Below is an extract from a movie I watched a while back which had a pretty powerful monologue at the end. Many people have likely forgotten or not seen this movie, and I have linked to it at the end with a video of the dialog, but it is as relevant today as it was back in 1994. To think that 16 years ago the same things were being warned about which we have seen over and over again, makes one wonder about the intelligence of man.
I'd like to start off by saying thank you to all the brothers and sisters that've come here today representing this cause.
I've been asked by Mr. Ittok and the Tribal Council to speak to you and the members of the press about the injustice that's been brought against us by some government officials and big business.
How many of you out there have heard of alternative engines? Engines that can run on anything from alcohol to garbage or water?
Or carburetors that can get hundreds of miles to the gallon?
Or electric or magnetic engines that can practically run forever?
You don't know about them, because if they were to come into use they'd put the oil companies out of business.
The concept of the internal combustion engine has been obsolete for over 50 years. But because of the oil cartels and corrupt government regulation we and the rest of the world have been forced to use gasoline for over 100 years.
Big business is primarily responsible for destroying the water we drink, the air we breathe and the food we eat.
They have no care for the world they destroy only for the money they make in the process.
How many oil spills can we endure?
Montara Timor Sea oil spill "could have been prevented"
Millions and millions of gallons of oil are destroying the ocean and the many forms of life it supports.
Among these is plankton, which supplies to 60-90% of the earth's oxygen.
It supports the entire marine ecosystem which forms the basis of our planet's food supply.
But the plankton is dying.
I thought, "Well, let's go to some remote state or country anywhere on Earth.
But in doing a little research, I realized that these people broker toxic waste all over the world.
They basically control the legislation and, in fact, they control the law.
Republicans Block Bid To Raise Oil-Spill-Damages Limit Separately, an effort by a few Senate Democrats to raise the cap on damage claims that BP PLC must pay for a Gulf of Mexico oil spill was blocked Thursday after Republicans said the plan wouldn't work.
The law says no company can be fined over $25,000 a day.
If a company's making $10 million a day by dumping lethal toxic waste
into the ocean it's only good business to continue doing this.
They influence the media so that they can control our minds.
They've made it a crime to speak out for ourselves.
If we do so, we're called conspiracy nuts and we're laughed at. We're angry because we're all being chemically and genetically damaged and we don't even realize it.
Unfortunately, this will affect our children. We go to work each day and right under our noses we see our car and the car in front of us spewing noxious, poisonous gases that are all accumulative poisons.
These poisons kill us slowly, even when we see no effect.
How many of us would've believed if we were told 20 years ago that on a certain day we wouldn't be able to see 50 feet in front of us that we wouldn't be able to take a deep breath because the air would be a mass of poisonous gas.
That we couldn't drink out of our faucets that we'd have to buy water
out of bottles.
Our most common and God-given rights have been taken away from us.
Unfortunately the reality of our lives is so grim that nobody wants to hear it.
I've been asked what we can do.
I think we need a responsible body of people that can actually represent us rather than big business.
This body of people must not allow the introduction of anything into our
environment that is not absolutely biodegradable or able to be chemically neutralized upon production.
Finally, as long as there's profit to be made from the polluting of our Earth, companies and individuals will continue to do what they want.
We have to force these companies to operate safely and responsibly with all our best interests in mind.
So that when they don't we can take back our resources and our hearts and our minds, and do what's right.
Kompasla, the great spirit, I ask you to bless all the people here. All the grandmas, all the grandpas, and the little ones.
We have the four directions and I want to bless the future generation and the lndian nation, our people to be strong again.
