Reply #46: Um, Indian affairs guy checking in. [View All]

[sofa king]

As I write this, the United States is in violation of at least three dozen treaties with American Indian tribes, has been for a hundred and thirty-five years, and nobody is doing anything about it. Just last week I saw a Congressional leader enter a fraudulent document into the record in order to avoid meeting a treaty obligation (and no, I won't elaborate, and please don't screw me over by correctly guessing here).

The highest law of the land is being ignored because the law is unprofitable and inexpedient, and the people seeking relief are not considered worthy of relief.

That's the dark secret of America. The United States has never followed its own laws except where it was advantageous to the people who control the United States; the United States has never adhered to the Constitution when there's money to be made. Thanks to ten generations of Americans working day and night to figure out how to rip off our Native American peoples, huge rents have been torn in the fabric of our law, and the only reason those same tactics haven't been used against the people at large is because they haven't had to yet.

But maybe Bush has fucked up badly enough that he'll have to flaunt the law in our faces, and when he does, I guess we'll all know a little better what it means to be an American Indian.