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To say that our government shouldn't be responsible for the treaties it has signed in the past goes beyond ridiculous and into the realm of a violation of legitimacy! For Christ sakes, let's erase the national debt! I didn't agree to it! And while we are at it let's just flush the constitution since it was signed so long ago why should our government abide by THOSE agreements made to our ancestors... I mean we can hardly show birth certificates to verify our decent from the American forefathers. Birth certificates didn't even exist then. The Geneva Convention, NAFTA, NATO, UN... GOODBYE!
If a government can't held accountable to honor the treaties it signed then the government is not fit to rule PERIOD. Seretogis is right about one thing. We need accountability! And our government is accountable to the Native American people for the agreements it arranged under force! Entitlement is NOT crap. I am entitled to life, liberty, justice, fairness, and human dignity. I am entitled to the land and property my father has earned in his life time. At the point that you advocate no entitlement I hope to God that you don't have a will written up or if you do that it gives everything to government of the United States of America because your children sure as hell don't deserve it. The Native American people lived on and cared for the land for longer than United States have been in existence and we stole it from them. We murder, raped, and TERRORIZED them out of their property and their birth right. Imagine for a second what it might be like to lose everything you and your ancestors had worked for to a hostile force and then be forced into a treaty for your survival and then to not even have that treay honored for hundreds of years! Its not right, its not fair, and DAMN IT we would not tolerate this from any other nation!
123dsa, you might not think you owe 2wolves anything, but you are wrong. You owe him the basic respect you would expect given to you. Your government made a contractual agreement to his and that is that. The US should pay its dues. It made the agreement and it is still around. We have the money and its really the least we could do. Hell, we have the extra land and technically they still own about 1/3 of the United States since no arrangement was ever made for our annexing it. Give them the money and while we are at it lets give them some of the uninhabited lands in our country. Lord knows if we keep them we'll just eventually drill all the resources out of them and they could handle that or better so why not?
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"The courts that first rode the warhorse of virtual representation into battle on the res judicata front invested their steed with near-magical properties." ~27 F.3d 751
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