Atomic Nerds

Lakotas withdraw from treaties, declare independence

At first I thought the article/site itself was a hoax, but Fox got it from news.com.au, who apparently got it from Agence-France-Press, plus I can find it from the main Fox News regular site’s front page, so… this isn’t another hoax site.

Whether it’s a hoax is another story, of course. Russel Means doesn’t have any official position within the Sioux Nation other than “well-known loudmouth”, and there’s absolutely zip about this on any tribal site, including Means’s own. (Which, I’ll grant you, hasn’t been updated since 2006 anyway.) I’d bet this is just a publicity stunt by Means and the “Lakota leaders” are just more activists.

But wouldn’t it be interesting if it wasn’t? This could be the most entertaining national kerfuffle since Jimmy Carter got assaulted by a swimming rabbit.

ETA: Yuuuuup. Agence France-Press swallowed a publicity stunt whole. The “Lakota leaders” were actually AIM leaders denouncing the actual government of the Sioux nation as “Vichy Indians”. But hey- they might have the Bolivians on their side!

Diagnosis: hilarious!

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