Dear Editor,
The Sept. 14 letter by our so-called representative Mike Honda
moans about how Indian tribal recognition is
”
unacceptably slow-moving [and] bureaucratic.
Dear Editor,
The Sept. 14 letter by our so-called representative Mike Honda moans about how Indian tribal recognition is “unacceptably slow-moving [and] bureaucratic.” Following a two-generation Democrat Party tradition of favoring one ethnic group over another, Honda is lying when he claims he only wants the Amah Mutsun Tribe to get “fair treatment.”
Several generations ago, the federal government made the mistake, known as a treaty, of promising the Indians that their land would not be subject to state, but only federal law. In other words, if you have a Bureau of Indian Affairs number (i.e. are even 1/16 Indian), you can buy some land and set up your casino wherever you want.
That is exactly what some of the Amah Mutsun want – blatant racial preference, disguised as “recognition”! With all the various ethnic groups in this country, and especially in California where there is no one racial majority, said preference needs to be eliminated BEFORE Honda and the rest of the pandering Democrats speed up the tribal recognition process!
Said elimination can easily be done while keeping the promise of exemption from state law: The exemption need only apply to those reservations in existence when the treaty was signed. This way, the Amah Mutsun can get their recognition, and all the handouts that come therewith, from the federal government but they won’t be above the rules the rest of us are forced to follow.
Alan Viarengo, Gilroy
