Posted on 02/04/2019 6:35:39 AM PST by madprof98
Sandmann’s family soon hired RunSwitch, a media relations firm with strong ties to the Republican party, to handle the crisis, and L Lin Wood, a high-profile libel attorney known for aggressively pursuing lawsuits against the media. Sandmann has complained that the video was spreading “misinformation” about the incident.
Unlike Sandmann, Phillips does not have a PR firm to represent him and his side of the story, or an attorney to challenge critical journalists. His support team consists of two people: Ray Kingfisher, a northern Cheyenne who has known him for decades, and Daniel Nelson, a non-Native “ally” and program director of the Lakota Peoples Project. Phillips had been couch-surfing with them since he came to DC for the Indigenous Peoples March last week.
Part of him, understandably, wanted out of the situation. “Maybe after this happened, I should have just hopped in my car, went back to Michigan,” he thought aloud. “I’m becoming this rightwing media thing, you know?”
He plans to return to Standing Rock. And in the Spring, he hopes to trace the Missouri river on foot and pray for the water where the Keystone XL pipeline is scheduled to cross. “This is happening all across the country: hate and division, economic struggle, environment catastrophes, the oil, the water – they don’t mix.”
Phillips still carries anger, trauma and pain, but he says he’s ready to forgive Sandmann and those who he feels have done him wrong.
“Our lot as Indigenous people, which we’re trying to get back to with instructions, is not to return hate with hate but return hate with love.” He told me. “And so that’s what we’ve practiced.”
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“Phillips does not have a PR firm to represent him and his side of the story, or an attorney to challenge critical journalists.“
Stop it. Yer killing me.
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Chief Fulloshit is the one needing to apologize.
“Our lot as Indigenous people, which we’re trying to get back to with instructions, is not to return hate with hate but return hate with love.” He told me. “And so that’s what we’ve practiced.”
He’s a liar.
A man who practices the kind of intimidation of a youth, as he did in Washington D.C., has not dispensed with hate and is not trying to return love.
I think he is “two faced”. One face, his real face, he shows in his activist role, and another face - his “I’m a nice guy” face, when he is promoting himself and his activism with journalists.
He is so much an activist that he choses ignorance over knowing many things he “protests” are false causes.
One example is the Key Stone pipeline. There is no true natural catastrophe about it. Do oil pipeline have occasional leaks? Yes. Are they rapidly taken care of? Yes. So the long term natural catastophe they represent is? Nil.
And you can be totally sure that if the U.S. was a socialist state and had one single state oil company, the left would not be alligned with Phillips protesting the keystone pipeline and many pipelines like it would have been built by that state oil company, without delays.
The Left’s attack on the pipeline, and their use of folks like Phillips, is not truly about oil or the pipeline; it’s just another attack on “capitalists” and “big oil” is among the largest of the capitalists.
The drum dude has told so many lies he can not keep them straight.
MSM does not bother to check.
He is on camera saying he served IN Nam,
He has said he went to Catholic boarding school.
What a vile pos
All you have to do is watch the videos of the encounter and you can see that he was the aggressor.
No he just has the entire MSM shilling for him. The gave him tons of airtime and unquestioning, uncritical airtime in the immediate aftermath.
Yeah, his “PR firm” is the entirety of the MSM.
This guy is a loser and a liar. His life can best be demonstrated by sticking one’s finger into a bucket of water and removing it. After the ripples subside there is no evidence it was ever there.
Nathan Phillips needs to shut up and go away.
Then he should not have done what he did!
Chief Lying Sack-O-Shit
The Gaurdian doesn’t allow comments - otherwise this BS article would have been flooded with posts calling out the Paid Con artist Indian who lied about his service in the USMC.
I wonder how Phillips gets his living. Is he an SSDI welfare drone? Or(/and?) does he have a permanent part-time side job as an agitator, with bonus payments for high publicity events?
“... not to return hate with hate but return hate with love.” He told me. “And so that’s what we’ve practiced.”
Methinks he may be a half-breed or less.
Give him a bottle of Thunderbird. He’ll go away.
He can testify in the trials as part of the discovery phase.
I think he will get his chance in court.
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