ICGPA

The local press selling out to the gambling industry for advertising space, while reprehensible, is certainly understandable. What is much harder to comprehend; is why local political leadership is allowing bureaucrats and politicians to force feed the people into accepting an industry that is universally scorned?

Is it reasonable that bureaucrats and lobbyist from Washington should be able to force the citizens of Glendale, Arizona  into allowing the gambling industry to operate in their community?  Why is this happening? Simple, the Congress and the Department of the Interior are utilizing the gambling industry, in order to fund an even more despicable entity; the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

The BIA is not the result of anything more than racist policy from our antebellum past. The Department of Interior’s BIA is very simply immoral and illicit conduct that we refuse to deal with under our laws. When will we have the courage to acknowledge, that no provisions exist within the Constitution, empowering Congress or the President, to establish or fund racial and culture enclaves?

Yet, the Federal Government has forced our local communities to accept a universally recognized criminal industry, simply to pay for its abuse of power. The BIA is not now, nor has it ever been, a lawful institution. These small isolated tribal communities of United States citizens  are not now, nor have they ever been, sovereign nations. If they were sovereign; they most certainly wouldn’t require permission from Washington to do anything! Let alone compete with Don Laughlin or the State of Nevada.

Maybe they are waiting for them to force us into accepting other adult amusements; such as prostitution. In fact, if I were the Nevada Gaming Commission I might be inclined to sue the BIA. On the other hand, if I were the City of Glendale I would take this issue to Federal Court today!

Justice Harold Lee

Tombstone, AZ