>Subject: RESPONSE to Senators John McCain and Jon Kyl [Re: Rule: Re: OFFICIAL
> CORRESPONDENCE: HON. JOHN MCCAIN]]
>X-Priority: 1 (Highest)
>
>In response to your reply "I haven't time to reply to an inquiry from
>someone from outside of Arizona" (to whit):
>
>Shame on you and shame on Senator John McCain. There is a second copy
>of this email attached at the end hereto, describing a tragedy being
>committed against the people of the Navajo and Hopi Dineh nations in
>Arizona that needs public examination, along with both of your right to
>hold any office at all. As I said before, if you do nothing, you
>deserve neither the office nor the appelation (of Senator).
>
>I would respectfully submit that you and/or Senator McCain take the time
>to respond to THIS particular email formally and to investigate and take
>steps to prevent the ensuing tragedy from continuing INSIDE Arizona
>against the Dineh people, 14,000 or more of whom have been forcibly
>"relocated", or neither of you is very likely going to be allowed to
>serve another term as Senator FROM Arizona if you don't, by your peers
>and your own constituency.
>
>I truly doubt Arizonian's want to be known as operators of
>concentration-camp-like relocation centers, and purveyors of a "Native
>American Final Solution" geared at removing the "blemish of Indian
>populations" from coal/uranium bearing native lands, solving that
>"Indian Question" once and for all, to paraphrase the Nazi philosophies
>of Adolf Hitler and Rudolf Hess...
>
>I think if you took the time to check, you'd find out that
>right about now, that is exactly what this situation has painted two
>senators from Arizona: as John "Adolf" McCain and as Jon "Rudolf" Kyl.
>Rightly or wrongly, you are gathering that reputation by the moment, day
>by day, and you are going to have to do something to stop the tragedy
>occuring to the Dineh/Hopi and take steps to protect and ensure the
>preservation of their rights and lands, if you ever want to renew public
>confidence. The American public is very sensitive to the abuse of Native
>Americans, whether you are aware of it or not.
>
>If you and Senator McCain do not do anything at all, certain interests
>within 45 days are likely to initiate petition for formal
>Senate/Congressional-wide hearings on the subject of misconduct of
>office.
>
>Aside from one of you allegedly orchestrating the entire tragedy between
>the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and the Federal Bureau of Indian
>Affairs (that "registration" of small herds of sheep, without which,
>such small herds can be confiscated, is a trick so old, that it can be
>traced back to the Dutch, who originated it in New Jersey in the 16th
>Century, leading up to the first massacres of Indians for not
>respecting these so-called "animal ownership" laws that are utterly
>outside the religious and spiritual beliefs of these simple, peaceful
>people) so that Peabody West Coal will benefit from it: the both of you
>are now being charged publically by those who know what's going on in
>Big Mountain, with deliberately and completely ignoring the ignominous
>suffering and forcible imposition of exile onto 14,000+ or more peaceful
>and elderly inhabitants of native territories of the state of Arizona.
>
>And for what? For the benefit of a single special interest: Peabody
>Group and its Peabody West Coal and Uranium Mining Interests stealing
>the land and strip mining it right out from under these peoples' very
>hearts and souls? Most of the benefits offered by Peabody go to
>financial interests in New York. I don't even begin to see why the
>Native People themselves can't be organized to do the mining and a state-
>centered exchange used to exchange their minerals on public auctions
>that benefit your tax base. Right now, not even Arizona is receiving
>much, if any, real benefit from Peabody Group. But obviously: someone
>is receiving "benefit", other than the Arizona taxpayer.
>
>That is, not even to mention the enormous question of broad-based EPA
>violations that have reared its ugly head there, as a result of the
>alleged open and unsafe uranium mining, dumpings directly into the
>watershed, and open strip mining and deplorable depletion of the coal
>shale. Consider that the moment the Tribal people PETITION the EPA,
>you'll both be left flat without an explanation as to your role in this
>conflagration, which is having an impact on the aquifer and other
>fundamental elements of Arizona ecology, as you and your staff waste
>time rebutting the neccessity of your involvement in an investigation.
>
>These charges being leveled at Senator McCain and yourself are very
>serious. I do believe that by ignoring them, even superficially, that
>you'll be establishing a grounds for prosecution of sundry criminal
>violations of EPA and Federal Indian Lands and Indian Rights laws
>against you, accompanied by allegations of benign neglect and possibly
>even public corruption. Suggesting that you can't be bothered with
>responding to a letter written you by an outsider, proposes that there
>is something different about Arizona that makes it unaccountable to the
>Constitution of the United States and its citizens.
>
>Senator: I may be a downhome computer guy from NJ, but the law's the
>law. It's your own personal choice, when you choose not to uphold it or
>to ignore the rights of an entire people - you become no better than
>Saddam Hussein. You took a Constitutional Oath to uphold the law, but
>right now, the public FROM ARIZONA believe you and Senator McCain are
>ignoring obvious violations of Constitutional law and justice on a
>massive scale in allowing, possibly even condoning the rights violations
>of the Dineh people and their children.
>
>I'm only writing you to provide you with this single chance to redeem
>yourselves. We are all accountable in this One nation, Under God,
>Indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for All. That was "Justice for
>All", Senator Kyl. And Federal Law, Senator Kyl, not just state law
>alone, that's being violated.
>
>Be guided accordingly.
>
>Sincerely yours,
>
>Jack Shulman
>Chairperson
>ACSA http://acsa.net
>908-272-3330
>
>
>info {Sen. Kyle] wrote:
>>
>> Because my primary responsibility is to my constituency, and because I
>> receive hundreds of e-mails a day, I or my staff cannot personally
>> respond to e-mail from people who do not meet the criteria. The
>> e-mail system is programmed to pull out only those messages that
>> contain an Arizona address. Internet messages from non-Arizonans are
>> deleted. Constituents who included an Arizona postal address in their
>> message will receive a reply via U.S. Mail as quickly as I can
>> respond. Due to limited staff resources and the possible loss of
>> privacy inherent in the Internet mail system, I cannot respond
>> electronically to messages that I receive.
>>
>>
>> JON KYL
>> U.S. Senator

>Senator John McCain,
>Everett Dirkson Senate Office Building
>Washington, DC
>
>Dear Senator McCain:
>
>Sometimes we forget our obligation to respect the creations of God.
>I do believe you know who I am. I am also neither Activist nor
>Environmentalist.
>
>And this is an election year. And perhaps this email is going to ruin
>your day.
>
>I have a great respect for this Great Land, and believe God wants
>everyone, yourself and Irl Engelhardt, Chairman of Peabody Group,
>included: to respect it and to respect human rights.
>
>In Arizona, allegedly, a great travesty of human rights and injustice is
>underway, in the person of Peabody Group, involving the Hopi & Dineh
>Native American People of Big Mountain (and also involving the rights of
>other Navajo Peoples). If you read between the lines of the letter
>forwarded to me below, the Dineh People, as part of this tragedy, are
>being relocated "to die" off of their lands, while Peabody is in
>"working on the reservation, all the live long day", allegedly stripping
>the lands bare of the Hopi's coal and uranium, while the BIA continues
>on its "merry mismanagement" ways.
>
>Peabody is allegedly leaving a ghastly toll in their wake, leading to a
>lot of early mortality among these very noble and gentle native people
>who live in and off of their lands. The Navaho Peoples are very much
>not "citified", and generally, when forcibly relocated and stripped of
>their sheep, their livestock, their waters, their very homes: they
>suffer spiritually, they deteriorate and soon die, particularly when
>forced into adopting Western Civilization lifestyles and forced to live
>in confined tenament dwellings, rather than their normal aboriginal
>lands.
>
>Senator McCain: If you EVER expect an endorsement in your quest to
>continue as a Senator or even to move towards the Presidency, you had
>ought to seriously consider protecting the Native American's mineral
>rights from pillage, and their lives and quality of life from
>disparagement, and concentration-like relocation.
>
>Adolph Hitler used the euphemism "relocation camps" in connection with
>relocating some of my Jewish relatives from Germany... it is ironic that
>the Dineh are facing the same general kind of apathetic mistreatment in
>the modern era, from a company founded by Mayer Lehman and his family, a
>fortunate Jewish family who escaped Germany before the onset of
>Holocaust, the Lehman Merchant Banking Partners II LP, who owns Peabody.
>
>There MUST be a harmony between industry and humanity, between Energy
>and the rights of Native Peoples, or We, the People, lose a little piece
>of our soul and our greatness, with every such mis-step.
>
>If you wish to have the People's support, you are going to have to go a
>long way towards earning it, as you, Senator McCain are, right or wrong,
>being directly associated with this unconscionable tragedy being forced
>on the Hopi Dineh people, and the news of it is winging its way around
>the Internet with you attributed as partly being its cause.
>
>I strongly suggest you do everything in your power to protect the Dineh
>of Big Mountain, promptly, and to insure that this tragedy stops at
>once.
>
>I do believe their mineral and coal rights require preserving, and that
>Peabody needs to don an entirely different attitude about them.
>
>For the sake of what's right. The Native American's have faced their
>own version of the Holocaust for so long, that it characterizes and
>colors their very willingness to die rather than to be finally relocated
>off this tiny little piece of land that "We, the People" have allowed
>them to live on as a peaceful nation.
>
>For the sake of what's right. And if you can't see that its about
>what's right, then in no way do you deserve either the office nor the
>appellation.
>
>Sincerely yours, on behalf of our
>75,000 members, 15,000 Corporate Sponsors,
>and on behalf of what's right,
>
>Jack A. Shulman
>Chairman
>ACSA
>http://acsa.net
>6 Commerce Drive
>Cranford, NJ 07016
>908-272-3330
>
>>