Imagine a world without Aparteid Rubies. Imagine a people free to mine the resources of their own lands and to benefit from it for their greater good and for the greater good of all humankind. Imagine being able to pick up a stone in your back yard. Imagine not having to scratch out a meager existence from the wild resources around but rather having enough to fulfill all of your needs and some of your wants. Imagine a place where you can hold your head up high and say this is where I come from. This is what I believe in and this is how I honor my beliefs without having to look over your shoulder.

Is there such a place?

There used to be.

It used to be Greenland.

But now, no native may pick up a stone, even if it is in their very own back yard. No native may create the handicrafts and sacred objects they have been making for thousands of years if it involves any kind of stone. No longer will they be able to sell small trinkets to those few tourists who do brave the wilds of Greenland, thus augmenting their already dwindling incomes.

Why? Corporate Greed. Pure and Simple. The White Man is Doing It Again.

What is left for the Natives? Dwindling Fish supplies, Fewer whales and seals to hunt. Vanishing Polar Bears. Receding Ice. Fewer and fewer ways to live the old ways. Fewer resources to live the modern way. The inevitable? Poverty, Hunger, Disease, Death.

Is this self rule? Is this Home Rule? Is this Prosperity?

In 2007 there was hope. Many natives were learning how to see, find and work the most valuable of their native mineral resources. The problem? That they actually found the most valuable mineral resources in perhaps the whole world. The Greenland Ruby. The highest quality. The largest pieces. Better than Burma, the previous world leader.

A year later some of these native miners were mining under the then existing laws of Greenland giving them certain inalienable rights as natives to mine by hand small quantities of ruby and other gems. It was built into the very constitution given them by Denmark.

However, an outside company who also had interests in these gems intervened by the manipulation of both the local and the Greenland National level government agencies to not only steal what the miners had mined, but to also make illegal all provisions of the law they were operating under.

Yes, folks, bought and paid for. Somehow, someway. The laws were arbitrarily changed without input from the people. The new laws are so onerous that they preclude just about any native from being able to adhere to them. Greenland natives are losing their rights. Greenland natives are under the thumb of a corrupt system of government. They need the world's help. Don't let Greenland become another Sierra Leone or Rwanda. Fine gems are supposed to inspire our sense of awe, beauty and granduer, not our sense of shame, suffering and misery. End the Aparteid...NOW!

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