Encoded in Geronimo's name: enemy

What the hell were they thinking?

Why would the first African American president of the United States, as US commander-in-chief, think nothing of US military forces applying the codename "Geronimo" to Osama bin Laden during the reported assault against that long-sought enemy of the United States? Apparently, having an African American president in the White House is not enough to overturn the more than 200-year American tradition of treating and thinking of Indians as enemies of the United States.

Question: did President Barack Obama point out to his military brass that such a disrespectful use of Geronimo's name was inappropriate? Probably not.

In my book Pagans in the Promised Land, I use the theory of the human mind (cognitive theory) to explain the "cognitive unconscious" of the United States. Certain ingrained traditions of thought, both conscious and unconscious, have been used for generations by US government officials. Such thinking has resulted in the development of predominantly anti-Indian US federal Indian laws and policies. The result has been laws and policies that have proven detrimental to Indian nations and peoples.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/may/04/geronimo-osama-bin-laden

Nof sure how that fits into things.

Using the name "Geronimo" continues the denigration of the Native American People. A more appropriate name should have been used.
Geronimo was a great leader, defending his nation against foreign invaders. bin Laden was seeking revenge for being brushed off, without so much as a thank you after he did the job we hired and trained him for.


Using the name Geronimo is as insensitive as would be giving the house they attacked the code name Uncle Tom's Cabin.
"If they has used the code names "Malcolm X", "M.L.King" or "Mandela" would that have been acceptable?"

It is something like this. You get almost no information about how a person feels, or thinks from 99% of what they say.

If you were to just listen to what someone says, it would only tell you what some exterior layer of them wants you to think.

But in a conversation, every once in a while, there is a tell, a little something that can inspire thought on a topic. In that it is not what is said, but also how you think and feel on what is said.

From that anyone 'listening' to some guidance from such things, is probably in the trap of following orders, while it is possible to listen, and think and feel, and from that still make a decision.

Or you look at things from many perspectives, knowing that everyone does that anyways.


Much of the post I make, if I listened to them, could be saying something bad about me or someone else, I choose to find how they say something good, but I can find learning in thinking on what else it could mean, learning in anything.

As far as pagen, heh, don't know anything about that.


However, I also know nothing I have posts is listened to anyways by people.

Since the beer and travel money has not been sent, interestingly the situation that created the smear that started that due, was me buying a soft drink for a cripple in hardship, that some said I should be mean to.


But as I said before, I still think offering kindness to someone in hardship is the best thing to do.

70's "I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke" Commercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfU17niXOG8


Robert Eastwood, son of Al.

REal.

And to honor my father, Thank you Al.

Queen - 'We Are The Champions'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04854XqcfCY

Some might strictly think I am referring to the al that means The. My dads name really is Al.

You can also use the Hebrew use of the word ha.

As posted before as

RE
ha

or Rhea

Or since my dad's name really is Al, or more specifically Albert, Al be RT.

REal works fine for me.



Side note, I also use the handle Derek Halfhand sometimes, and like how it fits in as.

DR
HE


Or The Real Thing.

The RT.

If you can handle loops.

the code name. Shut the fuck up, people. Just stop nitpicking. :banghead:

The federal government refers to them as "domestic dependent nations".

POW camps....Now what is more telling?

Yes, I heard about Ben Laden's code name. If it is true, I am not too happy about it. Words do have meaning.

One man's ceiling is another man's floor.

The codename for the mission was Geronimo. OBL was "Jackpot".:shrug:

The message was "Geronimo EKIA" with Geronimo signifying the sender, not the target. EKIA is "enemy killed in action", which would be OBL. The Seals take comsec, communications security, seriously, and keep transmissions to the bare minimum. The mission name was almost certainly chosen as a tribute, not a denigration.

None of which contradict's the author's greater point. It just isn't applicable in this case.

Codenames are designed to conceal the things to which they are referring. By definition, they have no connection to the object. It was probably randomly assigned from a list that was generated months, even years ago. Would people have complained as much if the random codename had been Broncos or some other sports team?

Some news sources are claiming that "Geronimo" was the mission and "jackpot" was the target, others that "jackpot" was the mission and "Geronimo" the target. An Iraq War vet told me they used to name the mission after the objective, and that "jackpot" meant they had achieved the objective (read: killed or captured the target).

Doesn't sound bad to me but then I am only part Cherokee.

I'm part Cherokee and would like to say all this politically correct stuff is killing me. Geronimooooo!!!

So there's that.

And just so no one else gets their knickers in a bunch, I used "NA" as a contraction for "Native Americans" to save space so it would all fit in the subject line, and meant no disrespect to the indigenous peoples of the North American continent.

spelling edit. bbm

then it is. They have a legitimate point.

Obama didn't choose the name so don't make it about defending Obama.

There will be an apology but they won't play it up.

Geronimo was a legend whether you like the fact that he fought against the rape and pillaging from Americans. We took their friggin' land and killed as many Apaches as they could. I think of this as honoring him.

hope that that is true because I'd not want such an important and historical event to be tainted by a slur at our most mistreated populace, the American Indian.