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All That Oil

2012-05-25T22:22:56Z

We need to determine if the Constitution gives people the right to control and benefit from the natural resources. I believe the 9th and 10th Amendment gives people in their own states the right to their oil.

North Dakota should declare that the oil belongs to North Dakotans. Also, rather than build pipelines, North Dakota needs to build oil refineries, that belong to the people. Now, who has the conjoles to do that?

Balancing the Budget

2012-04-30T04:08:43Z

Why, oh why, do these airhead politicians keep trying to cut Social Security, Medicaid, food stamps, welfare, social programs that the people need? Why don't we cut the Nation Security Agency, that fascist, mischief making agency? And lets ax Homeland Security. We don't need that. And how about the CIA? That has to go. And now we have a balanced budget. Easy. And we don't hurt the elderly and disabled. And we can then afford to raise Social Security benefits because the gov can then afford to pay back all the dollars it stole from the people from Social Security to fund these hellacious wars for oil.

Surviving in a Depression

2012-04-30T04:02:29Z

Yesterday, I stopped at a bakery in Devils Lake to get some bread, and I discovered that the shelves were bare! The manager tending the store told me that Sara Lee had been bought by a Mexican corporation, and had given the orders that the only bread that could be sold had to come from the unsold bread from a grocery store. Boom! Suddenly it's here! It won't be long and the grocery store shelves will be bare, too.

I talked with the manager, who was now clerking. "It won't be long now, and this store will close." She agreed. "What will you do then?" I asked. "There are no jobs because corporations have elimated all the jobs, and they are not coming back."

"I have a degree in criminal justice, and I would pursue that."

"You could probably go to work for Homeland Security or National Security. But then you would have to spy and snitch on your neighbors."

It's coming; it's on the way. We are living in a nightmare world where we must pretend everything is normal, or we could be rounded up and taken to Guantanamo or some such place. Disappeared without a trace.

The time is here and the time is now to admit that we are hopelessly lost, and that we don't know what to do. When you are lost, it's time to stop, look, and listen to what the birds and animals are doing. They communicate with each other. They are building their nests and tending to their young. They are continuously concerned with food. We should be as smart.

Artist Among the Lakota

2012-01-21T08:24:48Z

I promised you that I would start writing my book, but I got side-tracked in that sink hole of legal battles, where justice is impossible. Let me start making amends in this dark, treacherous time we live in by giving you little samples from my book.

Reservation Black Hole

In Matthew 18, Jesus, responding to the question "Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven," calls a little child to his side, and says to the disciples that those who can humble themselves like the child are the greatest in God's kingdom. In Matthew 18:6, Jesus admonishes that "whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea."

My writing had got me in deep trouble, especially with the Area BIA Director, Robert Ecoffey, who really hated my little Bob stories that Clifford would print in the Black Hills Peoples News, a local reservation paper. In my stories, I would question Ecoffey about his investigation into the murder of Anna Mae Pictou Aquash. Ecoffey did not like my little Bob stories, and he had his way of expressing his dislike. Once I had made social/political statements, I was a marked person, except that I didn’t realize what I had gotten myself into. I had messed with the tribal political machine, and no one was going to tolerate that. I filed a lawsuit, which was not well received by the tribal political machine or Ecoffey. So Bob had me evicted from my house, arrested, jailed, and banned from the reservation.

When I returned home from a cook sale in Pine Ridge, I noticed a pick up backed up to my door. I figured someone was breaking and entering. I turned around and drove back to my neighbor’s place to call the police. When I returned, my yard was full of cars. Louella was standing there waving her arms and proclaiming that I was now evicted and she was claiming my house. I rushed past her. All the doors were standing wide open. The padlock hasps had been pried off and the door jambs were broken. I rushed inside the cabin to call the police, only to find the phone gone! And everything else gone! My beautiful house that I had been building for the past 8 years, now violated. I rushed past her and into the cabin. A lot of things were gone! The computer was gone!

I rushed outside to find some things were put in my pickup box and in the cab. I saw the computer sitting there in the front seat. Louella was standing there in the yard, along with her son Robert, shouting, “You’re evicted!” Apparently the goon squad had been hauling my things out all day, stealing my property.

I ran back past Louella and her goon squad, jumped in my Bronco, and drove off to a neighbor’s house to call the police. I told the police that some people had broken into my house, and were stealing my things, that I would meet them at my house. They said they would be right out.

I was driving slowly back to my cabin, when the police pulled up behind me and motioned for me to stop. The police officer told me that I better follow him to the police station. That didn’t make any sense. A pit of fear gripped my stomach, as I drove along. Instead, of following, I pulled into Karen’s again. I raced up the steps and knocked on the door. The police officer followed me and told me that I was under arrest. He even read me the Miranda rights. Karen asked him for his court order or warrant. If he had one, I didn’t see it nor was I presented with one. I said I was going to use the phone. He said if I did, I would be charged with resisting arrest. Good, god! They were really going to take me away. And I had to let someone know that. “I have a right to make a phone call,” I said, my hands shaking as I dialed the number of my best friend, Lucinda. Karen was arguing with the police officer, asking where was his court order. I don’t know if he had a court order or a warrant. I never saw one.

The police told me I was under arrest, but he wouldn’t tell me what for. He ordered me to put down the phone or he would add more charges.

“What charges?” I was dumbfounded! This was insane! Unreal! He wouldn’t tell me what I was charged with, nor did he show me a warrant. He just insisted that I hang up the phone. Lucinda answered the phone. I told her to listen very carefully. Karen started arguing with the police officer about not having a warrant, which was good. That way, the officer couldn’t prevent me from making the phone call, and he couldn’t listen in. “I am being arrested, and they are going to put me in a squad car and take me to jail. Please meet me at the Kyle jail….I don’t know why…. I don’t know what’s going on, but if you don’t meet me at the police station, you may never see me again! And I don’t have time to explain.”

The Tribal police officer said, “ Come with me.” I put down the phone. He was actually going to put me in the squad car, and take me away! He told me not to resist, or he would have to handcuff me. Somehow, I managed not to faint. He put me in the squad car, closed the door, and off we went towards Kyle, nine miles away.

I asked, “What about the people who have broken and entered my house and are stealing my things? What are all those people doing in my yard with boxes?”

He said, “I’m just following orders.” I was to hear that a lot, I’m just following orders.

We were rounding the hill heading into Kyle when the officer got a phone call. He turned around. I asked where we were going. He said he was to meet someone in Porcupine. I asked the officer, “ What about my house and my things?” He didn’t have any answers.

We passed 3 Mile Creek, and were heading towards Sharps Corner. About half way, we were met by another squad car. The officer got out, and the two of them talked for awhile. Then, he got back in, turning at Sharps Corner, and heading south. The other officer was following. There was some more talking on the radio. The officer stopped, turned around, and started heading back towards Sharps Corner. Some more talking, then he stopped, turned around, and headed back towards Porcupine.

The hardest thing was not knowing what was going on. What is going to happen to me? Every time I was transferred to another car, I asked someone to safeguard my house and belongings. This was never done. Apparently, no one had orders to protect my property and apprehend the thieves who were stealing my things. This gave rise to a more frightening thought. No paper work, no warrant, no court order, and the police not investigating the theft, it all added up to that they wanted to get rid of me. But how? My mind wouldn’t let me contemplate any further than that.

There were 2 police cars waiting at the Big Foot pull over. The officer and other police officers got out. Six officers were outside of their cars, talking. After they conversed for awhile, the officer told me to get out of the car. My heart was racing. I said nothing, but did as I was told. My heart dropped to my feet, as I was escorted into another squad car. I was afraid I was about to take the Anna Mae ride. For the first time, one of the officers spoke, and told me this was going to be the last transfer, that they would take me straight to Pine Ridge and put me in jail!

I said, “I think there’s been some kind of mistake.”

“You are Janis Schmidt, aren’t you?”

“Yes.”

“Then there’s no mistake. We are just following the Judge Cook’s Order.”

“What Order? How can there be an Order without a hearing?”

But they didn’t want to answer questions, and furthermore, felt they didn’t have to.

No Justice in North Dakota

2012-01-21T08:02:54Z

I was looking up Occupy the Courts today for the closest location, and discovered a large ring around the Dakota. No Occupiers wanted or needed in our pristine state. I read with some interest that the AG had removed a states attorney in Pembina County for 9 alleged violations of his office. There is to be a hearing on February 3rd, at the Pembina County Courthouse.

I called the Pembina Co. courthouse. Spoke with clerk who said she couldn't give out any information. "Well, then, who schedules hearings in your court?

"You have to call the AG and talk with them," and she gave me the number.

I called Bismarck. Some woman wanted to know who I was, what group I represented, and purpose of my call. I wanted to know the time and verify the date and place of the hearing. Then referred me to Liz Brockter, AG's minion, who said she didn't have any info about the hearing. I asked when she would know. She said to call back next week. I said that considering that the hearing would only be a week away, I would certainly hope that would know what they were doing before then. I don't think she appreciated the phone call.

I don't think they want anyone to attend the hearing. I really wish Occupiers would come to Pembina County Courthouse on February 3rd, not to protest, but for a public observation of our judicial system at work. No need to protest unless the AG plans on keeping the hearing hidden behind closed doors. I thought court proceedings were supposed to be public events, but maybe not in North Dakota.

States attorneys have way too much power, with absolutely no one to rein them in and hold them accountable. They can tamper with witnesses and evidence, destroy evidence, refuse to investigate crime or prosecute. This is a reckless and dangerous power, especially with states attorneys advising Social Service boards on whether or not to accept 960 reports of abuse and violence against children and women, particularly if the girl happens to be Native American. Justice for Indians is nonexistent, a dark, black hole.

Letter to Social Services

2011-10-31T17:21:35Z

anis Schmidt
418 Griffin St.
Warwick, ND 58381
701-294-2196

October 13, 2011

Paul Olson, Director
Benson Co. Social Services Board
PO Box 186
Minnewaukan, ND 58351

Dear Mr. Olson,

When I called to reschedule for October 28, 2011, I was told that my 960 Report of a Child Fatality had already been addressed. How can that be since I have not presented the 960 Report and evidence to support it? I was told you said that reporting of rape concerning a state run school and an Indian girl were automatically turned over to tribal police, tribal court, and tribal social services, and that it wasn’t your jurisdiction. I was told you said I would be given no more than 10 minutes to address the Social Services Board of a very complex situation involving many attorneys, in which officials refused to investigate a previous report to Social Services, thus causing the death of an Indian girl by suicide.

I would like confirmation:

1. Who made this decision?
2. When?
3. Why wasn’t I informed?
4. What role did your legal counsel, James Wang, play in your decision?
5. Please cite the statutes upon which you limit the presentation of a 960 Report of a child fatality to 10 minutes.

I would like a copy of the last 2 board meetings, September and October.

I, Janis Schmidt, citizen and teacher and member of Dakotas for Justice Org., come to submit a 960 child fatality report with evidence that proves that Warwick School officials, superintendent Charles Guthrie, principal Gene Riedinger, Councilor Shirley Tiokiason (Erickson), NDEA rep. Steve Michels and lawyers Tiffany Johnson, Gary Thune, Douglas Bahr, and Dennis Meier representing Human Services, Social Services, Assistant Attorney General Bill Peterson representing Education Standards and Practices Board, hearing officer Dave Clinton and Job Service, Ulysses Jones and States Attorney James Wang, all officers of the court, did conspire to unlawfully to circumvent the child abuse laws that led to the untimely death of Jami Rose Jetty. Had my original 960 Report which I submitted to Social Services in January of 2007 as Report to School Board Members (Exhibit A) been correctly assessed and properly investigated, Jami Rose Jetty would be alive today. This is the consequence when Social Services 960 Reports and North Dakota Century Code are ignored by the very agency who is mandated to protect children. Superintendent Charles Guthrie of Warwick Public School with 100 per cent Native American student body, deliberately chose not to report the rape of a student, M H, when it became known to him in state run Warwick School, and abused Jami by questioning Jami about a rape in Warwick School in violation of child abuse laws which prohibits any unauthorized questioning of students, falsely and fraudulently told the girl, Jami Jetty and her parents, that I had told school administrators that Jami had been raped, a deliberate lie, which caused everyone to regard Jami as the rape victim which then made life intolerable for Jami, and was the reason why she killed herself, as told to me by her father, James Jetty in a conversation I had with him in February of 2011. It all started from the fact that Social Services refused to investigate my 29 page Report of institutional abuse, as advised by states attorney James Wang, to spare the reputations and jobs of officials who felt that their jobs were more important than to protect children from officials who feel child abuse laws do not apply to Native Americans. This is a big 14th Amendment violation of equal protection.

You made a big mistake back in 2007, and it appears you still do not want to take responsibility for your actions and/or inactions. Just where does the buck stop in our search for justice for Jami Rose Jetty?

Sincerely,

Janis Schmidt, member
Dakotahs for Justice Organization

Cc: Sheila Erickson, Chair
Carol Kurtz, Vice Chair
Curtis Hvinden, Commissioner
Jason Lee, Commissioner
Michael N. Steffen, Commissioner
Lowell Haagenson, Commissioner
David Davidson, Commissioner
Wayne Stenehjem, Attorney General
Benson County Farmers Press

Social Services Doesn't Want to hear 960 Report

2011-10-31T17:15:00Z

BENSON COUNTY SOCIAL SERVICE BOARD MEETING

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2011

8:30 A.M.

Minnewaukan Administrative Building

(Located south of the courthouse, 108 East 4^th Street)

AGENDA

GREET VISITORS

ACTION ON MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MINUTES

The anticipated presentation of Janis Schmidt was discussed. The Board decided after consulting with States Attorney James Wang, the Board has no authority and/or jurisdiction to act on Ms. Schmidt’s concerns. However, due to open meeting laws, the Board will allow Ms. Schmidt to give her presentation with a time limit imposed of 10 minutes.

FINANCIAL SERVICES REPORT

FINANCIAL REPORT AND BILLS

OTHER BUSINESS

Personnel Issues

JANIS SCHMIDT @ 9:30 a.m.

Schmidt will present a summary of her detailed 960 Report of Child Fatality and ask the board to contact a federal prosecutor to conduct an investigation into the death of Jami Rose Jetty, based upon first person witness of detailed facts with over 30 items of evidence that will prove that Warwick Public School administrators were abusing students by refusing to report a rape, expelling the rape victim, then setting Jami up to replace the rape victim. When Schmidt reported this to the school board and to Social services in a 29 page Report, the superintendent tampered the original Report to falsely say that Schmidt had said that Jami had been raped. He got Jami and her parents to believe this lie, that Schmidt had told school administrators that Jami had been raped, a deliberate lie, which caused everyone to regard Jami as the rape victim which then made life intolerable for Jami. Had my original 960 Report which Schmidt submitted to Social Services in January of 2007 as Report to School Board Members (Exhibit A) been correctly assessed and properly investigated, Jami Rose Jetty would be alive today. Schmidt will present how States Attorney Wang facilitated the destruction of the 29 page Report, causing the Social Services Board not to investigate.

ADJOURN

Meeting: Social Services Board public meeting

When: October 28, 20011

Where: Minnewaukan, Social Services ad bldg, across South of the courthouse

What: 960 Report on death of Jami Rose Jetty

Time: 9:30am, allotted only 10 minutes

Janis Schmidt

418 Griffin St.

Warwick, ND 58381

701-294-2196

October 15, 2011

Wayne Stenehjem

Attorney General

600 E. Boulevard Ave.

Bismarck, ND 58505

Dear Mr. Stenehjem,

I have been informed that I will have only 10 minutes to present my 960 Report on the death of Jami Jetty, and that Social Services Board has already decided they will not order an investigation because Millie Banet claimed that the Spirit Lake Tribe has jurisdiction. I asked to be placed on agenda for Oct 28, 201l, and I was given a 9:00 am time slot, although I live 35 miles away, with road construction going on, and I am disabled. When I asked the official paper, Benson County Farmers Press to post notice, he refused, stating that, “We will not publish your letter to the editor because we have no intention of being used in your vendetta.”

Since the 960 Report involves states attorney James Wang, don’t you think it is conflict of interest for him to advise the Social Services Board and commissioners to toss out my 960 Report and refuse to assess it? Does the official newspaper need to publish subject matter of the agenda if so asked?

I have requested a copy of the agenda and a copy of last month’s minutes over 2 weeks ago. (Ex AA-1, Letter to Paul Olson) I have not received an answer from Mr. Olson, nor have I received a copy of the minutes and agenda, in violation of open record law, NDCC 44-04-18.[1] I contacted Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem requesting that he enforce the open record laws. He sent me a form letter stating he didn’t give legal advice and that he doesn’t have jurisdiction over my issue of getting the minutes of a public meeting. (Ex AA-2, letter from Attorney General) To date, I have not received answers to my questions, nor have I received the minutes of the last Social Services meeting. I asked an unnamed source to provide me with the minutes, which that person did. It appears that states attorney James Wang has advised the Board not to consider my 960 Report of a Child Fatality, but would give me a token time just to satisfy open meeting laws. (Ex AA-3, Social Service minutes and agenda) Is this the height of hypocrisy?

“The anticipated presentation of Janis Schmidt was discussed. The Board decided after consulting with States Attorney James Wang, the Board has no authority and/or jurisdiction to act on Ms. Schmidt’s concerns. However, due to open meeting laws, the Board will allow Ms. Schmidt to give her presentation with a time limit imposed of 10 minutes.” (Ex AA-3)

Since the wrongful death of an Indian girl doesn’t seem to fall under anyone’s jurisdiction in North Dakota, and all authorities refuse to investigate or even listen to the facts and evidence, I called the U.S. Department of Justice, criminal division on 10/26/11. Unlike the ND Benson County Social Services Board, the U.S. Assistant Attorney General said he would like to see my detailed 960 Report with evidence, and asked that I send it to him right away. He said that the U.S. government has the authority to investigate and prosecute high ranking officials who commit official misconduct by abusing Native American students, no matter where the abuse occurs. So, we shall see.

[1] 2. Upon request for a copy of specific public records, any entity subject to subsection 1

shall furnish the requester one copy of the public records requested. A request need

not be made in person or in writing, and the copy must be mailed upon request. A

public entity may charge up to twenty-five cents per impression of a paper copy. As

used in this section, "paper copy" means a one-sided or two-sided duplicated copy

of a size not more than eight and one-half by fourteen inches [19.05 by 35.56

centimeters]. For any copy of a record that is not a paper copy as defined in this

section, the public entity may charge a reasonable fee for making the copy. As used

in this section, "reasonable fee" means the actual cost to the public entity of making

the copy, including labor, materials, and equipment. The entity may charge for the

actual cost of postage to mail a copy of a record. An entity may require payment

before locating, redacting, making, or mailing the copy. An entity may impose a fee

not exceeding twenty-five dollars per hour per request, excluding the initial hour, for

locating records if locating the records requires more than one hour. An entity may

impose a fee not exceeding twenty-five dollars per hour per request, excluding the

initial hour, for excising confidential or closed material under section 44-04-18.10. If

the entity is not authorized to use the fees to cover the cost of providing or mailing

the copy, or both, or if a copy machine is not readily available, the entity may make

arrangements for the copy to be provided or mailed, or both, by another entity, public

or private, and the requester shall pay the fee to that other entity. This subsection

does not apply to copies of public records for which a different fee is specifically

provided by law.

5. The governing body's presiding officer has the responsibility of assuring that such

public notice is given at the same time as such governing body's members are

notified, and that this notice is available to anyone requesting such information.

When a request is made for notice of meetings, the request is effective for one year

unless a different time period is specified.

6. In the event of emergency or special meetings of a governing body, the person

calling such a meeting shall also notify the public entity's official newspaper, if any,

and any representatives of the news media which have requested to be so notified

of such special or emergency meetings, of the time, place, date, and topics to be

considered at the same time as such governing body's members are notified. If the

public entity does not have an official newspaper, then it must notify the official

newspaper of the county where its principal office or mailing address is located.

Topics that may be considered at an emergency or special meeting are limited to

those included in the notice.

Sincerely,

Janis Schmidt

Dakotas for Justice

Enc.

Astonishingly, but predictably, the ND attorney general Wayne Stenehjem sent a checked off form stating that he did not have jurisdiction to decide Open Record laws,

America in Deep Trouble

2011-10-30T14:47:25Z

America is headed for a self-induced disaster. America was founded on the blood of Native Americans and theft of Indian land. Afterall, American at one time totally belonged to American Indians, who did not willingly give up their land so that Americans could cut down their forests, kill all their birds and animals, indeed, put a bounty on Indian scalps--all to establish the great nation of the United States of America, super power, home of the free and the brave, icon of freedom and democracy, owner of the world's resources, especially oil. Well, the chickens have come home to roost or to roast. My friend, the great attorney Barry Bachrach said:

WHEN

by Barry Bachrach on Friday, September 16, 2011 at 2:26pm

How long can the societal illusion a/k/a the great brain washing be tolerated until the masses become deluded. The goal of the illusion is ultimately the oppression of the masses and control of meaningless physical riches. We/I feed the illusion by accepting its construct as evidencing the "normalacy" against which we permit ourselves to be judged, that is until we accept delusion and the judgment that we are"fringe elements." Until the great delusion occurs, the lemmings will continue to run over the cliff, four legs paddling the space beneath then, until gravity, a Newtonian truth, crashes them into the material earth that is so coveted by the illusionary masters.

I stand foursquare behind the Occupiers, It is the first step in the right direction that I have so far seen. The lemmings have woke up, and recognize that the Market and Wall Street have ruined their lives, evicted them from their homes, destroyed their jobs. So now, without a job and without a home, with no way to provide for themselves or their families, the Occupiers have taken to the parks and streets to demand that something be done to restore justice and America's economy so that it serves the people and not the few corporations who are running American into the dirt, while making war on countries world wide so as to steal their resources.

If Occupy America does not win out, America will be destroyed by Wall Street. Capitalism, as we know it, has failed. Wall Street is not going to take care of you. In fact, Wall Street wants to take away your Social Security. What does that mean? There will be massive starvation, which sits well with Wall Street and their toadies in Washington, because it will help (1) decrease the surplus population of the poor ravel, (2) eliminate unemployment, (3) ensure there will be enough food for the rich, and (4) eliminate dissenters and protestors through natural processes.

Justice For Jami

2011-10-30T14:18:33Z

JUSTICE FOR JAMI

As some of you may know, I have been fighting a lonely, unsuccessful battle for justice for Native Americans for 7 years now. In that time, I have discovered how the reservation system really works. I have been beaten, falsely arrested and jailed, my 2 story house that I built seized and destroyed, and I was illegally excluded from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, 2004-05, and I found absolutely no recourse to justice through law enforcement or the justice system. In short, I was treated just like an Indian. And out of this hellish experience, I learned a lot about the true meaning of the U.S. bringing democracy to tribal people.

I escaped to North Dakota, to Spirit Lake Reservation only to discover the same system of racism and injustice is as deeply entrenched. I reported a rape to the school administrators as told to me in class by a Native American girl. The problem is that the administrators got by with not reporting the rape as mandated by NDCC 50-25.1-03 by saying that the rape happened on an Indian reservation and the tribal police and tribal court was handling it. (Ex A and C), thus blurring the real issue that the refusal to report happened in a state run school. Superintendent Charles Guthrie deliberately chose not to report the rape of a student when it became known to him. When he discovered that I knew about it, he expelled the rape victim and set up a newly enrolled girl to replace the real rape victim by questioning Jami about a rape in violation of child abuse laws which prohibits any unauthorized questioning of students, making the girl, Jami Jetty and her parents, believe that I had told school administrators that Jami had been raped, which caused everyone to regard Jami as the rape victim which then made life intolerable for Jami, and was the reason why she killed herself, as told to me by her father, James Jetty in a conversation I had with him in February of 2011. It all started from the fact that Social Services refused to investigate my 29 page Report of institutional abuse, as advised by states attorney James Wang. (Exhibit A, Report to School Board Members, December 29, 2006)

Officials and Warwick administrators conspired unlawfully to circumvent the child abuse laws that led to the untimely death of Jami Rose Jetty. Had my original 960 Report which I submitted to Social Services in January of 2007 as Report to School Board Members (Exhibit A) been correctly assessed, with an investigation ordered, Jami Rose Jetty would be alive today. This is the consequence when Social Services 960 Reports are not given due credence and North Dakota Century Code is ignored by the very agency who is mandated to protect children.

As you may know, I filed a lawsuit, I contend that Jami’s death was caused by the Warwick administrators who set up Jami to replace the real rape victim and refused to report this rape when it became known to them, and their attorneys and minions, along with Social Services who refused to investigate, and Job Service, who, with the help of Gary Thune, obfuscated the facts and tampered with evidence. The facts in my lawsuit were based upon my Report to School Board Members in which I claimed that I had been fired before the end of term without notice or hearing after I had reported to Social Services, Standards and Practices Board, and Sheriff Royher that Warwick School administrators were abusing Native American students by refusing to report a rape when it became known to them, expelling the rape victim, and setting up Jami Jetty to make it seem like she was the rape victim. I should have never lost my lawsuits because the law and the facts were on my side; I lost because law enforcement refused to investigate crimes and clever lawyers, Gary Thune and states attorney James Wang, tampered with evidence and witnesses to get my lawsuit dismissed, and most of all, lawyers deliberately and criminally withheld information from me.

Jami, the girl set up to replace M H, the real rape victim, was very interested in Leonard Peltier, and had many questions about AIM and Wounded Knee, and wanted to be like Anna Mae, and bring some justice and rights to her people, the Dakota. Jami was related to Leonard Peltier, as were some of the other students. She was just 12 years old when she told me that. She was very bright and interested in learning. She idolized me and loved being in my classes, until Supt. Guthrie had to ruin everything for both of us by questioning her about a rape; then telling her that I had told him that she had been raped. The poor girl, 12 years old, hated me and spread the false story all over the school and community. Guthrie and Riedinger were estatic because Jami was carrying out their agenda by spreading the story claimin I had said she had been raped. Slick. And they thought no harm done; they could now say that Ms. Schmidt was falsely reporting rapes and they had every right to fire her. However, the stigma of rape never left Jami, and her life was cruelly altered. Even though she changed schools twice, she could not escape kids taunting her, saying that she had been raped at Warwick School, the story that Guthrie had instigated to avoid detection that he had not reported a rape or other abuse, in fact, had become the abuser. Jami, not being able to escape, and not getting anyone to believe her once she discovered the truth, she called a classmate, crying on the phone, and said, “What’s the use? No one will believe what Mr. Guthrie did to me.” Two weeks later she was dead; hung herself. That’s what happens when administrators do not follow the child abuse laws; laws that were intended for Native Americans as well as white students. But not in North Dakota. And God help the poor teacher who attempts to make officials follow the law when it comes to Native American issues.

I took my case all the way to the US Supreme Court, Janis Schmidt v. Warwick Public School District #29, et al. The Supreme Court accepted my petition and assigned my case a case number, #10-10070. My Petition can be read at www.lakotaperspectives.com. The Court considered the case for several months, then declined to hear it.

Oil Brings Floods

2011-06-23T01:25:25Z

As a resident of North Dakota, I can say that we have been experiencing and upsidedown weather pattern for the past 2 years, a very wet cycle with most percipitation falling in the west, highly unusual. The west is arid country. It isn't just the big rivers; its all the small rivers. Then farm land is affected, much of it under water, and most too wet to seed.

Then we have flooding along the mighty Mississippi River.

At the same time, fires are raging in Arizona.

The country has experienced severe tornadoes, as far north as Massachutes.

To top that off, North Dakota is home to the most miserly, cretin government that you would ever want to see. North Dakota is sitting on a sea of oil, and the treasury is bursting with cash to the tune of $1 billion dollars. So the state legislators give back #150 million dollars to the oil barons out of the state treasury, and refuses to help flood victims. The governor says it is more important to encourage business and oil with tax breaks. But what the hay? Bush and Obamam have blown up trillions of tax payer dollars to encourage our national interest in oil in the Middle East. Yet there isn't a politician anywhere smart enough to connect the dots. Can you?

Anthony Weiner

2011-06-07T15:40:27Z

U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner

I come out in support of U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner and anyone who doesn’t is just a little wiener-whiner. From what I have seen, Mr. Weiner has an excellent physique for a man of 48. Rather than being apologetic, I would suggest that Mr. Weiner take out bill board ads, highlighting his amazing anatomy, and challenge the rest of the legislative body to compare bodies publically. As a U.S. citizen, I think we have a right to know every intimate detail of our legislators, don’t you? It helps us prioritize what we think were problems and relegate those seeming problems to obscurity, such as: home foreclosure, no job, reckless military spending.

As representative of the American public, I congratulate Mr. Weiner for having distracted the media away from pointless economic discussions which just enrages the public. Mr. Weiner has given us something prurient to think about instead. Part of our American culture is our insatiable interest in sex, smut, and sleaze. We love smut. Someone else’s smut. At the same time, we like to present a Puritanical, abhorrent attitude on sex to the world. At the same time, Congress is all agog over Mr. Weiner, it is ordering U.S. military to hold Arabs as "enemy combantants" in a naked condition, to perform indecent sexual acts on them, to parade naked Arabs in front of female militia, to have female soldiers touch Arabs’ genitals. Why don't we have more pictures of this?

So, Mr. Weiner, put up that billboard, and challenge any other Congressman or woman to do likewise. What’s in a statement of a bare chest? Proud to be an American where at least we know we're free.

Schmidt v. Warwick Public School

2011-05-23T02:54:39Z

Great news! My Petition to the U.S. Supreme Court has been docketed and assigned a case number, 10-10070. I have just posted my Petition for Certiorari to www.lakotaperspectives.com.

JANIS SCHMIDT v. WARWICK PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT #29, et al.
Case # 10-10070

QUESTIONS PRESENTED

1. Whether Schmidt’s Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to due process and equal protection were denied when school administrators retaliated against Ms. Schmidt when she reported the rape of a Native American student as required by law?

2. Whether schools and their agents are required to report a rape when it involves a Native American student and the rape occurred on an Indian reservation, and was the rape victim and the teacher who reported the rape to Social Services afforded due process and equal protection under the Fourteenth amendment when the rape issue was handled through the tribal court and not federal court, and the teacher was forced to agree to 5 Directives admitting that no rape had occurred and that she had committed an act of insubordination by reporting a rape?

3. Whether Schmidt’s Ninth Amendment right not to be personally and professionally defamed by Defendants whose false statements about Schmidt resulted in her professional reputation was ruined beyond repair?

4. Whether Schmidt’s Seventh Amendment right was violated by the court’s misinterpretation the statute that forbids Defendants from relying on ND unemployment compensation decisions as evidence in a separate action, for the purpose of dismissing my claims without a trial?

5. Whether Native Americans living on Indian reservations are considered citizens entitled to equal protection and due process as guaranteed under the Fourteenth Amendment?

STATEMENT OF THE CASE

This case raises constitutional issues of the highest import. It involves a teacher who was retaliated against by Defendants for reporting a rape of a Native American student and then reporting Defendant for not fulfilling its requisite reporting obligations. Ultimately, Defendant terminated Plaintiff without due process and then illegally relied on a renewal hearing to justify the firing when it became clear that the so-called termination hearing was held illegally, without notice and opportunity for Plaintiff to be heard. To permit the summary decision of the North Dakota Supreme Court to stand will in effect stand for the proposition that teachers have no property right created by the statutory termination procedures, and will violate decades of United States’ Court precedent; and will create precedence that school administrators do not have to report child abuse if the crime (rape) occurred on an Indian reservation.

This case raises the issue of Indian rights, which has never been squarely addressed by the Constitution or statutes. Are Native Americans citizens, and if so, why do they not enjoy the same protection and due process as other Americans? Native Americans who were not already U.S. citizens were granted citizenship in 1924 by the Congress of the United States. It is said that Native Americans today have a unique relationship with the United States because they may be members of nations, tribes, or bands of Native Americans who have sovereignty or independence from the government of the United States. Sounds good, but in reality and in this case, it means that the Indian has never been recognized as a U.S. citizen with rights equal to that of any other race.

My case will give this Court an opportunity to rectify a long, overdue inequality existing in American. I reported a rape to the school administrators as told to me in class by a Native American girl. The problem is that the administrators had not to reported the rape because the rape happened on an Indian reservation and the tribal police and tribal court was handling it. (App B, Doc 241, Order granting summary judgment, p. 3) Schools and other officials are routinely using sovereignty as a reason not to obey child abuse laws when it concerns Native Americans. Sovereignty is routinely used as an excuse to deny Native Americans constitutional rights because Indians are regarded as independent from the government of the United States. Separate but supposedly equal still exists in schools on reservations, and the most vulnerable of Native Americans, the children, have no constitutional rights to protection from violent crimes, or from administrators who abuse students. I reported child abuse of Native Americans to every conceivable authority, but they all said it wasn’t their jurisdiction. The set up girl was so constantly hounded by kids taunting her about being raped in Warwick school, the lie perpetuated by the school administrators to avoid reporting, that she committed suicide at the age of 14.

There is no legal reason that my case should have been dismissed before trial. The law was on my side. The North Dakota courts did not adjudicate by the law, the Rules, or the constitution because my case presented racial issues and equal protection that have never been decided when a case involves Native Americans.

REASONS FOR GRANTING THE PETITION

The African Americans were emancipated in 1863, and set free through the 13th Amendment passed 1n 1865, and the 14th Amendment, passed in 1868, guaranteed due process and equal protection to African Americans but not Native Americans.

Permeated by hostile racial attitudes of racial superiority laden with guilt and shame, white American has never recognized the Indian as an equal, and therefore Indians have not been afforded the same rights as all other citizens enjoy. African Americans were set free and all kinds of laws have been enacted to guarantee their rights. Not so with Native Americans, the only people who were born free and equal, who once owned all of what is now called America. It has been very difficult for the U.S. Government to create a fair set of laws regarding Native Americans, and has failed miserably.

A tribal court, called Court of Indian Offenses, was created by the military and the Dept. of Indian Affairs in the 1880s as a means of punishing and controlling Indians, but not protecting them from perpetrators of crimes. The Department of Justice (DOJ) reports from the latest available data that from 1992 to 2001 American Indians experienced violent crimes at more than twice the national rate. Violence against Native Americans goes uninvestigated and unreported when it occurs on an Indian Reservation, and those who do report are so severely retaliated against that they never recover from the retaliation.

We have to look back to Worchester v. Georgia, 1832, for a case similar to mine. Worcester was sentenced in state court to 4 years of hard labor because he supported the Cherokee resistance against removal, and was teaching the Indians about history, the law, and how to read and write. Because I reported a rape, and that administrators were abusing Indian students, I was retaliated against, lost my job, and labeled with misconduct for having reported a rape, thus ending my teaching career. This was all accomplished through our legal system.

The rape issue developed into situation where the administration felt they needed to cover up the fact that they had not reported the rape of M H, as required by law. NDCC 50-25.1-03 The administrators were afraid if I told, they could have their education license revoked, pursuant to 50-25.1-13 (Doc 204, #80) so, instead of reporting, they staged a fight and expelled the rape victim, (App D, Doc 204, #16-18) and set up another Native American girl by telling the girl I had said she had been raped.

Reasons why my lawsuit was unjustly dismissed

There is no reason that this lawsuit should have been dismissed. The courts and decision makers refused to follow the Rules; law enforcement refused to investigate crimes against Native American children. The problem is much bigger than my case; it goes back to the fact that the government, who is the maker of the laws, has never come up with a fair, consistent set of laws, starting with the treaties, regarding Indians. The Fourteenth Amendment was a political piece of work, deliberately excluding Indians from due process and equal protection. The Civil Rights Act of 1868 did not address the rights of Indians, who have largely been the forgotten race in America.

The courts have not shed any light on current treatment of Indians. Indians rarely, if ever, have any opportunity to bring a case to state or federal court, where these issues can be addressed. It takes a white person such as myself, who refused to go along with the racist scheme of things, and dared to stand up and report the fragrant abuses being perpetuated on Native American students. Why did the agencies and courts not investigate serious crime? It was more that jurisdiction; it was because they would have to reverse their rulings in regards to Native Americans, who are routinely charged with a crime they did not commit, and are routinely sent off to prison without any due process.

Indian women and children do not report serious crimes of abuse and rape because they know that the state will end up dismissing the perpetrator, and blaming the victim, which is what happened to M H and J J. And I was charged with misconduct for reporting to authorities, which means as a teacher, my teaching days are over, along with my personal and professional reputation. I wasn’t sentenced to hard labor like Wochester, Worchester v. Georgia, 1832, I was just denied any meaningful employment for the rest of my life. A teacher does not overcome a discharge for misconduct. I was deprived of my right to due process, and I was deprived of my property right by being improperly terminated in retaliation for doing my so-called protected duty. Where’s the protection? It is exactly the same treatment Indians get.

I have steadfastly maintained that I was fired twice without notice or hearing for performing my mandatory duty of reporting a rape and institutional child abuse. (Doc 1) Defendants have argued in hearing before Job Service, (App Y) in hearing to dismiss, (Doc 193) in summary judgment motion, (Doc 197) on appeal and in arguments before the North Dakota Supreme Court that I was not fired, but placed on administrative leave. Defendants have argued that even if I was fired, I was paid my full contract salary, so there was no breach of contract, and therefore no damages. (Doc 52, 198, Defendant’s summary judgment, p. 10) The trial court accepted Defendant’s facts as true based on Job Service facts, which is not permitted by statute, NDCC 52-06-37.1, nor by ND R. Civ. P 56. (App B, p. 9-10) The trial court illegally changed the Defendant’s motion to dismiss to one of summary judgment without notice, pursuant to ND R. Civ. P. 12(d) and 56©(g). (Doc 193) I was denied my Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment right to be duly notified that the hearing was to be based on summary judgment and not motion to dismiss, which the court then denied me the right to bring evidence and question witnesses, which would have given me a favorable outcome, if the trial court were to abide by the Rules of civil procedure.

You will note that I am heavy on the laws, and light on the cases, because the laws were clearly not enforced in my case, just as they are not enforced equally for Native Americans.

J J, the girl set up to replace M H, the real rape victim, was very interested in Leonard Peltier, and had many questions about AIM and Wounded Knee, and wanted to be like Anna Mae, and bring some justice and rights to her people, the Dakota. J J was related to Leonard Peltier, as were some of the other students. She was just 12 years old when she told me that. She was very bright and interested in learning. She idolized me and loved being in my classes, until Supt. Guthrie had to ruin everything for both of us by questioning her about a rape; then telling her that I had told him that she had been raped. The poor girl, 12 years old, hated me and spread the false story all over the school and community. Guthrie and Riedinger were estatic because J J was doing the defaming without them lifting a finger. Slick. And they thought no harm done; they could now say that Ms. Schmidt was falsely reporting rapes and they had every right to fire her. However, the stigma of rape never left J J, and her life was cruelly altered. Even though she changed schools twice, she could not escape kids taunting her, saying that she had been raped at Warwick School, the story that Guthrie had instigated to avoid detection that he had not reported a rape or other abuse, in fact, had become the abuser. J J, not being able to escape, and not getting anyone to believe her once she discovered the truth, she called a classmate, crying on the phone, and said, “What’s the use? No one will believe what Mr. Guthrie did to me.” Two weeks later she was dead; hung herself. That’s what happens when administrators do not follow the child abuse laws; laws that were intended for Native Americans as well as white students. But not in North Dakota. And God help the poor teacher who attempts to make officials follow the law when it comes to Native American issues.

Invite to Supreme Court

2011-05-23T02:40:02Z

Janis Schmidt
418 Griffin St.
Warwick, ND 58381
701-294-2196

April 26, 2011

Tiffany Johnson
Gary Thune
Pearce & Durick
PO Box 400
Bismarck, ND

Re: Janis Lee Schmidt v. Warwick Public School District 29, et al., No 10-10070

Dear Ms. Johnson,

It gives me great pleasure to notify you that my Petition to the U.S. Supreme Court was filed on April 12, 2011, and placed on the docket April 21, 2011. It gives me even greater pleasure to inform you that your Brief in Opposition is due Monday, May 23, 2011, should you choose to write a brief.

It truly warms my heart at the thought of you arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court, explaining to the Justices just why it wasn’t necessary for Supt. Charles Guthrie, Principal Gene Riedinger, and counselor Shirley Tiokiason to report a rape that happened to one of their students, because the rape occurred on an Indian Reservation.

It makes me ecstatic at the thought of you explaining to the Justices how I needed to be immediately fired because I allegedly talked to Indian students about Leonard Peltier, which you like to call “administrative” leave. I would absolutely love to have you explain to the Justices exactly how administrative leave works, in lieu of a dismissal hearing.

I am so glad to give you this opportunity to appear before the U.S. Supreme Court so that you can dazzle them with your clever arguments as you did the North Dakota Supreme Court on October 6, 2010. I am sure they will be very impressed with you. Enclosed is the formal notification from the U.S. Supreme Court, which I was asked to serve on you as counsel for the Defendants in this case. And I remind you it is your duty to notify all of the Defendants named in this lawsuit.

This is an opportunity of a lifetime, to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court, and to think that you have me to thank for it. Have a very good day.

Most cordially yours,

Janis Schmidt.

American Dream--Something for Nothing

2011-05-20T19:54:14Z

No one dares take on the corporations who are largely responsible for the mess we are in today. America is going down. A lot of people are suffering because of it. Politicians are throwing out ridiculous self-serving solutions to a problem they haven’t even correctly addressed. The Hamiltonians have been working for 200 years to undo the Constitution, and have succeeded.

I hear moronic statements by incumbents and would-be candidates that budget cuts must come from cutting Medicare, while giving more tax breaks to the rich. Now, how stupid is that? People pay for their Medicare and Social Security. How about ending all these stupid, greed driven wars? Bring all our troops home, and put them to work in the National Guard, helping the flood, fire, tornado, hurricane, and earthquake victims. Then lets repeal the Patriot Acts and eliminate Homeland Security and the C.I.A.

Let us not forget how America want founded on a white male supremacy attitude, that America was a land up for grabs by white Europeans looking to make a fortune, to get something for nothing. A poster child example of that is John Jacob Astor, and American fur trader and land speculator. By the time of his death in 1842, he was the richest man in America. His total wealth was estimated at $20–30 million (the greatest source being his land holdings on Manhattan Island) at his death on March 29, 1848, at the age of 84, while Mr. Jefferson died in poverty, owing several thousands of dollars.

Europeans had the notion that land was free for the taking along with unlimited destruction of the birds, animal, foliage, and Indians. John Jacob Astor, a German, migrated to England where he learned the English language. Then in1783, after the Revolutionary War ended, Mr. Astor sailed for the United States where he worked for furriers. He soon understood that the way to riches was to buy furs directly from Indians, trading bobbles, beads, and whiskey. Soon Astor was trading throughout the world establishing a fur goods shop in New York. and founded the American Fur Company. His key to success is that he co-opted Indians to kill off the beavers, fox, ermine, and mink for bobbles and especially whiskey. Something for nothing. That’s America’s slogan, even today, the American dream, how to get something for nothing.

Between 1790 and 1808 his agents collected furs from as far west as Mackinaw, Michigan. The Jay Treaty of 1794, which led to the British leaving forts and trading posts in the Old Northwest, worked to Astor's advantage, and he expanded his operations in the Great Lakes region. Through an arrangement with the British Northwest Company, he purchased furs directly from Montreal, Canada. By about 1809 he was recognized as one of the leading fur traders in the United States.

Following the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, which added land that contained part or all of thirteen more states to the union, Astor turned his attention to the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest. He obtained a charter (a grant of rights or privileges from the ruler of a state or country) for the American Fur Company and planned to establish a main fort at the mouth of the Columbia River, with sub-forts in the interior. His fleet of ships would collect the furs and sell them in China, where goods would be purchased for sale in Europe; in Europe merchandise could be bought to sell in the United States when the ships returned. This is exactly what huge corporations are doing today, just like Astor, raking in millions off the poor and downtrodden in foreign countries, all tax free.

Between 1800 and 1812, however, his trade with China expanded and became a large part of his business dealings in Europe. The War of 1812 temporarily disrupted his plans, but it also gave him an opportunity to purchase ships at a bargain price, since declining trade had made other merchants anxious to dispose of their fleets. Note that Astor didn't fight in the war nor did he fight in the Revolutionary War. After the war Astor had a large fleet of sailing vessels and again became active in the China and Pacific trade. For a time he was involved in smuggling Turkish opium (an addictive drug) into China. Remember how Reagan was funding his wars in Central America when Congress cut off funding? He used the CIA to transport cocaine to American drug dealers in exchange for weapons and soldiers of fortune like Oliver North. Huge corporations profit from war and distroy any small American business.

After the War of 1812 Astor renewed his efforts to gain control of the fur trade in North America. Through influence in Congress he helped win passage of laws that banned foreigners from engaging in the trade (except as employees) and that eliminated the government's trading post serving independent traders. By the late 1820s he had sole control of the fur trade in the Great Lakes region and most of the Mississippi Valley. Astor avoid in serving in the military, which of course, would have been bad for business and trade.

One explanation for Astor's success as a merchant was that he had the money to buy quality merchandise at a low cost and a fleet of ships that could transport the goods to markets more quickly than his rivals. Think about all the billions of dollars that Congress is giving to oil corporations, and the $700 billion dollar bailout of Wall Street's gambling debt. At the same time, millions of homes are being foreclosed on and jobs are being shipped overseas.

Astor retired from the American Fur Company and withdrew from both domestic and foreign trade in 1834. He turned to other investments, including real estate, money-lending, insurance companies, banking, railroads and canals, public securities, and the hotel business. The most important was real estate. He had invested some capital in land early in his career. After 1800 he concentrated on real estate in New York City. He profited not only from the sale of lands and rents but from the increasing value of lands within the city. During the last decade of his life his income from rents alone exceeded $1,250,000. He died leaving over $250,000,000 to his children. Just like in 1848, Congress not only can't tax the rich, but has reduced or eliminated taxes for the rich, telling a confused and intellectually challenged public that cutting taxes for the rich will encourage job growth.

Astor succeeded in wiping out much of America’s wild animals in the eastern half of the country. He successfully decimated the beaver, all for the sake of the fashionable beaver hat. Then he moved on to more fertile territory-------land. He became a realtor, buying up Manhattan from the U.S. government who had stolen the land from Indian tribes through bogus treaties in which the tribe cedes their land to the U.S., and in return, the U.S. allows them to continue living, but they have to move. This is the way America financed the running of the government—through the sale of Indian land to land speculators who became land realtors. Something for nothing.

Corporations utilize Congress to regulate trade by having the poor fight America’s never ending wars so that the corporations can continue to get something for nothing, in this case oil, and we the people are told America is fighting these wars to protect OUR national interests. Oh yeah? Right! Astor stole the resources from the Indians just as corporations are stealing resources from the Middle East and making the American public pay for it. It's all the same thing.

More Survival in These Dark Times

2011-03-14T15:31:00Z

Dear gentle readers.

We are entering an economic meltdown in America; one of our own making. Our democracy has been totally destroyed by the market driven tycoons who also run the government.

Isn't it a kick in the head that the son of a slave was chosen to lead America down the road to total enslavement?

Americans have lost their voice, and are flailing about, madly and hopelessly looking for a job that doesn't exist, gone, caput. Those jobs are never coming back.

You might as well admit it--we are lost, and the government is not going to save us, is not capable of saving us, only the investment bankers can be saved.

Waiting for someone to come and fight the revolution that needs to be fought is not going to happen. We are caught in the jaws of this corportograpy which once was America. And we are lost, without a leader.

First thing--don't panic. When you have so lost your way, you cannot trust any political solutions, because there are none. The thing to do when you are lost is to observe closely what the birds and wild animals are doing, assuming there are any left to observe.

You have to throw out man-made laws and follow the laws of nature. You will notice that this is the season of renewal. Birds and animals are gathering in communities to build their homes, raise their young, and tend to food gathering. That is what you must do to survive these dark times.

Spring is here. Planting time is upon us. You must get up and get going. But not alone. No solitary bird ever migrated alone. Observe the birds and animals. Learn from them how to be human again. It is the only way to save yourself.

Stupid North Dakota Legislators

2011-03-07T13:53:00Z

North Dakota has this amazing billion dollar surplus in its state treasury because it is sitting on a sea of oil. The Republican legislators are working on a plan to solve that problem by giving the people's money back to the out-of-state oil corporations to the tune of $150 million dollars. A little tax break for the oil barons right at the time that gas prices are spiking to 4 dollars a gallon, which means that food prices are soaring.

At the same time, these Republican legislators have been gutting out the social programs by understaffing offices such as Job Service, Social Services, Workman's Comp, school programs, and so on. They allow only $200 dollars maximum in food stamps. However, in order to be eligible for the maximum amount, you must have no income. Most people, well below the poverty line, only get $60 or $80 worth of food stamps a month. The Republican legislators want to make sure that the tax dollars are not being spent on poor, lazy, shiftless welfare recipients. Much better to spend the tax dollar on rich, greed driven oil corporations--that's the thinking of our ND government.

Because I am disabled, I am on Medicaid. I needed some dental work and needed a crown, but my dentist told me that Medicare would not pay for a crown so I would have to do without. Crown costs $800. But our legislators feel it is more important to give a tax break to the rich rather than see that poor people's medical and dental needs are taken care of. I discovered from my dentist that North Dakota only pays half of the dental bill, which is why many dentists will not accept Medicaid patients. But we have to take care of the needs of the filthy rich taxpayer first.

North Dakota is so independantly rich, it is thinking of seceding from the Union and setting up immigration check points. We don't want any Wisconsin rabble mucking up our beautiful, clever state. And we don't encourage welfare. We are smarter than all the other 49 states put together. Who needs them? They just want our money, and we don't like sharing.

How to Survive in Tough Times

2011-03-03T08:39:00Z

    I was fired from Warwick Public School for teaching Indian kids how to survive using their Native ways by returning to their traditional virtues and values. One would think this would be welcomed at an all Native American student bodied school. And would have been if I had not discovered that Supt. Charles Guthrie and principal Gene Riedinger had not reported the rape of an Indian girl and I reported them to authorities.  They then schemed and plotted to get rid of me by saying that I wasn't teaching the curriculum, of which was nonexistant.

    What are schools curriculum? No child left behind, replaced by, Race to the top. What does that mean, exactly? It means that you sit in school and get brain drained by taking these standardized tests over and over until your brain atrophies. And if teachers don't do this, its grounds for them to be fired. Children are supposed to know how to do math. Why, for godsakes? Paulson and Geitner couldn't pass the test, and obviously the investment bankers failed at math. Part of the Bailout should have been 180 hours of standardiized testing. And if they didn't pass, out they go. Simple as that. Absurd you say? Isn't that the very same thing that Bush and Obama are demanding that the schools do? Keep testing until you become totally brain drained or, in other words, stupid.

    But Ms. Schmidt was teaching the kids something other than No Child Left Behind; she was teaching these Indian kids how to become critical thinkers and apply creative solutions to their lives. It went something like this:.

  Remember I asked you what you need to survive? How many of you came up with this list?'
        Food
        Clothing
        Shelter
        Water
        Air
        Ground or land

    How many of you had jobs and money on your list? The fact is, you don't need those things to survive. We are talking about basics. What do you really need to survive as a human being. You don't need any more than the 6 items I listed.

    So, okay, as humans, we were born very dependant, and we stay that way all our lives. I order to get the 6 basics needed for survival, we need each other. We as humans have totally lost our way. We think we can race to the top in some kind of insane competition. So what is there at the top? Insane.

    What we need is each other. For thousands of years, people have organized themselves into tribes, communities, tiospias if you will, for survival. And thus became civilizations. So what does a community or civilization need to survive? Consider that a community is made up of human beings, all needing the same things to survive. In other words, a community is a living, breathing thing that has 6 needs to survive? Do you know what those things are?

        Common language
        Common rules of government
        Common means of exchange
        Common set or morals
        Common religion
        Means of passing on the knowledge

        History has shown that if a civilization is deprived of even one of these necessities, that civilization will die within 2 generations, just like a human will die without air or water. So what does that tell you about America?

        We must go back to the basics to survive this. When you are totally lost, as most Americans are, you need to look to the birds and animas to find out what you should do. I am talking about the wild ones; not your dog or cat. or our poor, tortured domesticated animals because they are just as lost as you are.

        In North Dakota, our legislators are trying to pass a law to give a $100 bounty on a coyote. The particular legislator who came up with this achieved high scores on all his standardized tests and rose to the top to proclaim that coyotes should be killed off. (Just as Indians have been killed off) Did you know that at one time, America put a bounty on Indian scalps? (Check your history) And here America went half way round the world to give lessons in humanity to the Arab world. Insane.

        First thing you must do, is understand what you need. Notice I did not say, want, but need. Then you must observe wild birds and animals to understand how to get what you need. I will go into this further later and discuss each of the 6 civilization needs. In the meantime, I look forward to your comments.

Have Been Litigating

2011-03-01T20:34:00Z

unsuccessfully, I might add. I just figured out how to answer email, and I'm sorry for not having responded to you. I have been wrapped up in a very crooked court system in the Dakotas. In my case, Janis Schmidt v. Warwick Public School District #29, I just lost the appeal to the ND Supreme Court, who summarized the defendant's facts and dismissed my appeal as frivilous and without merrit. I was in shock for about 3 days.

You can read through my Complaint on my website, Lakota Perspectives. To thumbnail my Complaint. I was fired from my job as art teacher after I discovered that the administration had not reported a rape of a student. Why? Because the school is located on an Indian reservation, and no authority would investigate, stating it wasn't their jurisdiction. Instead, the superintendent expelled the rape victim, and set up newly enrolled girl to replace the real rape victim, by questioning the girl about a rape, then telling her that I told them she had been raped. When I reported the supt. and principal to the school board, the supt. fired me on the spot. Then he called his famous lawyer, who advised him that he better get my ass back in the classroom, pronto, because he had just illegally fired me. In the meantime, I called every authority I could think of to report a real rape as told to me by the expelled student. But no one would investigate, saying they didn't investigate crimes on the reservation. By that time, it was too late; the supt. had already covered his tracks by expelling the girl.

So, the clever attorney advised the supt. on how to circumvent child abuse laws and teacher dismissal laws. Sadly enough, the girl who was set up was now taunted and teased about being raped in school, as the principal kept fueling that fire. She changed school twice, but like a pack of dogs, certain girls kept hounding poor J J, until she finally hung herself at 14 years old. The real rape victim never finished school, and is in and out of jail with lots of boyfriend problems. And I filed for unemployment, but was denied and charged with misconduct instead--for having falsely reported rapes and for teaching Indian students about their history and culture! Slap your forehead! I kid you not.

Much, much more to the story, which I will have to write a book on.

In the meantime, the legal battle was lost so as to spare the administration and their attorneys lose of license to practice and charged with causing the death of a minor which is a double AA felony in North Dakota. Just like the Investment bankers who had to be spared so they can go gamble some more, while I, who reported a crime, gets charged with misconduct which the courts have now justified--meaning, I never lost my license, but I'll never teach again, and I live in abject poverty.

It gets better--having won the case, the school board decided to give the supt. a $20,000 increase in salary. And the crooked lawyers were paid almost $70,000 for their services.

Once again, I hope to keep in touch, and send me your tales of injustice. Hope to get it figured out how to get your comments posted. So, you keep in touch. These are very dangerous and treacherous times we live in, and we owe it to the innocent dead to expose what is false, reveal what is true, and find a way to survive these very troubled times.

Failed Health Care Plan

2010-03-11T02:15:00Z

Health care is such a hypocrital can of worms! Lets give coverage to all by reducing seniors' medicare coverage. Then you wonder, Mr. Obama, why the people are not lined up behind you? Why don't you stop funding these unnecessary wars all around the world with Social Security dollars? Why don't you stop the wars alltogether? Why not put the military to work, helping out with natuaral disasters around the world, such as earthquakes, floods, and fires?

Market Ecomony Is Dead

2010-03-04T01:10:00Z

Capitalism has failed; the market has failed. Definition: An economy in which goods and services are exchanged in a free market, as opposed to a state-controlled or socialist economy; a capitalistic economy. The national economy of a country that relies on market forces to determine levels of production, consumption, investment, and savings without government intervention. No matter how much Democrats or Republicans try to prop up the bloated corpse, the market is dead, and cannot be revived.