‘Skunk’ hides in water negotiations
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Editor,
We have a skunk (the CSKT demand that they own all the water within and around the reservation) in the yard that’s been covered up with 6 feet of manure by a “sovereign” people — or specifically, their spokespersons, who negotiate on their behalf. We have a reconfigured state water compact commission that understood new marching orders (to accept the illegal tribal terms), sometime after 2003, to just agree to the outrageous, primary demand of their opposition and helped to shovel manure on the skunk.
It was expected that we, the common clay, would not want to get our hands dirty playing with a pile of manure and would therefore never discover their hidden pet skunk. Unfortunately, our curiosity was underestimated – again. We rolled up our sleeves and began moving the pile from the yard and guess what; we found a skunk with an unbelievable stench.
We studied it, talked to it, took pictures and then poked it with a stick. It let out a howl and then sprayed at us – as all skunks do – before those slick-Willy negotiators could get it re-covered with manure, hoping no one else noticed. Every time we removed enough manure to expose their pet (the lie that CSKT owns all the water), they ran along behind us patting it back in place, telling everyone who would listen that we were spreading wild, vicious, misinformed rumors concerning the presence of any animals in the area. Marginalize your enemy and you can return to business as usual – lying and cheating anyone within earshot.
These geniuses spend more time evading questions with empty platitudes and smoke and mirrors than actually providing honest answers, because a lie needs more lies to justify it.
You can fool all the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can’t fool me any of the time – there’s a skunk under that pile of manure. Nice try, no cigar. The truth is easy and never needs to be covered with manure, or more lies. Try it, you’ll like – Mikey did and Mikey will keep to the truth.
Michael Gale
Ronan
