Defense Bill Passes, Giving Sacred Native American Sites To Mining Company

[Lakhota]

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Senate passed a measure authorizing the nation’s defense programs Friday, and along with it managed to give lands sacred to Native Americans to a foreign company that owns a uranium mine with Iran.

The $585 billion National Defense Authorization Act of 2015 is one of the must-pass pieces of legislation that Congress moves every year. But like they did in attaching extraneous riders to the must-pass government funding bill, lawmakers used the defense bill as a vehicle to pass a massive public lands package.

The bill sailed through on a vote of 89 to 11.

Many of the land measures were popular. But one, the Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act, had twice failed to win support in the House of Representatives, blocked both by conservationists and conservatives.

The deal gives a subsidiary of the Australian-English mining firm Rio Tinto 2,400 acres of the Tonto National Forest in exchange for several other parcels so it can mine a massive copper deposit.

The Iran connection comes from a uranium mine in Namibia, in which Tehran has owned a 15 percent stake since the days of the shah.

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This bothers me. Does it bother you?

 

[Mr. H.]

"...in exchange for several other parcels..."

Got any more info on this aspect of the deal?

 

[Ernie S.]

Cool!

 

[ScienceRocks]

Would you feel differently if solar was being built on those sites?

 

[TheOldSchool]

This is why Native Americans need to arm themselves. The 2nd amendment exists for one reason and one alone, to fight off the government when it oversteps its bounds. This is one of those times.

 

[Mr. H.]

This is why Native Americans need to arm themselves. The 2nd amendment exists for one reason and one alone, to fight off the government when it oversteps its bounds. This is one of those times.

Too bad they traded those beads for firewater and not firearms.

 

[TheOldSchool]

This is why Native Americans need to arm themselves. The 2nd amendment exists for one reason and one alone, to fight off the government when it oversteps its bounds. This is one of those times.

Too bad they traded those beads for firewater and not firearms.

Yup.

 

[Lakhota]

This is why Native Americans need to arm themselves. The 2nd amendment exists for one reason and one alone, to fight off the government when it oversteps its bounds. This is one of those times.

Sadly, the government is the only thing keeping greedy/racist whites from stealing Native lands and resources. The government is simply the lesser of two evils. Without government protection - Native Americans would be totally screwed.

 

[TheOldSchool]

This is why Native Americans need to arm themselves. The 2nd amendment exists for one reason and one alone, to fight off the government when it oversteps its bounds. This is one of those times.

Sadly, the government is the only thing keeping greedy/racist whites from stealing Native lands and resources. The government is simply the lesser of two evils. Without government protection - Native Americans would be totally screwed.

Native Americans should try to figure out how Native Americans can keep greedy/racist whites from stealing Native lands and resources instead of the government. The government's handing your land to Iran for Chrissake. If that's not a reason to rise up I don't know what is.

 

[Lakhota]

This is why Native Americans need to arm themselves. The 2nd amendment exists for one reason and one alone, to fight off the government when it oversteps its bounds. This is one of those times.

Sadly, the government is the only thing keeping greedy/racist whites from stealing Native lands and resources. The government is simply the lesser of two evils. Without government protection - Native Americans would be totally screwed.

Native Americans should try to figure out how Native Americans can keep greedy/racist whites from stealing Native lands and resources instead of the government. The government's handing your land to Iran for Chrissake. If that's not a reason to rise up I don't know what is.

Native Americans still remember the Wounded Knee Massacre. Armed conflict will not resolve the issues.

 

[Mr. H.]

This is why Native Americans need to arm themselves. The 2nd amendment exists for one reason and one alone, to fight off the government when it oversteps its bounds. This is one of those times.

Sadly, the government is the only thing keeping greedy/racist whites from stealing Native lands and resources. The government is simply the lesser of two evils. Without government protection - Native Americans would be totally screwed.

Native Americans should try to figure out how Native Americans can keep greedy/racist whites from stealing Native lands and resources instead of the government. The government's handing your land to Iran for Chrissake. If that's not a reason to rise up I don't know what is.

Native Americans still remember the Wounded Knee Massacre. Armed conflict will not resolve the issues.

Address my question, Chief.

"...in exchange for several other parcels..."

More info please...

 

[SmarterThanTheAverageBear]

Riders should be illegal.

 

[TheOldSchool]

This is why Native Americans need to arm themselves. The 2nd amendment exists for one reason and one alone, to fight off the government when it oversteps its bounds. This is one of those times.

Sadly, the government is the only thing keeping greedy/racist whites from stealing Native lands and resources. The government is simply the lesser of two evils. Without government protection - Native Americans would be totally screwed.

Native Americans should try to figure out how Native Americans can keep greedy/racist whites from stealing Native lands and resources instead of the government. The government's handing your land to Iran for Chrissake. If that's not a reason to rise up I don't know what is.

Native Americans still remember the Wounded Knee Massacre. Armed conflict will not resolve the issues.

Well then lay down and take it Lakhota. Posting on an irrelevant internet forum won't get you any farther.

 

[Tom Sweetnam]

"Sacred site" usually translates to "casino site" or else it's communist-inspired shakedown jargon like a lot of that going on up at the Tar Sands and in North Dakota right now. Today, in 2014, there are five more Indian tribes in California than existed in Pre-Colombian times, and migration doesn't account for any of them. Now why do you suppose that is?

"Hey congress, me and my brother Abe are the last surviving members of the Hoo-Wah Hee-Waa Hono Weekie-Waa Tribe that dates to the beginning of time. Don't believe those filthy Hoopa elders who say me and Abe and ten other renegades got kicked out of the tribe on account of we got busted for the fourth time running our meth lab. That's filthy white man fork-tongue racist talk. Uhhh...so anyway, we of the sacred Hoo-Wah Hee-Waa Hono Weekie-Waa Tribe need us a reservation, 80 acres or more of magnificent Klamath River property, so we can go on the congressional dole like, forever, and of course we'll be needing your help in getting our casino permit and seed money. So get busy, you filthy congressional white devil racist pig dogs! We don't have forever you know!"

 

[Stephanie]

And here I always thought we were all EQUAL and one Nation. silly me

 

[TheOldSchool]

And here I always thought we were all EQUAL and one Nation. silly me

"silly" is probably the most positive way anyone's ever described you.