Just change this from dems to indians and you get the point
Posted on 12/20/2007 5:36:13 AM PST by Sopater
WASHINGTON — The Lakota Indians, who gave the world legendary warriors Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, have withdrawn from treaties with the United States.
"We are no longer citizens of the United States of America and all those who live in the five-state area that encompasses our country are free to join us,'' long-time Indian rights activist Russell Means said.
A delegation of Lakota leaders has delivered a message to the State Department, and said they were unilaterally withdrawing from treaties they signed with the federal government of the U.S., some of them more than 150 years old.
The group also visited the Bolivian, Chilean, South African and Venezuelan embassies, and would continue on their diplomatic mission and take it overseas in the coming weeks and months.
Lakota country includes parts of the states of Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana and Wyoming.
The new country would issue its own passports and driving licences, and living there would be tax-free - provided residents renounce their U.S. citizenship, Mr Means said.
The treaties signed with the U.S. were merely "worthless words on worthless paper," the Lakota freedom activists said.
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I guess this means they will forfeit their rights to Social Security and Medicare.
Yep. No longer a citizen, no longer available for benefits. Of course, you know how that'll go over with a socialist Congress.
Not to mention new lands for national parks. While out globe trotting, don't let them back in without a VISA initiated from their home country - oh, they don't have a country? Too bad.
70,000 registered Lakota Sioux. About 35,000 live on the reservations.
Just change this from dems to indians and you get the point
True. But Mackenzie did a number on American Horse in the winter of ‘76, and Miles broke the Cheyenne [and, indirectly], Crazy Horse the same winter. He also drove Sitting Bull into Canadian exile.
No native American is forced to live on a reservation. Those that live there choose to. Plenty of Native Americans choose not to.
American Indians were not U.S citizens until an act of Congress granted them citizenship in, I believe, 1924.
What in your mind does their secession from the treaty imply? Are we still bound by the treaty if the other party is not bound by it? Do we fall back into a state of war?
Well, that’s too bad.
Don’t let the door hit ya on the way out...!
On this date in 1860 South Carolina decided to become an independent nation. It didn’t work. So far there is no evidence this is more than a publicity stunt by Russell Means.
United States v Nestor. Ephram Nestor was deported after it was discovered he had been a member of the Communist Party in the 1930’s. He was deported and his Social Security forfeited.
This was the decision where SCOTUS ruled that the government via Section 1104 of FICA (The reservation of Power)is under no obligation to pay you.
They’re soooooo commercial. Fort Apache, Apache Helicopters. The Nez Perce need a better press agent.
loved reading your posts on this thread
i agree with your attitude
“While I agree there are some radical elements in the tribe, including Russell Means, before one criticizes the attitude, it would be good to see the living conditions on some of the reservations. Many people live in the run-down facilities, and there are no jobs for those who want them. There is a liquor store just across the line out of one reservation that supplies alcohol and thus promotes the rampant alcoholism. There are poor medical facilities and schools, and most of all, no hope for the future.”
I believe because of both alcohol and diabetes, the average life expectancy of a plains indian make is about 40 years. Something definitely needs to be done - I couldn’t tell you what it should be though.
However, these “radical” leaders need to be arrested for sedition and treason.
I really don’t know.
Honestly, I don’t. Heck we don’t even know if this is an official position of the Lakota Nation, given the wording of the article I have to assume not. But then we don’t know what we don’t know.
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