Make it so!
The judge also criticized former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and the Army Corps of Engineers for the way they handled the case.
Babbitt used a VERY liberal interpretation of the Indian Graves act in making his decision (DUH---it WAS Babbitt afterall).
I actually hope that the DOJ will drop this case now. A decision will probably not be made until they analyze their 'liability exposure' under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990, a law intended to prevent theft and illegal trafficking of Indian artifacts, protect tribal burial sites and restore the remains of ancestors to the tribes.
To US it is a no-brainer.
Bonnichsen was one of eight scientists who sued soon after the 9,300-year-old skeleton was discovered in July 1996 in Kennewick, Wash.
There was as many tribal indians in the Americas 9,300 years ago as there were Vietnamese and Swiss.
6 years! DUH
Notice that in his decision, the Magistrate finds rampant prejudice and disonesty in the Department of the Interior under Bruce Babbitt. Babbitt came into the Clinton Adminstration with a reputation for strict honesty. He left it as a criminal who would lie to protect his dishonest bosses, and turn his Department upside down to do whatever his bosses commanded.
Of course, he was an unindicted criminal, since Janet ("the Just") Reno was then the Attorney General. Whatever happened to "Shaky" Janet? I haven't heard a word about her since she hung up her spurs as a burner and kidnapper of children, defender of the Clintons (him and her), and a general credit to her sex (whatever that may be).
Congressman Billybob
Kennewick Man Awarded To Scientists
Wouldn't you know it, happens to me all the time..
Probably.
Common sense is returning slowly to our court system, albeit at a crawl.
And PC is increasingly being shown to be the fraud that it is, simply a way to manipulate other people.
Science is the only venue where artifacts like this one belong.
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