YOU AIN’T NOTHING BUT A HOUN’ DOG

Osiyo, Skawedah,.. Hello  -

I got this in from a close friend/native activist & free press
associate in Canada weeks back, but
it got lost in the shuffle and bustle of activities past few weeks.
My apologies for that. This is very important.

peace and many blessings.
RJ:)

Dec. 10, 2004
Guerilla News Network

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YOU AIN’T NOTHING BUT A HOUN’ DOG

How government bloodhounds plan on tracking Indians.

MNN. Dec. 4, 2004. It’s a sinister joke. It’s evil. Where does this
come from?

The Mohawks of Kahnawake and Crees of Quebec will be guinea pigs for a
worldwide ‘Smart Card” system!

These new super ID cards have been on the wish-list of the Powers That
Be for years. They want everyone to have one. They want to keep track
of everything that everyone does.

But their dream keeps getting shot down. Human rights activists say
“Smart cards” are an invasion of privacy. Mainstream America won’t have
it. So the control freaks have decided to do an end-run around all the
idealistic do-gooders.

That’s why the project has surfaced in Indian Country.

Smart cards are being passed off as a make work project in Kahnawake.
An American company located in Virginia, close to Washington D.C. has
persuaded Canada’s Department of Indian Affairs to fund the project.
The new card will replace the present Indian Status Card. It will be
used to tighten security measures by making it possible to
electronically track those who have the right kind of blood according
to their ways of reckoning.

The work is being done in conjunction with the U.S. Department of
Homeland Security. The plan is to make smart cards for all of the
Aboriginal nations.

Anteon, the private American company heading this project, is a world
leader in card technology. The team also includes Laser Card Systems. A
November 22, 2004 letter from lawyer, Mark L. Cushing of Sonnenschein,
Nath and Rosenthal, of Washington DC, to Mike Bush of Mohawk Council of
Kahnawake, provided some of the details of the scheme.

Anteon is preparing specifications for a new facility in Kahnawake.
When they are sent, the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake will be asked to
find a place for the set up. The project has never been publicly
discussed, but some of the machinery is apparently already on location.

As Mike Bush of Mohawk Council of Kahnawake says, this card “will
prevent fraud and satisfy the border crossing requirements, while
bearing a unique logo for each community and including ‘additional’
information”.

Former Kahnawake chief, Joe Norton, has been hired as a consultant. His
services are appreciated because he brought the Assembly of First
Nations on board. Joe Norton, Amanda Grainger and Mark Cushing met in
late October 2004 in Ottawa with the AFN. The AFN then met with the
Minister of Indian Affairs and got his support.

So this is how things work in Canada. A private American company with
ties to the U,S. government gets an idea. They sell it to the Mohawk
Council of Kahnawake. Joe Norton sells it to the AFN, which sells it to
Indian Affairs. It’s probably not even necessary to slip another
revision of the Indian Act past Canada’s sleepy M.P.’s. And there you
have it. Smart cards get their foot in the door and Indians get ruled
by American Big Business.

But it doesn’t stop with us. Anteon is anxious to expand its business
throughout Canada. And it thinks it can do this with the help of the
Mohawk Council of Kahnawake. Mark Cushing has strongly requested that
Mike Bush and Mike Delisle of MCK meet at its headquarters in northern
Virginia outside of Washington DC so they can “make this work”.

Let’s stop for a moment folks to think about what these folks are up to.

This is not your ordinary mom and pop tobacco shack business plan. What
better way to keep track of us than stapling smart cards to our ears?
They are the electronic bloodhounds of the 21st century.

And what have bloodhounds been used for? They catch people to put them
in jail.

Remember the plan to route the new larger, deeper Seaway channel AROUND
Kahnawake? That will turn Kahnawake into an island. Like Alcatraz.

So why are they doing this to us? Sure, people need jobs. But aren’t
there lots of other more important things that need to be done? Mohawk
immersion. Health services. Things like that? Is there any real
justification for all this spying?

If this is a democracy, why do they need all these control mechanisms?
Who is doing this to us, anyways? And why is theMCK cooperating? What
kickback are they receiving for putting up their own people as test
mice? Why are they putting up these mazes so they can watch us run
through them?

We are the most vocal Indigenous people in Canada. If they can get this
scheme past us, the rest of North America will be gravy. Before long
they will have smart cards on everyone in the world.

Look at the procedure that is being used. Has this come before a public
meeting? Has anyone told us why we need this identity card? Has anyone
told us what it can do?

And has anyone considered the consequences of letting a private
American company have this much control?

We all know how hard it is to get the North American public to
understand our point of view. Our whole history has been one of abuse
and misunderstanding. Is this smart card going to make anything any
easier?

No.

Once it’s in place it will be even easier for them to inhibit freedom
of speech, freedom of association and freedom of movement. No one will
be allowed off of the new Alcatraz without a smart card.

Whether it knows what it is doing or not, the MCK is inviting external
control over the people.

So far there is already an internal agreement with Indian Affairs. Did
this get passed before the Canadian Parliament? Has it been passed by
any resolution of the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake ? Where’s the
principle of democratic representation here?

Have they forgotten completely about the Great Law of the Haudenosaunee?

The colonization of North America began in Virginia. It was started by
a private company chartered to a foreign monarch. Nothing has changed
in 500 years. We’re still having to defend ourselves from a private
foreign company situated down in Virginia.

What next? Implanting micro-chips in babies at birth? Why do they need
to track us anyways? And who is doing the tracking? Where does it all
stop?

Kahentinetha Horn, MNN Mohawk Nation News
"orakwa@paulcomm.ca"

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