Still kicking the Native Americans after all these years
so much for native american respect for the earth...
yes, it's VERY complex, so complex, in fact, that shoshone tribal members, who, everyone knows, are of limited intelligence anyway, couldn't POSSIBLY understand it... so, in words of one syllable, the u.s. government would appreciate it if you would just f*** off... Submit To Propeller
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Native Americans want U.S. authorities to cancel plans to detonate 700 tons of explosives on what they say is tribal land in Nevada.
The planned explosion, scheduled for June 2 some 90 miles from Las Vegas, is aimed at aiding U.S. efforts to develop ''bunker buster'' weapons capable of penetrating solid rock. Officials have suggested the test would constitute the largest non-nuclear, open-air blast in the test site's history.
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''We are opposed to any further military testing on our lands,'' said Raymond Yowell, chief of the Western Shoshone National Council.
The site of the latest proposed test sits on the land recognized under the 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley as part of the tribe's national territory, Shoshone leaders said, and the U.S. military therefore has no right to use it.
The U.S. government disagreed and has asserted its ownership of the land.
"Without going through a lot of detail, the issue of ownership of the land area occupied by the Nevada Test Site, and for that matter very large sections of Nevada and Utah, is very complex (going back to the Ruby Valley Treaty) and in our eyes has been resolved," said Kevin Rohrer, a spokesman for the National Nuclear Security Administration, which operates the test site.
yes, it's VERY complex, so complex, in fact, that shoshone tribal members, who, everyone knows, are of limited intelligence anyway, couldn't POSSIBLY understand it... so, in words of one syllable, the u.s. government would appreciate it if you would just f*** off... Submit To Propeller
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posted by profmarcus at
4/11/2006
