The first 8 disernolled Margarita Brittain descendents appealed the Executive Committee's decision to disenroll to the BIA. The BIA responded to the appeal recommending that Pala's Executive Committee reverse their decision. Here is that recommendation:
Sunday, September 9, 2012
Thursday, September 6, 2012
The Big Lie
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” - Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Chief
"All this was inspired by the principle--which is quite true within itself--that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying." - Adolf Hitler from his book Mein Kampf
Sunday, September 2, 2012
"a bribery and kickback scheme that preyed on the tribe"
Another article in the Sacremento Bee:
Judge allows bail for defendant in tribal theft case
Judge allows bail for defendant in tribal theft case
Published: Saturday, Sep. 1, 2012 - 12:00 am
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Bart Wayne Volen, once a prominent Sacramento-area developer and
contractor, has an impressive list of assets, and now federal
prosecutors want them, plus double-digit incarceration.
So, they argue, he should have to stay in jail until he pleads or is found guilty because, facing prison and financial penalties that spell total ruin, he will use his liquidity and familiarity with international travel to flee.
But U.S. Magistrate Judge Dale A. Drozd didn't see it that way Friday. At the conclusion of a protracted hearing stretching over parts of two days, the judge ordered Volen released on $3.5 million bail to be secured by a home in Maui and his son's signature on an $800,000 bond.
Drozd also ordered cash totaling approximately $573,000 transferred from Volen bank accounts in Maui, San Diego and Thailand to the client trust account of his attorney, Matthew Jacobs. The judge decreed that none of the money may be withdrawn without the approval of a court officer.
Volen, 53, who is charged in a grand jury indictment, along with two former employees of the United Auburn Indian Community, with a bribery and kickback scheme that preyed on the tribe, has been on conditional release since last week, pending further investigation of his holdings by the government.
Continued Here - Read Full Article Here
So, they argue, he should have to stay in jail until he pleads or is found guilty because, facing prison and financial penalties that spell total ruin, he will use his liquidity and familiarity with international travel to flee.
But U.S. Magistrate Judge Dale A. Drozd didn't see it that way Friday. At the conclusion of a protracted hearing stretching over parts of two days, the judge ordered Volen released on $3.5 million bail to be secured by a home in Maui and his son's signature on an $800,000 bond.
Drozd also ordered cash totaling approximately $573,000 transferred from Volen bank accounts in Maui, San Diego and Thailand to the client trust account of his attorney, Matthew Jacobs. The judge decreed that none of the money may be withdrawn without the approval of a court officer.
Volen, 53, who is charged in a grand jury indictment, along with two former employees of the United Auburn Indian Community, with a bribery and kickback scheme that preyed on the tribe, has been on conditional release since last week, pending further investigation of his holdings by the government.
Continued Here - Read Full Article Here
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