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Go With God: American “Missionary” Killed With Arrows Trying To Convert Aboriginal Tribe To Christianity

Source: mevans / Getty Nosy American Missionary Killed By Aboriginal Tribe In India Aye, don’t be going to other people’s country and try to tell them about some guy in some book that you like a lot, fam. They have their own thing and they ain’t buyin’ what you’re selling. Somebody should have told 27-year-old Alabama native John Allen Chau that before he took his happy a$$ over to India messing with folk. According to The Sun , Chau was illegally ferried to North Sentinel Island in the Indian Ocean and shot down with arrows by the aboriginal tribe called Sentinelese. The Sentinelese people have protected status by the government and are not to be contacted by the outside world. When they saw what appeared to be a white devil, they got their arch-and-point on with extreme prejudice. Here’s what a source said about Chau’s death: “He tried to reach the Sentinel island on November 14 but could not make it. Two days later he went well prepared. He left the dinghy midway and took a canoe all by himself to the island. “He was attacked by arrows but he continued walking. The fishermen saw the tribals tying a rope around his neck and dragging his body. “They were scared and fled but returned next morning to find his body on the sea shore.” Here’s what’s wild about this whole thing: as we mentioned, the Sentinelese are protected people so no murder case can be brought against the killers. Hell, the gov’t is trying to figure out how to at least retrieve Chau’s body from the island. Moral of the story in the words of Wild’n Out/85 South podcaster/comedian Karlous Miller, stop touching s#!t.

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Justin Bieber Offends Canadian Aboriginals; Should He Apologize?

What was intended to be a joke by Justin Bieber has landed the singer in a bit of hot water. In an interview with Rolling Stone – inside the same issue that contains sex advice from the young star – Bieber is asked about his nationality and responds: “I’m actually part Indian. I think Inuit or something? I’m enough percent that in Canada, I can get free gas.” Harmless, right? Not to everyone… The Congress of Aboriginal Peoples has chimed and the group is unhappy with the implication behind Justin’s words. “These kinds of remarks are another example of what Aboriginal Peoples in Canada struggle with every day,” says the organization in a statement. “These kinds of remarks are another example of what Aboriginal peoples in Canada struggle with every day. It promotes the misconception that we are somehow getting a free ride. This simply is not the case and we are concerned that many people may believe what he said.” Honestly, many people likely don’t even understand what Bieber said. Still, he clearly did offend some people. Should Justin apologize?

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Eugene Levy Really Not a Fan of American Office

“He’s full of praise for Ricky Gervais, but he’s never seen the American version of The Office . ‘I can’t, there’s no point. Ricky’s truly was done like a documentary. In the States they can’t go there. They’ve got to light it brighter, and the camera can’t move in quite the same way because the audience won’t stand for that. It’s a horrible way of using the device. They’re using a device that they don’t truly understand. And I’m not a fan of kind of doing something. Do it or don’t do it. If you’re going to do a fake documentary, make it a fake documentary. Have the balls to just do it that way.'” [ The Guardian ]

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Exclusive: Rebels Turn the Tables in Action-Filled Clip from Warriors of the Rainbow, AKA Taiwan’s Braveheart

In select theaters Friday is Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale , the epic historical retelling of a little-known uprising in 1930s Taiwan in which the indigenous Seediq people battled Japanese forces against all odds, suffering great losses but turning the tables on familiar ground — in the mountains. After the jump, watch Movieline’s exclusive action-packed clip from the Oscar shortlist entry (dubbed the Taiwanese Braveheart ) in which the Seediq warriors lure their enemies into familiar terrain and launch a full-scale ambush. With beehives! Directed by Taiwanese filmmaker Wei Te-Sheng ( Cape No. 7 ) and produced by John Woo (!), Warriors of the Rainbow stars Lin Ching-Tai, Umin Boya and Battle Royale ‘s Masanobu Andō and is in limited release today. More info here . Official synopsis: Wei Te-sheng’s epic film Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale reclaims an extraordinary episode from 20th-century history, which is little known, even in Taiwan. Between 1895 and 1945, the island was a Japanese colony inhabited not only by the majority (Han Chinese Immigrants) but also by the remnants of the aboriginal tribes who first settled the mountainous land. In 1930 Mouna Rudo, the leader of the Seediq tribe settled on and around Mount Chilai, forged a coalition with other Seediq tribal leaders and plotted a rebellion against their Japanese colonial masters. It was to begin at a sports day meeting where the assembled tribesmen were to attach and kill the Japanese officials and would then broaden to sieges on police stations and local government offices in the region. The initial uprising took the Japanese by surprise and was almost entirely successful. But the Japanese soon sent in their army to crush the rebellion, using aircraft and poison gas.

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Exclusive: Rebels Turn the Tables in Action-Filled Clip from Warriors of the Rainbow, AKA Taiwan’s Braveheart

On DVD: Sex, Survival and the Dreamy Pleasures of Walkabout

Nicolas Roeg’s famous 1971 career-establisher Walkabout seems in synopsis to be subtext-laden adventure saga: a young British boy and his teenage sister are lost in the Outback, and survive only thanks to the friendship of a teen Aboriginal boy hunting in the desert. But it’s really about sex. Sex, sex, sex, from virtually the first anxious scenes back in Adelaide, where the siblings’ father watches his nubile daughter frolic in the pool, and later when they’re in the wilderness for a picnic, when every glimpse of her legs and peachy skin makes the man glower. Soon enough, he’s got the gun and gasoline out, ready for a full-on murder-suicide, and the kids escape with only a little lemonade and the boy’s toys.

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Taser-hit man burst into flames

 A police officer points a Taser gun at the camera, file photo from June 2009

Taser guns discharge 50,000 vol

A man in Western Australia was engulfed in flames when police officers fired a Taser stun gun at him.

Police say they used the Taser on Ronald Mitchell, 36, when he ran at them carrying a container of petrol and a cigarette lighter.

They said that Mr Mitchell, who lives in a remote Aboriginal community, had been sniffing petrol. They suggested the cigarette lighter started the fire.

Mr Mitchell is in a critical condition in hospital with third degree burns.

Bare hands

Western Australia Police say they went to the community of Warburton, about 1,500 km (950 miles) north-east of Perth, in response to a complaint.

They say they used the Taser on Mr Mitchell when he came out of the house and ran at them.

He burst into flames. One officer pushed him to the ground and smothered the fire with his bare hands, police said.

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Mr Mitchell’s sister told The Australian newspaper that her brother had been sniffing petrol.

“He must have put petrol on his face, then the policeman shot him with the Taser, that’s when the flames happened,” she said.

Police Commissioner Karl O’Callaghan said Mr Mitchell was a known violent offender, and defended the police officers’ deployment of the Taser.

He told reporters: “The only other choice they would have had is to use a police-issue firearm, and the consequences would almost certainly have been far more grave.”

He said the police internal affairs department would investigate the incident, saying there was “a very strong possibility that the fire was caused by the lighter in the hand of the offender”.

Review call

Mr Mitchell was charged with assault to prevent arrest and possession of a sniffing substance.

Dennis Eggington, of the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia, called for an urgent review of Taser use.

Aboriginal people, he said, were often in poor health, which made them particularly vulnerable to stun weapons.

A Taser works by firing two barbs which penetrate the skin and discharge 50,000 volts along two copper wires attached to the gun.

Amnesty International has called them “potentially lethal”.

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