Ron said: <<I hate to weigh in on these political diatribes, but would you really equate denial of permission to run a casino with genocide?>>
and me: geez.... i don't know enough about politics to fill a thimble, but here i go anyhow - when alison said: <<slc, utah, former home of the utes, navajo, shoshone, piute, goshute (a tribe now contemplating storing nuclear waste on their land for money, cause the goddamn mormons won't let em have a casino...>> i suspect she meant (and i'm sure that she'll correct me if i'm wrong) that the native americans are forced by their financial situation (since they can't have said casino) to store nuclear waste on their reservation, and that the dangers that that presents (from leakage, from the targeting of that waste in war, etc etc) is a kind of passive genocide. i mean, no one's lining up begging to store nuclear waste on their property, are they? cindy
