![]() ![]() The burden of proof and honesty falls upon the stackers, and until they satisfy me, I assume that they will lie and cheat. When the deck begins stacked against a group, I stop offering default faith in those who stack it. ![]() This is especially so in states where anti-Indian bigotry is the social norm for whites. I’d generally assumed that justice had not been done, since Native Americans rarely get justice from the US legal system. I knew of Peltier, and of the killings on Pine Ridge, but few of the details. While I’m nearly always sympathetic to Native American causes, I don’t swallow without question every cause put before me. The full title continues: The Story of Leonard Peltier and the FBI’s War on the American Indian Movement. I learned of this book from one of its primary subjects: Leonard Peltier himself. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() And when Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German embassy in London, their destiny also becomes entangled with that of Gus Dewar, an ambitious young aide to Woodrow Wilson, and two orphaned Russian brothers, the Peshkovs, whose plan to emigrate to America falls foul of conscription, revolution and imminent war.Ī revolution that will change everything. The escalating arms race between the empire nations will put not only the king but this young boy in grave danger.īilly’s family is inextricably linked with the Fitzherberts, the aristocratic owners of the coal mine where he works. ![]() 1911, a thirteen-year-old boy, Billy Williams, begins working down the mines as George V is crowned king. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He also recalled being an Assembly aide when New Jersey changed its drinking age from 21 to 18 in the early 1970s, but then changed it back to 21 following a rash of drunk driving deaths. In a phone interview after the meeting, Thompson told me that he’s not trying to change the law of the land, but he doesn’t think anyone under 18 should vote. “At age 18, I remember myself as well as watching my children and their friends - their social interactions, their responsibilities were more to school, going to college … and not quite frankly being too concerned with what’s going on in politics today, except local possibly,” he said. “It’s my personal opinion that making it any younger than 21 was probably not the best idea, but I understand the reasoning behind it,” Thompson said during an Assembly State & Local Government Committee hearing Thursday while voting against a bill to let 17-year-olds vote in primary elections if they turn 18 by the general. And he’s not suggesting we repeal the amendment. To be clear, Thomson - who turned 18 in 1971, the year the amendment to allow 18-year-olds to vote was ratified - is sympathetic to the main reason for the change: That 18-year-olds could be drafted to fight in Vietnam but couldn’t even vote. Assemblyman Ned Thomson (R-Monmouth) maybe sort of thinks so. ![]() |