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VOLUME 6 NUMBER 2 S-S 2001 Bald Eagle

The Only Printed Voice of Opposition to Federal Government Indian Policy in Wisconsin.
Published by Protect Americans' Rights & Resources to maintain an informed membership.

The Indian Gambling issue has dominated the news to the point of over saturation. Furthermore,
the Kenosha Casino scandal has become just that; a scandal of such gigantic proportions that it stretched into the Gover-nors mansion in Madison. The greed and corruption that is generated when these tremendous amounts of easy money presents itself is the reason why the legislature banned gambling in Wisconsin almost 50 years ago. The can of worms we opened a few years ago when gambling was reintroduced to Wisconsin is coming home to roost, in spades (pun intended).

Kenosha Casino Fable
(By Bob Manzke)    Once upon a time, in place where most of the people worked very hard and paid enormous amounts of money in the form of taxes, sinister things were happening under the surface. A small fragment of the population of this place, who had figured out how to live off the hard work of others, were not satisfied and wanted more, (the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow) a nugget called Kenosha. The leader of this place called Wisconsin was named Tom-Tom Tommy Thompson. You see the small privileged fragment of the population was called Indians, and the leader of the entire population chose to be very partial to this small group. Is this because he would experience great financial gain by doing so? Consequently this plus the fact that he refused to appeal the treaty rights case is why he is called Tom-Tom Tommy. This drama consists of a tremendous group of characters; so let's look at them and their connection to Tom-Tom the EX-Gov.
1) Tommy Thompson - Ex-Governor of the State of Wisconsin.
2) Nii-Jii - the Corporation that would purchase Dairyland Park dog track in Kenosha and would in partnership with the Menominee Indian Tribe convert the dog track into a casino hotel complex.
3) Jim Wimmer - the deceased owner of Madison Consulting LLC, which is a governmental relations firm with close ties to the Gov. and represents the Menominee Tribe and Nii-Jii. Entertainment.
4) William McCoshen - the Gov.'s chief of staff from `92 to `94, and ran The Gov.'s third term campaign. Now is part owner of Madison Consulting, which is worth close to nothing now, but would receive a $46.5 million windfall if pay dirt were hit in Kenosha.
5) Eric Petersen - the other partner of Madison Consulting and was the mentor of Jim Wimmer.
6) Apesanahkwat - chairman of the Menominee Indian Tribe.
7) Morgan Murphy Jr. - Former Congressman from Chicago who is part of the consortium of investors that own Nii-Jii.
8) John Pedersen III - Wimmer was close friends with Petersen's father John Petersen III, a Thompson appointee to the State of Wisconsin Investment Board and the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority. John Petersen III is also the executor of Wimmer's estate.
9) James Klauser - Tommy Thompson's right hand man for years and a very close friend of Wimmer.
10) Argosy - The name of the organization that owns a riverboat on the Mississippi in Illinois, and several other gambling establishments.
11) Steven Hurley - Lawyer for Nii-Jii and a close confederate of William McCoshen.
12) The Menominee Tribal Council.
13) Paradise Key Casino - the name of the proposed dog track conversion in Kenosha.
   Now let's see if we can't put all these characters in a paper bag, shake them up and see what kind of a " who's got the money" story emerges. Let's start with Jim Wimmer, the deceased owner of Madison Consulting LLC. Mr. Wimmer was a close comrade of Tom-Tom Tommy. After his demise William McCoshen and Eric Petersen acquired Madison Consulting, along with Mr. Wimmer's influence on Governor Thompson. Madison Consulting then formed an alliance with Nii-Jii, Morgan Murphy Jr. and Apesanahkwat. This alliance would result in William McCoshen and Eric Petersen being paid $46.5 million for doing close to nothing. Of course the inside track to the powers that be is expensive.
   At this point the Menominee Tribal Council went ballistic, because Tribal Chairman Apesanahkwat committed the tribe to a $46.5 million consulting fee. The Council also took offense because of Morgan Murphy's alleged ties to organized crime
   The next one of the stars of this little melodrama is James Klauser, right hand man of the Gov. for years, and had close ties with Madison Consulting. We at PARR remember James Klauser well. He sat across the table from us; along with Governor Thompson, together they promised us a $700,000 legal fee to fight the treaty rights if we would only stay away from the boat landings. We stayed off the boat landings, lost many members, and the $700,000 went to buy the Indians shockers so they wouldn't have to lift those heavy spears.
   While all this influence peddling was going on, Argosy and gambling investigators from four states were trying to determine what happened to the proceeds from a $1million loan made to Nii-Jii by Argosy.
   Even though they were working feverishly to get Tom-Tom Tommy's signature on the dotted line so they could cash in on that pot of gold Kenosha, Steven Hurley and William McCoshen found time to travel to Lafayette County and meet with The Lafayette County Coalition Against Gambling in an attempt to prevent the proposed Lac du Flambeau casino in Lafayette County. How's that for greed? Cut out the competition before it has a chance to get started.
   Speaking about eliminating competition, about the time it was announced that the Kenosha deal had Tom-Tom Tommy's blessing, the Oneida in Green Bay refused to make their compact payment to the state, and the Potawatomi, who have a huge new casino in Milwaukee, sued then Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt because the Menominee did not do an environmental impact study on how the traffic patterns around the proposed Paradise Key Casino would impact the environment. Now we are looking at two possibilities, either this is a simple case of the two tribes trying to eliminate competition, or Tom-Tom Tommy has acquired another name Double Cross Tommy. And did he acquire this name because of his secret deal with the Menomonee? We also have to ask the question; how much, if any, financial gain was in it for the Gov.? And what may be coming down the pike? Actually this whole fable is now moot, because we have a new Governor and he killed the Kenosha Casino deal. Unless the tribe goes to court, that is. §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§
Chippewa Tribes Fight Gov.'s Casino Approval Power    Three northern Wisconsin Chippewa tribes filed suit in federal court in yet another effort to get approval for an off-reservation casino in Hudson, arguing that Gov. Scott McCallum should have no role in the deal.
   The federal law that gave governors final say on approving or rejecting off-reservation casinos is unconstitutional because the federal government can't delegate its trust authority for Indian tribes, the lawsuit says.
   McCallum, an outspoken opponent of gambling expansion, said in an interview that governors should retain authority over off-reservation tribal casinos. McCallum also said he would issue his decision on the Hudson track soon. The federal government, after years of controversy, approved the deal in February and kicked it to the newly sworn-in McCallum for his verdict. "I've given no encouragement" for Hudson or other off-reservation casino deals, McCallum said, although he didn't explicitly say he'd veto the Hudson gambling hall. Feds have approved it; the Bureau of Indian Affairs approved the casino in February, but McCallum said then that he opposed adding another casino to the state.
   The federal approval came more than seven years after the Lac Courte Oreilles, Red Cliff and Sokaogon (Mole Lake) bands of Chippewa first applied for casino approval at the dog track in Hudson, about 20 miles east of St. Paul, Minn.
   The plan was denied by the Clinton administration in 1995, but reconsidered after a federal investigation into allegations that campaign donations from competing tribal casino interests swayed officials. The investigation was closed without any charges being filed.
   The new lawsuit argues that the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, which includes governor approval of off-reservation casinos, is invalid. That 1988 law "gives one state political official, who does not have a trust responsibility to Indian tribes," unconstitutional authority to pass judgment, the suit says.
    "Congress cannot delegate the special trust obligation the United States has to Native Americans to governors, who often are adverse to the interests of tribes for political reasons," the Wisconsin tribes said in a statement.
     The federal government is named as defendant in the lawsuit, which was filed in federal court in Washington, D.C. The suit asks the courts to strike down the provision of the gaming law giving governors a say on casinos and to order U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton to proceed with the process of acquiring the Hudson track site for the tribes for the purpose of operating a casino.
PARR ED. NOTE…How about that? The tribes invoking the constitution! Isn't that a document that they claimed didn't pertain to them? Probably only when it benefits them. Well, at least they didn't run to Federal Judge Barbara Crabb to rewrite the sections of the document that was in conflict with their agenda. §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§
Chippewa Walleye Totals Down 25% From Last Year
(Wisconsin Outdoor News) Madison — As the Chippewa spring spearing season wound down earlier this month, it appeared that the six tribes would finish with about 25 percent fewer walleyes, compared to last year's record spearing take. The six Chippewa bands reported about 22,500 walleyes as of May 10, the lowest number since 1992, said Doug Beard, Department of Natural Resources (DNR) treaty fisheries coordinator.
   A much quicker spring thaw that shortened walleye spawning on off-reservation lakes caused the drop-off in the catch, he said. “The walleye spawning period was really condensed,” he said.
It appeared that the number of spearers was roughly the same as in 2000, he said.
   The Lac du Flambeau tribe speared 37 percent of the reported catch, the DNR said. The six tribes speared a record 30,367 walleyes last year, in part because an early melt and then cool weather that lengthened the spawning season. Spearers took 26,294 walleyes in 1999.
   Exercising court affirmed 19th-century treaty rights, the six Chippewa tribes usually start spearing for walleyes and muskies in mid April, when the ice leaves some 200 of the best fishing lakes in the northern third of Wisconsin. Tribal members use long spears and battery powered spotlights to spear the spawning fish in shallow water.
    Off-reservation spearing began in 1985, after federal courts ruled the tribes retained special hunting, fishing and food gathering rights in treaties that ceded millions of acres of northern Wisconsin land to the federal government.
     Under a formula for sharing the fishery with hook-and-line anglers, the six tribes set a goal of 45,321 walleyes from about 280 lakes. Those declarations resulted in reduced daily bag limits for anglers on those lakes: three walleyes on 137 lakes, two walleyes on 140 lakes and one walleye on three lakes.
      Beard expects the actual tribal harvest to lead the DNR to raise bag limits on some lakes. If that occurs, the increased bag limits should be announced by the first week of June. Changes will also be posted at boat landings where the bag limits are changed.
PARR ED. Note…Well nothing ever seems to change. Every year the Chippewa declare many times more walleye than they can ever possibly hope to physically slaughter. All PARR can say is "grow up" you've flung that over declaration in the non-Indian's face for years now its getting old. §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§
Indians Returning to the Reservation Where the Living is Easy
(By Bob Manzke)    While trying to get my blood pressure under control after rendering unto Caesar that which was Caesar's (paying my state and federal income tax), I came across a study investigating the mass exodus of Indians from taxable city jobs to the tax-free reservation. My blood pressure didn't drop; in fact, it increased as I read all about how the opening of the Government's (both state and federal) money faucets deluging the reservations with tax dollars guaranteed the Indians a lifestyle as royalty.
   Actually the genesis of this move was in the 1970's when a whole series of laws were passed by mainly liberal governments that opened the spigot wide and allowed tax dollars to flow freely onto the reservation.
   The claim by the American Indians is that they are "becoming more aware of their culture" and are returning to reservations so they can "provide a benefit for their own people." More and more people are coming back to their homelands. They're starting to move back because of the gaming. " We don't need to go to the cities to work in the factories anymore."
   "We found the pot of gold." The pot of gold is not only casinos. It's other ventures, such as hotels and lodges, gas stations with convenience stores, clinics, fish hatcheries, buffalo and deer ranches and herbal medicine farms that tribes now operate. Of course ventures other than the gambling casinos are supported by taxpayer dollars.
   Those figures, released last month by the U.S. Census Bureau, include American Indians and others who aren't Indian but live on reservations, such as spouses. The American Indian population alone on those lands rose 24.6%.
   In the U.S., nearly 2.5 million people said they were American Indian or Alaska Native, up 26.4% from 1990, the census showed. Another 1.6 million people chose American Indian or Alaska Native as one of their races.
   After making my living by working in a factory most of my life, I really appreciate people who live a lifestyle that I could only dream about, a lifestyle that is supported by my tax dollars, talking down their nose about the jobs that pay the taxes that support them. §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§
Liberals Goal--Torpedo Bush's Efforts
(By Dan K. Thomasson editor of Scripps Howard News service)    The Following article is reprinted with the permission of Scripps Howard News Service. This article was chosen because it represents the utter ridiculousness of the environmental movement, in this country, today. We are bombarded almost daily with new bizarre claims that our burning of fossil fuels is responsible for everything from holes in the ozone to global warming. The rash of volcanic activity in the last couple of decades, each one spewing more de-bris into the atmosphere than millions of automobiles could, are not even mentioned as a cause. Also at this time a severe storm is raging on the sun, causing sunspots that bombard the earth's atmosphere with Page 4
violent magnetic fields causing heating, similar to the cause of northern lights. Too bad these things don't fit the computer program that predicts all the doom and gloom if we continue to drive our cars. The only doom and gloom here is for the people who make a living out of these scare tactics based on voodoo science. If their scam is found out they will have to get a job…. PARR Ed
   " An old friend recently opined only half in jest that if he wanted to commit suicide without raising his own hand he would put on a full length fur coat, go down to a street corner, light a cigarette and loudly proclaim his intention to open a string of wilderness area restaurant gas stations where the menu would include indigenous delicacies like bear meat.
   "Just how close he is to being accurate is clear from the hysterical pummeling the Bush administration has received for even suggesting that government regulations should balance the needs of the environment with those of humans, who after all, occupy it along with the trees and rocks and plants and lower animals.
   "Former President Clinton, wherever he is these days, must be holding his sides with glee at the mischief he has inflicted on his successor with a series of 11th-hour actions that shut off half of America to development.
   "Even President Bush's decision to officially declare that the notorious Kyoto treaty on global warming was being abandoned brought howls of protest from Democrats and environmentalists. Apparently forgotten was the fact that the U.S. Senate, in a 95-0 vote, had passed a resolution condemning it as unacceptable long before Bush ever moved into the Oval Office. Some of the loudest protesters to the president's announcement had voted for the resolution. Adding to the firestorm has been the decision to review a last minute Clinton regulation that considerably lowered the level of arsenic in drinking water, a desirable goal. Democrats and their allies immediately accused the administration of callously disregarding the health of Americans for business interests despite the fact that Environmental Protection Agency chief Christine Todd Whitman said the delay was necessary to assess the overall impact of the regulation from a variety of standpoints, including costs that could be hundreds of millions of dollars in some areas where entire new water systems would have to be developed. Her pledges that the administration is dedicated to lowering the levels largely have been ignored. But so has the fact that the regulations wouldn't even go into effect for a number of years. It is this constant twisting of the facts and disregards for any balanced discourse that is most disturbing about the environmental movement, which lives and dies on pure emotion.
   "Bush's refusal to rule out energy development of huge reserves in Alaska and elsewhere is a case in point. The careful, controlled exploitation of our resources below the ground while making sure we protect those above it may be the only true way of reducing our dependence on foreign sources. Opponents of this policy are unconvincing in their arguments for alternatives. Like what? Ethanol, perhaps? Anyone unaware of that boondoggle has had his head stuck in tar sand or oil shale.
   "A crisis in electricity generation has breathed new life into the country's almost moribund nuclear power industry. But one can only wonder what happens when the anti-nuclear anything forces, who helped stifle it with a morass of often unreasonable environmental red tape, take over again.
   "Democrats, needing an issue, have seized on early Bush actions to paint the new president as the pawn of special interest capitalists whose sole aim is to rape the environment for profit, interpreting every indication to the contrary as insincere and politically motivated.
   "For instance, the president this month endorsed two Clinton regulations that were bitterly opposed by his supposed allies in business. One extended EPA authority over constructions and excavation in or near
wetlands that might result in harmful discharges. The other greatly expanded the number of businesses that must report toxic lead emissions from their operations.
   "The response of environmentalists was to call it a welcome surprise but then to immediately question how vigorously the Bush administration actually would enforce the regulations. Those same questions, however never seem to be raised about Clinton's motives. For 71/2 years of his tenure, Clinton did little or nothing to forward these causes. During the last six months, with Congress and the nation preoccupied with a presidential election, he salted the countryside with regulatory land mines, "How many still is being determined.
   "It would do those who really care about the overall needs of this planet, and not just their own Small area of interest, to reduce the hysterical inflammatory rhetoric and realize they, too, like the environment, can be badly used." §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§
More Clinton Cut Throat    Western congressional Republicans were lining up against a plan to protect wildlife and water by reducing logging across millions of acres of the Sierra Nevada.
   The Forest Service's plan, which was to be Announced, was expected to result in less timber being offered for sale from Sierra forests in California and Nevada. Agency officials declined to discuss details but said the new policy, known as the Sierra Nevada Framework, was consistent with a decade long move away from traditional commercial logging.
   "The bulk of the American public has told us very clearly they want more emphasis on recreation and fish and wildlife and less emphasis on intensive timber production,'' Forest Service spokesman Matt Mathis said Thursday.
   Sources close to the process said the document would severely restrict tree cutting on about 4 million acres containing old growth; confine the most intensive timbering to land near developed areas.
   Annual logging averages have already dipped to 314 million board feet, down from 740 million in the early 1990s. ''Basically, the commercial logging program is not going to exist,'' said Barbara Boyle, the Sierra Club's senior regional representative in Sacramento. Timber industry leaders and their allies in Congress said overstocked forests would fuel catastrophic forest fires. They also accused the agency of forcing the plan through before President Clinton left office.
   ''What's the real rush to release this document?'' asked Rep. Wally Herger of California, one of several House Republicans urging the Forest Service to delay adoption of the plan for at least 30 days. Rep. George Miller of California, the top Democrat on the House Resources Committee, predicted the agency would go forward.
   Officials said the plan was not related to Clinton's ban this month on road building and most logging on millions of acres of federal forest land. They also said the plan is not linked to Forest Service Chief Mike Dombeck's call this week to end all logging of old growth forests.
   The plan is rooted in a 1992 plan to protect the California spotted owl in the northern Sierra and grew to include many old growth dependent species being considered for protection under the Endangered Species Act. They include a variety of frogs and toads and a rare weasel like carnivore called the Pacific fisher.
PARR ED NOTE: This is a beautiful example of the Clinton up yours ---Taxpayers, process and attitude
during the waning days of his administration. Wasn't "The Spotted Owl takes precedence over the needs of man" the theme of the Clinton Administration's policy? Now the new administration is stuck with all the regulations, that Clinton didn't have the guts to install earlier, and the liberals and eco-kooks are having a fit that Bush wants to change these out of all proportion last minute regulations. §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§
ISSUE ITEM    A young woman from California purchased a piece of timberland in Oregon. There was a large tree on one of the highest points in the tract. She wanted to get a good view of her land so she started to climb the big tree. As she neared the top, she encountered a spotted owl that attacked her.
   In her haste to escape, she slid down the tree to the ground and got many splinters in her private parts. In considerable pain, she hurried to the nearest doctor. He listened to her story then told her to go into the examining room and he would see if he could help her. She sat and waited for three hours before the doctor reappeared.
   The angry woman demanded, "What took you so long?" And he replied "Well, I had to get permits from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Forest Service, and the Bureau of Land Management before I could remove old growth timber from a recreational area." §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§
Gun Grabber Alert
By Alan Korwin, Author- Gun Laws of America Mass media publicity on the newly proposed gun show bill is grossly inaccurate.
The bill has almost nothing to do with what you've probably heard so far. The so-called "gun show loophole" headlines are a minor detail and basically obscure what the bill really does.
   I've just finished studying the eight pages of legalese. Here is it what it calls for:
1.Unprecedented federal control over gun shows nationwide -- perfectly legal gun shows become strictly outlawed without prior federal approval, licensing and registration of each show;
2.Centralized federal licensing and registration of every gun show promoter in the nation;
3.Centralized federal registration of every vendor -- including non gun vendors -- at any gun show in the country. In order for me to sell my BOOKS at a gun show I'll have to pre register and prove who I am, or face arrest; a private individual looking to sell a single gun would be treated as a vendor under this law and must be registered even if the gun isn't sold;
4.Centralized federal registration of EVERY PERSON who attends a gun show in America, whether or not they make purchases of anything at all -- you won't be allowed in without registering;
5.Centralized collection of "any other information" on gun show attendees, as determined solely by the Secretary of the Treasury;
6.Imprisonment for attending a gun show and failing to give up any information required by regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury;
7.Imprisonment of any gun show promoter who fails to register a single vendor;
8.Imprisonment of gun show promoters who cannot prove they notified every person attending a gun shows of the new rules, and obtained from attendees any information the Secretary of the Treasury mandates by regulation;
9.Centralized collection of "any other information" the Secretary of the Treasury decides, by regulation, is necessary on vendors, attendees, and the gun show itself;
10.Submission by gun show promoters of vendor registration logs a) 30 - days before any gun show, and b) additional submission of updated vendor registration logs 72 hours before any gun show, and c) additional submission of vendor registration logs within five days of the close of any gun show, under penalty of arrest and imprisonment for non-compliance;
11.Identification of vendors only by use of federally approved photo ID that may include use of a social security number, electronically encoded data, or "biometric identifiers" such as fingerprint, voice print, retina scan, iris scan, or similar (as defined under 18 USC 1028(d)(2));
12.Creation of a new license (in addition to a gun-show-promoter license), similar to FFLs, for individuals who want access to the NICS national background check system for facilitating gun show sales for private citizens;
13.Regulations to be issued by the Secretary of the Treasury on the procedures, data collections, methods and implementation of the entire process to federally control gun shows, in addition to the requirements made by the proposed statute; such regulations will not be known, drafted or even suggested, until after the McCain-Lieberman law is enacted;
14.The proposed bill also puts pressure on state governments to make at least 95% of their law enforcement records for the past 30 years openly available to the federal government; and -- makes unlimited funds available for the states to comply with these federal goals; -- requires annual federal review of states' compliance; -- increases penalties (up to ten years imprisonment) for record keeping violations; -- grants states permission to make even more re-strictive requirements without being out of compliance with these new federal laws (and by implication, puts states that resist these rules in federal trouble); -- provides hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars for more law enforcement under numerous programs including project Exile and others; -- hires 200 more Federal BATF Agents; -- provides $10 million to the National Institute for Justice to give out for research on "technologies that limit the use of a gun to the owner"; and -- provides for annual reports (in great detail) by the Attorney General to Congress on whether the Brady law is working;
15.Enlargement of the federal bureaucracy and appropriation from taxpayers of "such funds as are necessary" to license, register and monitor an estimated ten million non criminals who attend the thousands of gun shows held annually in America; and
16.Oh yes, I almost forgot about the so-called "loophole" part the media is so excited about -- the McCain-Lieberman bill will make an honest private citizen a criminal for transferring a gun to another honest private citizen, without first registering the transfer with, and getting permission from, the federal government (represented by the FBI at its data complex in Clarksburg, West Virginia). Transfer or possession of a firearm to or by a criminal (a "federally prohibited possessor") is completely unaffected by the McCain-Lieberman "loophole" bill, so I guess it's accurate to characterize it as a loophole bill.
    To sum up: Perfectly legal gun sales -- with no victims or criminal activity of any kind -- are outlawed at gun shows by the McCain-Lieberman bill, unless the sale is pre registered with the federal government; real crimes are totally unaffected; and your friends in the federal government take over full control of gun shows -- which have been previously free of government infringement for more than 200 years. Please write your local news outlet and politely request a correction. Permission to circulate or use any or all of this report is granted, provided my credit and contact information is included. Alan Korwin, Author Gun Laws of America
Bloomfield Press 12629 N. Tatum #440
Phoenix, AZ 85032 602-996-4020
alan@gunlaws.com http://www.gunlaws.com
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Issue Item    Consider the bilge coming out of Hollyweird. Politics and the 'stars' displaying their pique and ignorance on subjects about which they know zip show just how low-down and politicized AND leftist Hollywood has become. Movies reflect it and so do the 'stars,' every time one of them opens their mouth.
   Remember Senator McCarthy from Wisconsin? He claimed, nearly half a century ago, that Hollywood as well as the ACLU was a nest of communists. Appears that time has proven that he was allegedly correct in both cases, even though they completely destroyed him at the time. §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§
International Law
(By Victor Bellomy)    International law has been in existence for thousands of years and evolving from the start to present day, and is the product of the time in which it occurred. Therefore one cannot reverse or rewrite international law of 500 hundred years ago to satisfy present day complaints. When the British came to this country, they did what international law called for, as well as Spain, France, and others. Right, wrong or indifference, Indigenous peoples without a seat of government, and who were nomadic, and not far removed from Stone Age cultures, were not considered nations or states. They held no true ownership of the soil, and were to be incorporated into the conquering society. The discoverer had the right to lay a claim to that soil, as well as the annexation of the Indigenous peoples, either by annexation, conquest, or by treaties It has always been recognized, even unto conquering nations that the conquerors, have the right to govern the conquered, by annexation or conquest... and that law still stands today. Who among us has the power to stop a super power from excising their authority of that power? Only in the United States can the conquered reign supreme over the conqueror...not by the will of the people, but by the will of one man, through the office of the president, by executive order, therefore bypassing the congress. In all reality this is illegal and is unconstitutional, and in conclusion, what are we to do???          Why not apply? Tucker's Constitutional Law    Here is what Tucker's constitutional law has to say about this subject. "It can hardly be maintained that a few hundred thousand savages can claim a perpetual title to an entire continent, to be used by them as a theater of nomadic life, without the cultivation of the soil or the improvement of its resources for the benefit of mankind, against the claim of crowded populations, who, by bringing the methods of civilized life to bear upon this new continent, could make the savages circumscribe the area of their occupation and subject that area to the methods of civilized life, without abridgment of their natural rights and with really an increase of happiness and well being.. The doctrine, sic utere tuo ut non alienum laedes, would compel the savage to limit his occupation within an area which would not diminish his happiness, so as that the unused domain might be subjected to civilized methods for the benefit of the crowded population of the world. But be this as it may, The doctrine of the rightful possession of the American continent by the different British colonies settled upon it has been so long recognized and enforced that it is needless to discuss further" §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§
Two Sets of Rules Stink
(By Greg Graunke)    Can't have two sets of rules. Articles in several recent publications have talked about the unregulated winter muskie spearing by Chippewa tribal members. One article detailed how three Lac du Flambeau took undersized muskies and speared without the proper permits. They were prosecuted in tribal court and fined a total of $360. I did some checking and found out the cost for the same offenses if the violators had not been tribal members. The court costs alone for three people would be about $135. The fine for each under- sized fish would be $168 and not having a li-cense would be another $138. The total would come to $1,482, plus I did not figure in a fine for leaving a hole unmarked on the ice. The final irony to this whole sad spearing situation is that hook-and-line anglers who visit lakes on the Lac du Flambeau reservation have a 40 inch size limit on muskies. Two sets of rules have never worked before and there is no reason to believe they ever will. §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§
Good Friday Massacre    The long years of peace following the marriage of Pocahontas had disarmed suspicion and made it impossible for imagination to conceive of such a plot, as was hatching in the brain of Opechancanough. So great was the faith of the colonists in the sincere intention of the Indians to keep the peace that they let the red men borrow from them some of the boats which were used going up and down the river to give notice of the plot. At the fatal hour some of the colonists were in their homes, others in the fields, planting corn and tobacco, others making brick, sawing timber or building houses, while the Indians looked on with apparent content.
   On this scene of harmony and hopefulness in His Majesty's first colony, Virginia, felt the dread blow of the great massacre. It is believed that the plot could not have been instigated, planned and carried out by a mind less astute and less deeply steeped in cruelty and craftiness than that of Opechancanough. It was as thoroughly managed as if the natives had had telegraphic facilities and the secret was so completely kept that no suspicion entered the heart of a colonist. The Indians kept up their appearance of friendship till the moment when they had been ordered to strike. "Some of them were even sitting down at breakfast with our people at their tables" when at eight o'clock on that Good Friday morning of March, 1622, wherever they happened to be on either side of James River for a hundred and forty miles up and down, they rose up as one man and each began murdering the pale face "friends" that happened to be closest to him. Neither aged men nor women nor young children were spared. Each uplifted tomahawk fell upon the victim nearest the hand that wielded it so suddenly that "few or none discerned the weapon that brought them to destruction." The Indians lived in small, widely scattered settlements, yet all received notice when to strike and directions as to what places they were to attack…From Mary Newton Standard's Book "Virginia's First Century" Chapter 16 p170-173.
Parr Ed. Note…This kind of shoots the picture of the poor red man victim full of holes. How come we don't hear of this kind of treachery and bloodthirsty brutality, at the Columbus Day parade demonstrations? No doubt the news of this and probably many other unpublished incidents returned to Europe, resulting in the firmer stance taken by those that followed. §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§
Issue Item    The infestation, by wild Canadian Geese, of parks in Milwaukee County has really become a messy problem. I think I could accommodate one pet bird with a small coop in the backyard; provide water, corn and crunchies; and give a buck or two to the county for this blessing. If by chance the goose accidentally died by meeting up with an ax, I would mourn briefly, then console myself that in order not to waste the creature, I could cook it for dinner. Isn't that what fowl are for? §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§
Feds Wage War on Farming Veterans    "At least they're not shooting at me this time." That's about the only good thing World War II veteran Paul Christy has to say in comparing his experiences as a fighter pilot 55 years ago with what he and his fellow veterans-turned-farmers are experiencing today at the hands of their own government in Klamath Basin. Christy and 213 other war veterans came home from defending their country in the mid-1940s and were lured by the U.S. government to Klamath Basin, a high desert area that straddles the California Oregon state line, by promises of a homestead including irrigated farmland with guaranteed water rights forever. In fact, Klamath Lake was developed in 1905 specifically to irrigate the basin's family farms. But today, the government that Christy and others defended has decided - with the prompting of professional environmental activists - that the farmers' water rights are less important than the rights of some "endangered" sucker fish and "threatened" coho salmon. As a result of "citizen" lawsuits filed by the activists under a provision of the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which operates the irrigation system, turned off the taps on April 7. The bureau decided to set aside virtually all of the water from Klamath Lake to protect habitats for the sucker fish and salmon instead. The lake is full, but the irrigation ditches are dry. Without irrigation water, the farmers' crops and pastureland - and with it their livelihoods and way of life - are in jeopardy of becoming a thing of the past. A federal judge denied an appeal by the farmers. He ruled that although "there is no question that farmers who rely on irrigation water and their communities will suffer severe economic hardship" because of the bureau's action, "Congress has spoken in the plainest of words, making it abundantly clear that the balance has been struck in favor of affording endangered species the highest of priorities."
PARR Ed. Note…So much for all the flag waving and phony declarations of gratitude for all that the veterans done for this country, some lousy fish are more important than they are, and for what? The Indians will probably spear most of them anyway. §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§
Property Tax Increase
*Source: Wisconsin Department of Revenue*    Total county property taxes climbed 8.1%, from about $1.22 billion to $1.32 billion, with three counties increasing levies by more than 30%, the state Department of Revenue reported. Overall, county property taxes have nearly doubled in the last decade.
   Among those with the highest percentage increases were Vilas County, which jumped 38.5%; Ozaukee County, up 37.7%; and Forest County, up 30.8%.
   Mark Rogacki, executive director of the Wisconsin. Counties Association, blamed the overall increase on
Unfunded mandates from the state, such as the court system, and health and human services.
Richard Scheil, a research associate for the non-partisan, non-profit Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance, said property tax levies are higher primarily because of an increased demand for specific county services.
PARR Ed. Note…Notice that two out of the three counties with the large increases, also have large Indian reservations within their borders. I wonder if these large increases in property tax have anything to do with the great exodus of people, claiming to be Indians, to the reservations? §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§
2001 Print Winner    This years winner of the print "Ready to rise," is Dr. Gerald Gorectke of Boulder Junction, Wisconsin. Once again we would like to thank Mark Rotz of PERM for providing PARR with this wonderful print. §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§
New Association    PARR is associated with several grass roots organizations throughout the country. Our latest associate organization is, Citizens Standup! Committee P.O. 1280 Toppenish WA 98948. Chaired by Elaine Willman. Washington State is no stranger to Indian Treaty Rights, and the ramifications thereof. (Click the Citizens Standup Committee link on PARR's web site.) §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§
Sad Duty
(By Bob Manzke)     I took care of a very sad chore, at a funeral home, earlier this evening, 5/30/01. I said good-bye to a very dear old friend. One of the things Gerald Maciolek and I had in common was the countless hours we spent manning PARR booths at the State Fair, Boat Shows and Sports Shows etc. Gerald was always there to do his share and then some. Over the years we sure took a lot of flack from the politically correct. You are going to be missed Gerald, your intelligence and sharp wit will never be duplicated.
Rest in peace old buddy.

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