The Lakota Indian Tribe seceded from the Union today. That's right, the Tribe most well known for their legendary leaders Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, announced to the State Department that they "are no longer citizens of the United States of America..." The Tribe's spokesperson and Indian activist, Russell Means, also encouraged others to join them. Tribe members are scattered across Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming
The announcement comes after a 33-year campaign, during which time the tribe worked to, "get their ducks in a row" while drafting its "declaration of continuing independence." The final form of which was delivered to the US Federal Government today.
According to Means, the new country would be tax-free and they would issue their citizens passports and driver's licenses-- all this for the low, low price of renouncing your US citizenship!
The Latokas claim they've been oppressed by the US, which has led to their tribe's overwhelmingly high unemployment, teen suicide, and infant mortality rates. (According to various news articles, this claim is made on the "Latoka Freedom Movement" website, but after repeated searches, I was unable to find the site.) Naturally, creating their own country will solve these problems....
Logistics and legality aside, what's the over/under on a group of mostly unemployed people building and sustaining their own country within a country that has in tact for more than two-hundred years? Anyone?
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Fellow Patriots...
The Revolution has begun in a most unlikely place!
Good for you Lakotas!
Now let's see if the rest of America tells the Corporate United States to go to hell too!!!
Join a Meetup(dot)com in your area and vote Ron Paul in the next Presidential election.
It's time to take our lands and our country back!
Tom Barnes,
Phoenix, Arizona
For further information the web site can be found at
www.lakotafreedom(dot)com
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