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“These are the ten percenters also known as “shitbirds.””

Right now, as I type this, sitting in my shop in southern New Mexico, I can hear the damn drumming starting up at my neighbor’s place across the street. He’s a “shitbird” Nam vet marine who voted for Clinton this past election. He’s a Caucasian guy with absolutely ZERO Native American blood, but has somehow managed to get quite a following of ignorant fools who think he’s some kind of Lakota indian chief or medicine man. EVERY single Saturday, and very frequently on Wednesday’s and Sunday’s, a crowd of hippie type wanna-be indians, almost all of which are white as rice, get together to bang on their tom-toms, call in the “spirits of the elders”, and sit in a sweat lodge to hear the latest ‘pearls of wisdom’ from Mr Shitbird.

For the past few months, much of their activities have been centered around the ‘controversy’ of the evil “black snake” up there near next to the Standing Rock reservation. About a dozen or so of his disciples have taken it upon themselves to stand across from the Wells Fargo bank in town, banging on their tom-toms and holding protest signs against the pipeline, most of which say something about how the pipeline is going to kill everybody by poisoning the water and Mama Erf.

Since Mr Shitbird moved here a number of years ago (his home and land financed through the VA with a down payment from his brainwashed followers) I’ve had to put up with all the additional traffic, barking dogs, the banging on drums well into the night, and stinky cottonwood smoke from their bonfires, as well as wondering when they’ll set the whole area on fire during times of drought here, when the southwest is a tinderbox. I just can’t understand how people can be sooooo very stupid to get into following complete white guy pretending to be an indian! They want to be indians so bad, that they’re willing to go along with his encouragement telling them that they can play indian too! So of course since they hear all the propaganda about the evil “black snake”, they want to take that up as their cause too. And yes, they all arrive in vehicles that run on petroleum.

Though the drumming, barking dogs, added traffic, and smoky air that Mr Shitbird has created as a great con job for himself won’t go away once the pipeline is completed, I’ll be very thankful for the reduction in numbers that attend his ‘ceremonies’ once the pipeline has crude flowing through it! Oh, in case there’s any doubt, he’s one Marine vet that I have NO respect for.