What happened to Ingrid, Lahe and Terence, there is no explanation but there is reality. There is no rationality to what FARC did. There can be no excuse made for what FARC did. It does not matter if they are the lefts, or their rhetoric is that they are supporting the rights of the people. Or any of this other stuff, because they murdered unarmed non-combatants. They tied them up and blindfolded them and they executed them. The American government is responsible for its behavior in Central America, Colombia, and they are responsible for what they do. The Colombian government is responsible for its behaviors and Colombia; the right-wing death squads are responsible for what they do. And FARC is responsible for what they do and there can be no excuse. An understanding must evolve out of this. Anyone can say that they are a revolutionary But there is nothing new. The methods of killing and the technology to kill, this is what’s new. With the pattern and the diseased behavior and the lack of a perception of the reality of life remains constant.
Occidental Oil, because these are the reasons Ingrid wanted to be involved with the U’wa. Entities like Occidental and governmental struggles of war cannot be forgotten because the U’wa are in a desperate situation. But what FARC did, that cannot be forgotten or rationalized or excused away. It is behaviors like these that have the real meaning that affect people’s lives in these kinds of ways. But they cannot be rationalized and accepted. In reality, life is about evolution. One of the things that I have to say is what happened to Ingrid, to me, I know that there is no way that we will get over it. Because some of FARC’s rhetoric is: why the Americans don’t get along with the peace process. Get over these three Americans, they say, the larger peace is more important. But we will never get over it. We may get around it. We may get through it, but we will never get over it. That is not a part of the reality. And I have this to say to FARC or whomever it is that would behave in this kind of a way We need to be intelligent enough to see through some of these things that go on. How do you protect the people if you terrorize them and make them afraid of you? What kind of revolution is that? Keep them in line through fear. Disrespect their right to live because they have rationalized some political ideology that says that it is okay This is all insane. Whatever manner and fashion, I think that it would be most appropriate if all the people that had a relationship to Ingrid, or to Lahe, or to Terence, I think FARC should be called to account on this. I think the American government and the Venezuelan government, and Colombian government and FARC should be told that this is unacceptable. This is not acceptable. Just plain and simply not acceptable because the reality of this is civilization. Moving along the way that it moves on. The U’wa they are the Lakota and the Ojibway of 200 years ago. The methods of killing and the intensity of the hatred and the violence remain the same. Somewhere there must be clarity put to this. I think that it should be known to these people that this is not acceptable. Just to make this go away is not acceptable. Let them wait until enough time passes and then they go rationalize their lives about a peace deal for the larger good. There is no larger good if things like this are not dealt with. The plain and simple reality, of FARC and what is going on in Colombia is about the oil companies. They want the oil. FARC and the government and the rest of them they could care less about the people and that is the reality of it. Because this behavior shows it. They are fighting over who is going to control and distribute the access to the resources. Who is going to decide how this gets spent? So you people that have a consciousness about liberation and addressing the issues that are real, I think this one really needs to be looked at. I think that they should be communicated with through cyber space. I think that the truth of what is going on analytically and objectively should be stated. They want to disappear into the forgetful memories, the short memories of modern civilized society that is used to 30-second solutions. They want to hide in that haze. And Ingrid, see, I always respected Ingrid’s intelligence. I know a lot of smart people and I know a lot of intellectual people that have a lot going on. But I respected Ingrid’s intelligence, because it was pure intelligence. And it gave her the ability to see, not to pretend to see, but to truly see. And she never judged. I never knew Ingrid to judge. On a very personal level, Ingrid accepted me for who I was. I do not always behave the way society says I am supposed to. I don’t always do what somebody tells me to do. I have my own ways of getting in people’s way. But Ingrid never once judged me or condemned me or looked at me in a negative way. To me, that is a hard thing to find. It’s a very hard thing to find someone who has that ability to be that real. And a part of Ingrid’s intelligence, to me, was that Ingrid could understand. Because I am starting to think more and more whatever the trials are that we are put through in life, there is something we are supposed to understand. Whatever it is that we are going to find to make our way through life, it has to do with understanding. It has got to do with understanding. There is just too much that we do not understand. It is about understanding. Ingrid had that ability. And I think that when we look at what has happened, we see we have spirit help, we know someone in the Spirit World that is our helper. And she is. Because about this dying, and the way these things happen. We come from the circle of life. That is the way the tribe is, the circle of life. So for Ingrid, the human has been put to rest, but the being still lives. It is how we communicate, and how we visit and how we see the being part of Ingrid that has changed. The being only becomes dead if we say that the being is dead. And that means we can’t see anymore. So Ingrid is very much amongst us. Because we as human beings, we are human in a spiritual reality. It is not that there is a spiritual reality and a human reality, we are humans in a spiritual reality. And the sadness cannot be escaped. See I do not believe sometimes when I hear you can mourn a year and it’s done. I do not think so. I think some wounds can’t be healed and I think there is no purpose and point to try to heal some wounds. I think it is more real to let that wound be and not let it scar. And to learn some understanding from what has happened. It is about accountability. I know in my own heart that we will never have justice for what happened to Ingrid, or to Terence or to Lahe. Because you cannot put them back amongst us the way we are used to them being with us. So there can’t be justice. But out of this terrible wrong, something right and purposeful and coherent and sensible and intelligent can be made to deal with that wrong. And so I would say, this is difficult in some ways because trying to express feelings that words can’t express, all they are are words but these other feelings, well, it becomes very difficult. But she gave of herself while she was here in the human world in the human form. She gave of herself. She was all about sharing and giving of herself. Her gift, she was the gift. That gift, the being part, the spirit part of that gift is still here amongst us. ~
SOURCE: Native Americas, Akwe:kon Press