DISMANTLING the DOCTRINE of DISCOVERY of
CHRISTENDOM
“Presidents are not
kings.”
U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson
U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson
November 25, 2019
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“States are not kingdoms.”
Tupak Huehuecoyotl, Izkaloteka
"Remove
justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale? What
are criminal gangs but petty kingdoms? A gang is a group of men under the
command of a leader, bound by a compact of association, in which the plunder is
divided according to an agreed convention.
If
this villainy wins so many recruits from the ranks of the demoralized that it
acquires territory, establishes a base, captures cities and subdues peoples, it
then openly arrogates to itself the title of kingdom, which is conferred on it
in the eyes of the world, not by the renouncing of aggression but by the
attainment of impunity.
For
it was a witty and truthful rejoinder which was given by a captured pirate to
Alexander the Great. The king asked the fellow, “What is your idea, in
infesting the sea?” And the pirate answered, with uninhibited insolence, “The
same as yours, in infesting the earth! But because I do it with a tiny craft,
I’m called a pirate; because you have a mighty navy, you’re called an
emperor"...
To
crush and subdue more remote peoples without provocation and solely from the
thirst for dominion—what is one to call this but brigandage on the grand
scale?".
St.
Augustine (354-430), Concerning the City of God Against the Pagans (H.
Bettenson, Tr.), Book IV, Ch. 4
The
history of transition from a chartered colony of Christendom, to a territory
ruled by force of violent invasion by the European American “white” colonizers,
to the formation of a polity of statehood and subsequent admission into the
union of states called the USA, also required a systemic mechanism to control
the allegiances, nationality and citizenship of the constituencies of the new
republic as a whole. In the absence of
the absolute command of allegiance of the Sovereign, in this case King George
of England, the colonies broke from the modus operandi of the cartel of the
Divine Right of Kings (Christendom). It
became necessary to format the public consciousness in a systematic manner,
manufacturing consent for the rationalization and expansion of territorial
dominion via political acts of allegiance to the Divine Right of States. It became necessary to manufacture the
mythology of America.
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Person - Inhabitant - Savage
Therefore, for a polity such as the USA that derives is purported legal claim of territorial integrity (dominion) on the continent to being a successor settler state to the nefarious “Doctrine of Discovery” of Christendom, it is a legal impossibility to recognize the collective personality of the Indigenous Peoples as being equal in right before the law since to do so would necessitate the recognition of full equality, without discrimination, of the individual indigenous “person” as being equal to a “white person”.
The historical record on this
issue is unequivocal. The United Nations
Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues presented a formal report on the Impact of
the Doctrine of Discovery in 2010, calling for the repudiation of the
“nefarious” doctrine among the member states of the UN system. As precedent and
predicate to this report, in affirmation of the inherent right of all
Indigenous Peoples to self-determination, the Original Nations of Indigenous
Peoples of Abya Yala proclaimed on the floor of the UN General Assembly on May
18, 2006:
“That the Papal Bull Inter Caetera of Pope Alexander VI is hereby ANNULLED, as well as whatever Doctrine of Discovery proceeding from which that pretends to deform the relationship of Harmony, Justice, and Peace of we the Indigenous Peoples of Humanity in its entirety.”
The Continental Commission
Abya Yala went further, calling for:
“a Tribunal of Justice regarding the Doctrine of Discovery of Christendom, by at all levels of humanity across the globe, to address the issue in the historical and legal context of the universal principles of justice and jurisprudence of the Indigenous Peoples."
Continental
Commission Abya Yala
October 12, 2019
527 Years of
Indigenous Resistance
This preliminary study establishes that the Doctrine of Discovery has
been institutionalized in law and policy, on national and international
levels, and lies at the root of the violations of indigenous peoples’
human rights, both individual and collective. This has resulted in
State claims to and the mass appropriation of the lands, territories
and resources of indigenous peoples. Both the Doctrine of Discovery
and a holistic structure that we term the Framework of Dominance
have resulted in centuries of virtually unlimited resource extraction
from the traditional territories of indigenous peoples. This, in
turn, has resulted in the dispossession and impoverishment of
indigenous peoples, and the host of problems that they face today on a
daily basis.
YouTube:
Wednesday June 10,
2020 - American Indian Movement AIM topples the statue of Christopher Columbus
in front of the state capitol of Minnesota.