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Date Posted: Sun, 08/31/03 3:57pm
Author: OnB
Subject: Re: NDN religion
In reply to: Steve Russell 's message, "Re: NDN religion" on Sun, 08/31/03 1:31pm

>>Steve,
>But I do think that the laws
>>regarding carrying somethings has gotten rediculas. I
>>mean to find a feather and carry it you could face
>>imprisionment if you do not have a permit. It should
>>not be a law to what a person can have for their ways.
>> I can understand... but can not.
>
>>Kangi
>
>"I can understand...but can not." That kind of sums
>up where I am at, and I am a lawyer who had been
>thinking about it seriously almost 30 years....
>
>I do disagree with those laws about what you can carry
>being ridiculous. They are absolutely necessary,
>because the alternative is putting the burden of proof
>on the government to show where an eagle feather came
>from, and that would make the laws protecting eagles
>unenforceable---the government can't prove that unless
>somebody saw the perp shoot the eagle.
>
>So you protect eagles or you don't. If you don't
>they're goners. They were almost goners anyway.
>
>So we have this dopey permit system. I have some
>eagle parts for which I have the paper and some for
>which I don't .
>
>I have been awarded several eagle feathers in the
>traditional way, and I am proud of that. In a sane
>world, I would wear those feathers in my hair on
>special occasions as the badges of honor they
>are--just like a soldier wears his medals. Because I
>don't want the grief, the feathers stay in my closet
>and get a little bit of use sometimes if I burn
>sage--privately.
>
>But I can't go along with repealing rules that would
>result in extinction of eagles.... So I know...but I
>don't know.
>
>Steve


That high school girl was probly lucky they din't conduct a search and seizure of her premises for illegal, non-certified,non-exempt feathers.
I guess I always thought that those big CONSTITUTION RIGHTS were on the side of being inviolable- religion being one of them.
I'm thinking if you can give all the cowboys in the state of Texas the right to carry concealed weapons,(yah, that's a crowd I wanna see secretly packing...), one could certainly argue in favor of letting the indigenies have their feathers..............."I'm sorry sir, but you'll have to come with me...that's a loaded feather you're carrying in a public place." "Put your peyote buttons on the floor and come out with your hands in the air where I can see them!"
"Do you have a license for that sweetgrass? Or is this a 1st class culinary misdemeanour......?"

EEeeeeeeeeeeee! My brain is storming around over here now, too!
dammit.

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