स्किदेगते पोत्लात्च- Skidegate's Potlatch Ken's low

Political Ethics Lesson:


POTLATCH of kenlow the lion[?]:

Thank you Mr low for writing the email copied back to Skidegate's Potlatch:

thx for recognizing and affirming our Haida, Kitksan, Kwakwa'lth, Salish, Dene, Apache, Indian, and other Royal Titles, and for taking notice of our Imperial claims while we shared our food with you and you walked and worked on our lands; when all the people ate together we both saw them with the same eyes but with different 'Gawds' or hearts. We saw no evidence of truth and your own words are lies already, so you will be interested in the Title we have bestowed upon you as you asked Skidegate to do: your title is 'lying,' or Yel'tl, based on identification you provided to us in the kgelatl, the three times that our eyes observed what you are.

This is memorial of your Potlatch:

ethics: science of the ideal human character; moral principles, quality or practice.

ethical: the treating of moral feelings, or choice of a course of conduct, by a person who can benefit from the support of others, or by respecting another's right, particularly when the right is enshrined in the Constitution which the offending person aspires to serve. It is unethical to do otherwise.

An ethic is a perfection of interpersonal behaviour based on duty or rules which each party in a relationship imposes on themself, such as to 'recognize and affirm' our Titles and claims, so when one in your position claims, or aspires, to represent others, as would their elected candidate for office, or any candidate in an election for office, when the office sought would be bound by a Consititution requiring the said duty to 'recognize and affirm the Titles and the rights of those represented. We asked you to obey the law, which any honest and respectful person is expected to do, which you are obligated to do whether you are elected or not; but you just want to get elected and go elsewhere to send this kind of an email to those who support you and to those who vote for you, and to those who don't vote for you. If you don't respect us now or believe us, or if you want to replace our Constitution with one of your own, then your ethical duty is to say so, and not just say what pleases you and protects you from taking responsibility for your words. The Ovoid of our culture has power to expose you for what you fail to say, and you failed to say how much you like our food and how much you like walking on our land and how much you like working for the city on our land. What do you thank us for in your email when we gave all we could?

In our case kenlow, our duty is to Potlatch, and if you do not understand what that means, or might pretend that you did not hear us raise the matters of our Titles and claims, then it is our ethical duty to clarify the record and spell out the consequences of unethical conduct on your part. You are just one man in the crowd of souls we represent and serve.

Politicians being notorious liars and frauds, which you said yourself, we made it clear to you that we would not accept such conduct from you since one of your fellow liberals. the Lieutenant Governor, Iona Campagnolo, lied to us and is still defrauding us all the way back to 1974, and since you yourself announced that you intend to run an ethical campaign; we can only run an ethical Potlatch.

When we offered to share our 'Fish' with you and you failed to respond in an executive manner, we decided it would be a waste of a good fish. We still accepted your invitation to a BBQ where many weaknesses were apparent in your team and your presentation. We presented you with a valuable piece of art to establish our Title and to advance our claims against you. When you requested further involvement, we took the time to explain in emails what our terms are, providing you with our claim in writing, and then we attended the meeting you requested along with your Campaign Manager Herman Yan, Riding Chaiman William Chu, Supporter Terry Wong, [who we didn't meet at your hotdog meal] and yourself the Candidate [who nobody really met at your bbq], in which meeting we explained our position again and listened to your executives.

Herman's strategy for success is let people see you and read your information, and he requested our assistance in that and we agreed to provide it, but since you ignore our terms, and make no mention of our advice concerning your campaign, and you clearly have no idea yet of your identity, we doubt you and do not believe your words.

Obviously we would have helped in all the regular ways but we have no confidence that anyone will win this riding without a new message and a plan to settle our claims, which settlement will address the terrible problems in this riding, and we made that clear from the beginning. The probable result is that Libby will win again by default.

So kenlow, it is unethical conduct on your part to send the email copied below without any 'recognition or affirmation of our Titles and without agreeing to settle our claims'. Don't you agree that your email constitutes unethical conduct, since you know perfectly well what our terms are? Do you think not mentioning our position means we don't exist? Who would you have to be if you could demote us to mere supporters of a loser? Do you not recognize that is exactly the conduct we complained to you about? Do you expect to run your campaign that way and succeed? Your supporters should be embarrassed after you said right away in your speech at your BBQ that you wanted to hear from the voters and wouldn't be saying too much, but everyone could rely on your ethics! Liar.

kenlow, when the PA system didn't function for you at the BBQ, it signalled two problems in you and in your team so far: first, you all just tried to act as if it wasn't happening and tried to carry on; second, no one took charge of the malfunction. You embarrassed everybody. Your whole campaign so far, is compressed in that fuckup and you will be remembered for it unless you win: the day they count the votes and you lose, everyone will recall that clumsiness and say to their friends that they saw right away that you would lose. If you continue unprepared, if you cannot listen and hear and let people know that you listened to them and heard them, if you think you can suck voters in with such gross incompetence, if you think your record will elect you, then you are just arrogant for nothing and our first ethical obligation, not to you, but to ourselves and to the Indians and the poor and the sick, and to your beloved yuppy crowd as well, is to campaign against you.

Yes, we still Potlatch those who know what it means to be a Person. You like to think that what you have acheived so far in your career gives you your identity but you are about to find out that you have placed yourself in a trap. The trap is your own ego and when it snaps shut you will say, "who do I think I am?'

You are welcome for the gifts we gave you. We are even now, and there is no debt on either side. If luck would improve your ethics we would wish it on you however ethics are not improved by luck but by character. Think about your character and place yourself in our position: would you support yourself if you were us? We sense that you don't know who we are. That is because, as we pointed out to you at STARBUCKS, we don't believe you have your identity yet. Recall that we suggested meeting at OVALTINE, and you declined and we came to yuppy-territory. How will you represent the poor and diseased and the lost at a $5.00 coffee shop? How many Indians did you see there?

Why didn't you refer to our interests and to the concept of Potlatch? When you campaign do you relate to the voting public as fools?

copy of kenlow email:

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"Hi Jamie,

It was really nice chatting with you on Friday. And many thanks for your help in my campaign. Please keep in touch.

Regards,
Ken"
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No respect to you from Skidegate's Potlatch or Village.