More On John Stossel

From Talkingpointsmemo:Stossel was on Fox & Friends [on March 24] to handle some high-paying polity jobs recently reportable in The Daily Caller. The report institute that the "Assistant Secretary for Amerindic Affairs needs someone to run the Facebook tender for the Dept. of the Interior and they'll clear up to $115,000 a year." Stossel took that as an opportunity to astonishment most the whole construct of a Bureau of Amerindic Affairs."Why is there a Bureau of Amerindic Affairs?" he said. "There is no Bureau of Puerto Rican Affairs or Black Affairs or Goidelic Affairs. And no assemble in USA has been more helped by the polity than the dweller Indians, because we hit the treaties, we stole their land. But 200 eld later, no assemble does worse."The video:Good to wager he includes the "we stole their land" part. So I guess he's not a complete moron. From the Department of State:The news of westward expansion by dweller Americans is a base theme of the dweller experience, but it also is a story of Amerindic remotion from their traditional lands. Indians lost their lands by acquire and finished war, disease, and modify extermination, but many transfers of Amerindic realty were formalized by treaty. The Constitution of 1789 authorised legislature to "regulate commerce with external nations, and among the individualist States, and with the Amerindic tribes. agent contract regarded apiece folk as a ruler entity confident of signing protection treaties with the U.S. Government. In the first 40 eld of the newborn republic, the United States subscribed binary treaties with Amerindic tribes, which commonly followed a base pattern: the signatory folk withdrew to a prescribed uncertainty and in convey the federal polity promised to wage supplies, food, and often an annu! ity. In 1830, legislature chose to reject Amerindic treaty guarantees when it passed the Amerindic Removal Act, a calculate engineered by President saint Jackson. Despite its module suggesting a intentional and fair "exchange" of lands, the behave opened the entranceway for the militias of trans-Appalachian and Southern States to only intend the Indians across the river by force. The Indians' instruction was to be an "Indian Territory" ordered aside westerly of Iowa, Missouri, and Arkansas.And:The U.S. Government's quality and unwillingness to stay by its treaty obligations with Amerindic tribes was clearly attendant to an insatiable demand for affordable realty for dweller settlers. To attain concern more difficult, Indians mostly had a assorted construct of realty control than Europeans, emphasizing realty ingest for hunting, farming, or dwelling for the tribe, but not recognizing the construct of individualist ownership. Amerindic society was loose, decentralized, democratic, and nonauthoritarian where "chiefs" were often men of respect and everyday dominance but not designated by the folk to attain decisions. The result was that treaties were often subscribed with Amerindic body who did not hit the dominance of the tribe. Whether the grouping of Amerindic treaties were ever meant to impact is a concern of debate, but in reality, most Amerindic treaties were broken.Nice to wager Stossel recognized the treaties as well.Moron. On Fox "News" of course.