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UN To Investigate Plight of US Native Americans For First Time [Domestic Interference?]
Guardian (UK) ^
| April 22, 2012
| Ewen MacAskill
Posted on 04/22/2012 1:00:35 PM PDT by Steelfish
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posted on
04/22/2012 1:00:41 PM PDT
by
Steelfish
To: Steelfish
The UN can go pound sand, far as I’m concerned.
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posted on
04/22/2012 1:05:36 PM PDT
by
Celtic Cross
(The brain is the weapon; everything else is just accessories. --FReeper Joe Brower)
To: Steelfish
Really? “The plight?” It is my understanding that they have reservations over which they and they alone exercise jurisdiction, that if any one of them can demonstrate 1/8th Native American blood, they get tribal benefits, and that the equal protection clause of the US Constitution is set aside in their case. Some plight. The fact that some of them drink firewater, won’t go to school and are still fighting the war is not the UN’s business.
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posted on
04/22/2012 1:09:59 PM PDT
by
yldstrk
( My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: Steelfish
Under what authority? Time to tell the U.N. to GTHO of the U.S.
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posted on
04/22/2012 1:12:06 PM PDT
by
liberalh8ter
(If Barack has a memory like a steel trap, why can't he remember what the Constitution says?)
To: Steelfish
This is stupid. Under our system, the Indian Nation exists as a Nation itself. The tribal councils rule on their land kinda like any other government or embassy has a certain sovereignty on our soil.
The casinos in Oklahoma also seem to keep the dollars rolling to the tribal coffers too.
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posted on
04/22/2012 1:16:37 PM PDT
by
greeneyes
(Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
To: yldstrk
What gets lost in reporting such as this, is that Indians are American citizens, and are not required to live on reservations. They can and do move into mainstream society, if they choose to do so.
Talk of alcoholism, unemployment, poverty, etc. on Indian reservations is similar to such discussions about conditions in ghettos, if you think about it.
I may get flamed for saying this, but, Indians on reservations which have casinos are doing well. Some of those reservations are using casino profits to develop businesses other than gambling, to the benefit of their people.
Bottom line is that Indians can and do move out of the bad conditions found on some reservations. And we should encourage that trend. And maybe someday, the reservations can be done away with altogether.
To: Steelfish
What should be investigated (but not by the UN) is the distribution of casino profits, as well as the ‘salaries’ or fees paid to Natives before any profit is declared.
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posted on
04/22/2012 1:22:55 PM PDT
by
Michael.SF.
(When you hear hooves, think horses, not zebras.)
To: Steelfish
Maybe the UN can devise some kind of Casinos For Food program.
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posted on
04/22/2012 1:24:34 PM PDT
by
samtheman
( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ-4gnNz0vc)
To: yldstrk
I live a mile from a traditional village on the Yukon. Indians, good bunch of people that want to be left alone so they can live pretty much how they always have. The govt gives them a little money every month, not all that much; and Indian's world view is way different than us greedy White folks. They are quite happy enough to live off what the land & river provides as long as the govt gives them enough to buy a little booze and that's the truth. Once ya get to know them, you figure out they are all OK; most my friends are Indians actually. For us Whites to attempt to make them like us is just as wrong as the genocide that has been put on them Indians since us Whites got into the Country.
Best thing we could do is give the Indians all the BLM, Fed Park Land, Wilderness Lands for them to operate or take care of;;;fire every last one of the Fed employees doing it now. The Indians would do a better job at it and wouldn't be chasing hunters, prospectors, and all other Americans off our land. The Indians have pretty much had all their lands stolen over the last 150 years anyway, by our govt. Indians really are good stewards of the land, kinda central to how they see the world.
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posted on
04/22/2012 1:29:47 PM PDT
by
Eska
To: Steelfish
Dear U.N.:
Pound sand.
Thank you.
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posted on
04/22/2012 1:39:17 PM PDT
by
RightOnline
(I am Andrew Breitbart!)
To: Steelfish
I’m living for the day when those blue helmeted bastards are run out of town by the great American uprising, and their stinking wannabe Tower of Babel razed to the ground.
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posted on
04/22/2012 1:55:08 PM PDT
by
mkjessup
(Finley Peter Dunne- "Politics ain't beanbag")
To: Steelfish
U.N. SPOKESMAN: "We're going to investigate Native American plight in the U.S. It's horrific the way they are treated."
U.N. SPOKESMAN: "Genocide in Darfur? Huh? What's a Darfur? What's your point?
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posted on
04/22/2012 2:00:35 PM PDT
by
jmax
(Ahhhh...life must be so frigging good under the U.N.'s thumb)
To: Steelfish
Well since I was born here I am a native American as well—but I am sure the UN is talking about early Americans because we have no conclusive evidence that the officially recognized American Indian tribes we have now were the “first” or “aboriginal” Americans (in fact there is very good evidence that some of the first Americans were Caucasian)...
...anyhoo, just another fascist racist reparations scheme against the conservative white man.
UN PC BS
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posted on
04/22/2012 2:05:05 PM PDT
by
Happy Rain
(VOTE FOR OBAMA OR HE WILL EAT YOUR DOG!!!)
To: Nachum
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posted on
04/22/2012 2:31:57 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: jmax
UN Spox: “What genocide in Tibet? What slave trade in Cameroon? What nuclear cooperation between Iran and the DPRK?”
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posted on
04/22/2012 2:35:58 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: mkjessup
Just turn the UN building into a giant brothel; that would be a fitting tribute.
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posted on
04/22/2012 2:39:09 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Army Air Corps
The UN doesn’t pay for it—they rape it.
Look at Africa.
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posted on
04/22/2012 2:46:30 PM PDT
by
Happy Rain
(VOTE FOR OBAMA OR HE WILL EAT YOUR DOG!!!)
To: Eska
and Indian's world view is way different than us greedy White folks.
What do you mean "us", kemosabe? If you are a greedy white person, I feel sorry for you. Don't presume to speak for the rest of the country.
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posted on
04/22/2012 2:51:35 PM PDT
by
fr_freak
To: Army Air Corps
Just turn the UN building into a giant brothel; that would be a fitting tribute.
Hell, it's a giant brothel right NOW with all the whores in that place! lol
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posted on
04/22/2012 3:11:38 PM PDT
by
mkjessup
(Finley Peter Dunne- "Politics ain't beanbag")
To: Dilbert San Diego
I doubt the tribes would EVER let the reservations be “done away with”. and sure, Native Americans are not required to live on reservations.
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posted on
04/22/2012 3:11:48 PM PDT
by
yldstrk
( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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