AMERICAN RIGHTS GUARDIAN UPDATE Volume 9 Number 1 Spr./Sum. 2006 The Only Printed Voice of Opposition to Federal Government Indian Policy in Wisconsin. Published by Protect Americans' Rights Resources to maintain an informed membership. Well spring is just around the corner. Soon we can say the "spring has sprung, and the grass has riz." However, sad to say, along with the grass is a crop of weeds, and this year the weeds have become freakier than usual. We have the normal "Walleye Warriors" which are perennial like Crabb grass (special Wisconsin variety). New exotic species are appearing. One wants to shut down America's economy to supposedly slow down global warming. Another intellectual elitist recently announced he wants to kill 90% of the people on earth so he and his cabal can share a better quality of life with the other creatures that inhabit the earth. Not every new plant coming up this spring is a bitter weed. New data tells us that the Kennewick man is not just an isolated incident. A new study tells us the people from Europe could have settled the Eastern United States thousands of years before anyone can find a date to support "Treaty Rights." Mongoloid people (Indians) may have been "Johnny Come Latelys" with their land bridge through Alaska theory putting them in the also ran category. So in essence, I feel certain the "FIRST" Americans were seen dancing the Polka!!!! And had the country taken away from them by the Mongoloids. So maybe Europeans really are the real and first "Native Americans" Consequently, with my German, Polish heritage I hereby lay claim to 50% of the Bratwurst and Mushrooms in the United States. Were the Earliest "Native" Americans "European," 50,000 years ago?* Some very highly qualified archaeologists and anthropologists with increasingly hard site evidence from… South Carolina…Virginia…Florida…and Pennsylvania, to mention just a few sites, are persuaded the answer is a resounding "Quite possibly…even probably!" So suggests the May-June 2006 issue of Archaeology magazine. In fact, even John Smith's claim to be a "first European settler" in an established village may now be at risk of being slightly tarred, just as Virginians prepare for next year's 400th anniversary celebration at Jamestown. But first, a little 20th Century history: In 1932, in the vicinity of Clovis, New Mexico, a major archaeological find of spear points, scraping tools and other artifacts and implements of relatively advanced sophistication were unearthed along with the bones of mammoths and other prehistoric animals. The findings were dated at around 9,000 years, in keeping with educated estimates that the crossing from Asia/Siberia may have begun around 11,500 years ago. Around this evidence the Smithsonian archaeology specialists and other scientists from academia established the concept that North America's first humans probably were hungry, adventuresome Mongol-type hunters and gatherers from Siberia and Northeast Asia who trekked eastward after big game. The easiest and simplest explanation that has thus prevailed in Canada, the U.S. and in Indian tribal circles had all "first Americans" following a single narrow path by crossing Ice-Age-bound and barren frozen wastes now known as the Bering Sea and the Aleutian Islands at a time when the sea level was sometimes 300 feet lower than presently is the case. And when they reached the territory we call Alaska, their path extended to what we now call New Mexico. All else regarding the first humans thus begins between 9,000 and 11,000 years ago. But in the 1990s a new and perhaps more adventurous breed of young archaeologists and a new era of archaeology in the Americas emerged as cited herewith: KEY "DIGS" (1) The Monte Verde site in faraway Chile was thoroughly explored and documented by U.S. archaeologist Tom Dillehay, now a professor at Vanderbilt University, as having hundreds of stone tools and weapons NOT of the Clovis culture and dating back 14,400 to 16,000 years. So if the Clovis aficionados insisted that it took from 11,500 to 9,000 years to reach New Mexico, how did even earlier humans manage to reach the southern tip of South America up to 7,000 years sooner than those reaching the American south-west? (2) Meadowcroft rock shelter southwest of Pittsburgh turned up pre-Clovis artifacts and the carbon evidence indicated human occupancy as early as 17,000 years ago. (3) Saltville Valley in southwest Virginia near Kentucky and Tennessee borders, also offered up evidence dating to 17,000 years though, as always, Clovis advocates question the legitimacy of the artifacts found. (4) At Cactus Hill along southeast Virginia's Nottaway River, much deeper in the ground than Clovis evidence, a wealth of artifacts and weapon points have been located that date back 18,000 years. (5) The Aucilla River of north Florida has a submerged sink-hole in which animal bones on which human tools have been used for scraping or probing for marrow, etc., date to 14,000 years and the "flat-fluted points" retrieved from the bottom of the river pre-date Clovis by at least 1,000 years. Yet to come is new Florida State research of ocean beds up to four miles out into the Atlantic since Ice Age seas were so much lower than now and re-searchers have already found some 40 artifact sites off the coast. But the most exciting and controversial news in American archaeology, according to Atlanta Journal and Constitution science writer Mike Toner, who authored this latest magazine headliner, is the University of South Carolina's Allendale Paleoindian Expedition along the banks of the Savannah River. At a site named "Topper," Expedition director Al Goodyear has hit a "mother lode" of hundreds of artifacts, a few of them Clovis but most, pre-Clovis with the majority of the finds dating back to between 14,000 and 18,000 years. Aided by a large number of volunteers, Goodyear has dug several feet below the most likely terrain for Clovis discovery and because he has turned up so much at such greater depths, the pits and trenches at Topper site are getting deeper and deeper. Why? Because Goodyear is now convinced that if he digs deep enough he and his associates are going to find "evidence of human activity here in the interior of America 40,000 to 50,000 years ago. It looks like people came here periodically to get chert (the stony material for tool-making and weapon points)….Where they came from and when, I still have no clue." But as Reservation Report has noted in a number of prior editions, archaeologists, anthropologists and linguists from Europe, Canada, Brazil and the United States are more and more convinced that the earliest humans to reach North America arrived on the U.S. East Coast from Europe and possibly Africa. And the hardest evidence so far comes from the close similarities between pre-Clovis tools and weapon points found in North America and those found in abundance between France and Spain from a pre-history culture known as the Solutreans. There is even genetic evidence of such a connection and language study specialists who have most closely analyzed the words and speech patterns of today's American Indians find clear indications that such a trans-Atlantic connection existed, perhaps up to 20,000 years ago. Those scientists and others who cling to the Clovis-Asian origin mythology - not the Indians themselves - who are convinced they originated on North American soil, may soon find such claims to be without convincing substance. It may be just as likely, if not more so, that some, such as Kennewick Man for example, have come from a ubiquitous "somewhere else." * This article, by editor John Fulton Lewis, appeared in the April, 2006, Reservation Report. It is so comprehensive and well done I inserted it verbatim in this newsletter. Bob Manzke §§§§§§ Global Warming or Ice Age? By Pete Du Pont. The following was part of an article that appeared in The Wall Street Journal. Did the 1970's mark the beginning of an ice age? Scientists and the press thought so. In 1971 Global Ecology forecast the "continued rapid cooling of the earth." The New York Times reported in 1975 that "many signs" suggest that the "earth may be headed for another ice age," and Science magazine suggested this cooling could be the beginning of "a full-blown 10,000-year ice age." It seemed sensible because, as NASA data show, there was indeed a 30-year, 0.2-degree Celsius cooling trend from 1940 to 1970. So are we now at the beginning of a global warming catastrophe? Again, scientists and the press think so: the same NASA data indicates a 0.7-degree warming trend from 1970 to 2000. The Washington Post's David Ignatius reflects the media view in saying that "human activity is accelerating dangerous changes in the world's climate." But it is not clear that human activity is wholly responsible. The Washington Policy Center reports that Mount Rainier in Washington State grew cooler each year from 1960 to 2003, warming only in 2004. And Mars is warming significantly. NASA reported last September that the red planet's south polar ice cap has been shrinking for six years. As far as we know few Martians drive SUVs or heat their homes with coal, so its ice caps are being melted by the sun--just as our Earth's are. Duke University scientists have concluded: "at least 10 to 30 percent of global warming measured during the past two decades may be due to increased solar output." So what is causing these cooling and warming increases? Normal temperature trends? Solar radiation changes? Or human-caused global warming? There is little we can do about historical temperature or solar heat cycles, but if human actions are in fact causing global warming, what could be done to reduce it? One remedy is improved technology, and here America is making significant progress. Philip Deutch's article in the December edition of the journal, Foreign Policy, lays it out: "Today's cars use only 60 percent of the gasoline they did in 1972; new refrigerators about one third the electricity; and it now takes 55 percent less oil and gas than in 1973 to generate the same amount of gross domestic product." The cost of wind power production is down 80% over 20 years, and "the cost of solar power has fallen from almost $1 per kilowatt to less than 18 cents." On the other hand, there are some remedies that are not being pursued. "More than 50 percent of U.S. consumers," Deutch notes, "have the option of buying electricity generated from renewable energy sources. . . . Only 1 or 2 percent actually do." And while two dozen low-pollution nuclear power plants are under construction in nine nations (and another 40 are planned), in America government regulation has virtually stopped nuclear plant construction. Our last nuclear plant was ordered in 1973 and completed in 1996, and no others are under construction. We also know that the Kyoto Treaty will do little to solve the carbon-dioxide problem. Masquerading as a global environmental policy, Kyoto exempts half of the world's population and nine of the top 20 emitters of carbon dioxide--including China and India--from its emissions reduction requirements. It is in fact an effort to replace the world's markets with an internationally regulated (think U.N.) global economy, perhaps better described as a predatory trade strategy to level the world's economic playing field by penalizing the economic growth of energy efficient nations and rewarding those emitting much greater quantities of noxious gasses. Which explains why in 1997 the U.S. Senate voted 95-0 to oppose the signing of any international protocol that would commit Western nations to reduce emissions unless developing countries had to do so as well. As The Wall Street Journal recently pointed out, almost none of the nations that signed on are meeting Kyoto's requirements. Thirteen of the original 15 European signatories will likely miss the 2010 emission reduction targets. Spain will miss its target by 33 percentage points and Denmark by 25 points. Targets aside, Greece and Canada have seen their emissions rise by 23% and 24%, respectively, since 1990. As for America, our emissions have increased 16%, so we are doing better than many of the Kyoto nations. In the December 2004 issue of Environment, Princeton professors Robert Socolow and Stephen Pacala calculated what actions would be necessary to keep global emissions at their current levels for the next 50 years. Rejecting the Kyoto approach, they conclude that new energy strategies would be monumental efforts that "must be implemented on a massive scale across all sectors of the economy and in countries at all stages of economic development": For starters, replace every burned-out incandescent light bulb in the world with a compact fluorescent bulb, which is four times as energy-efficient. Then construct two million new wind turbines--a 50-fold expansion of wind power machines. To function properly they must be far enough apart to allow wind pressure to flow between them, so about five turbines per square mile can be installed. But wind-mill construction is controversial. The environmentally dedicated Kennedy family has already forbidden wind power off their summer island of Nantucket. Why? Because, says Robert Kennedy Jr., a lawyer with the Natural Resources Defense Counsel, the wind farm would "damage the views from 16 historic sites." One of them, of course, is the Kennedy family summer compound. Mr. du Pont, a former governor of Delaware, is chairman of the Dallas-based National Center for Policy Analysis. §§§§§§ More DNR Arrogance The following is an e-mail received by a Radio Talk Show Host from a woman who is obviously aggravated by the way her family has been treated by the Wisconsin DNR. What makes the letter so interesting is that the writer is a 28 year veteran of the Winnebago County Sheriff's Department. I've deleted the names of some of the DNR Wardens that she refers to (for the moment) unless they've been referred to by other sources. In light of many similar stories emerging about the Wisconsin DNR though, you can judge for yourself whether (1) her story rings true; and (2) whether it is way past time for the Legislature to rein in the excesses of Jim Doyle's arrogant DNR. "I believe my husband is the "Greenbush guy" in the DNR e-mail regarding John Stoik vs. DNR. If you think his story was something, relax and read our 4-year ordeal with the same Barney Fife's. "Since 2002 my husband Paul and I have been having "issues" with the same wardens of the DNR. We own 26 acres in the Town of Greenbush surrounded by the Kettle Moraine State Forest. In fall 2002 Warden ____ issued me a warning for the illegal feeding of deer. I explained to Warden _____ that I was feeding my peacock "Pete" and his seven girlfriends, plus 25 pet chickens. One week later Warden _____ observed our domestic fowl along with a few wild turkeys pecking at feed on the ground within 40 yards of our residence. ______ issued my husband a $200 citation for feeding wild animals. This citation was later dismissed by the Sheboygan County D.A. Office for lack of merit. "My husband tried to work with the wardens as to how we can "legally" feed our pets. No structure was suitable. We even moved the feeding operation to our deck in an effort to comply. Rodents moved in literally. They ate the firewall between our house and garage and took up residence in our eaves. I won't even talk about the poop. So we moved the feeding back 40 yds. To the edge of the lawn, which by Administrative Code is legal. The fowl have a shelter but are not fed in there, as it is not sanitary. "For the next year (2003) the DNR wardens conducted multiple surveillance operations of our property to include aerial surveillance of our 26 acres and nighttime surveillance with night vision glasses just like real cops. The aerial observations stated there were no signs of feed piles. The report on the nighttime surveillance stated we were illuminating a feed pile, while in fact we were grilling out on our deck. And since when is it illegal to illuminate your yard? "It goes on… "The wardens then (2004) obtained a search warrant for our property based on false information from a "Confidential Informant" who stated that they saw corn in a wooden bunker. This bunker was at the edge of my flower garden and had not had any feed it for months. I don't want to attract deer to my flower garden. The aerial reports stated they saw no feed in the wooden bunker. Any "informant" would have had to trespass on our property to see inside this bunker due to its location and still would have seen no feed in it. "When the wardens executed the search warrant they requested assistance from the Sheboygan County Sheriff's Dept., as the wardens labeled my husband "a dangerous man" and they feared for their safety. Six wardens and two sheriff's deputies surrounded our home. My husband was taken into custody and forced to strip to his underwear. The wardens wanted him handcuffed and put in the back of the squad car. The sheriff deputies declined to do this and stated they would just sit in our house with my husband and watch hunting shows. "The search warrant specified curtilage (outside area) surrounding the residence and shed and 26 acres only. Yet the wardens entered our shed, other outbuildings and enclosed tree stands. This was verified by snow tracks from the snowfall that morning. The search warrant produced no evidence of any illegal activity. Their own report stated that we were feeding domestic fowl. In spite of that information the wardens still issued my husband 4 citations for illegal feeding with fines of $1,272 and a 5 year loss of hunting privileges. "We requested reports from the DNR regarding the citations and search warrant through open records. The DNR denied the request. We had to hire an attorney and spent $4,000 in attorney fees to maintain my husband's hunting privileges and feed our pets as we see fit on our own property. I thought I lived in The United States of America and I could do that, however it cost me $4,000 to have someone say 'yes, you can!' "My husband was found not guilty on all counts in court based on the fact that we were feeding our domestic fowl. Isn't that what I initially told Warden ______ in 2002? As we were leaving court our attorney said, 'Be careful of him (Warden ______) he really has it in for you.' "And on… "Five days after the court found us not guilty Warden ______ and Park Ranger ______ drove past our residence and observed my husband operating his ATV on the edge of the road going from one of our driveways to the other. My husband was on a mission planting trees by the road so the Barney Fife's can't see into our property anymore. Warden ______ did not issue my husband a citation for the ATV violation at that time but Warden ______ did one week later. Do you think ______ is holding a grudge? "And on…. "I am a lieutenant with the Winnebago County Sheriff's Office. Most of my 28year career has been in investigations. I have had extensive training and experience in obtaining and executing search warrants and conducting proper police investigations of "real crime". I have Page 5 worked high profile homicide cases (Gary Hirte Eagle Scout Thrill Killer 2003). So I do know a little about police work. "As a result of the DNR's search warrant and allegations of illegal activity I was the subject of an internal investigation at work. I could have been fired, but I don't work for a Barney Fife agency. Neither my husband nor I would engage in any type of activity that would jeopardize my job and upcoming retirement. "Recent media attention has shown that the DNR is using similar tactics on other citizens. The John Stoik and Terrie Stangl incidents prompted me to come forward. The Milwaukee Journal/ Sentinel published a recent DNR e-mail from Warden Clutter which stated: 'there's a beer for anyone who can get the Greenbush guy and/or Adell guy….' The 'Greenbush guy' is my husband. This is harassment plain and clear. Our issues with the DNR started in 2002 and continue in 2006. Enough is enough. "My point is… I work for a law enforcement agency that has recently gone through layoffs due to budget limitations. Yet the DNR apparently has unlimited funds to conduct multiple surveillance operations utilizing a significant amount of manpower for citations! I find this practice appalling. "The DNR wardens have violated my civil rights by the illegal search of my property and jeopardized my law enforcement career. They do not use proper police practices. Their demeanor as law enforcement officials is atrocious. I'm ashamed they are part of my profession. The Stangl and Stoik incidents prove that their vigilante tactics need to be stopped." PARR Ed Note: If you recall we did an article about Mr. Stoik in the last newsletter. Apparently, this is the same type of Game warden that appeared in that article. Or, perhaps he is the same one. At any rate this stuff continues to flourish in Navajo Jim Doyle's DNR. §§§§§§ 2000 Archived Issue Item When David Bruce murdered two children at their home with a pitchfork, I failed to see an editorial calling for a ban of pitchforks and a lawsuit against pitchfork makers. The Main Stream Media editors didn't blame the murderer, did they? And they didn't have guns to blame. So why don't they blame the pitchfork? Let's show some consistency here. If we can just save one child… §§§§§§ Big Black Headline On the Drudge website reads, "Arizona Governor Orders Troops to Mexican Border." Both Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano and New Mexico's Bill Richardson have now declared a "state of emergency" on their border. Why? Because our border is descending into a state of anarchy, as 5,000 illegal aliens daily attempt to cross our Mexican frontier and drug traffickers, with renegade Mexican army troops sometimes backing them up, attempt to run narcotics into the United States. While paging through ARGU archives I found 4 articles, some of them 10 years old, in which PARR predicted that this would be the end result of NAFTA. Looks like PARR's crystal ball was right on the money again. It is now a dozen years since NAFTA passed. We can measure its success in the clamor for fences and troops on the border and in Mexico's having displaced Colombia as the primary source of the marijuana, "meth" and cocaine flowing into the United States. But it was the economic argument that our elites Bush and James Baker, Dole and Gingrich, Clinton and Carter used to sell NAFTA. In one of the big propaganda pieces of that assessment, an October 1993 paper published by the International Institute of Economics, Gary Hufbauer and Jeffrey Schott wrote: "Our job projections reflect a judgment that, with NAFTA, U. S. exports to Mexico will continue to outstrip Mexican exports to the United States, leading to a U .S. trade surplus with Mexico of about $7 to $9 billion annually by 1995." The authors further predicted the U.S. trade surplus with Mexico would rise to $9 billion to $12 billion a year between 2000 and 2010. And what happened? Charles McMillion of MGB Services, using Commerce Department data through 2005, has tallied the results. A year after NAFTA passed, the U. S. trade surplus had vanished. From 1995 through 1998, we ran $20 billion trade deficits with Mexico. From 1999 through 2005, the trade deficit with Mexico grew every year, from $27 billion in 1999 to last year's $54 billion. Where Hufbauer and Scbott had predicted $100plus billion in trade surpluses with Mexico from 1994 to today, NAFTA delivered some $400 billion in cumulative U.S. trade deficits a $500 billion mistake by the crack Hufbauer Schott team. Is there a silver lining? Are we not selling Mexico high value items, while she exports to us the products of her less skilled labor? Again, the opposite has occurred. When NAFTA passed in 1993, we imported some 225,000 cars and trucks from Mexico, but exported about 500,000 vehicles to the world. In 2005, our exports to the world were still a shade under 500,000 vehicles, but our auto and truck imports from Mexico had tripled to 700,000 vehicles. As McMillion writes, Mexico now exports more cars and trucks to the United States than the United States exports to the whole world. A fine end, is it not, to the United States as "Auto Capital of the World"? What happened? Post NAFTA, the Big Three just picked up a huge slice of our auto industry and moved it, and the jobs, to Mexico. Consider the range of items the most advanced nation on earth now sells to Mexico, and Mexico sells to us. Mexico's leading exports to the United States in 2005 were autos, oil, electrical machinery, computers, furniture, textiles and apparel. The Made in the USA goods that reaped us the greatest revenue in trade with Mexico were plastics, chemicals, cereals, cotton, meat, paper, oil seed, aluminum, copper and knitted or crocheted fabrics. The American people were had. NAFTA was never a trade deal. NAFTA was always an enabling act to enable U.S. corporations to dump their American workers and move their factories to Mexico. For U.S. companies, it was one sweet deal. At zero cost, they were allowed to rid themselves of their American workers; get out from under contributing to Social Security and Medicare; and slough off the burden of environmental, health and safety, wage and hour and civil rights laws, and were liberated to go abroad and hire Mexicans who would work for one fifth to one tenth of what their unwanted American workers cost. What NAFTA, GATT, Davos and the WTO have always been about is freeing up transnational to get rid of First World workers, while assuring them they could hold on, at no cost, to their First World customers. When one considers who finances the Republican Party, funds its candidates, and hires its former congressmen, senators and Cabinet officers at six and seven figure retainers to lobby, it is understandable that the GOP went into the tank. But why did the liberals, who paid the price of mandating all those benefits for American workers and imposing all those regulations on U.S. corporations, go along? That's the mystery. About NAFTA there is no mystery. There never really was. As PARR predicted back in 94 & 95. The American People got the SHAFTA with NAFTA. §§§§§§ On a 'watch list'? The following letter to the editor appeared in The April 4th issue of The Lakeland Times Newspaper. To the Editor: I just finished reading the March 24 issue of The Lakeland Times and I must admit that the article "Vilas delays trip on Indian issues" in part contains the biggest pile of unsubstantiated babble speak being spewed by a so called public official that I have had the misfortune to read. The article reported that a request to send a representative to Washington, D.C., for a conference focusing on Native American issues was tabled by the Vilas County supervisors after one of them labeled the host organization "anti-Indian" and a "hate" group. According to the story, county board chairman Charlie Rayala wanted to send supervisor Jay Verhulst to the Citizens Equal Rights Alliance (CERA) conference to gather information concerning tribal issues. However, some on the county tribal concerns committee were not pleased with CERA, the story said, and went on to say: "Sure we may have had some problems with the tribe," Ed Bluthardt said, "but we have been able to sit down, talk and come to some good conclusions." Then he said: "On the other hand CERA is on the FBI watch list. They are a hate group, anti-Indian. They are known as the Ku Klux Klan in the Indian nations. They just wrap their hate in the American flag to take away the rights of the tribes. We cannot affiliate ourselves in any way with such a group; you cannot spend tax dollars to send a representative to a hate group." My name is Bob Manzke and I am the executive secretary of PARR (Protect America's Rights and Resources). PARR and CERA have similar goals and have similar philosophies. So I would like to find out if PARR is on a "watch list" as well. Therefore, if Mr. Bluthardt could tell us just how he went about discovering that CERA was on an FBI watch list a list that seemed to mysteriously appear as needed PARR will be able to determine its status. A political tactic often used is character assassination. This is often used by someone who doesn't have a viable argument and who's blowing smoke. What baffles me is how Mr. Bluthardt can make matter-of-fact statements in the public media claiming that CERA is a hate group, anti-Indian, and is somehow connected with the Ku Klux Klan. Perhaps this statement by Elaine Willman, chair of CERA, will explain: "I've been working pretty diligently with Vilas County and other counties, helping them draft factual arguments opposing 'Treatment Similar to States' applied for by the Lac du Flambeau (tribe) for water quality for all waters flowing in and through five counties. (One tiny tribe to control and regulate the water of five counties!)." CERA is PARR's sister organization, therefore accusations made against CERA are made against PARR. Consequently PARR insists that Mr. Bluthardt print the proof of the accusations he made or issue an apology. Bob Manzke---Milwaukee PARR Ed Note: I have been informed that the Vilas County Board has just taken another shot at PARR and CERA. At the heart of the matter was the tribal concerns committee's contention that it was left out of the loop when Verhulst made his request to attend the meeting directly to the finance committee, and not to it. "He didn't ask us because he knew we would turn it down," said Fred Radtke, a member of the tribal concerns committee. Radtke and other county board members have characterized CERA as a hate group and anti-Indian. Misunderstanding the issue "CERA, PARR (Protect American's Rights and Resources) and CERF (Citizens Equal Rights Foundation) all misunderstand the issue of tribal sovereignty," Radtke said. The fact is we understand it too well to buy into this Myth. "They are anti-Indian and that is not what this county should be connected with." intrepided this means our stance will not tolerate another point of view. The finance committee had decided in March to turn down the request to send Verhulst to Washington, D.C., for a CERA convention focusing on federal Indian policies and providing an opportunity to lobby representatives and senators. Verhuist was chosen to represent Vilas County by board Chair. So the tribal concerns committee has its nose all out of joint because it was ignored. Seems that Bluthardt and Radtke are not much of a boon to Vilas County, because they seem to have one agenda, with all their manufactured statements coming right out of the tribal handbook. §§§§§§ Reservations, a Drug/Alien Conduit Across the Border? He had eluded the authorities for years. Witnesses against him had mysteriously disappeared Shots were fired from his highly secured compound here last year when the state police tried to close in. New York in the 1930's? No! Indian Reservations 2005-06. Sarah Kershaw writing in the New York Times tells us that "The man, John V. Oakes, like a fast rising number of American Indian drug traffickers across the country, saw himself as "untouchable," as one senior investigator put it, protected by armed enforcers and a code of silence that ruled the reservation. "After he was finally arrested last May, Oakes was recorded from jail talking on the phone with his estranged wife. "I can't believe people let this happen to me," he said, according to Derek Champagne, the Franklin County district attorney who listened to the recorded call. "You can't touch me. I'm on the reservation, and I do what I want." "Law enforcement officials across the country say Oakes and the drug lords he is accused of stealing from are part of a violent but largely overlooked wave of trafficking and crime that has swept through the nation's Indian reservations in recent years, as large scale criminal organizations have formed havens and allies in the wide-open and isolated regions of Indian country. "In some cases, outside drug gangs work with Indian criminals to distribute drugs on Indian and non-Indian lands, and on a growing number of reservations, drug traffickers particularly Mexican criminals are marrying Indian women to establish themselves on reservations. Sarah Kershaw tells us that "Wisconsin enterprise at the Lac Courte Oreffles reservation in northwestern Wisconsin, for instance, several members of the Latin Kings gang married Indian women while a tribal offshoot of the gang built a $3 million crack cocaine ring moving drugs from Milwaukee into and around the reservation over the past few years, prosecutors said. "After the gang gained a foothold on the reservation in 1998, Indian criminals setup an affiliate, called the Lion Tribe Set, which ran one of the largest crack cocaine trafficking rings in the history of the state, said John W Vaudreuil, an assistant U. S. attorney in Wisconsin. So far, 37 Tribal members have been convicted and sentenced in the case. John Fleming's web page on PARR1.com article #17 exposes more about out sovereign neighbors. As quoted from the Syracuse Post Standard, "Hundreds Enter Through Reservation, officials say" by John O'Brien. This 20columninch article narrows the problem. Of note: "Federal agents patrolling the United States' northern border know that hundreds of illegal aliens each month have slipped into the United States from Canada through the Akwesasne Mohawk Indian Reservation." ... Federal agencies and state police have beefed up patrols and sent helicopters equipped with infrared searching devices to pay close attention to the reservation in northern New York. Akwesasne is off limits to U.S. and Canadian agents because it is sovereign territory." In recent years, between 300 and 500 illegal aliens a month have entered the United States through Akwesasne, according to officials with the U.S. Border Patrol and the Customs Service. Each year there are one or two people considered suspected terrorists." ... "Over the past two years, more than 400 people have been charged as illegal aliens or alien smugglers after being caught entering the United States " ... "The unique geography of Akwesasne provided easy access for a cigarette and liquor smuggling operation to move $700 million worth of contraband cigarettes from the United States onto the black market in Canada from 1992 to 1996. More than 20 people and a tobacco company were convicted for that operation." "The preferred commodities have been people, drugs, and guns, federal authorities say….A year ago the Border Patrol arrested 47 people on charges of smuggling Chinese nationals through Akwesasne from Canada, where immigration and asylum laws are more permissive than the United States. That smuggling ring had shipped between 150 and 200 illegal aliens a month," said Ed Duda, assistant chief of the Border Patrol in Swanton, VT. "By charging $47,000 per person, those smugglers made a total of $170 million over two years, Duda said. 'That's one smuggling ring, but we have about six or seven that run Akwesasne' PARR Ed Note: One of the basic requirements of sovereignty is integrity. Undermining the security of ones neighbors sure doesn't qualify. §§§§§§ Perpetually Offended (By Greg Graunke) The same people that put the panel below out for public scrutiny are the same people that are offended by the use of the word Squaw when naming lakes, creeks, roads , etc. And they get their undies all in a bind about the use of Indian names for school mascots. Lets practice a little of "what's good for the goose is good for the gander" here folks. Oops; I forgot; we are dealing with sovereign nations??? §§§§§§ Dear Senator Feingold (By Bob Manzke) During a speech you made on the Senate floor you asked the question; "Where is the Attorney General?" Referring to George Bush's alleged breaking of the law by wiretapping. If you are so downright concerned about the allegedly illegal heedlessness of the U.S. Attorney General, Why don't you start with your home state? The state constitution of Wisconsin has been trashed beyond recognition by your Party (including the Wisconsin Attorney General). Your comments on this will be appreciated. Bob Manzke §§§§§§ The Lac du Flambeau Navy Returns (By Bob Manzke) If you recall last summer we did a series of articles about the demise of The Lac Du Flambeau's Navy. Well not only did this hair brained scheme get sunk, now the tribe is getting sued for attempting to defraud their partners. The suit alleges the tribe tried to sell the casino boat covertly in a deal that would have allowed the Lac du Flambeau to invest in a proposed casino in Mississippi while leaving its non-Indian investors in dry dock. Cary Spivak & Dan Bice writing in the Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel tell us: That "they (The Tribe) asked Mr. Panzarella to sign the agreement to sell the boat," said his Chicago lawyer, Roseann Oliver. "He said, 'What's going on? Who is this group? Why can't we do business with them?' They (tribal leaders) said, 'We don't want you to.' So goes the story of the boat, dubbed the Dream Catcher, which in the past couple of years appears to have made money only for a bunch of lawyers.According to court documents, the tribe which has spent years scouring the country in search of an off-reservation casino deal found a buyer that was willing to pay $3 million "in cash or other consideration" for the Dream Catcher. The other consideration appears to have been a chance for the tribe to buy into a casino being developed near Natchez, Miss., best known as the place where Jefferson Davis, later the Confederate president, married Varina Howell in 1845. Panzarella and his other partners wouldn't have gotten any piece of the Mississippi casino action. The estranged partners will soon be in a Chicago court to argue over whether the Lac du Flambeau can be sued in a non-tribal venue. Tribal officials declined to comment, and their Chicago lawyer didn't return calls. But in a recent letter to tribal members, Chairwoman Vicki Doud confidently predicted, "The matter should be dismissed soon on sovereign immunity grounds we can then proceed with our dissolution process." Easier said than done!!! PARR Ed Note: Well there's that word "sovereignty" again. Try to defraud your partners and then hide behind sovereignty. Anyone see anything that vaguely looks like integrity here? Next Chapter The Lac du Flambeau has filed a civil lawsuit in Vilas County Circuit Court against Steven Panzarella, one of its partners in the failed Cancun Cruises casino boat deal. The complaint claims that Panzarella fraudulently induced the tribe to enter into two contracts and invest more than $3.2 million in Cancun Cruises LLC. The tribe contends Panzarella “knowingly, intentionally, recklessly and repeatedly defrauded the tribe by representing that Cancun Cruises had secured political support for all necessary permitting. Including its navigation permit, from all levels of the Mexican government and that Cancun Cruises would be able to begin operations within 45 days of execution of the operating agreement.” The complaint goes on to say that the tribe relied on Panzarella’s representations when it agreed to enter into the contracts and secure the necessary funds. Now let’s see; the tribe claims that because of sovereign immunity Panzarella can’t sue the tribe. But, the tribe can sue Panzarella in civil court so they can collect a larger settlement, with less evidence. I just don’t understand everything I know!!! §§§§§§ Issue Item A major research institution has recently announced the discovery of the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element has been named "Governmentium." Governmentium has one neutron, 12 assistant neutrons, 75 deputy neutrons, and 224 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of particles called peons. Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert. However, it can be detected, because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A minute amount of Governmentium causes one reaction to take over four days to complete, when it would normally take less than a second. Governmentium has a normal half-life of 4 years; it does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places. In fact, Governmentium's mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganization will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes. This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a certain quantity in concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as "Critical Morass." When catalyzed with money, Governmentium becomes administratium an element which radiates just as much energy as the Governmentium since it has half as many peons but twice as many morons. §§§§§§ At times I think I’m a moron, but then again I’m not a congressman. Click the Membership Application to open in a new window for separate printing. FAIR USE NOTICE: This newsletter contains copy-righted material, the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of the political, human rights, economic, democratic, scientific, and social justice issues, including historical accuracy, as pertains to federal Indian policy/programs. We believe this constitutes a "fair use" of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. 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Volume 9 Number 1 Spr./Sum. 2006 The Only Printed Voice of Opposition to Federal Government Indian Policy in Wisconsin. Published by Protect Americans' Rights Resources to maintain an informed membership.
Well spring is just around the corner. Soon we can say the "spring has sprung, and the grass has riz." However, sad to say, along with the grass is a crop of weeds, and this year the weeds have become freakier than usual. We have the normal "Walleye Warriors" which are perennial like Crabb grass (special Wisconsin variety). New exotic species are appearing. One wants to shut down America's economy to supposedly slow down global warming. Another intellectual elitist recently announced he wants to kill 90% of the people on earth so he and his cabal can share a better quality of life with the other creatures that inhabit the earth.
Not every new plant coming up this spring is a bitter weed. New data tells us that the Kennewick man is not just an isolated incident. A new study tells us the people from Europe could have settled the Eastern United States thousands of years before anyone can find a date to support "Treaty Rights." Mongoloid people (Indians) may have been "Johnny Come Latelys" with their land bridge through Alaska theory putting them in the also ran category. So in essence, I feel certain the "FIRST" Americans were seen dancing the Polka!!!! And had the country taken away from them by the Mongoloids. So maybe Europeans really are the real and first "Native Americans" Consequently, with my German, Polish heritage I hereby lay claim to 50% of the Bratwurst and Mushrooms in the United States.
Were the Earliest "Native" Americans "European," 50,000 years ago?*
Some very highly qualified archaeologists and anthropologists with increasingly hard site evidence from… South Carolina…Virginia…Florida…and Pennsylvania, to mention just a few sites, are persuaded the answer is a resounding "Quite possibly…even probably!" So suggests the May-June 2006 issue of Archaeology magazine.
In fact, even John Smith's claim to be a "first European settler" in an established village may now be at risk of being slightly tarred, just as Virginians prepare for next year's 400th anniversary celebration at Jamestown. But first, a little 20th Century history: In 1932, in the vicinity of Clovis, New Mexico, a major archaeological find of spear points, scraping tools and other artifacts and implements of relatively advanced sophistication were unearthed along with the bones of mammoths and other prehistoric animals. The findings were dated at around 9,000 years, in keeping with educated estimates that the crossing from Asia/Siberia may have begun around 11,500 years ago.
Around this evidence the Smithsonian archaeology specialists and other scientists from academia established the concept that North America's first humans probably were hungry, adventuresome Mongol-type hunters and gatherers from Siberia and Northeast Asia who trekked eastward after big game.
The easiest and simplest explanation that has thus prevailed in Canada, the U.S. and in Indian tribal circles had all "first Americans" following a single narrow path by crossing Ice-Age-bound and barren frozen wastes now known as the Bering Sea and the Aleutian Islands at a time when the sea level was sometimes 300 feet lower than presently is the case. And when they reached the territory we call Alaska, their path extended to what we now call New Mexico. All else regarding the first humans thus begins between 9,000 and 11,000 years ago.
But in the 1990s a new and perhaps more adventurous breed of young archaeologists and a new era of archaeology in the Americas emerged as cited herewith: KEY "DIGS"
(1) The Monte Verde site in faraway Chile was thoroughly explored and documented by U.S. archaeologist Tom Dillehay, now a professor at Vanderbilt University, as having hundreds of stone tools and weapons NOT of the Clovis culture and dating back 14,400 to 16,000 years. So if the Clovis aficionados insisted that it took from 11,500 to 9,000 years to reach New Mexico, how did even earlier humans manage to reach the southern tip of South America up to 7,000 years sooner than those reaching the American south-west?
(2) Meadowcroft rock shelter southwest of Pittsburgh turned up pre-Clovis artifacts and the carbon evidence indicated human
occupancy as early as 17,000 years ago.
(3) Saltville Valley in southwest Virginia near Kentucky and Tennessee borders, also offered up evidence dating to 17,000 years though, as always, Clovis advocates question the legitimacy of the artifacts found.
(4) At Cactus Hill along southeast Virginia's Nottaway River, much deeper in the ground than Clovis evidence, a wealth of artifacts and weapon points have been located that date back 18,000 years.
(5) The Aucilla River of north Florida has a submerged sink-hole in which animal bones on which human tools have been used for scraping or probing for marrow, etc., date to 14,000 years and the "flat-fluted points" retrieved from the bottom of the river pre-date Clovis by at least 1,000 years. Yet to come is new Florida State research of ocean beds up to four miles out into the Atlantic since Ice Age seas were so much lower than now and re-searchers have already found some 40 artifact sites off the coast.
But the most exciting and controversial news in American archaeology, according to Atlanta Journal and Constitution science writer Mike Toner, who authored this latest magazine headliner, is the University of South Carolina's Allendale Paleoindian Expedition along the banks of the Savannah River. At a site named "Topper," Expedition director Al Goodyear has hit a "mother lode" of hundreds of artifacts, a few of them Clovis but most, pre-Clovis with the majority of the finds dating back to between 14,000 and 18,000 years.
Aided by a large number of volunteers, Goodyear has dug several feet below the most likely terrain for Clovis discovery and because he has turned up so much at such greater depths, the pits and trenches at Topper site are getting deeper and deeper. Why? Because Goodyear is now convinced that if he digs deep enough he and his associates are going to find "evidence of human activity here in the interior of America 40,000 to 50,000 years ago. It looks like people came here periodically to get chert (the stony material for tool-making and weapon points)….Where they came from and when, I still have no clue."
But as Reservation Report has noted in a number of prior editions, archaeologists, anthropologists and linguists from Europe, Canada, Brazil and the United States are more and more convinced that the earliest humans to reach North America arrived on the U.S. East Coast from Europe and possibly Africa. And the hardest evidence so far comes from the close similarities between pre-Clovis tools and weapon points found in North America and those found in abundance between France and Spain from a pre-history culture known as the Solutreans.
There is even genetic evidence of such a connection and language study specialists who have most closely analyzed the words and speech patterns of today's American Indians find clear indications that such a trans-Atlantic connection existed, perhaps up to 20,000 years ago.
Those scientists and others who cling to the Clovis-Asian origin mythology - not the Indians themselves - who are convinced they originated on North American soil, may soon find such claims to be without convincing substance. It may be just as likely, if not more so, that some, such as Kennewick Man for example, have come from a ubiquitous "somewhere else."
* This article, by editor John Fulton Lewis, appeared in the April, 2006, Reservation Report. It is so comprehensive and well done I inserted it verbatim in this newsletter. Bob Manzke
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Global Warming or Ice Age?
By Pete Du Pont. The following was part of an article that appeared in The Wall Street Journal.
Did the 1970's mark the beginning of an ice age? Scientists and the press thought so. In 1971 Global Ecology forecast the "continued rapid cooling of the earth." The New York Times reported in 1975 that "many signs" suggest that the "earth may be headed for another ice age," and Science magazine suggested this cooling could be the beginning of "a full-blown 10,000-year ice age." It seemed sensible because, as NASA data show, there was indeed a 30-year, 0.2-degree Celsius cooling trend from 1940 to 1970.
So are we now at the beginning of a global warming catastrophe? Again, scientists and the press think so: the same NASA data indicates a 0.7-degree warming trend from 1970 to 2000. The Washington Post's David Ignatius reflects the media view in saying that "human activity is accelerating dangerous changes in the world's climate."
But it is not clear that human activity is wholly responsible. The Washington Policy Center reports that Mount Rainier in Washington State grew cooler each year from 1960 to 2003, warming only in 2004. And Mars is warming significantly. NASA reported last September that the red planet's south polar ice cap has been shrinking for six years. As far as we know few Martians drive SUVs or heat their homes with coal, so its ice caps are being melted by the sun--just as our Earth's are. Duke University scientists have concluded: "at least 10 to 30 percent of global warming measured during the past two decades may be due to increased solar output."
So what is causing these cooling and warming increases? Normal temperature trends? Solar radiation changes? Or human-caused global warming? There is little we can do about historical temperature or solar heat cycles, but if human actions are in fact causing global warming, what could be done to reduce it?
One remedy is improved technology, and here America is making significant progress. Philip Deutch's article in the December edition of the journal, Foreign Policy, lays it out: "Today's cars use only 60 percent of the gasoline they did in 1972; new refrigerators about one third the electricity; and it now takes 55 percent less oil and gas than in 1973 to generate the same amount of gross domestic product." The cost of wind power production is down 80% over 20 years, and "the cost of solar power has fallen from almost $1 per kilowatt to less than 18 cents." On the other hand, there are some remedies that are not being pursued. "More than 50 percent of U.S. consumers," Deutch notes, "have the option of buying electricity generated from renewable energy sources. . . . Only 1 or 2 percent actually do." And while two dozen low-pollution nuclear power plants are under construction in nine nations (and another 40 are planned), in America government regulation has virtually stopped nuclear plant construction. Our last nuclear plant was ordered in 1973 and completed in 1996, and no others are under construction. We also know that the Kyoto Treaty will do little to solve the carbon-dioxide problem. Masquerading as a global environmental policy, Kyoto exempts half of the world's population and nine of the top 20 emitters of carbon dioxide--including China and India--from its emissions reduction requirements. It is in fact an effort to replace the world's markets with an internationally regulated (think U.N.) global economy, perhaps better described as a predatory trade strategy to level the world's economic playing field by penalizing the economic growth of energy efficient nations and rewarding those emitting much greater quantities of noxious gasses. Which explains why in 1997 the U.S. Senate voted 95-0 to oppose the signing of any international protocol that would commit Western nations to reduce emissions unless developing countries had to do so as well.
As The Wall Street Journal recently pointed out, almost none of the nations that signed on are meeting Kyoto's requirements. Thirteen of the original 15 European signatories will likely miss the 2010 emission reduction targets. Spain will miss its target by 33 percentage points and Denmark by 25 points. Targets aside, Greece and Canada have seen their emissions rise by 23% and 24%, respectively, since 1990. As for America, our emissions have increased 16%, so we are doing better than many of the Kyoto nations.
In the December 2004 issue of Environment, Princeton professors Robert Socolow and Stephen Pacala calculated what actions would be necessary to keep global emissions at their current levels for the next 50 years. Rejecting the Kyoto approach, they conclude that new energy strategies would be monumental efforts that "must be implemented on a massive scale across all sectors of the economy and in countries at all stages of economic development": For starters, replace every burned-out incandescent light bulb in the world with a compact fluorescent bulb, which is four times as energy-efficient.
Then construct two million new wind turbines--a 50-fold expansion of wind power machines. To function properly they must be far enough apart to allow wind pressure to flow between them, so about five turbines per square mile can be installed. But wind-mill construction is controversial. The environmentally dedicated Kennedy family has already forbidden wind power off their summer island of Nantucket. Why? Because, says Robert Kennedy Jr., a lawyer with the Natural Resources Defense Counsel, the wind farm would "damage the views from 16 historic sites." One of them, of course, is the Kennedy family summer compound.
Mr. du Pont, a former governor of Delaware, is chairman of the Dallas-based National Center for Policy Analysis.
More DNR Arrogance
The following is an e-mail received by a Radio Talk Show Host from a woman who is obviously aggravated by the way her family has been treated by the Wisconsin DNR. What makes the letter so interesting is that the writer is a 28 year veteran of the Winnebago County Sheriff's Department. I've deleted the names of some of the DNR Wardens that she refers to (for the moment) unless they've been referred to by other sources. In light of many similar stories emerging about the Wisconsin DNR though, you can judge for yourself whether (1) her story rings true; and (2) whether it is way past time for the Legislature to rein in the
excesses of Jim Doyle's arrogant DNR.
"I believe my husband is the "Greenbush guy" in the DNR e-mail regarding John Stoik vs. DNR. If you think his story was something, relax and read our 4-year ordeal with the same Barney Fife's.
"Since 2002 my husband Paul and I have been having "issues" with the same wardens of the DNR. We own 26 acres in the Town of Greenbush surrounded by the Kettle Moraine State Forest. In fall 2002 Warden ____ issued me a warning for the illegal feeding of deer. I explained to Warden _____ that I was feeding my peacock "Pete" and his seven girlfriends, plus 25 pet chickens. One week later Warden _____ observed our domestic fowl along with a few wild turkeys pecking at feed on the ground within 40 yards of our residence. ______ issued my husband a $200 citation for feeding wild animals. This citation was later dismissed by the Sheboygan County D.A. Office for lack of merit.
"My husband tried to work with the wardens as to how we can "legally" feed our pets. No structure was suitable. We even moved the feeding operation to our deck in an effort to comply. Rodents moved in literally. They ate the firewall between our house and garage and took up residence in our eaves. I won't even talk about the poop. So we moved the feeding back 40 yds. To the edge of the lawn, which by Administrative Code is legal. The fowl have a shelter but are not fed in there, as it is not sanitary.
"For the next year (2003) the DNR wardens conducted multiple surveillance operations of our property to include aerial surveillance of our 26 acres and nighttime surveillance with night vision glasses just like real cops. The aerial observations stated there were no signs of feed piles. The report on the nighttime surveillance stated we were illuminating a feed pile, while in fact we were grilling out on our deck. And since when is it illegal to illuminate your yard?
"It goes on…
"The wardens then (2004) obtained a search warrant for our property based on false information from a "Confidential Informant" who stated that they saw corn in a wooden bunker. This bunker was at the edge of my flower garden and had not had any feed it for months. I don't want to attract deer to my flower garden. The aerial reports stated they saw no feed in the wooden bunker. Any "informant" would have had to trespass on our property to see inside this bunker due to its location and still would have seen no feed in it.
"When the wardens executed the search warrant they requested assistance from the Sheboygan County Sheriff's Dept., as the wardens labeled my husband "a dangerous man" and they feared for their safety. Six wardens and two sheriff's deputies surrounded our home. My husband was taken into custody and forced to strip to his underwear. The wardens wanted him handcuffed and put in the back of the squad car. The sheriff deputies declined to do this and stated they would just sit in our house with my husband and watch hunting shows.
"The search warrant specified curtilage (outside area) surrounding the residence and shed and 26 acres only. Yet the wardens entered our shed, other outbuildings and enclosed tree stands. This was verified by snow tracks from the snowfall that morning. The search warrant produced no evidence of any illegal activity. Their own report stated that we were feeding domestic fowl. In spite of that information the wardens still issued my husband 4 citations for illegal feeding with fines of $1,272 and a 5 year loss of hunting privileges.
"We requested reports from the DNR regarding the citations and search warrant through open records. The DNR denied the request. We had to hire an attorney and spent $4,000 in attorney fees to maintain my husband's hunting privileges and feed our pets as we see fit on our own property. I thought I lived in The United States of America and I could do that, however it cost me $4,000 to have someone say 'yes, you can!'
"My husband was found not guilty on all counts in court based on the fact that we were feeding our domestic fowl. Isn't that what I initially told Warden ______ in 2002? As we were leaving court our attorney said, 'Be careful of him (Warden ______) he really has it in for you.'
"And on…
"Five days after the court found us not guilty Warden ______ and Park Ranger ______ drove past our residence and observed my husband operating his ATV on the edge of the road going from one of our driveways to the other. My husband was on a mission planting trees by the road so the Barney Fife's can't see into our property anymore. Warden ______ did not issue my husband a citation for the ATV violation at that time but Warden ______ did one week later. Do you think ______ is holding a grudge?
"And on….
"I am a lieutenant with the Winnebago County Sheriff's Office. Most of my 28year career has been in investigations. I have had extensive training and experience in obtaining and executing search warrants and conducting proper police investigations of "real crime". I have
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worked high profile homicide cases (Gary Hirte Eagle Scout Thrill Killer 2003). So I do know a little about police work.
"As a result of the DNR's search warrant and allegations of illegal activity I was the subject of an internal investigation at work. I could have been fired, but I don't work for a Barney Fife agency. Neither my husband nor I would engage in any type of activity that would jeopardize my job and upcoming retirement.
"Recent media attention has shown that the DNR is using similar tactics on other citizens. The John Stoik and Terrie Stangl incidents prompted me to come forward. The Milwaukee Journal/ Sentinel published a recent DNR e-mail from Warden Clutter which stated: 'there's a beer for anyone who can get the Greenbush guy and/or Adell guy….' The 'Greenbush guy' is my husband. This is harassment plain and clear. Our issues with the DNR started in 2002 and continue in 2006. Enough is enough.
"My point is… I work for a law enforcement agency that has recently gone through layoffs due to budget limitations. Yet the DNR apparently has unlimited funds to conduct multiple surveillance operations utilizing a significant amount of manpower for citations! I find this practice appalling.
"The DNR wardens have violated my civil rights by the illegal search of my property and jeopardized my law enforcement career. They do not use proper police practices. Their demeanor as law enforcement officials is atrocious. I'm ashamed they are part of my profession. The Stangl and Stoik incidents prove that their vigilante tactics need to be stopped."
PARR Ed Note: If you recall we did an article about Mr. Stoik in the last newsletter. Apparently, this is the same type of Game warden that appeared in that article. Or, perhaps he is the same one. At any rate this stuff continues to flourish in Navajo Jim Doyle's DNR.
2000 Archived Issue Item
When David Bruce murdered two children at their home with a pitchfork, I failed to see an editorial calling for a ban of pitchforks and a lawsuit against pitchfork makers. The Main Stream Media editors didn't blame the murderer, did they? And they didn't have guns to blame. So why don't they blame the pitchfork? Let's show some consistency here. If we can just save one child…
Big Black Headline
On the Drudge website reads, "Arizona Governor Orders Troops to Mexican Border." Both Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano and New Mexico's Bill Richardson have now declared a "state of emergency" on their border. Why? Because our border is descending into a state of anarchy, as 5,000 illegal aliens daily attempt to cross our Mexican frontier and drug traffickers, with renegade Mexican army troops sometimes backing them up, attempt to run narcotics into the United States.
While paging through ARGU archives I found 4 articles, some of them 10 years old, in which PARR predicted that this would be the end result of NAFTA. Looks like PARR's crystal ball was right on the money again.
It is now a dozen years since NAFTA passed. We can measure its success in the clamor for fences and troops on the border and in Mexico's having displaced Colombia as the primary source of the marijuana, "meth" and cocaine flowing into the United States. But it was the economic argument that our elites Bush and James Baker, Dole and Gingrich, Clinton and Carter used to sell NAFTA. In one of the big propaganda pieces of that assessment, an October 1993 paper published by the International Institute of Economics, Gary Hufbauer and Jeffrey Schott wrote: "Our job projections reflect a judgment that, with NAFTA, U. S. exports to Mexico will continue to outstrip Mexican exports to the United States, leading to a U .S. trade surplus with Mexico of about $7 to $9 billion annually by 1995." The authors further predicted the U.S. trade surplus with Mexico would rise to $9 billion to $12 billion a year between 2000 and 2010. And what happened? Charles McMillion of MGB Services, using Commerce Department data through 2005, has tallied the results.
A year after NAFTA passed, the U. S. trade surplus had vanished. From 1995 through 1998, we ran $20 billion trade deficits with Mexico. From 1999 through 2005, the trade deficit with Mexico grew every year, from $27 billion in 1999 to last year's $54 billion. Where Hufbauer and Scbott had predicted $100plus billion in trade surpluses with Mexico from 1994 to today, NAFTA delivered some $400 billion in cumulative U.S. trade deficits a $500 billion mistake by the crack Hufbauer Schott team.
Is there a silver lining? Are we not selling Mexico high value items, while she exports to us the products of her less skilled labor? Again, the opposite has occurred. When NAFTA passed in 1993, we imported some 225,000 cars and trucks from Mexico, but exported about 500,000 vehicles to the world. In 2005, our exports to the world were still a shade under 500,000 vehicles,
but our auto and truck imports from Mexico had tripled to 700,000 vehicles.
As McMillion writes, Mexico now exports more cars and trucks to the United States than the United States exports to the whole world. A fine end, is it not, to the United States as "Auto Capital of the World"?
What happened? Post NAFTA, the Big Three just picked up a huge slice of our auto industry and moved it, and the jobs, to Mexico. Consider the range of items the most advanced nation on earth now sells to Mexico, and Mexico sells to us. Mexico's leading exports to the United States in 2005 were autos, oil, electrical machinery, computers, furniture, textiles and apparel. The Made in the USA goods that reaped us the greatest revenue in trade with Mexico were plastics, chemicals, cereals, cotton, meat, paper, oil seed, aluminum, copper and knitted or crocheted fabrics.
The American people were had. NAFTA was never a trade deal. NAFTA was always an enabling act to enable U.S. corporations to dump their American workers and move their factories to Mexico. For U.S. companies, it was one sweet deal. At zero cost, they were allowed to rid themselves of their American workers; get out from under contributing to Social Security and Medicare; and slough off the burden of environmental, health and safety, wage and hour and civil rights laws, and were liberated to go abroad and hire Mexicans who would work for one fifth to one tenth of what their unwanted American workers cost.
What NAFTA, GATT, Davos and the WTO have always been about is freeing up transnational to get rid of First World workers, while assuring them they could hold on, at no cost, to their First World customers.
When one considers who finances the Republican Party, funds its candidates, and hires its former congressmen, senators and Cabinet officers at six and seven figure retainers to lobby, it is understandable that the GOP went into the tank.
But why did the liberals, who paid the price of mandating all those benefits for American workers and imposing all those regulations on U.S. corporations, go along? That's the mystery. About NAFTA there is no mystery. There never really was. As PARR predicted back in 94 & 95. The American People got the SHAFTA with NAFTA.
On a 'watch list'?
The following letter to the editor appeared in The April 4th issue of The Lakeland Times Newspaper.
To the Editor: I just finished reading the March 24 issue of The Lakeland Times and I must admit that the article "Vilas delays trip on Indian issues" in part contains the biggest pile of unsubstantiated babble speak being spewed by a so called public official that I have had the misfortune to read.
The article reported that a request to send a representative to Washington, D.C., for a conference focusing on Native American issues was tabled by the Vilas County supervisors after one of them labeled the host organization "anti-Indian" and a "hate" group.
According to the story, county board chairman Charlie Rayala wanted to send supervisor Jay Verhulst to the Citizens Equal Rights Alliance (CERA) conference to gather information concerning tribal issues. However, some on the county tribal concerns committee were not pleased with CERA, the story said, and went on to say: "Sure we may have had some problems with the tribe," Ed Bluthardt said, "but we have been able to sit down, talk and come to some good conclusions." Then he said: "On the other hand CERA is on the FBI watch list. They are a hate group, anti-Indian. They are known as the Ku Klux Klan in the Indian nations. They just wrap their hate in the American flag to take away the rights of the tribes. We cannot affiliate ourselves in any way with such a group; you cannot spend tax dollars to send a representative to a hate group."
My name is Bob Manzke and I am the executive secretary of PARR (Protect America's Rights and Resources). PARR and CERA have similar goals and have similar philosophies. So I would like to find out if PARR is on a "watch list" as well. Therefore, if Mr. Bluthardt could tell us just how he went about discovering that CERA was on an FBI watch list a list that seemed to mysteriously appear as needed PARR will be able to determine its status.
A political tactic often used is character assassination. This is often used by someone who doesn't have a viable argument and who's blowing smoke. What baffles me is how Mr. Bluthardt can make matter-of-fact statements in the public media claiming that CERA is a hate group, anti-Indian, and is somehow connected with the Ku Klux Klan.
Perhaps this statement by Elaine Willman, chair of CERA, will explain: "I've been working pretty diligently with Vilas County and other counties, helping them draft factual arguments opposing 'Treatment Similar to States' applied for by the Lac du Flambeau (tribe) for water quality for all waters flowing in and through five counties. (One tiny tribe to control and regulate the water of five counties!)."
CERA is PARR's sister organization, therefore accusations made against CERA are made against PARR. Consequently PARR insists that Mr. Bluthardt print the proof of the accusations he made or issue an apology.
Bob Manzke---Milwaukee PARR Ed Note: I have been informed that the Vilas County Board has just taken another shot at PARR and CERA. At the heart of the matter was the tribal concerns committee's contention that it was left out of the loop when Verhulst made his request to attend the meeting directly to the finance committee, and not to it.
"He didn't ask us because he knew we would turn it down," said Fred Radtke, a member of the tribal concerns committee.
Radtke and other county board members have characterized CERA as a hate group and anti-Indian.
Misunderstanding the issue "CERA, PARR (Protect American's Rights and Resources) and CERF (Citizens Equal Rights Foundation) all misunderstand the issue of tribal sovereignty," Radtke said. The fact is we understand it too well to buy into this Myth. "They are anti-Indian and that is not what this county should be connected with." intrepided this means our stance will not tolerate another point of view. The finance committee had decided in March to turn down the request to send Verhulst to Washington, D.C., for a CERA convention focusing on federal Indian policies and providing an opportunity to lobby representatives and senators. Verhuist was chosen to represent Vilas County by board Chair.
So the tribal concerns committee has its nose all out of joint because it was ignored. Seems that Bluthardt and Radtke are not much of a boon to Vilas County, because they seem to have one agenda, with all their manufactured statements coming right out of the tribal handbook.
Reservations, a Drug/Alien Conduit Across the Border?
He had eluded the authorities for years. Witnesses against him had mysteriously disappeared Shots were fired from his highly secured compound here last year when the state police tried to close in. New York in the 1930's? No! Indian Reservations 2005-06.
Sarah Kershaw writing in the New York Times tells us that "The man, John V. Oakes, like a fast rising number of American Indian drug traffickers across the country, saw himself as "untouchable," as one senior investigator put it, protected by armed enforcers and a code of silence that ruled the reservation.
"After he was finally arrested last May, Oakes was recorded from jail talking on the phone with his estranged wife. "I can't believe people let this happen to me," he said, according to Derek Champagne, the Franklin County district attorney who listened to the recorded call. "You can't touch me. I'm on the reservation, and I do what I want."
"Law enforcement officials across the country say Oakes and the drug lords he is accused of stealing from are part of a violent but largely overlooked wave of trafficking and crime that has swept through the nation's Indian reservations in recent years, as large scale criminal organizations have formed havens and allies in the wide-open and isolated regions of Indian country.
"In some cases, outside drug gangs work with Indian criminals to distribute drugs on Indian and non-Indian lands, and on a growing number of reservations, drug traffickers particularly Mexican criminals are marrying Indian women to establish themselves on reservations.
Sarah Kershaw tells us that "Wisconsin enterprise at the Lac Courte Oreffles reservation in northwestern Wisconsin, for instance, several members of the Latin Kings gang married Indian women while a tribal offshoot of the gang built a $3 million crack cocaine ring moving drugs from Milwaukee into and around the reservation over the past few years, prosecutors said.
"After the gang gained a foothold on the reservation in 1998, Indian criminals setup an affiliate, called the Lion Tribe Set, which ran one of the largest crack cocaine trafficking rings in the history of the state, said John W Vaudreuil, an assistant U. S. attorney in Wisconsin. So far, 37 Tribal members have been convicted and sentenced in the case.
John Fleming's web page on PARR1.com article #17 exposes more about out sovereign neighbors. As quoted from the Syracuse Post Standard, "Hundreds Enter Through Reservation, officials say" by John O'Brien. This 20columninch article narrows the problem. Of note: "Federal agents patrolling the United States' northern border know that hundreds of illegal aliens each month have slipped into the United States from Canada through the Akwesasne Mohawk Indian Reservation." ... Federal agencies and state police have beefed up patrols and sent helicopters equipped with infrared searching devices to pay close attention to the reservation in northern New York.
Akwesasne is off limits to U.S. and Canadian agents because it is sovereign territory."
In recent years, between 300 and 500 illegal aliens a month have entered the United States through Akwesasne, according to officials with the U.S. Border Patrol and the Customs Service. Each year there are one or two people considered suspected terrorists." ... "Over the past two years, more than 400 people have been charged as illegal aliens or alien smugglers after being caught entering the United States " ... "The unique geography of Akwesasne provided easy access for a cigarette and liquor smuggling operation to move $700 million worth of contraband cigarettes from the United States onto the black market in Canada from 1992 to 1996. More than 20 people and a tobacco company were convicted for that operation."
"The preferred commodities have been people, drugs, and guns, federal authorities say….A year ago the Border Patrol arrested 47 people on charges of smuggling Chinese nationals through Akwesasne from Canada, where immigration and asylum laws are more permissive than the United States. That smuggling ring had shipped between 150 and 200 illegal aliens a month," said Ed Duda, assistant chief of the Border Patrol in Swanton, VT.
"By charging $47,000 per person, those smugglers made a total of $170 million over two years, Duda said. 'That's one smuggling ring, but we have about six or seven that run Akwesasne' PARR Ed Note: One of the basic requirements of sovereignty is integrity. Undermining the security of ones neighbors sure doesn't qualify.
Perpetually Offended
(By Greg Graunke)
The same people that put the panel below out for public scrutiny are the same people that are offended by the use of the word Squaw when naming lakes, creeks, roads , etc. And they get their undies all in a bind about the use of Indian names for school mascots.
Lets practice a little of "what's good for the goose is good for the gander" here folks. Oops; I forgot; we are dealing with sovereign nations???
Dear Senator Feingold
(By Bob Manzke)
During a speech you made on the Senate floor you asked the question; "Where is the Attorney General?" Referring to George Bush's alleged breaking of the law by wiretapping. If you are so downright concerned about the allegedly illegal heedlessness of the U.S. Attorney General, Why don't you start with your home state? The state constitution of Wisconsin has been trashed beyond recognition by your Party (including the Wisconsin Attorney General). Your comments on this will be appreciated.
Bob Manzke
The Lac du Flambeau Navy Returns
If you recall last summer we did a series of articles about the demise of The Lac Du Flambeau's Navy. Well not only did this hair brained scheme get sunk, now the tribe is getting sued for attempting to defraud their partners. The suit alleges the tribe tried to sell the casino boat covertly in a deal that would have allowed the Lac du Flambeau to invest in a proposed casino in Mississippi while leaving its non-Indian investors in dry dock. Cary Spivak & Dan Bice writing in the Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel tell us: That "they (The Tribe) asked Mr. Panzarella to sign the agreement to sell the boat," said his Chicago lawyer, Roseann Oliver. "He said, 'What's going on? Who is this group? Why can't we do business with them?' They (tribal leaders) said, 'We don't want you to.' So goes the story of the boat, dubbed the Dream Catcher, which in the past couple of years appears to have made money only for a bunch of lawyers.According to court documents, the tribe which has spent years scouring the country in search of an off-reservation casino deal found a buyer that was willing to pay $3 million "in cash or other consideration" for the Dream Catcher. The other consideration appears to have been a chance for the tribe to buy into a casino being developed near Natchez, Miss., best known as the place where Jefferson Davis, later the Confederate president, married Varina Howell in 1845. Panzarella and his other partners wouldn't have gotten any piece of the Mississippi casino action. The estranged partners will soon be in a Chicago court to argue over whether the Lac du Flambeau can be sued in a non-tribal venue. Tribal officials declined to comment, and their Chicago lawyer didn't return calls. But in a recent letter to tribal members, Chairwoman Vicki Doud confidently predicted, "The matter should be dismissed soon on sovereign immunity grounds we can then proceed with our dissolution process." Easier said than done!!! PARR Ed Note: Well there's that word "sovereignty" again. Try to defraud your partners and then hide behind sovereignty. Anyone see anything that vaguely looks like integrity here?
Next Chapter
The Lac du Flambeau has filed a civil lawsuit in Vilas County Circuit Court against Steven Panzarella, one of its partners in the failed Cancun Cruises casino boat deal. The complaint claims that Panzarella fraudulently induced the tribe to enter into two contracts and invest more than $3.2 million in Cancun Cruises LLC.
The tribe contends Panzarella “knowingly, intentionally, recklessly and repeatedly defrauded the tribe by representing that Cancun Cruises had secured political support for all necessary permitting. Including its navigation permit, from all levels of the Mexican government and that Cancun Cruises would be able to begin operations within 45 days of execution of the operating agreement.” The complaint goes on to say that the tribe relied on Panzarella’s representations when it agreed to enter into the contracts and secure the necessary funds.
Now let’s see; the tribe claims that because of sovereign immunity Panzarella can’t sue the tribe. But, the tribe can sue
Panzarella in civil court so they can collect a larger settlement, with less evidence. I just don’t understand everything I know!!!
Issue Item
A major research institution has recently announced the discovery of the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element has been named "Governmentium." Governmentium has one neutron, 12 assistant neutrons, 75 deputy neutrons, and 224 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of particles called peons. Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert. However, it can be detected, because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A minute amount of Governmentium causes one reaction to take over four days to complete, when it would normally take less than a second.
Governmentium has a normal half-life of 4 years; it does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places. In fact, Governmentium's mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganization will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes.
This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a certain quantity in concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as "Critical Morass." When catalyzed with money, Governmentium becomes administratium an element which radiates just as much energy as the Governmentium since it has half as many peons but twice as many morons.
At times I think I’m a moron, but then again I’m not a congressman.
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