Commit to freedom, defend America
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Editor,
Years ago while driving my then 4-year-old grandson to preschool a news report came over the radio about U.S. soldiers being hurt and killed in a foreign land. He demanded an instant explanation. I told him what the United States stands for, and why the soldiers were there.
For months we said nightly prayers for the safety of his friends, “the soljers,” and for when he’d be big enough to be the last soldier, and to expect paybacks for his friends. At the Sanders County Fair he wanted his dog tag to read “The Last Soldier.” By the following year he’d learned the pledge of allegiance, so he wanted “with liberty and justice for all” on his dog tag.
As a tribal member living on the Flathead Reservation I’ve learned it takes almost everyone to accomplish anything. The Confederated Salish and Kootenai water compact is not just tribal against non-tribal, it’s not about accepting the compact as is, to avoid costly litigation. The CSKT have a ratified constitution, it is not the one you can get online. The online constitution has been revised but not ratified. There is always an undercurrent of certain groups committed to revising the U.S. Constitution, accomplished by a word or stroke of a pen.
I advise everyone to watch the documentary “The Future of Water” or “Blue Gold.” They’d see the ongoing struggle for water worldwide. And water is the power. “We the Membership” are still petitioning for Kerr Dam to be a vote of the membership. We’re trying to get at least a third of the membership to realize that only through them do we have a future. We see our Councils’ decisions are not in the best interest of the membership.
When a 4 year old can understand commitment to freedom, what’s wrong with the rest of us grown people? With the U.S. Government supporting legal and illegal aliens, women being flown in to give birth on U.S. soil, I sometimes wonder if there are enough Americans left to defend America.
Sybil R. Butler
Dixon
