"Injustice of 1884 on state agenda for 2006"
In 1884, a vigilante mob of more than 100 men from Washington Territory rode into Canada, abducted a 14-year-old Indian boy and hanged him from a tree.All the people involved in the incident are long gone so it's hard to determine at this point whether and how any injustice might have been done. But I guess I'd rather have the Legislature spend its time on vacuous "healing" resolutions, than, say, making wasteful appropriations.
...
Now, more than a century later, Washington Lt. Gov. Brad Owen says there is convincing evidence the boy had nothing to do with killing the shopkeeper and was framed by the mob leaders. Owen is planning to ask the Legislature next month to pass a "healing" resolution acknowledging Louie Sam's innocence and decrying the lynching.
Speaking of wasteful appropriations...
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at December 29, 2005 10:00 AM | Email ThisIf they want to do some healing, though, they should be thinking about male suicide and fatherless homes.
Posted by: BananaLand on December 29, 2005 10:29 AMHas anything changed? Why can't the Queen Christine write a Letter to this tribe and apologize. Isn't that sufficient??? Why do we need to waste good taxpayers funds to "Research" this issue.
Why doesn't our Lt. Gov investigate the Incredible Injustice that KC Elections has imposed on Every Citizen of this STATE.
BananaLand-
Don't you know that fathers are bad?! They are not needed and the more of them them and white males in general that commit suicide the better. The plight of todays youth isn't about fatherless homes, it's about selfish bastards like you and I not spending enough money on public schools. Those union teachers can do a much better job shaping our children than we can. that's why they keep stripping dads of their rights.
Somebody please explain to me why the Lt. Governor - basically a glorified public relations position whose only real job is to oversee the Senate - would need:
A Public Information Officer
A Legislative and Community Liaison
An International Trade Specialist
An International Relations and Economic Development Coordinator AND
A Web and Publications Coordinator?
There are entire state agencies with less PR staff than this.
This looks to me to be nothing more than a dumping ground for newly created, overpaid positions for some former D staffers (and one legislator).
Posted by: jimg on December 29, 2005 11:20 AMThey will steal the land instead. "Saving Puget Sound is more important than the constitution," will be the battle cry.
People living and owning land in rural areas are an infection and Gregoire is the cure.
Posted by: Andy on December 29, 2005 11:25 AMBrrrrr, I shudder to imagine this, but then, anything is possible in this liberal state.
Posted by: C. Oh on December 29, 2005 11:29 AMI believe DSHS is using the money for kickbacks/hush money to certain members of the CSWG. Having read the notes for the CSWG, they are focusing all attention on children from the 33% tax bracket and are ignoring everything to do with people near poverty level.
The CSWG has also diregarded all input from the 150-200 parents who showed up to testify at their hearings.
Posted by: Andy on December 29, 2005 11:39 AMIn the end, the official wringing of hands for past faults is a waste of time and not at all conducive to living in today's world.
We can demand all kinds of apologies. Why not demand that the Shoshoni Indian tribe apologize for wiping out 18 members of the Ward emigrant party on the Oregon trail in Idaho in 1854?
Or we can demand the Nisqually and Klickitat pay reparations for the massacre of a family of settlers on Brannon's Prairie on the White (now Green) River in Auburn and also for attacking and burning down half of Seattle in 1855.
Isaac Ebey, a homesteader on Whidbey Island, was beheaded by a party of Haida Indians from Canada. If the State of Washington wants to ask forgiveness for what a party of ne'er-do-wells did to a 14-year old accused murderer, perhaps we should be demanding similar apologies for the cold-hearted murder of Ebey, who also happened to be a member of the territorial legislature and was a customs collector.
I can cite all kinds of cases where one group of people was not nice to another group of people. And in Washington state, that abuse wasn't solely white vs. native.
The point being is that the legislature shouldn't waste their time with this nonsense; especially when very few of them have the historical insight to know what the history of our state is and why it happened.
Posted by: Reporterward on December 29, 2005 01:45 PMThere are many, many people who look at that new estate tax and say "I'm out of here!" I know of retired professsionals & executives, widows and others who have decided that the new estate tax is confiscatory & have moved to states where there is no or less estate tax.
Another example of unintended consequences?
Posted by: Clean House on December 29, 2005 07:02 PMUsually these sort of lawsuits are aimed at a bringing a big payday, not righting some wrong. The best indicator is a quick glance at who has the deepest pockets.....Now that I think about it....those injuns have been doing well at the gaming tables lately ;'}
Posted by: alphabet soup on December 29, 2005 07:04 PMI'M FEELING "HEALED" JUST THINKING ABOUT IT.
Posted by: TACOMA PHLASH on December 29, 2005 09:17 PMok--fair is fair--let's go back to MY ancestors in E Europe--well, they--as frikkin peasants--were probably overrun by countless thousands of invaders--so--how do we sort this all out for MY payment?!!
anybody with any sense sees the futility of trying to right all the worlds's cumulative wrongs in one generation?!
MOVE ON--LEARN real LESSONS & try to be good--starting NOW--that's all--remember history, but don't try to fix all ills with silly efforts;
Posted by: Jimmie-howya-doin on December 29, 2005 11:02 PMPlus, the Sound Politics crowd seems to have some kind of weird blind spot for lynchings. I wonder why?
Posted by: TomDelayIsToast on December 29, 2005 11:13 PMPlus, the Sound Politics crowd seems to have some kind of weird blind spot for lynchings. I wonder why?
Posted by: TomDelayIsToast on December 29, 2005 11:13 PMReporterward: that statement would have been relevant up until about 1968. Then the GOP undertook the Southern Strategy, and picked up where their Democrat bretheren of 40+ years ago left off.
Better luck being a little more current next time.
Posted by: NotHardToArgueWithSheep on December 30, 2005 01:16 AMSo, we are all supposed to think Shark's "your tax dollars at work" (in case you didn't notice, not a single dime is being spent on the issue) is really relevant, while the GAO uncovers a new batch of millions and billions unaccounted for in Iraq spending?
Come on, guys. If you want to at least TRY to gain some modicum of credibility - or let the casual reader think you are actual conservatives - at least MENTION the outrageous amount of waste and fraud involved in Bush's Iraq adventure.
Oh, I forgot....right wingers are only good at PRETENDING they are driven by values.
Posted by: NotHardToArgueWithSheep on December 30, 2005 01:29 AMmore laywers needed for my proposed D.O.G.C.R.A.P. Program
(Doctor Of Generous Caring Reparations And Payments)
Posted by: Jimmie-howya-doin on December 30, 2005 10:10 PMWelcome back ;'}
Posted by: alphabet soup on December 31, 2005 10:22 AM