(This is
an exact copy of what I gave to the court)I would like it to be known that the
reasoning in my violations is a deliberate act of civil disobedience. This was
to bring to light that I have been violating U.S. Government treaties of war by
engaging in that indigenous life way that was disallowed to force the native
onto reservations and to complete the genocide of that life way.
I find life in this civilized way
unconscionable and immoral! I find myself without freedom of conscience in it.
For twenty-five years I have been planting back the native food flowers of
lomatium, cymopterus, bitterroot, yampa, lilies, and berries without permit on
public lands. I have done so to complete my cycles and to give life to that
which fed me. If I am always planting these flowers there is constantly more of
these plants rather than less. This is my duty to God and to Earth. I have been
doing this secretly, knowing that I am a violator of statute, code and treaty. I
have come out of the closet, so to speak, in order to bring to the attention of
all, the injustice of these laws that continue to enforce the genocide on this
way of life. I do this only to follow my spiritual convictions, and to have any
sense of conscience.
I further am of the opinion that there is
criminality in civilization that is not unlawful. It is criminal what is done to
the
Big Lost River system
in favor of farming industries, as is the damning of
rivers and the results of salmon depletion, and destroying ozone in nuclear
test. I've tried many times to assimilate into society but it would require a
psychosis of denial to all of these realities. I find I would forfeit my soul
and live a fabric of lies in order to enjoy myself in the destruction and
extinctions and genocides required by civilization.
I would hope that the destructive results
of the civilized world would result in some relinquishment of dominion and that
those who destroy this way of life and continue to forbid it could find reason
to begin to allow those of us who can to engage in a socio-environmental
experiment to show once again how I and others can be effective in enlivening
the natural world.
I have many friends who would like to
participate in supporting this or being this thing I call human being. I believe
all those who will not complete their circle and give life back to mother earth
for all that she gives us, are not standing up to their obligation to creator,
creation or even their own children. I am asking for your help to establish this
way again. I am doing this as a way to blaze a trail to liberty in this way and
to open the door to it so that those who would choose this can, without threats
of incarceration that I now face for doing such things.
There is now only 2% of God's aboriginal
planting left on earth. I reject that I should be criminal to live a migratory,
planting back, walks in beauty way. This hoop in the west is the last place on
earth where it is even possible to live in that symbiotic way. All over the
earth this aboriginal planting has been done away with. The earth has been made
to be like a girdled tree and here in my home in the west is the last small
ribbon of bark. Even so, there isn't any slacking of exploitation of the last
2%. Here even now these plants and animals are being plowed and burned and
ground to extinction and those who benefit from these thefts and murders are in
denial in order to continue unabated. They are full of self-excuse and
justification.
I am at a point in my life I would echo
Patrick Henry, "Give my liberty or give me death."... if I cannot be allowed
this life way that my people and my Mother earth cry out for. All of nature is
in travail crying out to us to be this kind of people and begin to revisit this
old way that provided what Americans called a "Garden of Eden"... to do the work
of restoration and re-creation. If I cannot have this, my life is worthless to
me and a forfeiture. To be permanently incarcerated in jail or mental
institution or grave is better than what I now live.
I care for nothing else and
for any life outside of this old way. I have strived to not be against anything
but it is a fact that to be for a life giving way over a culture of death put me
in a perspective where I am an outsider and all is against me and what I am for.
You tell yourselves maybe that you love
nature but live outside of it, and the road kill under your tires does not know
anything of love from you.
To have hope, I do not say these things
in a condemning tone, but to have hope I need to see this liberty to be this
kind of person. I am sick at heart to have sneaked around like a criminal for 25
years doing this.
Jesus told you that you make evil good
and this good thing evil. I hope that I have illuminated a path where any can
see this is now so. Further, I hope in seeing this thing with me, you can help
me to change our legacy and give our children an abundant natural world and a
chance to see themselves as a beautiful life giving thing in it. I know they all
most all can only see themselves now as a plague on earth.
I Hope. Here is my unreasonable delusion:
I hope.
Joel, Chapter 2 - The Bible
I will show you a people unique in their ferocity, like a flame of fire, where
before them is a Garden of Eden. Behind them a vast, toxic. desert wasteland.
Revelations, 11:18
God should and will destroy all those who destroy the earth.
A tree is known of it's fruit. A child of
creator would even suffer pains of death to give life to creation. A child of
the destroyer lives to enjoy and perform the destruction of it.
Finisia Medrano
Lemhi County Jail
Inmate Finisia Medrano
206 Courthouse Drive
Salmon. Idaho 83467