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Do you have evidence that the modern federal government is now ready to live up to the treaties and give them back their land? Otherwise it's the government of decades past up to the present.

No. Being blond is something you "are." Not something you do.

If you commit a felony (which by definition is a serious crime against society), you lose certain societal privileges. One of those privileges is carrying a firearm. One is voting. Here is the rationale:

In limiting the freedoms of convicted felons, incarceration is designed to punish inmates and impress upon them the magnitude of their crimes. As a privilege to be enjoyed by law-abiding citizens, prohibiting inmates from voting further drives this point home. Prohibiting former felons from voting for life ensures the integrity of the electoral process, especially in states and jurisdictions where the populace directly elects judges, law enforcement officers and district attorneys.

Russians are unhappy anyway. Didn't you ever read Anna Karenina? ;o)

This is quite different from that. The point is that when you commit a felony you are doing something that harms your fellow citizens. That means you forfeit certain rights (like liberty or weapons possession). In some states voting is one the rights you lose, but you lose it because of your actions, not because of who or what you are (black/homosexual/dumb, etc). As Thomas Hobbes said, without the social contract life would be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short."

I wasn't equating you to anything. Rome was in another country on another continent a couple thousand years ago. I'm talking about the history of our country. I said the government of the United States did this... and it's not something we should be proud of.

One never knows with Jonmarc. When he gets called on something he said (like hating Muslims), it was suddenly a joke... well except killing baby Hitler (and baby me). He seemed quite serious about that.

All things considered, his offenses were pretty minor.

We don't live in a democracy. We live in a democratic republic. We elect representatives who vote for us. If it was one person one vote then blacks would still be sitting on the back of the bus and not allowed to go to the same schools as whites.... since the majority of the people in the states where Jim Crow laws existed wanted them.

Center for Disease Control?

Don't be silly. In your haste to call me wrong, you brought up a whole different issue. State resolutions about casinos have nothing to do with the treaties the US federal government made with the indians in the 19th century.

Those were treaties about land. You know... treaties like, you can have this land forever... oh wait, we decided we want it... you can all go to this reservation over here instead... we're taking all your land.