Cops with Sticks
"Cops With Sticks" is the theme of these two pictures published by members of the Seneca Nation after they were beaten by members of the New York State Police.
Why does New York Govenor George Pataki hate the Indians? Is it that Native Americans are finally starting to be able to pull ourselves out of the poverty and displacement after lossing the Americas to the Europeans? Did you expect the Native Ameerican people to stay poor and downtrodden forever?
No, the New York doesn't care if we are Native American or not. The problem is that by selling Native American cigarettes, we are starting to take away their big cash cow, the "Cigarette Sin Tax". New York has one of the highest cigarette taxes in the country. If you can't suck all that money out of the smokers, what are you going to do Mr. Govenor? I guess you are going to have to start to do your job and come up with some real ideas as to how to effectively run your state. The all paying cigarette sin tax isn't going to be the magic cure for bad government forever. The people won't let it!!