“Those Ancient Indian Burial Grounds sure do mean a ton when you are paying 6 Bucks for Gas and can’t drive to Work! >:( “
I think the Standing Rock issue is more like the Bundy ranch. Did you know there is a 1980 supreme court decision giving the Lakota jurisdiction over the land that the pipeline is going through? That decision just enforces a pretty unambiguous treaty between the US and the Lakota.
The feds have just ignored that decision and treaty and keep treating the land as theirs the same way they ignored Bundy’s rights and rights of landowners across the US West.
I’m not an Indian and I would love to see a pipeline suck out Warren Buffet’s profits. But the feds are just running over little guys property rights in Standing Rock the same way they ran over the Bundy’s and the Ammons.
So this Tea Partier stands with the Indians at Standing Rock.
I would be embarrassed to push that comparison of apples and brussels sprouts.
If the Treaties between the United States and the Indian "Sovereign Nations" is presumed to establish "independence" of the Indian nations to the extent that the Indians can enter into a treaty with the Taliban or Isil, I will question your sanity.
OK.
Where would that line be crossed?
When the Treaties with the injuns were created, presumably with the "consent" of the Senate, did the 19th Century Senates have the Constitutional power and right to obligate FUTURE US Congresses to fund the Indian Nations forever?
Doesn't that totally invalidate the absolute power over the National Purse properly the sole right of the HOUSE?
These overreaching injuns better be careful what they wish for!
Yes, there is no question that "political correctness" can create some intolerable events to occur, as the result of treasonous interpretation of Treaties.
Like the Peanut Farmer imbecile giving away U.S. Panama Canal territory.