Here's a lesson all the tribal "victims" should learn.

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Recently, the issue of this massive violation of our Growth Management Laws and all-around economic black hole known as the Cowlitz Megacasino (But is now, in reality, much more the David Barnett/Mohegan Tribe/Paskenta Tribe (of California) and what's left over to the Cowlitz Tribe Megacasino) has become an issue on this blog.

There is a commonality in the two alleged Cowlitz Members who've stopped by to post... and that is their status as "victim."

That's not surprising. As a society, for the past several decades, we've taught those born of a "minority" to BE victims, by providing them with many special privileges and considerations... merely because of their race.

President Bush referred to it when he discussed the "subtle racism of lowered expectations." Those posting here on the subject, allegedly from the Cowlitz Tribe, amount to poster children for the movement.

They demand of us that we violate the laws of this state to accommodate THEIR victimhood.

Neither of those two posting here, live here. Both of those posting here believe, probably mistakenly if the numbers are right, that they stand to materially benefit from this monstrosity.

As a result, they could care less about the impacts of this project. They could care less what level of injury this colossal scam will actually cause those of us who, actually, LIVE HERE.

I submit to the reader that it's time for the entirety of the Indian population of this country to let it go.

The first poster, a lovely young lady by the name of Justine, referred to the Japanese internment as a justification for her victimhood. She wrote:

I'm not saying that I necessarily agree with a casino, but I am saying that amends need to be made. This has been done in the past when the U.S. interned Japanese-Americans in places like the Puyallup fair grounds for no good reason.

I was struck by that this morning when I was checking out what was left of the Seattle PI on the web, and they had posted a story there that reached out and touched me since the Japanese Internment justification is frequently used by those raping our laws... all in the name of tribal sovereignty.

Here is how this SHOULD have gone down... a LONG time ago.

There's a lesson or two or a million to be learned by those who believe their genetic makeup magically entitles them to damage a community they do not live in; for the most part, have never lived in and, most likely, never WILL live in.

Here's the way to handle the science of victimhood:


'There's no use crying about the past'

By BRAD WONG
P-I REPORTER

As she held her infant daughter at the Bainbridge Island ferry dock on that cold day in March 1942, Fumiko Hayashida knew she was pregnant with her third child. But she knew little else about what the future would hold.

A photograph of her at that moment of bewilderment -- published in the Seattle P-I -- would eventually make her a symbol of Japanese-Americans interned during World War II.

Neither her U.S. citizenship nor a signed allegiance card protected her from being sent to a barbed-wire internment camp for Japanese-Americans whom the federal government deemed a threat.

"You didn't know what to do," she recalled Friday. "We were too sad to cry."

The Seattle chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League will honor the 98-year-old Beacon Hill resident on Saturday for raising awareness about the wholesale denial of civil rights to a group of about 110,000 people.

The Bainbridge Island-born Hayashida has testified before Congress about her internment and spoken to students and people at conferences nationwide.

Fumiko Hayashida and daughter Natalie Ong are shown at Hayashida's Seattle home 67 years after a now-iconic photo was made of their deportation to an internment camp.

"There's no use crying about the past," the soft-spoken woman said. "But I hope this never happens again."

Part of why the country knows this 4-foot-11 inch woman is because a Seattle P-I photographer was at the dock that day to capture an image of the 31-year-old mother.

The black and white photograph shows her wearing an overcoat, holding 13-month-old Natalie and staring blankly off in one direction. Her purse dangles from one hand.

"We didn't know there was a newspaperman in the crowd," she said.

The image has been reproduced in books and shown at museums, including the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

"She was nobody but yet everybody," daughter Natalie Ong, now 67, said, relaying what a friend once said about the image.

P-i Collection / Mohai

As baby Natalie sleeps in her arms, Hayashida waits to board a ferry from Bainbridge Island in March 1942. To save space in her suitcase for cloth diapers and baby clothing, Hayashida wore as much clothing as she could."It captures a mother's need to protect her child," said Frank Abe, a Seattle filmmaker who made a documentary about the internment.

On Friday at her Beacon Hill house, Hayashida was nearly speechless about what to say during the Saturday ceremony.

"You tell me. I don't know," she said to a visitor, chuckling.

Ong offered one suggestion: "Thank you."

Known as "Fumi" to friends and relatives, Hayashida was among the 227 men, women and children from Bainbridge Island whom the Army removed that day.

Those island residents were some of the first in the country to be forced into exile.

During World War II, 12,892 state residents of Japanese ancestry were sent to camps. Today, Hayashida is the oldest living Japanese-American from the island who was incarcerated.

The orders to leave the island came about a week before the actual departure. The local sheriff kept telling her husband not to worry because the couple was born in the United States.

As she recalled, the U.S. government explained that the removal was needed to protect her family and other Japanese-Americans during the war.

The family abandoned more than 80 acres of land they used to grow strawberries, as well as their trucks, car, tractor and dog.

Before they left, they handed their radio and camera to authorities.

While the family could have moved to Moses Lake or Yakima to avoid detention, her husband thought their son and daughter were too young to make that trek.

"He said, 'Just follow what the government wants you to do and you won't be sorry.' We trusted them," she recalled.

"We didn't know where we were going, how we were going."

To save space in her suitcase for cloth diapers and baby clothing, she wore as much clothing as she could.

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