caseyjones38's Blog - Just a Good Ol` Boy

as usual folks, casey has left out the FACTS of this issue. only the emotion & slander is here.

the Indian tribe's LEADERS signed a contract with Peabody Coal and were compensated well for it. These leaders also CHOSE where to move to.

This does not make our next President at fault, or anything even remotely close to the "Anti Christ".

casey, if you're going to tell stories, don't you think you should be telling the WHOLE story?

Here`s a little rundown on John Boyden
Boyden secretly worked for Peabody at the same time he was representing the Hopi.

"Boyden was a powerful figure in southwestern politics and society for decades. He was a bishop in the Mormon Church and a tenacious, skilled trial lawyer. He also represented the Hopi. The tribe, it seemed, couldn't have wished for a more potent ally. For years Boyden tried to persuade the Hopi to open their land to mining interests. Traditionalists in the tribe rejected the idea out of hand. One of them, Thomas Banyacya, said, "You will make us a landless, homeless people. This is the only land we have." Not to be rebuffed, Boyden helped assemble a tribal council more sympathetic to his own views. On May 16, 1966, Boyden presented it with a lease proposal he had prepared for the council members to sign. According to Charles Wilkinson, a professor of law at the University of Colorado who has studied Boyden's career, Boyden failed to tell the council that Peabody would be operating the largest strip mines in the country on their land. Moreover, he said little or nothing about the huge quantities of water the company would need.

Why did Boyden fail to protect the interests of his impoverished clients, who even today suffer an unemployment rate that hovers around 50 percent? The mystery wasn't solved until many years after Boyden's death in 1980. One of Wilkinson's research assistants uncovered a startling fact while studying a collection of Boyden's papers in 1992: Boyden secretly worked for Peabody at the same time he was representing the Hopi. Billing records and correspondence with Peabody executives show that Boyden's association with the company lasted from 1964 through 1971. Boyden's chief concern during those years was not the welfare of the Hopi but the development of the Southwest, which would have been impossible without access to the tribe's coal and water."

-NRDC OnEarth: A Thirsty Nation, Fall 2004-

For more information please visit http://www.nrdc.org/onearth/04fal/blackmesa1.asp

well casey, i just don't know. i'll have to do more research on this.
but, even if this guy boyden IS or WAS what you say he was, that does not translate to McCain also being that corrupt.

if Boyden had all these indians fooled for all those years, is it possible that McCain didn't know either?

you are right there sofa king.

casey, you STILL haven't explained how McCain FORCED these people to live somewhere. are you trying to suggest that they didn't have a CHOICE?

gosh, this country is HUGE! there are safe places to live EVERYWHERE...........wasilla alaska comes to mind. LOL

But in reprisal for the Navajo's refusal to leave the Black Mesa and Big Mountain in Arizona, to attempt to protect their lands, McCain became homicidal towards them, sending them to live on Uranium Tailings along a contaminated river, so that poisoning, intimidation and the shock of relocation, killed over 7000 of the Navajo Aboriginals in a very short period. Over 1/4 have died since 1999. Children are born with the highest birth defect rate in the US.
Stunning evidence of McCain's corruption and vicious abuse of the Dineh abounds. The man is considered "the Anti-Christ of the Black Mesa" by many.

"The fossil fuels and other rocks and stuff are going to be mined out of this earth and used up till there are no more. Doesn't matter who's in the way" - sofaking

But if you`re their protector and instead of protecting throw your` lot in with the perpatrators..............

A choice that would break their spirits and take them away from what they consider to be holy ground.

once again casey & girlyscout, no one FORCED them to go there.........they CHOSE and they STILL choose evidently.

hard or not, they CHOSE.

She just doesn't get it, casey.
Once again - where is the compassion?