Senator John McCain has a very severe skeleton in his closet.
McCain was the architect of laws that violated the human and civil rights of the Dineh-Navajo in Arizona. The activities were condemned by the UN Human Rights Commission. This is a skeleton in his closet which, if it ever sees the light of day, could result in jeopardizing his run for the White House.
Click Here and read this article about McCain.
Read the Press Release attached to the article.
Then read the website that containes hundreds of pieces of evidence and supporting stories (You can click here to go directly to "Cain 2008: Am I my brother's keeper?")
What's amazing to me is that he's gotten away with it thus far, misleading the public that he's supportive of the American Indians. Ironically, he was instrumental in organizing a phony tribal counsel which gave rise to false claims contesting the right of Dineh-Navajo to occupy lands they'd farmed for 500 years, which phony counsel of fake "Hopi" have been testifying year after year before the Senate as McCain authored bills to dispossess the Dineh-Navajo, without any testimony allowed by the actual owners of the farmlands. Just happens their lands are atop the largest Coal deposits in Arizona.
Sadly, thousands of the Dineh-Navajo have died just being relocated, and many have been forced to live on a Nuclear Waste superfund site, as a result of McCain's conspiracy with the Coal and Power companies (Peabody Group and Bechtel/Mohave).
He's really destroyed a 500 year old Navajo culture. Ironically, Common Cause states his presidential runs are being funded by street names in Nevada where the coal is piped, and originates with Peabody, Bechtel and the Las Vegas Casino Gaming industry). His wife has been accused of garnering huge beer contracts down there in accompaniment. Meanwhile, McCain never ceases to pat himself on the back for "all my great achievements for the indians', which largely have resulted in their deaths, dispossession from their lands, relocation onto nuclear waste, and now he's working on legislation to close down all the Indian Casinos around the country.
Anyone think he's working for the Casino Industry in Nevada?
There quite a few problems with the manner the data is being presented. It would be a great stretch of reality to believe the charges, and given the predilection of entities in the USA to falsely accuse McCain in the past, I'd urge even more caution than that.
First, the domain cain2008 dot org, seems too much of a set-up for the presidential campaign, and it was first registered January 8, 2008. The domain owner is double-blinded with privacy proxies. A whois on Cain2008 dot orgs returns:
A whois on blocked-for-privacy dot com returns:
Which is GoDaddy's recommended privacy proxy for domain owners.
There are many possible reasons for desiring anonymity, many of which are honest concerns about privacy, but there is also a credibility cost associated with this, especially when hurling outrageous political bombshells.
I searched google within talkingpointsmemo.com webspace using the poster's user name as the string, "acsanet". It returned zero records.
The Dineh Navaho were involved with their land dispute before McCain became a Senator (mid '80's), and on a Chronology found through the internet archive McCain's name is found in just two entries:
The allegations on Cain2008 dot org traverse very quickly into the realm of FREEPing bizarre. Early there is this "note":
Later Janet Reno is named in the conspiracy, and then the hits begin rapid fire: "McCain and his political allies like President Clinton". After that the timeline gets jerked back to the 60's, an "attorney named John Boyden, a Kennedy family / Rockefeller family stooge". Later the conspiracy really beings to get fleshed out and adds: Jay Rockefeller, Teddy Kennedy, John Kerry, Harry Reid, and Howard Dean.
When active links are offered, they often lead to much less than was alleged.
I call garbage.
February 9, 2008 5:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
Shame on you, Pseudocyants, for lying.
Look at the registration of http://www.cain2000.org and http://www.cain2004.org, too, you?
It's been online for 9 years. Watch the film about the misdeeds. Senator McCain's Bill PL 93-531 IS CALLED THE "Navajo Resettlement Act", it is not a bill to "end resettlement" it is THE LATEST EXPANSION of the Navajo Resettlement Act, and John McCain is on Peabody Western Coal Company's payroll, and introduced seven such bills to expand their mining activities and removal of the Dineh Band of the Navajo. Over 3500 Dineh NAvajo elders died from McCain's relocation of them, their aboriginal ways totally disrupted, 80 and 90 year old farming men and women forced into tenaments in cities and on to Church's Rock Uranium Waste Dump site.
There are no complexities here. READ THE WEBSITE and watch Vanishing Prayer, the FILM documenting the crimes against the Navajo.
SHAME ON YOU.
The so-called "hopi" in the area whose false claims to own coal bearing lands of the Navajo consist of stooge Bureau of Indian Affairs police and a small troop of hired phony indians claiming to be Hopi, so that Peabody Western could leverage the giving of lands to a no longer in existence hopi band by Chester Arthur, so as to displace the Dineh Navajo.
You're allegations are full of garbage. It's shameful to read people commenting like this who haven't witnessed what happened to these simple agrarian folk.
April 14, 2008 2:26 AM | Reply | Permalink
I don't think this is bogus, regardless of what Internet technology was used to hide this particular website's owners. You can easily search Google for things referenced in this article.
I searched on 93-531 and came up with this document on the Senate's website:
http://www.senate.gov/~scia/2005hrgs/072105hrg/bitsuie.pdf
Then I found
http://www.blackmesais.org/McCain_bill0805.htm
and digging further on
Navajo-Hopi Land Settlement Amendments (S. 1003) in 2005 and Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute Settlement Act S.1973 in 1996 I found something curious:
Both these bills were introduced by McCain and they had NO COSPONSORS.
Both these bills came up for votes in committee and in the Senate (and the 96 bill came up for vote in the House) and there was NO RECORDED ROLL CALL. They were voted in by unanimous consent.
The earlier bill was then voted on by the house and signed into law by Clinton just 2 weeks after passing the Senate. With no fingerprints on it other than McCain and Bill Clinton. Looking at the introductory comments on the 96 bill, it's all about how wonderful an indian museum will be, and then much later, some comments about cutting funds to Navajo's that was supposed to be compensation of taking their land (and you know how generous we are on compensating Indians).
The 2005 bill never made it to a house vote because people finally organized enough (or the 2006 political atmosphere was dark enough for Republicans) that it got nowhere.
Personally, I think all this lack of owning up to votes, means this issue won't get much traction in the MSM. Everyone wants to ignore the fact when we're screwing Indians.
Being a male WASP, I think I can be objective when I say we screwed Indians far worse than any other ethnic group in America. Yet we ignore this (perhaps it's too embarrassing) while this election is dominated by the politics of gender and blacks or hispanics, and despite all the bad things that have been done to those groups, it PALES in comparison to what has been done, and apparently continues to be done, to Native Americans.
And we'll continue to ignore that.
I hope you people are glad you voted for do nothing Democrats.
February 9, 2008 5:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Mr. Winch,
re: "I hope you people are glad you voted for do nothing Democrats."
As opposed to voting for all those grown-ups?
You're letting your own freeper-speak get the better of your focus perhaps.
If the issue is real, fine; as qualified it's despicable and more people should know about it. But your last line doesn't exactly distinguish you.
February 11, 2008 12:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
@superpuck: your reaction is so superficial.
To discount Winches comment, which has some serious research in it, just because he vents a little, is quite sophomoric.
Every possible instrument against mccain should be thoroughly explored, since either the racist mainstream media FoKKKs, or the Hillary Hatred train are sharpening their tools to lash out.
Lets be grateful that The Winch has done some homework, its up to us to spread this.
February 11, 2008 9:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Hopi/Navajo conflict is much more complicated than that. The Hopi are the underdog versus the Navajo. Do more research of history.
February 13, 2008 3:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nonsense. The hopi involved in this were five indians hired by PEABODY WESTERN COAL to register with the BIA, and then obtain false titles to land lived on for from 500-1000 years by the
NAVAJO of the Dineh band, so Peabody could run them off their lands and mine their coal.
Shame, shame!
April 14, 2008 2:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
The Dineh Navajo story turns out to be just another one of many seedy federal lands deals engineered by Sen. McCain on behalf of wealthy contributors. The New York Times and the Washington Post have recently detailed two separate McCain federal land swindles on behalf of special interests, and there are at least two more (Del Webb Corp. in Las Vegas and Great American Life in the Tonto National Forest) that are in the process of coming to light.
Sen. McCain increasingly appears to be a seriously flawed individual. If the media stops giving him a pass, and really looks into all of this, he will implode as a viable political entity.
May 12, 2008 5:43 PM | Reply | Permalink