In reply to Catherine Hampton's soft peddling of this issue:
it is clear that
Ms. Hampton gets her jollies by attacking people on the Internet
in the name of
"Spam bouncing." Leaving that aside for the moment:
Could Ms. Hampton clarify why the European Parliament, the
United Nations, the
Presbyterian Church, Sierra Club, the International Humanist Movement,
and a half
dozen other world organizations have condemned either John McCain
and this issue,
or just the issue in general? I have put links at the end of
this for you to
read. And 2000+ Natives have already paid with their lives in
Black Mesa, more to
come, because, to quote Catherine Hampton "McCain just chose
the wrong side"?
NO WAY DID SENATOR MCCAIN JUST CHOSE "THE WRONG SIDE". HE IS THE WRONG SIDE.
I'd venture a guess that the European Parliament and the United
Nations would both
disagree with Ms. Hampton, too! The links to their investigations
and condemnation,
are below.
Here are just a few of McCain's acts, judge for yourself, whether
or not he was just
"choosing sides" or whether he was the Prime Mover:
. As a Congressman, McCain sponsored repeated efforts to implement
the "Navajo
Accommodation Act" in Congress between 1984 and 1991, when
it was finally approved,
became a bicameral Bill and was adopted as "Navajo Accommodation
Agreement" by which
the lands could be conveyed from the Navajo to Peabody Coal Corporation,
for mining,
if the Navajo would sign laws adopted by a fake Hopi Tribal Council
organized by
attorney John Boyden of Peabody Coal, paid for by Peabody Money.
. Adoption of the Navajo Resettlement Act Amendments was personally
sponsored in 1992
by John McCain
. McCain's PL104-301 Sponsored in 1994 by John McCain which
dispossessed the
Natives of their Right to own their own property.
. McCain's S1973 Sponsored in 1996 by John McCain which implements
the
partitioned land initiative to make it feasible for the land occupied
by the Native
American's to be considered "public lands" after Natives
were "voluntarily resettled".
. McCain's "Settlement" Act Sponsored by John McCain
in 1998 which attempts to force
(under PL 104-301) the NAtive Navajo to SIGN illegal laws of a
non-existent Hopi Nation
created by the Partitioned Land (also enforced by McCain and his
peers on the Senate
Committee on IA), thereby making the lands "voluntarily resettled"
per S1973.
. McCain's "Rapid Ressettlemnt" Enforcement which
was sponsored by John McCain in 1999,
asking the secretary of the Interior and the Attorney General
to force the Natives to
hurry up and sign the land.
. A memorandum to the Bureau of Indian Affairs directing them
to institute a deadline of
February 2, 2000 to have signed "voluntarily" the "Settlement"
or be forcibly evicted
for operating in violation of various registrations imposed on
the Natives, including
livestock registration, well operation registration, range herding
impositions, and a
dozen other harassing enactments that would give the Bureau of
Land Management or the
Bureau of Indian Affairs the right to evict them without providing
them a new place to
live. Sign and be evicted onto a Uranium dumpsite called "Church's
Hill", or don't sign
and simply be evicted, rendered homeless. NICE CHOICE, MCCAIN!
. McCain's letters to Janet Reno and Bruce Babbit (Interior
Secty) asking for enforced
signing by Native Navajo of the McCain Settlement he'd sponsored,
which forces the
Native Navajo to capitulate to imaginary Hopi Tribal Council laws,
which evict them
whenever Peabody needs the land they live on to mine, or if they
don't sign, they are
to be evicted period.
. McCain's personal intervention on behalf of Peabody Coal
(as an incumbent in his home
state of Arizona) to secure the multibillion dollar licenses to
mine the Black Mesa
expansion district, their having started the Kayenta Mines in
the same kind of carpet
bagging activity in the past. This was done privately, in classic
smoke filled rooms.
The things you see in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington."
I guess this all makes SENATOR MCCAIN THE PRIME MOVER in the
latest rounds of Human
Rights Violations against the Dineh (Native Navajo) of the Black
Mesa, the round that
began in 1992 and is being challenged here in 2000 and Senator
John McCain in 1999,
advanced that process to the Dineh (NAtive Navajo) of Big Mountain
15 miles distant,
which is, also, grand-packed with black coal rock waiting to be
mined.
What's the lives of a few thousand Navajo families, right?
Catherine Hampton's apparent
visions of the Beverly Hillbilly Navajo comes from some misguided
form of TV
programming I think.
I previously sent you a dozen articles and websites, and you've
already heard from a
UPI journalist confirming the story. I would suggest you refer
her to our references.
Ms. Hampton is clearly attempting to SOFT PEDDLE McCain's involvement,
BECAUSE, I
propose, SHE IS A DEMOCRAT. And the Democrats fear George W.
Bush, so any baddie
who opposes Bush is "my enemy's enemy", and therefore
their friend, I guess. So I
would opine that she prefers to preserve McCain's campaign to
misdirect votes or
the entire primary election sequence away from George W. Bush,
much as Ross Perot
was used by the Dems in the last two elections to clown the votes
away from the
Republican camp.
As I said before: Ms Hampton Electionized this issue, not us.
However, we in the Human Rights Investigation UNIT (HRIU) of
the ACSA, are chartered
to pursue an investigation like this to its eventual resolution,
without regard for
the consequences on a Presidential Candidate's candidacy.
The only = IDIOT =, to quote Hampton, is Catherine Hampton,
who apparently doesn't
bother to research her subjects very well. Yes, Sen. McCain certainly
did pick the
"WRONG SIDE". So did Adolf Hitler and Rudolf Hess,
in Germany in 1936. In McCain's
case it was from 1984 forward, after he left his job at Anheuser
Bush and had already
gotten to know his neighbors at Peabody Western down the block
from Anheuser, in
St. Louis. We could care less the impact on the Federal election,
because there
is not a candidate in the house who has not had some contact with
this issue, to
our knowledge, as it is a critical energy issue: whether the Government
can simply
displace a people from an area, to allow Coal interests to mine
it, and in the case
of the Navajo, in addition it also involves other violations of
their human and
religious rights (and civil rights.) Catherine Hampton is just
another POLITICIAN
trying to deprive the Native Navajo of the Black Mesa of their
lands, for political
reasons, in my opinion.
I would strongly suggest that before Catherine Hampton call
someone an =idiot= she
consider how, with all that egg all over her face, she looks to
the world at large.
As she has refused to accept mail, I obviously can not reply to
her.
But I think our reply is obvious, and she is completely off base.
You can see from Ms. Hampton's illogic, that she is unaware
that McCain as a seated
Senator from Arizona, and as Chair has complete Senatorial Control
over the promotion
and passage of his sponsored Public Laws, as the second in charge
of the Senate
Committee on Indian Affairs and on the Energy Committee (which
control coal), the
head of which IA committee is not well thought of by the Native
community, one of
the few, elite, well paid few.
Sincerely yours,
Human Rights Investigation Unit
American Computer Science Assoc.
6 Commerce Drive
Cranford, NJ 07016
http://www.acsa.net
908-272-3330
(this article written by a volunteer, is unsigned)
SOME Human Rights Violations Condemnation Links:
CLICK HERE for the announcement on the European Parliament's
Daily
Session Page...
http://www.europarl.eu.int/dg3/sdp/journ/en/n0002172.htm#6
CLICK HERE FOR THE European Parliament's URGENCY RESOLUTION
condemning the Violation of
the Dineh's
Human Rights.
http://byamerican.com/cain2000.org/motherearth.html
CLICK HERE FOR THE European Parliament's Website
http://www.europarl.eu.int/
MORE PUBLIC NOTICES OF SUPPORT for the Navajo:
OVERTURE OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (USA) in support of the
United Nations
Investigation of the Human
Rights and Religious Rights Violations committed against the Traditional
Native Peoples
of Black Mesa, Arizona, and in condemnation thereof.
http://byamerican.com/cain2000.org/presbytery.html
CONDEMNATION MEMO authored by the International Humanist Movement.
http://www.byamerican.com/cain2000.org/humanism
CONDEMNATION MEMO authored by the Sierra Club. Regarding
the 250 mile long Slurry
Pipeline...
http://solcommunications.com/bigmountain/unsummit/ngostuff/mojave.html
CONDEMNATION RESOLUTION authored by the Sierra Club. Regarding
the forced relocation of
the Hopi.
http://solcommunications.com/bigmountain/unsummit/ngostuff/atlanticsirren.html
CONDEMNATION AND STUDY RESOLUTION presented at the National
Education Association (NEA
IMPACT ON
CHILDREN Resolution).
http://solcommunications.com/bigmountain/unsummit/ngostuff/nearesolution.html
CONDEMNATION RESOLUTION by the Sierra Club.
http://solcommunications.com/bigmountain/unsummit/ngostuff/nysirre.html
CONDEMNATION RESOLUTION by the Green Party of New York (Environmentalist
Group).
http://solcommunications.com/bigmountain/unsummit/ngostuff/greenny.html
CONDEMNATION RESOLUTION by the Peace and Justice Caucus.
http://solcommunications.com/bigmountain/unsummit/ngostuff/peaceandjustic.html
REPORT ON THE INVESTIGATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS by
the
United Nations.
http://byamerican.com/cain2000.org/ewaldgerry.htm
and these are but a few.
JUDGE FOR YOURSELF... Human Rights issue? You betcha.
========
Catherine Hampton wrote:
>
> I think this is the article you were referring to:
>
> http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/JF00/fence.html
>
> >From what it says, the most anyone can accuse McCain
of is picking the
> wrong side at a fairly recent date in this dispute. I don't
like the side
> he picked, but the whole situation is an ugly mess and I
don't think
> picking the wrong side makes him a human rights abuser by
any rational
> standard. He certainly didn't cause the situation -- according
to the MOJO
> article, it started in 1882, over a hundred years ago, although
I'd put the
> date a little more recently. If anyone caused the current
problem, IMHO it
> was Barry Goldwater.
>
> The thing is, this =idiot= is the latest in a long string
of people around
> the world who have attempted to play politics with human
rights -- use
> human rights accusations as a political weapon. Exposing
human rights
> violations makes sense, and this particular situation is
ugly.
>
> Unfortunately, though, you have people trying to use human
rights issues
> and violations for all sorts of other, partisan or personal
purposes, from
> the murderous slimeballs running China or Burma right now
to people in the
> U.S. I've run into far too many folks like this. They piss
me off because
> they are hurting a cause I care about very much by turning
into a political
> football instead of something that people of all political
opinions can
> support.
>
> Someone who suddenly pops up trying to make this particular,
long-term
> problem McCain's fault sets off every internal alarm I have.
I'm sorry,
> but I have a very hard time believing this person is for
real. The timing
> and tone of this person's attack are just too unbelievably
partisan. :/
> This sounds like exactly the sort of "dirty trick"
negative campaigning I'd
> expect of a rival candidate -- probably either Bush (or,
to be more
> specific, his campaign officials) or Gore.
>
> As you probably have figured out, I'm not exactly a prime
supporter of
> "proud Reagan Republican" McCain <wry grin>,
nor of the other Republican
> candidates. But I do not like it when someone tries to use
me or the Human
> Rights Web to play politics, and I think that's what this
"lilac" person is
> doing.
>
> She can forget it. I will not play her game.
>
> --
> Catherine Hampton <ariel@tempest.boxmail.com>
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