http://www.cain2008.org "Am I my brother's keeper?"
The UN, EU and numerous public organizations are deeply outraged over the stripping of rights and forced resettlement of these gentle and deeply spiritual band of Dineh-Navajo Indians from Arizona. The UN Human Rights Commission (SR AbdelTelif Amor, Investigating the US Government's abuse of the Navajo), issued a condemnation, they were so disgusted. The European Union issued written criticisms and demanded the Clinton Administration intervene in McCaine's lawmaking. Clinton remained silent. The Dineh-Navajo were quite literally swept off of lands they'd owned since 1500 A.D. by legislations authored by Senator McCain on a ruse that challenged their deeds to these lands, and handed the coal beneath them over to the largest unsustainable energy corporation in America.
Peabody Western Coal Group, the nation's largest coal mining company, has been progressively strip mining the vast Coal resources from beneath the Dineh-Navajo's farmlands at nominal cost and tapping their pristine lakes and wells to slurry pipe it to a power station in Nevada, while McCain arranged convenient amendments to this very ugly law so as to more easily evict the Dineh-Navajo from their lands just ahead of Peabody's perpetual expansion of it's Coal Mining operations. The Black Mesa was one of the nations most beautiful plains areas, today, it's a Hell on earth.
To force them off the lands, a partition fence was used (through law enacted by McCain in a 1996 bill he brought before the Senate and House) designed to deprive them of range to herd their cattle. When the Dineh simply removed sections of the fence to range their herds, the Dineh's water wells (for cattle, but on the other side of the fences from them) were capped, their properties vandalized, their cattle seized, and ultimately false challenges to their deeds were filed by paid proxies of the Peabody Western Coal Company under the guise of a phony "Hopi" tribal counsel claiming theoretical ownership of all Indian lands nationwide.
UN officials, even the Commissioners appointed to oversee the resettlement by the Senate and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, have issued hue and cry that the entire affair is little more than Genocide against the gentle Dineh-Navajo. Many have resigned shortly after being appointed. The Environmental impacts of the strip mining and the slurry pipeline are not only horrifying but many are not lawful. Some officials have equated the behavior of Senator McCain's laws and the activities of his Senate Committee and that of the Government to enforce same, to be on a par with that of the Nazis during WWII, and have suggested that same will remain "a blotch upon the history" of America for a very long time. See the attached Press Release top right for details about the hue and cry.
Amendments to US Public Law PL 93-531 in:
* 1996 (Partition Fence),
* 1999 (Settlement and Eviction),
* 2001 (Enforcement of Resettlement Mandates) and
* 2005 (Expansion of Resettlement),
all of which were authored and introduced before the US Senate by Senator John McCain. For the past 8 years, the United Nations Special Rapporteur (Hon. Abdeltalif Amor) on Indigenous People's Rights and the United Nations' have been issuing most vigorous condemnation of human rights violations they say, after very lengthy investigations, that the US Government is and has been committing against the Dineh-Navajo from Arizona. Senator McCain's legislative activities against the Dineh-Navajo in Arizona have led to the very first UN Human Rights investigation inside the USA in history. (see attached Press Release)
Senator McCain has also introduced a bill this year, before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, intended to strip away Indian Casino Operations, the sole source after Arts and Crafts that most Tribes have for funding Education, Housing, Health Care and Law and Tribal Security, for their peoples. This would also open most Tribes up to looting of their lands and resources, lacking the funds to legally defend themselves from carpetbagging.
The Dineh-Navajo, who have been progressively victimized by McCain and others over the course of three decades, have no Casino and little by way of financial resources to defend their legal rights with, a difficult position when up against one of the Senate's most powerful figures and the largest Coal Mining company in the US. As a result, during their three decades long peaceful resistance to the avarice of Senator McCain and greed of Peabody Group, they've been handed legal setback after legal setback, while a phony adversary tribal counsel composed by Peabody testifies over and over again against their rights before an egregiously "gullible" US Senate, House, and Supreme Court.
The organization, Common Cause, suggests McCain received large numbers of street name campaign contributions backing his three Presidential runs, and allegations have been made that Senator McCain's family liquor distribution business, operated by his Wife, landed huge "payback" contracts in Las Vegas, Nevada where the Coal supplied lower costpower via the Mohave Generating Station in Loughlin operated by giant Bechtel Corporation. Meanwhile, the forced resettlements have led to disease and early death among more than 7,000 of the Dineh-Navajo.
ACSA study reveals that after assembling a team of "pro-Peabody Western Coal" Indians and obtaining a false "Hopi-Navajo" Tribal Counsel designation by the Bureau of Indian Affairs for these paid Tribal representatives, in the period 1974-1996, Senator McCain was able to get large bands of the Dineh-Navajo relocated off their lands, so that Peabody Western could mine the coal under their farms at nominal expense. Common Cause has suggested McCain was indirectly compensated by street name cash contributions to his Federal Election Fund during three Presidential runs, and through a family beer and liquor distribution business with Las Vegas Casinos who benefited from the coal driven power he supplied. McCain's wife operates the business.
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Watch the film, "Vanishing Prayer", but bring kleenex. It is a story that demonstrates why McCain and his peers do not belong in public office.
