotlan, Aztlan" as for Phoenix.

One of the 5 working groups during the treaty event was entitled "Autonomy- Lands and Territories - Sovereignty: Sovereignty and Self Determination". Self Determination is the key word here. Self Determination means "determination by the people of a territorial unit of their own future political status". In other words these groups do not see the United States government, nor its law enforcement at the federal, state or local level, as legitimate or having any jurisdiction.

The main declaration from the Treaty of TEOTIHUACAN

The Indigenous Peoples of the Continent Abya Yala, Itzachilatlan (Americas) hereby reaffirm our principles of Community Spirituality and the inalienable right to Self Determination as Original Peoples of the Continent.

... the so-called Latin American States and the states of the Anglo-America bloc of North America continue to negate our fundamental rights and liberties



They also delve into stating that corporations are stealing "their" natural resources with the backing of so-called "colonizing democracies" and denying them the right to self determination and violating their "human rights".

They conclude their lists of demands by saying "We demand that the Government States recognize the Indigenous Peoples and our Rights, within their political constitutions, guaranteeing participation and protection for lands and territories, and assuring the right to determine our own destiny." In other words the United States should acquiesce and amend our constitution to give them exclusive and sole rights to the territories they demand. We should vacate these areas and allow them self governance.

The declaration ends with this:

FOR THE SELF DETERMINATION OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND THE RESTITUTION OF OUR TERRITORIES!

TONATIERRA for its part has posted on its website 6 information on marches it has organized against Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Now remember that this organization has called for the "restitution of our territories" in the Treaty of TEOTIHUACAN. Yet the group is using the disgusting tactic of trying to tie this to the civil rights marches of Martin Luther King Jr.

In January 2010 they posted the following, which if you didn't know better could have been written by the National Council of La Raza. "The time has come to once again take the streets and stand up against hate!"

... the entire nation now knows of Joe Arpaio and his constant abuse of human rights. We have all succeeded in bringing to the forefront the atrocities that the 287g and ICE Access programs bring to our communities, now we must unite to stop their abuse.

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It is time, just like Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement took the streets of Montgomery Alabama that at that time was the epicenter of hate; we must do the same in Phoenix. ... It is also the weekend we celebrate Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement struggles of the 60’s.

... Joe Arpaio and his Sheriff Deputies continue to terrorize the streets of Maricopa County and continues his physical abuse in the jails with the 287(g) agreement.

They also hold "classes" on how to rid "their" territory of colonization. One such was entitled "The Path of Quetzalcoatl: REALIZING Effective creative responses to colonization, Community Acts of Decolonization and Fulfillment of the Roots and Destiny of Humanity."
"Community acts of decolonization" they say, yet they call Arpaio, the American people and Arizona residents Nazis. "Decolonization" sure sounds pretty National Socialist to me.

The reconquista organizations also refer to the website "Cumbre Continental De Pueblos Y Organizaciones Indigenas" 7 where it outright states their goals.

We propose to make an effort to recognize our region of North Abya Yala, with a commitment to integrity of the collective task of decolonization in the region, clarifying that the region of Yala Abya North does not recognize the division of loyalties between the Castilian-speaking indigenous and English, this being another false border of the colonization of our entire continent of Abya Yala
Haven't heard of Abya Yala before? As opposed to Aztlan, Abya Yala includes the whole of the continent, not just a portion of the United States southwest region as Aztlan states, the whole continent of north, central and south America.

A leader named Takir Mamani of the Bolivian Aymara people argued that those for restoration of the lands to those who perceive it has been stolen need to stop using the modern location names and refer to it as Abya Yala instead. "placing foreign names on our villages, our cities, and our continents is equivalent to subjecting our identity to the will of our invaders and their heirs," Mamani said. Abya Yala means "Continent of Life" or "land in its full maturity" according to the Panamanian Kuna language 8.

On the website they also have a mandate that they've put together called the "Mandate of the Indigenous Peoples and Nations of the World States". In it they declare that states must "resolve the causes of migration between countries, taking policies of free movement of people to ensure a world without borders where there is no discrimination, marginalization and exclusion."

They end their mandate with their final demand for the release of Leonard Peltier, who they call a political prisoner being held in the United States. Peltier was a member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) who was convicted and sentenced to two life terms in 1977 for shooting to death two FBI agents at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in 1975. He is held up as a hero to these groups. At the time of the shootout Peltier was wanted for the attempted murder of an off-duty Milwaukee police officer. He holed up in a ranch while the FBI and tribal and local police engaged in a standoff with him. His conviction has been appealed and upheld, yet these groups still claim that he is being held as a political prisoner.

These are the groups we are dealing with in Phoenix and across this country. Thousands of groups are being funded just as Tonatierra is as documented above. There are groups just like them strewn throughout the filings of some of the biggest non-profit organizations in this country like the Center for American Progress with billions of dollars. This is what is pushing illegal immigration rallies and protests. The money, power and votes are what are pushing the politicians. And the paychecks - and extra goodies they receive - are what are pushing the activists.

The leaders of these reconquista groups are not simply against immigration law enforcement, they are against any "colonists" being on "their" land.

Missing from it is how this benefits in any way the American citizen and their rights.

The true answer is that it simply doesn't. Any politician speaking and marching with these people at these rallies - and any groups like La Raza who are financialy supporting them - are guilty of aiding sedition at the least and actively participating in it at the most.

http://www.diggersrealm.com/mt/archives/003366.html

La Raza Leader Says Chants of “USA! USA!” Made Her Sick
So the president of an organization named, “The Race,” has a problem with people chanting USA? Anyone else see the irony here?
Written By : Duane Lester
July 25, 2014

La Raza President and CEO Janet Murguia said it sickened her to hear Americans against illegal immigration chanting “USA! USA!” at protests around the country.

Singling out the Murrieta demonstrators during her keynote address at La Raza’s annual conference in Los Angeles on Monday, Murguia accused them of having “cloaked their hatred in patriotism” by shouting “‘USA! USA!’ again and again.”

“It made me angry,” she said. “In fact, I was outraged.”

Murguia demanded that the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants who are currently here receive amnesty and said the road to the White House for Republicans goes through the Latino community and La Raza. She also said Republicans who want to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program or do not want to pass comprehensive amnesty legislation will not get Hispanic votes. And she repeatedly claimed that protesting illegal immigration was “un-American.”

“What we saw in Murrieta is not patriotism,” she asserted. “It is ugly, divisive, and yet another low in a debate I thought could not get much lower.”
Murguia did not say anything about the “Viva La Raza!” chants from pro-amnesty advocates in Murrieta. She also failed to mention that the number of illegal immigrant children who have unlawfully entered the country drastically spiked in the year after Obama enacted DACA in 2012.

http://www.rightwingnews.com/uncateg...made-her-sick/

See also http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...-Made-Me-Angry

Shocking Declaration By Obama And World Leaders: Your Bank Account Isn’t Yours
Get ready in the near future to pay the bank a fee, and the government a tax, just for the honor of having a high-risk bank account that pays you nothing.
Craig R. Smith and Lowell Ponte April 14, 2015 at 11:41am

4.14.15 – Last November in Brisbane, Australia, President Obama agreed with G-20 global economic leaders that you no longer own your bank accounts. The United States now regards your bank account as an asset that, in effect, belongs to your bank and can be seized by the government to pay bank debts and obligations.

As we document in Don’t Bank On It! The Unsafe World of 21st Century Banking, the bank we used to trust to safeguard our money has become one of the riskiest places to put it http://www.swissamerica.com/tracker....5-WJ-dboiIntro

A precedent was set for seizing bank accounts under the “bail in” doctrine in Cyprus, where people awoke one March 2013 morning to find their banks locked and ATM access to their accounts shut down. President Obama has embraced such bail ins.

Now, we have a similar new legal precedent being set in Australia for taxing your bank accounts….for your protection, of course. America might quickly adopt this, too.

A circular cage is being built through which you will be taxed when you earn your money, spend your money, invest your money, and possibly (very soon) save your money.

You are already losing money every day that you have a bank account paying less in interest than you are losing to inflation, a deceptive form of taxation.

Get ready in the near future to pay the bank a fee, and the government a tax, just for the honor of having a high-risk bank account that pays you nothing.

Taxing Bank Deposits

Near-zero bank interest has meant near-zero taxes on our savings – until now.

A new political scheme to tax bank accounts, according to the Australian Financial Review, might be locked in place in Australian banks as soon as January 1, 2016. [1-4] This could quickly be copied by other tax-hungry welfare states, including ours.

This bank deposit tax will likely begin at a low percentage, to create a legal precedent; but it is expected to grow rapidly, as the income tax did in the United States.

Like many modern taxes, this planned tax on bank accounts is being framed as a tax on the banks, not on individual customers. Its cost, however, will be passed on to depositors in the form of higher fees or lower interest paid on their accounts.

This tax on bank deposits is projected from its start to raise around $500 million each year, purportedly for a “Financial Stabilization Fund” to help protect banks from collapse in future financial crises.

In the United States, such designated taxes are often diverted to fund other politician wishes. Hundreds of billions in gasoline taxes went to the Highway Trust Fund, then was shifted elsewhere by the same politicians who complain that “our highway infrastructure urgently needs more spending.” Such politicians even looted $2.66 trillion from the Social Security trust fund, leaving behind only I.O.U.s that must be paid for with ever-heavier taxes on future generations or the denial of benefits to today’s older generations.

Truth be told, our spendaholic politicians loot whatever pools of public or private money they can grab to pay for their out-of-control spending addiction.

Escaping the Cage

In Washington, D.C., politicians now talk enthusiastically about imposing a national European-style sales tax, an easily-increased Value-Added Tax (VAT) to soak both companies and consumers.

If you invest what little money you have left after paying all your other taxes, get ready to pay capital gains taxes, which the current Administration aims to increase.

One thing Americans could do tax-free was to save their remaining money in the bank….but not for much longer, as we explain in our latest book, Don’t Bank On It!.

We owe taxes on interest the bank pays us, of course; but nowadays, banks pay almost zero – the result of a deliberate Federal Reserve policy that economists call “financial repression,” being used to herd Americans into riskier investments such as stocks.

Our banks may soon be imitating Europe, where savers are beginning to be paid less than zero – “negative interest rates” – on their accounts. Depositors instead have to pay their bank for the honor of lending it their money, interest-free.

On November 16, 2014, President Barack Obama at the Brisbane, Australia meeting of the G-20 global economic powers agreed to a new financial doctrine called the “bail in.” We explained and documented in detail what happened there in a free After The G20 White Paper.

In October 2014, Americans were shocked to read The New York Times investigation “Law Lets I.R.S. Seize Accounts on Suspicion, No Crime Required,” using a law that lets government confiscate the bank accounts of those who deposit or withdraw even relatively small amounts of cash.

This is enough under today’s law for the Internal Revenue Service to expropriate someone’s bank account, based merely on their using cash as criminals might do, even if no actual crime has been committed. This is just another sinister way government could confiscate your bank accounts in the future.

Is it any wonder why so many people are turning to smarter, safer, and more secure ways of protecting their money?

We were taught that thrift is good, but real thrift now means freeing your savings from today’s banks. Don’t Bank On It! and our newest free White Paper The Biggest Bank Heist In History will show you how to escape the tax cage being built by politicians to snare you and your hard-earned money.

Sources:

[1]Tyler Durden, “Australia Wants To Tax Bank Deposits: Will The U.S. Follow?” Zerohedge.com, April 2, 2015. URL: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-0...will-us-follow

[2]Phillip Coorey, Lisa Murray and James Eyers, “Tax on Bank Deposits in Federal Budget,” Australian Financial Review, March 28, 2015. URL: http://www.afr.com/news/politics/tax...0150328-1m98oi

[3]Australian Associated Press, “Tony Abbott Accused of Breaking Pledge Over Report of Bank Deposit Levy,” The Guardian (U.K.), March 28, 2015. URL: http://www.theguardian.com/australia...k-deposit-levy

[4]Stephen Bartholomeusz, “The Problem with Joe Hockey’s Bank Deposit Tax,” The Australian, March 30, 2015. URL: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/busi...-1227284794476




http://www.westernjournalism.com/gov...-bank-account/

Oh, no, this will never happen. http://www.teaparty.org/secretary-st...threaten-block
[QUOTE Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday signed a controversial U.N. treaty on arms regulation, riling U.S. lawmakers who vow the Senate will not ratify the agreement.
As he signed the document, Kerry called the treaty a “significant step” in addressing illegal gun sales, while claiming it would also protect gun rights.
“This is about keeping weapons out of the hands of terrorists and rogue actors. This is about reducing the risk of international transfers of conventional arms that will be used to carry out the world’s worst crimes. This is about keeping Americans safe and keeping America strong,” he said. “This treaty will not diminish anyone’s freedom. In fact, the treaty recognizes the freedom of both individuals and states to obtain, possess, and use arms for legitimate purposes.”
- See more at: http://www.teaparty.org/secretary-st....PEvgzzoe.dpuf
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