The American Computer
Science Association Inc.
908-272-0016
August 24, 2004
New
York Times
Letters
to the Editor
Dear
Sir or Madam,
For several years prior to and during the 2000
Election, the American Computer Science Association Inc. served as a public
advocate of the Human Rights of the Navaho Di’neh People of Black Mesa and
Contrary to the representations of Senator John
Kerry and the Kerry Campaign today, we have absolutely no relationship to nor
are in any way involved with the Bush Campaign, President Bush or the current
Administration. We have no budget from
and no relationship thereto. In fact, aside from the fact that we have been
extremely effective at calling attention to these and other public issues, such
as the presence of Highly Radioactive Polonium 210 in Cigarettes (derived from
the fertilizer commonly used to grow Tobacco), we have no affiliation to anyone
but ourselves. We are but a small band of brothers actively engaged in
addressing and publicizing topics of importance to the general public. Our
political opinions are published as a matter of Constitutionally afforded
privilege.
Upon it becoming clear that Senator McCain, not yet
held accountable for UN Confirmed Violations of the Di’neh’s Human Rights, was intent
upon running for President in 1999 and 2000, I elected to direct a multimillion
item opinion mailing, by web and email, a national campaign directed to every
Republican and Democratic Party Caucus, Local and Federal Congressman,
Governor, Mayor and other politician in the United States, in an effort to
convince both parties that Senator McCain was entirely unfit to serve as a
candidate for either Party, an opinion I hold to this very day. I believe Senator McCain should be facing
prosecution for what he did to the Navaho. I do not believe he is alone in that
responsibility. And: I believe the message
was delivered. McCain withdrew.
What we did here was not a condemnation of any other
responsibilities or any other aspect of the Senator’s personal or military
service. It addressed no other issues for which there may be unanswered
questions. It was simply an utter
condemnation of his record on and participation in the brutalization and
victimization of the Di’neh, which claim is fully supported by the public
record. The claim is partly documented
on the following websites, originally called http://www.cain2000.org, it is now identified by the URL http://www.cain2004.org. The title of these sites: “Am I My Brother’s
Keeper?” defines some of the reasons why Senator John McCain, in our opinion,
should be prosecuted.
There can be no legitimate disagreement with our opinion
here; Senator John McCain knows well the illegalities of his acts against the
Navaho’s Human Rights in
Nonetheless, the purpose behind this letter is not
to further confront the ever corrupt John McCain, it
is to bring the entire story to the Times’ attention. We believe it is important to inform the
Times that not only is Senator John Kerry knowingly responsible for the
perpetration of a fraud by casting knowingly false blame on the Bush
Administration, the Bush Administration has never had any say over ACSA. And, Kerry has also sought to marginalize our
expose of McCain misconduct. Kerry is doubly aware McCain was behind acts which
violated the Navaho’s Human Rights, he voted to endorse them. He was also patently aware that ACSA was
behind the confrontation of McCain, and sent millions upon millions of emails
and letters and otherwise engaged widespread protest against Senator McCain’s
misconduct towards the Navaho’s Human and Civil Rights, and towards the
environment of Black Mesa and
For the record: we first learned firsthand about the difficulties facing Native
Indians of the
However, until we read about Senator McCain’s
activities in stealing the Coal right out from under the Navahos in
We became angry over any Senator who would
orchestrate such a tragedy with so disastrous consequences that the UN had to
organize a Special Reporter to go in and investigate. We became angry that not
only had McCain destroyed one Navaho Reservation, for Coal in Black Mesa (now
virtually destroyed by Peabody’s ‘Grim Reaper’ Strip Mining Machinery), but
that he was and is intent upon extending the so-called “John Boyden Esq. Agenda”: to destroy another Navaho territory-
Big Mountain. We learned of the deaths
of the Elders and the nuclear radiation inflicted upon the surviving
families. Our findings so angered us
that, in good conscience, we simply could not allow such a man as Senator
McCain to progress forward politically without the Public and the Political
Parties being forced to recognize him for exactly the kind of utter scoundrel
he is and was.
And so, before the election came upon us, we started
lobbying for attention to the problem just as public press caught on when Julia
Butterfly Hill took up residence in protest in a huge tree on
The leader of the Chippewa Nation in an unrelated
conversation had once told me personally of the unbelievable rate of cancer
found on such reservations. Until I saw the statistics, however, I was not
aware that in the case of the Navaho of Arizona it was likely being caused by
the horrifying decision to dump the Indians onto the Uranium Dumping Ground,
Church’s Hill, there.
Perhaps the NY Times has empathy for why we are
outraged. For John Kerry and John McCain to have conspired to attempt to dare
use this Election Year’s rhetoric to try and marginalize these criminal acts
they’ve committed against the Navaho, is as amoral as one could imagine. It
shows these two men are in possession of absolutely no conscience, men for whom
power has gone to their head to such a magnitude that they have lost all touch
with their Ethics. It is also an
indication that Bill Clinton, who signed the Navaho Resettlement Act into law
over 15 minutes while on vacation, along with his friends, Senator Kennedy,
Senator McCain, Senator Rockefeller and Senator Kerry, who jointly sponsored
and endorsed the enactments dispossessing the Navaho before the Senate, are not
much better at treating their own citizens properly than was Saddam Hussein
towards the Kurds of Iraq.
In acts reminiscent of the Nazis of Germany, the
jack-booted thugs of Peabody and the BIA inundated the Navaho Di’neh,
brutalized them, cut their properties apart with illegal anti-ranging fences,
capped their pristine stock wells, took custody of their ranging herds and
otherwise destroyed the human rights that these gentle Di’neh Navaho possessed
in their magnificent abode in Arizona, they oppressed their religious beliefs,
which relate to their “mother”, Mother Earth.
The thugs have beat up the elders, filed fraudulent writs, arrested them
for false causes, enacted laws based on perjury, violated their religious
beliefs, engaged
in illegal ex-parte
agreements so as to circumvent rulings of the Supreme Court, and tried to force
the Navaho to agree give up their religious beliefs in entirety. As a result they have literally destroyed the
global reputation of the
There is actually considerable reason to believe that
many of these Senators’ and President Clinton’s actions towards the Navaho were
responsible for demonstrating a depraved indifference towards the Indians’
plight in Black Mesa. In fact, our sources suggest that the misconduct toward
the Di’neh Navaho actually significantly contributed to the success of efforts
by International Terrorists to blacken America’s reputation and gain support
for mounting the 9/11 Terrorist Attack.
The dispossessing and forced relocation of the Navaho by Senator McCain
and Bill Clinton and their peers, has been used time and time again by
International Terror in private conversations with our allies overseas. They
often allegedly refer to it: “
The resettlement was so horrific on the elders, many
of them simply died. Worse yet is the
fact that the children born on the Di’neh’s “New Lands” provided by the BIA, a
Nuclear Waste Superfund Site called Church’s Hill, is prolific with among the
highest birth defect rate in the Country, for some very visible and obvious
reasons. They live among Uranium mine tailings and are exposed to such high a
level of radiation their expected life-spans have been decreased by as much as
66%.
I call on the New York Times to halt it’s own
progress long enough to examine the horrors we were complaining of about
Senator McCain and the enactments he sponsored that were ratified by Clinton,
Gore, Kennedy, Rockefeller and Kerry. It’s time the Press came to realize, as
have I: even Senators and Presidents
often do not respect the rights of the little guy, and can behave as badly as a
Saddam Hussein, if We the People fail to hold them accountable.
It is, I believe, the FEAR of exposure on this
issue, which has given rise to the disgraceful outrage about exactly who took
issue with Senator John McCain in the last election. The fact is: we did.
WE REPRESENT THE DISPOSSESSED NAVAHO, MANY SUCH AS
ROBERTA BLACKGOAT, NOW DECEASED, WHOM SENATOR MCCAIN TRAMPLED IN HIS 12 YEAR
LONG PELL MELL EFFORT TO OBTAIN FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR HIS PRESIDENTIAL
ASPIRATIONS FROM THE SYNDICATES BACKING PEABODY WESTERN COAL COMPANY. McCain’s 2000 election run, financed largely
from street names in
not ceased confronting Senator McCain since. And, we
will not halt our effort to document McCain’s wrongdoing until he resigns from
public office, or is prosecuted and sent to jail, whichever comes first. It is time for
If anyone caused Senator McCain to be forever
without a future in the White House, it was the memory and spirits of the
Navaho he trampled. The Di’neh, which means “the People” in their native
tongue, have only ever expressed personal concern publicly not for their own
rights, but for concern about the RAPE OF THE LAND: the destruction of their
“mother”, Mother Earth in Black Mesa and Big Mountain, where they resided for
over 500 years. These unselfish tribal
elders, these gentle people, became the canon fodder of an egregious Senator
McCain’s horrific plan to reach the White House in 2000. And once again, in
2004, they are being drawn from their very graves into a controversy involving
selfish men behaving selfishly.
It is this kind of outrage that, in my opinion,
identifies why Senator McCain does not deserve ANY chance at attaining the
White House. Nonetheless, neither my opinion, nor the activities of ACSA had
anything to do with President Bush, nor any other public official or political
party. In this cause, we are on our own.
It was our action on behalf of and in advocacy of restoring the Arizona
Navaho’s Human Rights. Long ago, during
my coverage of his Anti-war Movement, then anti-war activist John Kerry called
me “the Kid with the Camera” when meeting with NJ, NY and MA Communist Party
members. Today he called me a Bush
Campaign of “Fear and Smear.” Kerry also
thought Yassir Arafat “turned statesman” in 1997, and
should be thought of a role model for all of the
In my opinion, addressing Senator Kerry: “Senator
McCain’s Presidential aspirations were forfeit by his own misconduct. If you
have any question about that, feel free to call me. Senator Kerry, you more than anyone should
know better than to lie about this issue, about me or about our efforts to
bring Senator McCain to justice. That
lie will stick to you like a fly to ‘flypaper’.”
Apparently, in
the opinion of John Kerry: anyone who votes in an election against Kerry is
just “a front” or “proxy” for the politician for whom that vote
is cast. Yet his: Farenheit
911 (or shall we call that “WarrenHeit 911”, John?)
and MoveOn.org are all just “the Magic of Hollywood” and “Webloggery”?
Such an opinion is madness, usually
promulgated by the fear of exposure or by delusion.
Sincerely
yours,
Jack
A. Shulman
Chairman
American Computer Science Association Inc.
(Writer’s identity may be confirmed by calling:
908-272-0016.)