August 19, 2005

Schmuck

Here's a sample of our most-likely future Supreme Court justice:

In a January 1982 memo he wrote about legislation that he said would "heap benefits" on the Texas Band of Kickapoo Indians. Explaining their history, Roberts wrote, "The Kickapoos, originally from the Great Lakes area, did not stop running from their encounter with Europeans until they reached Mexico, where they now hold 17,000 acres of land" and "provide migrant labor in the U.S." Roberts said he had no legal objections to the bill, which he said was consistent with administration policy, but added that its "provisions seem overly generous -- particularly in light of the fact that these are, generally speaking, Mexican Indians and not American Indians"...
Charming. Is this how the right will eventually justify the slaughter of Native Americans? "Well, it happened outside of our borders, so there's nothing we could have done..."

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