Indian Tribe Sues Rhode Island After Smoke Shop Raid

Fox News ^ | 7/15/03 | staff

[Chancellor Palpatine]

PROVIDENCE, R.I.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Interesting.

[mgc1122]

I hope the Injuns sue them for and win every nickel they can get their hands on from these damn jackboot tax grubbing thugs.

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[Jack Wilson]

They should pick on a state their own size.

[onedoug]

Regardless any injustice over taxes, why should American aborigines get any special dispensation from what others must pay? Because they're a "sovereign nation"?

What nonsense.

[theDentist]

"The Narragansett Indian Tribe did what it's always done -- it stood to protect its land," said Thomas, who had two bandages on his left arm and a swollen right wrist.

And it looks like you lost (the land) yet again.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

American aboriginals have rights which are rooted in three centuries worth of treaties.

That was the price our forebears paid for the use of and expansion into their lands. Now you want to sweep all that under the rug?

[microgood]

why should American aborigines get any special dispensation from what others must pay?

Cause we killed them all and took their land and feel guilty about it.

[Feiny]

An old Cherokee Chief sat in his hut on
the reservation, smoking the ceremonial
pipe, eyeing the U.S. government officials
sent to interview him.

"Chief," one official began, "you have
observed the white man for 90 years. You
have observed his wars and his material
wealth. You have seen his progress and
the damage he has done..."

The Chief nodded that it was so.

The official continued, "Considering all
these events, in your opinion, where did
the white man go wrong?"

The Chief stared at the government officials
for over a minute, and then calmly replied,
"When white man found the land, Indians were
running it with no taxes, no debt, plenty
buffalo, plenty beaver. Women did all the work,
medicine man free. Indian man spend all day
hunting and fishing, all night making love to
the women." The Chief leaned back and smiled,
"White man dumb enough to think he could improve
system like that?"

[Naspino]

We are noticing an all out assault on state and federal constutions and if this pans out an assault on state and federal agreements. Its as if the written word has suddenly ceased to mean anything.

[sonofron]

"The Chief stared at the government officials
for over a minute, and then calmly replied,
"When white man found the land, Indians were
running it with no taxes, no debt, plenty
buffalo, plenty beaver. Women did all the work,
medicine man free. Indian man spend all day
hunting and fishing, all night making love to
the women." The Chief leaned back and smiled,
"White man dumb enough to think he could improve
system like that?""

Very nice!

[onedoug]

I've never screwed, stiffed nor cheated an American aborigine. I believe reparations enough have been paid. Assimilate and move on. No more affirmative action for mistakenly-named "indians".

[Chancellor Palpatine]

What about all those signed treaties? Burn them?

[onedoug]

Let them smoke their damned treaties.

Personally, I don't recognize them. But then again, I also believe I have a God-given right to bear arms. Silly utopian me, too.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Ping.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

So theft is one of your core political beliefs?

[onedoug]

So theft is one of your core political beliefs?

Well, not in some of the same ways that native American aboriginal tribes often brutally dispossessed each other. Though in the way that possessing the means and methods they would've likely and similarly conquered Western Europe, I guess so. Except that I believe that history has meaning. And that the divinely desired state is for history to move forward to the One God of moral and spiritual redemption. Thus, the ways it has played, and is still playing out. Though in some similar way of the Great Spirit, that some American aboriginal descendent might claim ownership of my land too, based on some arcane claim to "sovereignty", well...I guess he could try it.

But I wouldn't recommend its "healing" qualities.

[cinFLA]

I hope the Injuns sue them for and win every nickel they can get their hands on from these damn jackboot tax grubbing thugs.

What jackboot thugs. Indians attacked them. I just saw the video. Two were holding one policeman and he was turning pale as one was choking him with his hands. The police exhibited extreme restraint.

[cinFLA]

We are noticing an all out assault on state and federal constutions and if this pans out an assault on state and federal agreements. Its as if the written word has suddenly ceased to mean anything.

Are you saying state law is in conflict with state and federal agreements? Please cite how.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

So brutal disposession of men, women and children form lands, as well as fraud are appropriate means for us to get to this state of moral and spiritual perfection?