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The Case of the Assyrian Nationalist......

Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Sunday, January 4 2015, 22:09:35 (UTC)
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AP: Police were called to a disturbance in northwest Chicago yesterday at the house of a Mr. Fred Aprim. When police arrived they found an elderly Native American male sprawled at the bottom of the front door steps of a two storey house. At the time police arrived they saw Mr Aprim dragging an elderly woman, also Native American, down the steps by her braids. Officers arrested Mr. Aprim. The couple, in their 80s, were taken by ambulance to Mercy Hospital.

Once in custody Mr Aprim claimed the man and woman, members of the Illini Tribal Council, had trespassed onto his property. He said they claimed to be the indigenous people of the state of Illinois and North America. They had presented a treaty signed by the United States Congress dating from 1790 allotting several acres of land, including the land where Mr. Aprim's house was situated, to the tribe.

When questioned later at the hospital the elderly male said Aprim became enraged when they presented him with the document. Aprim swore at them and told them to "f--- off". He said he'd bought the land twenty years earlier in good faith and they nor any "damn Redskins" had any claim to it. When the woman offered to accept a "region" or an "administrative zone" in a corner of his backyard for a small teepee Mr. Aprim began manhandling the couple. Aprim kicked the elderly man's cane from under him and gave the 82 year-old a shove. That was when officers arrived to see Aprim dragging the woman down the steps by her hair.

Aprim is an Assyrian Nationalist and author whose recent book is titled, "The Assyrians: Their Indigenous Rights in Iraq". Arraignment will be in Superior Court. Mr. Aprim is charged with assault and mayhem as well as elderly abuse.

Though the document appears legal no one expects anything to be done about it. However Mr Aprim won no friends that day.

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