Violence
386. Nopper.
387. I am indebted to Alex Guillotte for this definition.
388. My thanks to Redwood Leaverish for this definition.
389. Williams.
390. Conot, 384-85, citing Trial of the Major War Criminals, Volume 5, 118.
391. Cook.
392. Of course it’s not unusual for corporate/capitalist journalism, and that, I guess, is the point.
393. Douglas firs, by the way, do not viably reproduce until they are eighty years old. Soon there will be none or extremely few of reproductive age on the entire continent.
394. Jensen and Draffan, Strangely Like War, 49.
395. This might be a good place to mention Stossel’s self-proclaimed reasons for switching from consumer to corporate protection. “I just got sick of it. I also now make so much money I just lost interest in saving a buck on a can of peas.” When confronted with this statement, Stossel denied making it. But it’s caught on tape. Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman, “Stossel Tries to Scam His Public,” Essential Information, http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/corp-focus/2004/000177.html (accessed April 8, 2004).
396. Jensen, Language, 2. The version here is slightly different than in the book because I never liked the way that paragraph was edited. Also, just in case people are interested, until I was about three-quarters of the way through Language, that paragraph was actually the first one.
Spending Our Way to Sustainability
397. He forgot military.
398. Sale.
399. We can pretty much say the same thing about sex, eating, feeling, or many other things. Just plug the word in for violence and the paragraph works as well.
400. It depends on who “we” are. I don’t think members of the French resistance would have included the German occupiers or the French collaborators in a similar statement. Similarly, I’m not in this with Charles Hurwitz or John Stossel. Yes, they’re killing the planet they live on, too, but I’m trying to stop them. I’m not on their side.
401. Well, the real point is fear. It’s far less scary to not purchase an airline ticket than to blow up a dam. And we still get to say, “Ha! I delivered a blow against the machine!”
402. Just last month I bought a bunch of heirloom apple trees from a very small grower. The trees will eventually pay part of my rent to the bears and deer and birds and insects whose home this was long before I moved in.
403. And why?
404. If I may change this cliché so it finally makes sense.
405. Barsamian.
406. J. Bradford DeLong, “The Corporations as a Command Economy,” http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/Econ_Articles/Command_Corporations.html (accessed March 17, 2004).
407. Don’t laugh. It’s been done.
408. Too bad, darn it.
409. I want them to not be created.
Empathy and Its Other
410. Silko, 94-95.
411. For a brilliant analysis of this, see Livingston’s Fallacy of Wildlife Conservation.
412. Can you imagine a vivisector or deforester with empathies intact?
413. Hell, Hitler was nice to his dog, although that may not mean as much as it could, since more than one of his girlfriends committed suicide, an overwhelming indicator that he was emotionally and possibly physically abusive.
414. Jensen, Listening, 144.
415. Griffin.
416. Maybe even good and great.
417. The word they use is “our,” but in this case “our” really just means theirs.
418. More on the Missoula Flood later.
419. We so often shy away even from using “violent” language, at the same time that those in power are killing us all.
420. Which I suppose could be a weapon if people would smack someone upside the head with them.
421. Moodie, part 1, 205.
422. Drinnon, 314.
423. John Moore, 7:187.
424. San Francisco Chronicle, September 13, 2001, 1.
425. “New Iraq Abuse.”
426. Bancroft, 21.
427. And if you’re one of those strange people who unaccountably thinks nonhumans can’t think, then I would suggest that this “thinking” that civilized humans do at this point is worse than useless. If it causes us to hesitate to protect those we love, it is pathetic, and if it causes us to fail to protect our landbase, it is evolutionarily maladaptive.
428. It’s from his Hsin Hsin Ming: Inscribed on the Believing Mind. See Blyth, 68.
Should We Fight Back?
429. Maori: New Zealand.
430. Ainu: Hokkaido.
431. Atayal: Taipei.
432. Aymara: La Paz.
433. Wyandott: Detroit.
434. Xhosa: Pretoria.
435. Blaisdell, 54.
436. Pushmataha said this in response to Tecumseh’s declaration of solidarity with other Indians and war against the whites, and Pushmataha was probably jealous of the influence that Tecumseh wielded. It’s also important to note that Pushmataha said that his people the Choctaw were at peace with the whites, and so had nothing to fear. He was, as later events unfortunately showed, wrong. That Pushmataha was no moral pacifist (and further, that he played right into the hands of the whites) is shown by the fact that he threatened to kill anyone who sided with Tecumseh or who otherwise fought against the whites. See Eckert, 548.
437. Gordon, 343-44.
438. Blaisdell, 52.
439. Hunter, 30-31.
440. Blaisdell, 50-52.
441. Brice, 193-94.
442. Blaisdell, 84-85.
443. Nonhumans of course follow the same pattern.
444. Abel, 124-25.
445. Francis S. Drake, 34.
446. Blaisdell, 6.
447. Creelman, 299-302.
448. This is of course premise four of this book. We can say the same thing for police or the military killing regular people versus those people fighting back.
449. Eckert, 176.
450. Ibid., 86.
451. Anderson Valley Advertiser, March 24, 2004, 11.
452. Jensen, “Where the Buffalo Go.”
453. Jensen, Listening, 61.
454. Isn’t it wonderful to live in such a “high stage of social and cultural development”?
455. Liddell Hart, 4-7.
456. Evidently White Antelope had never seen an open-pit mine.
457. Note, by the way, that I am in no way condemning the actions of Lean Bear, White Antelope, and Black Kettle, but merely saying that their actions do not make me want to fight no more forever.
458. Not on moral grounds, of course, but because they feared they could not win.
459. Eckert, 76.
460. Ibid., 107.
461. Ibid., 279.
462. Yes, 1981, not 1881. 1981. The best example I can find of a dogmatic pacifist indigenous person claiming to speak for that indigenous tradition is from the late twentieth century.
463. Eckert, 683, n. 30.
464. So do other Christian pacifist writers. See, for example, Juhnke and Schrag.
465. Richard S. Grimes, “Cheyenne Dog Soldiers,” Manataka American Indian Council, http://www.manataka.org/page164.html (accessed February 23, 2005). Note that some ethnohistorians consider the Bowstring Men and the Wolf Warriors to be the same group.
Star Wars
466. The Sun, October 2003, 48.
467. Star Wars, http://www.starwars.com/databank/location/deathstar/ (accessed April 23, 2004).
468. Of course I’m making this up.
469. The draft doesn’t exist.
470. They also titled the movie Star Protest instead of Star Wars.
471. That was to be an example of art imitating life.
472. Star Wars, http://www.starwars.com/databank/location/deathstar/?id=eu (accessed April 24, 2004).
473. It’s a joke! There’s no script!
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