Indians say EPA trying to swindle them in mine spill

Washington Times ^ | August 12, 2015 | Stephen Dinan

[george76]

The EPA is trying to cheat Navajo Indians by getting them to sign away their rights to future claims from the agency’s Gold King Mine disaster, tribal officials charged Wednesday, adding more to the administration’s public relations problems over the spill that threatens critical Southwest waterways.

EPA officials were going door-to-door asking Navajo, some of whom don’t speak English as their primary language, to sign a form that offers to pay damages incurred so far from the spill, but waiving the right to come back and ask for more if their costs escalate or if they discover bigger problems,

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the EPA would come down hard on a private party who tried the same tactics, and demanded to know why the Interior Department, which has oversight of Indian affairs, hasn’t come to the aid of the tribes.

[miss marmelstein]

24 bucks for the rights.

[Da Coyote]

There is no group to which the EPA is not inferior.

We will reward them appropriately following CW-II.

[Buckeye McFrog]

There is no group to which the EPA is not inferior.

You are forgetting BATFE

[DesertRhino]

I know, we should tell them Southwestern Colorado is a hostile moderate moslem nation like Afghanistan, Turkey, Pakistan, Syrian rebels, Libyan insurgents etc,,,,

Then billions of aid will be freed up and will last for a decade or two at those rates.

[Norm Lenhart]

Sounds like another Agenda 21 way to clear out people from the King’s land.

Anyone test that water for radiation yet?

[Carthego delenda est]

Shouldn’t it be John Kerry (he was in Viet Nam) going door to door seeking their signatures?

[txrefugee]

Sounds like the Navahos are riffing the old line from western movies, “Government speaks with forked tongue.” The noble indigenous people will
cash in on this big time.

[hal ogen]

Hey, Feds, you incompetents...aren’t you supposed to give them $24 worth of glass beads?????

[roadcat]

Where is Obama in all this? Why the silence? He needs to get off the golf course and get a handle on this fiasco. Heads need to roll. It happened on his watch; it's Obama's fault. Especially if he doesn't jump on it.

Obama's fault!

[TheStickman]

Obama doesn’t care.

[Myrddin]

Very similar to the way an employer tries to get an employee to sign a "voluntary quit" instead of being terminated. Signing that form absolves the employer from unemployment insurance responsibilities. My wife was targeted that way by Trans-Union when then wanted to do a RIF and pay nothing. She was young, inexperienced and easily persuaded.

[MarvinStinson]

How about some blankets and beads?

[WayneS]

The EPA is behaving like a large, faceless, corporation.

Wait! I do believe there is a NAME for a form of government in which the government and corporations are effectively merged in to one overarching entity...

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I sure which I could remember what that’s called...

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I think it starts with an “F”...

[WayneS]

Of course not.

The typical red person is not wealthy; is not black, and is not muslim.

They are not on his radar in any way, shape or form.

[Army Air Corps]

A government agency screwing Indians. Gee, what a shock.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I imagine the Navajos are going to want enough money to build two or three new casinos and still have the right to come back and demand more to cover any cost overruns.

[The Antiyuppie]

“The EPA is behaving like a large, faceless, corporation.”

Except corporations can’t ruin your life, throw you in prison, etc., etc...

[PATRIOT1876]

The EPA is all about swindling...

...they've been trying to swindle everyone about the Globull Warming Hoax for almost 2 decades.

[righttackle44]

I imagine the Navajos are going to want enough money to build two or three new casinos and still have the right to come back and demand more to cover any cost overruns.

And why shouldn't they? The Indian people are American citizens and have the same rights as any American. They have Constitutional rights for governmental redress the same as anyone else does.

The fact that the Supreme Court of the United States has also determined that Indian tribes have tribal sovereignty gives them an equal footing in government matters, matters in which Indian people have been swindled and even killed because they dared oppose white people in the courts.