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North Americans also arbitrarily profess rage, spend billions, and exercise military might declaring war to change "inappropriate" regimes and "free" the "downtrodden", - yet freely allow our multinationals to walk upon the faces, dignity and lives of indigenous peoples in third world countries, and for the worst possible reason-to profit from the insatiable demand for gas and oil. Hypocrisy abounds.

Do not offer "justification" for environmentally-destructive, inexcusable corporate behaviour . There is simply NO acceptable, believable excuse that can be fabricated .

There can be no ethical justification for activities that are environmental catastrophes in the making whether by reason of aggression or "licensing" by corrupt, approving dictators.

Innocent indigenous people, because of their non-political, non-technological and organic "living on the land" in simple, traditional cultures, are clearly unable to resist the affront to their lifestyle, and worse, in some cases, may not even recognize the extent of the negative change, destruction and future problems that are being forced upon them -until it is too late and their food supplies and traditional lives are completely destroyed.

Unacceptable, downloaded social ugliness, and foreign, questionable changes of values including dependency upon "modern" life- are imprinted upon their culture and very existence forever. No choice will remain to them.
Given the inevitability of that outcome, insatiable economic madness to turn profit and seize resources from "lesser" societies at indescribable human cost is morally distasteful and outrageous.
The very concept of technically advanced countries allowing their multinational corporations to take advantage of indigenous people is incomprehensible and morally bankrupt.
Lessons of the past have clearly not been learned .

North American First Nations peoples were far too aware of alcohol, trinkets, beads and the unnecessary butchery of literally millions of buffalo in the exploitation of the Americas.
In other times, theft of golden treasures and hollow words, promises, exploitation, wholesale slaughter and disease caused civilizations of Incas and Aztecs to virtually disappear into time.
Healthy nations of native Indian bands reduced by warfare were forced to live in reservations to exist as skeletons of their culture and wards of the state.
The past exploitation of the Americas is not a digression . It is not something to be proud of.
The pattern develops.

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