A way of life threatened by Indian casino

Sacramento Bee ^ | June 30, 2002

[UScbass]

Yolo County's dispute with the Indians who want to expand Cache Creek casino perfectly illustrates how an incompetent or, perhaps, compromised Gray Davis administration betrayed local governments and their citizens when it negotiated tribal state gambling compacts. The carelessly worded agreements have left counties that have Indian casinos within their boundaries and Californians who live near those casinos powerless to protect the environment or the public interest in the face of gambling tribes intent on expanding casinos and maximizing profits.

[Vidalia]

The Tribes are smart.

They will never get their land back by the useless US courts system.

They have figured out the Capitalist system.

They are simply going to BUY California, piece by piece...

How appropriate.

[E Rocc]

Yolo County supervisors have sent an unusually blunt letter to the tribe opposing the expansion unless more is done to protect the environment and public safety. Neighbors, most of them small organic farmers, say they are willing to live with the casino as it is but that the scale of the proposed expansion threatens to destroy their livelihoods and way of life.

Sounds like the "back to the land" farmers (in other words hippies) are running up against the forces of progress...just like about 150 years ago. Only then the races were reversed.

"Social Darwinism" may not take full effect when Christian values are present, but "Cultural Darwinism" is practically a law of nature.

-Eric

[NormsRevenge]

No community should have to sit by and watch its air polluted, its road safety endangered, its water drained and its creeks dirtied without the option of public action and legal recourse. Yet when measured against the political influence of wealthy gambling tribes, the pleas from Yolo County supervisors and Cache Creek's neighbors, no matter how legitimate, are easily drowned out. A fundamental corruption has led to a basic injustice here. Only the voters can remedy it

Yup.. The Till at the Ol' State Store Hasn't Been Tended To Very Well Lately... Some Sanity Needs To Reign for a Change
DUMP DAVI$ & the Den of Socialists



GO SIMON

[Sally II]

but . . . but . . . Indians are more in tune with nature than the rest of us.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

fyi

[UScbass]

I happen to be a customer of Farm Fresh To You, which straddles Route 16 (the present entry road approaching Cache Creek Casino property). The expansion plans for the Indian casino will result in "confiscating" 20 acres of this small family organic farm in order to widen the roadway. These are 20 acres of presently planted farmland, and are in addition to easement property along the roadway.

All "California cumbaya (spelling?)" aside, this "sovereign nation" status for the Indians, inside our country, is now taking place in more states than just California. This is nothing less than a cancer-of-greed-and-power that could easily eat out the USA from the inside, in a similar way that the UN/ICC/NATO/etc is attempting to eat out the USA from the outside.

[Trteamer]

If ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL, how come I can't open up my own casino?

[College Repub]

You can online. FReepmail me for more details. I get commission if you go through me :)