‘Negotiations’ actually just theft
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Editor,
How is it that an attorney knows more about water requirements for irrigation than someone who has irrigated for 10-70 years? What do you call a “gaggle” of attorneys pretending to “negotiate” water rights while flushing taxpayer dollars and rights down the river? I don’t know — that’s why I’m asking. I’m kind of hoping that someone out there in “readerland” has a better answer than the ones I keep coming up with when considering a process that is rife with corruption, fraud, lies, coercion and a 10-year waste of time and money.
Nothing, so far, in the current Flathead Indian Reservation Federally Reserved Water Rights Compact is based on any truths known to man or beast. It is simply an “unjust taking” of property (water rights and property values and potential basin closures) by fraud (unsubstantiated claims of rights, erroneous data and bad research), coercion (constant threats of litigation) and unconstitutional overreach of charter (combining reserved water rights on the reservation with supposed Stevens Treaty rights off the reservation).
It must be nice to have the backing, support and direction of both a state government and the federal government to pull off a charade to deprive (in the onset) about 350,000 people of their constitutional right to life and property, while seemingly transferring it to a tiny group of about 7,500 people who have been led to believe it is theirs and they deserve it … unconscionable. Well, maybe not, in today’s societal thinking; okay, emotional believing. Fooling some of the people all of the time seems to be working for them.
What happened to “fair and equitable division”? How is taking from 350,000 and giving to 7,500 fair and equitable? Do you see why I am confused; especially when the 350,000 who will ultimately suffer the consequences remain quietly idle, on the sidelines, and clueless to this outrageous stage play? These commissions aren’t even wearing masks or guns and would have remained nameless if they hadn’t been exposed back in June of this year.
Michael Gale
Ronan
