ANOTHER MCCAIN UNDER-THE-TABLE DOUBLE CROSS
Posted by RobertMD900 on February 7th, 2008 in Election 2008 Add new comment Big Government Obtains Indian Lands using John McCain
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STEP 1 OF 4: 1967 PEABODY COAL "LEASE"
In order to gain control of Navajo and Hopi lands, after a “leasing authority” was established, a lease was quickly agreed to by the government with Peabody Coal giving them the right to mine the area. The royalty rates to the tribes were far below standard commercial rates, as John Boyden, who negotiated the leases for the Hopi, also worked for Peabody Coal (that is - he was on their payroll as an employee)!
The traditional Hopi leaders filed a lawsuit opposing the lease, as the Black Mesa area is Sacred to both the Hopi and Dineh religions, and strip mining violated their traditional religions. While the Hopi demonstrated that Boyden, on behalf of the US government, acted in violation of it's own BIA-approved constitution, the U.S. courts rejected the suit because Boyden's government was recognized as a Sovereign power and thus, was immune to lawsuit in U.S. courts.
STEP 2 OF 4: 1974 RELOCATION ACT
Boyden requested Congress to partition the Joint-Use area into separate Dineh and Hopi areas, “so that the Hopi could obtain better access to the land traditionally inhabited by the Dineh.” The 1974 Navajo-Hopi Settlement Act was pushed through Congress by a group representing the coal-fired power industry, which believed their industry would benefit by having the U.S. government finance the eviction of all the people living in an area larger than the state of Rhode Island.
In their rush to promote national energy self-sufficiency, Congress never considered where the people would go, or how relocation would affect their lives. Nor did they consider the wishes of the people they planned to relocate. ARIZONA SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN authored this "relocation" bill.
STEP 3 OF 4: 1980 A SITE FOR RELOCATION PURPOSES
The U.S. government purchased a uranium-contaminated site near Chambers, AZ as the "New Lands" for the evicted Dineh.
This site had previously qualified as a candidate for the Superfund cleanup after the worst RADIOACTIVE SPILL the world has ever known! But, instead of spending money for a cleanup, they thought it could be purchased for a very few dollars, and used for the "New Lands" for the evicted People!
The spill occurred at Church Rock, New Mexico defined as a dam wall breach due to differential foundation settlement. The dam break released 370,000 cubic metres (94 million gallons) of radioactive water plus 1,100 Tons of solids from a uranium mine tailing pond. It fully contaminated the land downstream as well as Rio Puerco river sediments up to 110 kilometres downstream, spilling deadly radiation onto the lands that the BIA then chose for the relocation site.
According to the Southwest Research and Information Center Report entitled "Progress Report of the Puerco River Education Project, April 24, 1986, revised and updated May 8, 1986”, it states: "The water quality of the Rio Puerco is characterized by concentrations of radioactive materials and heavy metals that exceed federal and state drinking water standards up to 100 times higher than Arizona maximum limits. 1.5 million tons of uranium ore that was processed and left in contaminated waste piles covering 72 acres next to the San Juan River near Shiprock, New Mexico. Both the Little Colorado and the Puerco are carrying radioactive contamination into the Colorado River and Grand Canyon."
STEP 4 OF 4: 1996 THE FINAL SOLUTION
Congress passed the 1996 Navajo-Hopi Settlement Act, which required all Dineh remaining on the land in defiance of the 1974 law either to sign leases with the Hopi government ceding all of their property and civil rights, or to be forcibly evicted by the year 2000.
Congress offered the Hopi government $25 million if it could get 95 families to sign these unfair leases, unleashing a campaign of coercion, fraud, and forgery. With their remedies in U.S. courts seemingly exhausted, the people turned to the UN for help, resulting in investigation in 1998 by a representative of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
This final solution - the Navajo-Hopi Settlement Act, was sponsored by SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN. Senator McCain comes from a very wealthy family, and has some very close personal and political ties to; the mining industry (coal, uranium, etc.), the power generating industry, and at the time he sponsored this genocidal bill - he was Chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs!
To state the facts in plain blunt English, he sold out the lives of these Indian people, relocating them to radioactive contaminated lands, so that his "friends" in the mining and power generating industries would profit. Genocide for profit. “
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