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[Make sure to read Daniel Greenfield’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
Buu Nygren, whose father came here as a Vietnamese refugee, has warned NASA not to trifle with the moon.
According to the Vietnamese president of an Indian tribe, Biden had signed a memorandum protecting “Indigenous Sacred Sites” which can consist of “places that afford views of important areas of land, water, or of the sky and celestial bodies.”
That would cover most of the planet and worlds beyond. Including the moon.
NASA’s Peregrine Mission One, which has been delayed multiple times, is carrying a lunar lander to the moon and is partly financed by also carrying private science and technology payloads including the ‘ashes’ of deceased Science Fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke. The company involved, Celestis, had previously tried to bury the ashes of Star Trek actor James Doohan, who portrayed Scotty, in space. While media stories inaccurately described these as ashes, they’re accurately a small fragment of DNA from Clarke’s hair taken when he was alive.
Also along for the ride is the DNA of a 16-year-old boy who died in a motorcycle accident. “For now, Liam is going to the moon. Wherever we will be in this world, his siblings, his family, his friends, will only need to look up at the moon and smile!”
The Vietnamese president of the Navajo Nation is not smiling at the thought of Liam’s DNA ending up on the moon. He is very angry at the idea of anyone’s DNA going to the moon.
According to Nygren, the moon is sacred to the Navajo and putting Liam and Arthur’s DNA on it is “tantamount to desecration.”
He’s demanding that NASA scrap the lunar launch and get Liam and Arthur off it.
“The Moon holds a sacred position in many Indigenous cultures, including ours,” Nygren warned. “We view it as a part of our spiritual heritage, an object of reverence and respect. The act of depositing human remains and other materials, which could be perceived as discards in any other location, on the Moon is tantamount to desecration of this sacred space.”
Wait until Nygren finds out that there are 96 bags of human waste on the moon left over from the Apollo missions.
The murder rate in the Navajo nation is four times the national average, 40% of adults don’t even have a high school diploma, and a quarter of Navajo households are headed by single mothers (like the one who raised Nygren after his Vietnamese dad absconded) and 8.4% are being raised by grandparents. So you would think that Nygren would have more important priorities in public safety, education and family integrity than laying claim to the moon.
This isn’t a problem that began with Nygren.
In ’97, Eugene M. Shoemaker, who witnessed the first planetary collision and had been scheduled to be the first geologist on the Apollo mission before being disqualified for health issues, was killed in a car accident while investigating impact craters on a research expedition. His ashes were carried to the moon along with a plaque from Romeo and Juliet reading, “And, when he shall die/Take him and cut him out in little stars/And he will make the face of heaven so fine/That all the world will be in love with night/And pay no worship to the garish sun.”
Shoemaker became the only man to have an ounce of his ashes ‘buried’ on the moon.
The Navajo Nation’s president at the time had condemned the move, claiming that, “the moon is a sacred place in the religious beliefs of many Native Americans” and “it is sacrilegious, a gross insensitivity to the beliefs of many Native Americans to place human remains on the moon.”
Since the president of the Navajo Nation, Albert Hale, was also a Democrat state legislator in Arizona (as is Jasmine Blackwater-Nygren, Nygren’s wife) NASA apologized and promised to consult next time. According to Shoemaker’s widow, Carolyn, who observed the sky with him, his feelings about the moon were also religious. “He always said that every crater was a sacred site to him. I don’t think Gene ever dreamed his ashes would go to the moon.”
So whose feelings of “sacredness” about the moon should take precedence? Shoemaker and Arthur C. Clarke or the Navajo Nation? Any number of cultures have a notion that the moon is a special place. If every culture that looked up at the moon and associated it with a goddess or deity gets to lay claim to it or exercise veto power over it, we’ll have our first lunar holy war.
This lunacy is what happens when the identity politics concept of ‘indigeneity’ takes precedence over national rights and the right of exploration. If peoples can claim territories that they have never lived on or set foot on based on their feelings about them, the sky isn’t even the limit.
After all the stars are also sacred to many American Indian cultures. So that’s the universe. If mankind goes to other stars, will we be able to bury our dead anywhere else in the galaxy?
The moon doesn’t belong to anyone. No one has ever lived on it except the few brave men who walked on its surface. The Outer Space Treaty, one of the more absurd treaties we ever signed (and there is a lot of competition on that front except under LBJ) rejects “sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means” beyond the earth’s atmosphere.
LBJ claimed that the treaty “means that astronaut and cosmonaut will meet someday on the surface of the moon as brothers and not as warriors for competing nationalities or ideologies.” In reality it took the wind out of the sails of private space exploration and its ban on satellite weapons has allowed China to covertly begin militarizing them while we do nothing.
The moon, like the rest of the universe crudely referred to as all of “outer space” is not the common heritage of mankind: it belongs to those who work to lay claim to it.
Indigenous identity politics is a loser ideology which rewards failure and punishes success.
That doesn’t mean that war, cruelty and conquest are justified, but indigenous identity politics has become a professional victimhood that is a drain on society and cripples the initiative and progress of those who practice it. All too often victimhood ideologies provide excuses to victims for doing nothing and hold back those on both sides from striving to change their situation.
If the moon will one day belong to anyone, it will be to those who dream of it and one day occupy it, not to those who declare the entire universe to be theirs while they live in misery.
Down here on earth, the declaration that everything is a sacred site has crippled mining and strategic initiatives that could make America independent of Chinese rare earth minerals and Russian uranium, and provide jobs to members of Indian tribes. Insisting that the moon is a sacred site that can’t be sullied by NASA should be a wake-up call to dismantle the entire infrastructure of sacred sites which have proliferated more than they have in Stephen King novels. But that’s what happens when everything is a sacred space and everyone is an Indian
There are legitimate sacred sites that are practiced and utilized, but endless miles of territory can’t all be sacred sites. Neither can mountains, the Grand Canyon or the Moon.
When the Vietnamese president of an Indian tribe where membership requires only one Navajo grandparent can try to order NASA off the moon, indigeneity has become lunacy.
Oppressed groups can have sacred things but not white Christians or Jews. That’s colonialism according to the leftist elites.
Good points Daniel, thanks! Abuse of the idea of sacred places for political ends.
First off, why is there a Vietnamese person pretending to be a native American and president of a Navajo tribe. Secondly how can this doofus lay claim to anything not on the earth.
We are truly reaching peak stupidity by taking this remotely seriously. But why not. Nygren is obviously very oppressed by the man, or he is a member the Muslim moon cult.
Or, he’s just a grifter and a charlatan. There’s always enough suckers around for these clowns to exploit.
Mr. Greenfield should NOT have referred to Mr. Nygren as “the Vietnamese leader of the Navajo Nation”. The article itself indicates that his mother is Navajo and his father Vietnamese. He’s half Navajo and half Vietnamese. Thus, you’ve shown that you did NOT read the article well enough to grasp that, OR, you didn’t read it at all.
In addition… Traditionally, the Navajo are a matriarchal society, with descent and inheritance determined through one’s mother (https://www.ihs.gov/navajo/navajonation/). But, just as importantly, he’s half Navajo, which puts him squarely in the Tribe’s blood quantum requirement. Therefore, Mr. Nygren’s a Navajo according to all Navajo customs/requirements.
Love how they put CASINOS on their Sacred Land that prey on false dreams, false hopes, luring people with quick riches, and then making them poor trying to win at a rigged system. With all their ill-gotten riches, their people still live in shacks, many lack electricity, running water, flat roofs made with dirt with weeds growing, and even dirt floors. (I know this, here in NM, 19 pueblos, Navajos, Zunis, Apaches. Ten fancy casinos.)
ARTICLE FROM THEREDNATION.ORG ON PRESIDENTNYGREN ON PALESTINE PROCLAMATION: https://therednation.org/ke-infoshop-navajo-nation-president-buu-nygren-agrees-to-release-proclamation-in-the-coming-weeks-calling-for-a-ceasefire-in-palestine/
This Native American Movement must be exposed since they are getting power and national attention and yet, little is known about them. THEREDNATION.ORG mission statement: “THE RED NATION STANDS WITH PALESTINE IN THEIR STUGGLE FOR DECOLONIZATION AND LAND BACK.”
Based here in Albuquerque, they successfully changed Columbus Day and now starting a movement to change Thanksgiving Day, “The White invaders,” to “A Day of Mourning.” In a few years, we’ll be made to feel guilty for family gatherings. They’ve taken down statues, some violently, three arrested in an incident in the Santa Fe Plaza, watched by hundreds, including police who watched, then arrests but the Far-Left Mayor lets them off with “We need to learn of their struggles.” Then more statues, no problem.
THEY’RE COMMUNISTS IN THEIR OWN WORDS! EXPOSE THEM. “INDIGENIOUS LIVES MATTER.”
“This position paper of the Third General Assembly formally adopts revolutionary socialism and liberation as the primary political ideology of The Red Nation. While incomplete, the purpose of this proposal is to articulate the basic principles of revolutionary socialism and Marxism and its connection to Indigenous socialism and communism. By adopting this proposal, we commit ourselves to the study and practice of revolutionary socialism (also known as scientific socialism) by aligning ourselves with the long traditions of resistance that predate Marxism itself.”
They don’t protest those evil Capitalist Indian Casinos? Why not?
This is absurd. Wait until someone tells this Buu Nygren creature he can’t use sunlight for anything because the Egyptians worshiped the sun as their God, Aton. Being tolerant of craziness is, itself, crazy. Anyone he complains to should tell him to go pound moondust.
The moons been up there for Eons but its only now its Sacred Land what’s going on? is this just another excuse for Land Grab?
The Navajos have a stronger claim on the moon than the “Palestinians” do on Palestine. Look for the Navajos to call themselves Moonians in the future.
As soon as I saw the title ‘Vietnamese/Navajo complains about silly stuff’ I popped some corn, because I expected to be entertained. I wasn’t disappointed. I hope no Indian tribe worships corn?
The Korean cult “Moonies” run by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, who was a Korean religious leader, already did that.
How ignoble for Nasa to apologize to the Navaho. I don’t think I’ve worn my nasa shirt in decades, they’ve become so pathetic. The navaho are laughing their asses off at the stupid Americans.
They need to get in line. At the present time, most of the world is laughing their asses off at us.
Democrats need to admit their wrecking America with their Policies
The democrats have destroyed the only good paying jobs on the Navajo Nation, by closing down the coal fired power plants in Page, Arizona and Farmington, New Mexico. Now they are even more dependent on the federal government. Reservations are government enforced racial segregation. Like the arabs of gaza that they support, they teach their children to hate white people.
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Mr. Greenfield –
Congratulations! You have now justified imperialism in your attempt to denigrate the “Vietnamese” leader of the Navajo tribe in his claims that the Moon is sacred, and should not be the intended repository of human remains or waste/trash of any kind.
I’m going to play “Devil’s Advocate”…
But, first, by every measure of the Navajo Tribe and Nation, Mr. Nygren IS Navajo. You even pointed out in your article that his mother is Navajo and his father Vietnamese – thus, you yourself ensured we understood that he’s half Navajo and half Vietnamese, NOT “Vietnamese”. Traditionally, the Navajo are a matriarchal society, with descent and inheritance determined through one’s mother (https://www.ihs.gov/navajo/navajonation/). But, just as importantly, he’s half Navajo, which puts him squarely in the Tribe’s blood quantum requirement. Therefore, Mr. Nygren IS Navajo according to all Navajo customs and requirements.
What exactly is the “right of exploration”??? How does that work? WHO has this “right”? Is it just for individuals, or can corporations and nations claim and use this “right”? How can they “express” this “right”? And, how are competing claims sorted out?
You asked, “If peoples can claim territories that they have never lived on or set foot on based on their feelings about them, the sky isn’t even the limit.” True. But, this is exactly how lands and peoples have been laid claim to and “conquered” by explorers, monarchs, and many others, for centuries, millennia… This is how nations and national borders have been formed, for centuries, millennia… So, is it illegal or immoral to do so now? And, if so, under what laws, protocols, etc.?
You stated, “The moon doesn’t belong to anyone.” Actually, it belongs to EVERYONE, ALL of mankind. And, so does the Earth. God created them and gave us “dominion…over all the earth” (Genesis 1:26), and told us to “replenish the earth, and subdue it” (Genesis 1:28). He also said that He “made heaven and earth”, and although the heavens are His, “the earth hath he given to the children of men” (Psalm 115:15-16). Therefore, NO MAN can claim the Moon as his.
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You mentioned The Outer Space Treaty, which “rejects ‘sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means’ beyond the earth’s atmosphere.” Rightly so.
You stated that this treaty in essence “took the wind out of the sails of private space exploration.” Did it, really? And, is that really a bad thing? Look at how private corporations have taken over entire industries, and even entire nations. What wouldn’t they do to take over the entire solar system and the untold mineral riches it holds?
You further stated this treaty’s “ban on satellite weapons has allowed China to covertly begin militarizing them while we do nothing.” Is that really true? How do you know this? Are you CERTAIN there are NO satellite weapons, when the US government has come out recently and confessed that they’ve had and been using space lasers for YEARS… And, are you certain it’s REALLY China, and not a consortium or cabal of private corporations using China (and many other nations) as a front?
As pointed out above, the heavens are the Lords’ (Psalm 115:15-16). Therefore, NOTHING outside the Earth’s influence is ours. Yet, you stated that “The moon, like the rest of the universe crudely referred to as all of ‘outer space’ is not the common heritage of mankind: it belongs to those who work to lay claim to it.” Which is yet another push for imperialism, and that those who reach it first should have first dibs.
You bolstered this argument with, “If the moon will one day belong to anyone, it will be to those who dream of it and one day occupy it, not to those who declare the entire universe to be theirs while they live in misery.”
Define “misery.” And, please explain how someone living in “misery” is not affected by knowing the Moon, which belongs to no man (or corporation, or country), is intended to become a waste dump, a weigh station to exploit the rest of the solar system, etc.
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You continued with, “Down here on earth, the declaration that everything is a sacred site has crippled mining and strategic initiatives that could make America independent of Chinese rare earth minerals and Russian uranium, and provide jobs to members of Indian tribes.” NO. What has “crippled mining… mak[ing] America independent… and provid[ing] jobs to members of Indian tribes [and all other Americans]” are ONEROUS ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS AND GOVERNMENT DECISIONS. Yes, regulations, laws, policies, etc., requiring Tribal consultations and agreements with site boundaries and activities do limit some areas from mining. But, the bulk of limitations/exclusions are SET UP BY LOBBYISTS VIA ONEROUS ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS AND GOVERNMENT DECISIONS. Lobbyists for MANY causes, but especially the Big Banks and Asset Managers, who, by the way, want to own and control every single natural resource that exists. Could that include the Moon? They’ve now been so bold as to come out and say it in no uncertain terms.
“Insisting that the moon is a sacred site that can’t be sullied” should indeed “be a wake-up call”… Not “to dismantle the entire infrastructure of sacred sites”, but to preserve the Moon from becoming the next bit of land colonized by Big Corporations and fought over.
And, yes, “endless miles of territory” CAN and SHOULD be “sacred sites.” BEFORE it’s all commercial real estate. And trash heaps. And killing fields.