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And another article, this is interesting
Jul. 13th, 2010 01:42 pm
( There's a video! )
Apparently, the Iroquois Nationals lacrosse team has been denied entry into the UK for the World Lacrosse Championships unless they travel on US or Canadian passports. At least some of their members instead wish to travel on passports issued by the Iroquois Confederacy instead, which they've done before. This time, though, the US isn't promising to let them back in if they do that, which is why the UK isn't letting them in in the first place.
So there's an article here, one here, and a third one here. It sounds like getting US or Canadian passports isn't the issue, that's been offered, but that they want an assurance that they can use their own passports.
The comments are... enlightening. Apparently, their passports are "fake", they're misusing the word "nation", they're "living in the past", they're "acting like little kids", they should have "assimilated or died", and it's impossible to be a nation unless you're recognized by the UN.
I don't know if these team members are, legally (for any commonly-accepted view of the relevant laws, whatever they are) right or wrong, nor if I agree with their choice or not. (I don't suppose it's any of my business, really. They want to use this passport or that passport... I see what they're getting at, how it's bigger than passports per se, but I don't really have an opinion on it.) But, following my traditional view that the twits in the comments can't POSSIBLY be right, I'll go with vaguely supporting them in their stand, and cheering them on in the games.
Apparently, the Iroquois Nationals lacrosse team has been denied entry into the UK for the World Lacrosse Championships unless they travel on US or Canadian passports. At least some of their members instead wish to travel on passports issued by the Iroquois Confederacy instead, which they've done before. This time, though, the US isn't promising to let them back in if they do that, which is why the UK isn't letting them in in the first place.
So there's an article here, one here, and a third one here. It sounds like getting US or Canadian passports isn't the issue, that's been offered, but that they want an assurance that they can use their own passports.
The comments are... enlightening. Apparently, their passports are "fake", they're misusing the word "nation", they're "living in the past", they're "acting like little kids", they should have "assimilated or died", and it's impossible to be a nation unless you're recognized by the UN.
I don't know if these team members are, legally (for any commonly-accepted view of the relevant laws, whatever they are) right or wrong, nor if I agree with their choice or not. (I don't suppose it's any of my business, really. They want to use this passport or that passport... I see what they're getting at, how it's bigger than passports per se, but I don't really have an opinion on it.) But, following my traditional view that the twits in the comments can't POSSIBLY be right, I'll go with vaguely supporting them in their stand, and cheering them on in the games.
