Back
in the 70's a scheme to provide a "sin tax" related --and regulated--
economic engine for Native American tribes was instigated in the form of
Federal Gaming Acts, which allowed tribes to establish casinos and run
them for profit.
This
license to run gaming houses created an instant ad hoc partnership
between tribal leaders, government bureaucrats, and the Mob -- mostly
New York Mob at first, later, Russian/Eastern European Mob and Drug
Cartel encroachers.
This
was both a move to integrate Native Americans into commercial
operations and access supplemental income to relieve government
bureaucrats of their obligation to provide for people forced to be
dependent on the public dole. And casinos make money. Everyone likes
money.
So,
there we all were, young and dumb, facing the era of Native-run
casinos, first a few created in the traditional gaming destinations like
Nevada, and then, over the years, sprouting up like mushrooms all over
the country.
Most
native leaders adjusted and tried to focus on whatever positive
attributes their casinos provided to communities -- looking at it in
terms of the hospitality industry, providing hotel accommodations in
places that needed such facilities, using casino auditorium and dance
hall space for a wide variety of community-related purposes, providing a
place for family fun and restaurants, not just hardcore gambling.
By
the time all this started, the "Reservation System" --- another polite
bit of verbiage to describe what started as illegal open-air internment
camps --- was becoming more and more expensive and its failure in human
terms was becoming more public, more difficult for "the U.S." to explain
or justify to the rest of the world, including all the other Americans
who looked at it and objected to the repugnant colonialist crimes
underlying it.
The
relatively few white people who supported the American Indian Movement
(AIM) and the occupation of Wounded Knee and other protest activities at
the time --- people like my Mother --- did so from a profound
awarements of the injustice the Native People suffered, but that
awareness had yet to expand into larger international venues. It was
the combined threat of that expansion and the cost of maintaining the
reservation system that prompted the establishment of the Native Gaming
Commission.
At
the time, my Mother and others raised red flags, saying that even the
government corporation's proposed remedy --- which was giving the native
tribes a franchise license to do something otherwise illegal and
providing the Mob Bosses with a new venue --- was not fair or
appropriate.
This "business opportunity" forced native people to take a slice of dirty pie, or continue to have no slice at all.
The
quid pro quo also required onerous reporting requirements, and paying
local, state, and federal bureaucrats large sums as "taxes" and
"payments in lieu of taxes". So even the slice of dirty pie was shared
out among voracious corporate bosses like the Daley Clan in Chicago --
or Gavin Newsom and the Pelosi Clan in California -- all "representing"
the government, of course.
This
uneasy and unavoidably unsavory lifeline has puttered along for over
fifty years, and now, a combination of new income streams, declining
overall economic conditions, and the freedom to be honest, is creating a
domino effect resulting in the closure of casinos:
It
turns out that government bureaucrats were padding their extraction of
"tax" payments to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars that went
into the ethersphere --- money extracted from the native tribes that
were supposed to be the beneficiaries of the gambling licenses. Not
only did the government bureaucrats extract payments that weren't owed,
they exercised authorities they didn't have.
Today, justice is finally, quietly, emerging.
Not
a big fanfare. Not something that is calculated to take the front
page. It's just this: 214 casinos are closing in California alone, and
many more will close throughout all the other States.
The
casino facilities that remain as physical edifices will provide new
opportunities, free of the forced associations and phony tax obligations
of the past.
The
governmental services corporations and their bureaucrats owe the Native
casinos all the tax money that was collected under False Pretenses,
plus interest.
Simply
closing the doors of the casinos and providing the opportunity for new
purposes for these facilities --- while stopping the drain of casino
profits into undisclosed foreign coffers -- is probably the best
revenge. Quiet. Dignified. No need for further explanations.
Issued by:
Anna Maria Riezinger -- Fiduciary
The United States of America
In care of: Box 520994
Big Lake, Alaska 99652
January 7th 2025
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