In defense of the jury that convicted me, as well as the Court that refused to impose punishment on me; virtually, none of the following facts and information were available to the jury, during my criminal trial. My true motives were deemed not relevant to the charges against me. Information regarding the Arizona Poker war were barred from consideration by the jury, due to a very restrictive Motion-in-Limine granted to the State.
This website is being utilized to help in organizing a documentary about the decade long Arizona Poker War. The work will help chronicle the efforts made by Arizona's Professional Poker players to wrest control of their sport from the clutches of the BIA's banished gambling cartel. It will also bring into focus the long and sordid history of the BIA's inhumane treatment and abuse of the American Indian tribes ensnared within their reservation system.
It is simply irrefutable fact that felony laws are being violated by the BIA gambling syndicate. The laws they continue to ignore remain on the books today as high crimes and misdemeanors. The BIA gambling cabal is now, and always has been, an immoral felonious business enterprise.
Arizona anti gambling laws carry the same long prison terms for operating rigged slots as are applicable to their criminal cronies in the illicit drug cartel. The moral turpitude of the rigged slot machine cartel did not change because, professional sports and the press corps jumped into bed with with this amoral banished felony enterprise. Simply because public officers have been deceived, along with the rest of us. Or, that others may simply be shirking their responsibility to enforce statutory law, does not change the reality; they all could decide to do their duty upon receiving our petition and demand for a redress of grievances.
The oath of office required of all public officeholders does not grant them authority to negotiate around felony statutes and ordinances, which they are duty bound to obey and enforce. This begs the question: Do the powers that were claimed in entering the original gambling crime pact with the BIA agents and their criminal cronies from the rigged slot Empire, extend far enough beyond the reach of the law to include their cousins in the felonious illicit drug cartel? Can the Governor and the BIA crime cartel conjure up 17 Memorandums of Understanding for the Drug cartel too? Until now no one has bothered to wonder or even notice.
Former Justice of the Peace Harold Lee
Railroaded on trumped up charges by the
BIA gambling cartel's paid enforcers (the DoG police)
Unless, the law was unjust in the first
instance a felony statute cannot be sanctified as lawful behavior or become moral by the malfeasance and negligence of public officers, who have
declined to their duty to uphold the law.
In 1988 various elected officers sworn to uphold the laws of Arizona, used an unlawful mandate from Congress to grant a crime sanctuary to the rigged slot machine Cartel, within Arizona State tribal lands, overseen by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The BIA and State officials enjoined a plot to skirt Arizona anti gambling statutes. These public officers simply disregarded their oath to protect the people of Arizona, and gave over their defenseless constituents to the BIA's rigged slot machine Empire. The mandate was later overturned by the Courts but, no one seems to have noticed until now.
Unable to locate a professional journalist with
the courage to do battle against the BIA reservation crime cartel and, with the Free press wallowing in popcorn
buckets full of the Bureau of Indian Affairs tainted booty, no professional journalist can be found willing to tell the story. Frankly, from our perspective the mainstream media are merely laundering money for an
outlawed, amoral business enterprise. Worse still, they have brought legitimate
businesses and professional sports franchises along with them in condoning the amoral business practices of the statutorily banished, amoral, non taxed crime syndicate.
Recently, the Arizona Attorney
General at the behest of BIA gambling syndicate, forced me to stand alone and face down a 20 year prison term, in order to protect my 1st Amendment
right to lodge a petition and list of grievances with the government. I filed
just such a petition with state and local prosecutors in May of 2005. For more
than five years prosecutors redressed that petition by allowing our players association
to open poker rooms for adult members within their jurisdiction.
The BIA gambling cartel cried foul and let loose the DoG police
to extort me and my associates back into their crime infested casino card
parlors, where we are abused by the casino's silly jackpot poker schemes.
Where, the house pilfers the poker player prize pools. Both are felony acts
under Arizona law. Oddly, none of this information is newsworthy to the Arizona
press corps?
Regrettably, mainstream media outlets in Arizona appear to have
developed a strong addiction to the tainted fruit of the BIA’s rigged
slot machine Empire and are intentionally stonewalling this story from the
public. Because my entire trial was conducted without the media in
attendance, the press corps was not present to hear the State’s plea to the
Court to silence me, and prevent me from sharing this story with the people of
Arizona. Too my great relief the Court summarily rejected the State's
request.
The
entire press corps, which appears to be deaf and dumb, also missed the trial
Court's comment noting; it took courage to stand alone and face down a 3 count
felony indictment for conspiracy and racketeering. How alone? Whether, it was from
a justifiable fear of the DoG enforcers, who were always present in the room,
or a lack of knowledge as to time and place, outside of the essential court
personnel and the DoG enforcers, the room was empty.
Only
the State prosecutor and his DoG cronies (all of them paid by the BIA gambling
cabal) were present at my sentencing. Trust me; it was a very lonely feeling. Not one member of
the Arizona press corps was present to record
that the judicial system had flatly refused to join the DoG police enforcers,
in their concerted effort to railroad me into silence, while guarding their employer’s
monopolistic claim over professional poker.
The
media also took no notice that the trial Court decided Justice would best be
served in my case by declining to impose any punishment on me. Nor, would
the Court impose any punishment on my former associates, who were indicted with
me, but were scheduled to plead guilty to lesser charges, after being required
to testify for the State at my trial.
I
should note that I urged both of my former associates to take a plea agreement for
the sake of their families. The cause only required
one sacrificial lamb to be brought before the Bar of Justice. Since, it had
been my 1st Amendment petition that started the process way back in 2005; I was
looking forward to the honor of defending it alone.
Following is the story that mainstream media executives, and their
cronies from the BIA gambling cartel, do not want anyone to notice.
However, I am heartened by the old saw that says: “You can fool some of the people all of
the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool
all of the people all of the time.
The Arizona
press corps cannot hold the lid down on this stinker forever. Eventually, an
ethical journalist will sniff out the story and report it with skill and
competence. Regrettably, because I am not a journalist, my efforts to share the
story may sometimes be harder to comprehend. Regardless, I will trudge ahead until the mainstream media awakes from their long slumber, and assumes the responsibility to inform the public of the true history and nature of the BIA crime cartel, as well as the true reason for the formation of the reservation banished criminal gambling cartel.
Following is a short overview of the issues we will be exposing in the documentary on the Arizona Poker War, commencing when prosecutors were served with the ACL petition in 2005. A second petition is being crafted online at www.pokerplayerarmy.com For additional background information on the decade long Poker War visit www.icgpa.org
May 2005---The Arizona Poker War
BATTLING THE BIA'S GAMBLING CABAL
Judge Lee shared his research on the criminal history of the BIA.
In 2010 I contacted President Crow of Arizona State University to share my findings and research I had gathered regarding the BIA reservation system's criminal pedigree. He referred me to his representative for American Indian Affairs Dr. Peterson Zah. Dr. Zah was former President of the Navajo Nation. His opinion was very important to me. We met at his campus office one week prior to his resignation from A.S.U. He would be returning to the Navajo reservation, where tribal concerns required his immediate attention.
Dr. Zah treated me with respect and listened quietly as I reported my findings. He had no questions. Nor, did he appear to be in the least bit surprised by what I had discovered. At the conclusion of my presentation, Dr. Zah flashed me a knowing grin and offered a single comment, which I will never forget. He said; “It appears to me your problem is the Bureau of Indian Affairs”.
The following week Dr. Zah returned to the Navajo reservation, where the BIA still rides herd on his long suffering tribe. Oddly, the Navajo people are the only Arizona tribe to hold an actual Peace Treaty with the United States Army. Most, such as the Chiricahua Apaches were created by Executive order or proclamations. I left that meeting with the clear understanding that future efforts to close the BIA would not be instigated by BIA tribes.
It is fully the responsibility and duty of non Indian America to remove the BIA yoke, from around the neck of those citizens who are ensnared within the Government's brutally wicked reservation system. The Native tribes are merely attempting to guard their birthright, from an antiquated government policy that claims to be holding Tribal lands in trust. But, in fact, the BIA has been embezzling from their charges for nearly two centuries.
Unfortunately, BIA policy has also been effective at beating down the Native tribes' desire to do battle with the Indian Affairs bureaucracy. Imprisoning the leadership of the American Indian Movement, along with the F.B.I. sharpshooters killing a couple more Indians at Wounded Knee in 1972 (near the hollowed ground of the U. S. Government's horrific slaughter of Native American women and children trapped in the December snows 80 years before) there has been an If you can't beat them join them mind set permeating BIA reservations.
While, fear and subjugation may have overtaken tribal leadership, it has only strengthened the resolve of Petitioners to expose the crimes and costs to taxpayers of maintaining the BIA reservation system. In the future freedom lovers and libertarians will have to carry the torch of freedom for the downtrodden tribes.
We will begin by pressuring Congress and political leadership to grant BIA tribes their property rights, and control over their own business affairs. This would seem to be the quickest way to remove the tens of thousands of BIA residents from the abject poverty and genocide they are made to suffer under BIA rule. It would also relieve taxpayers of the burden of maintaining an eternal welfare system that produces abject poverty and hopelessness. While, an idle mind may or may not be the Devils tool, it is a certain precursor to massive rates of alcoholism and suicide.
The Arizona Department of Gaming has repeatedly extorted off-reservation card room operators and ICGPA membership, with threats of imprisonment, in order to prevent them from competing with the BIA gambling syndicate's card parlors that are attached to their casino operations.
I was genuinely surprised, when the Bureau of Indian Affairs gambling cabal decided to enter the Courthouse, and drop overblown charges on me? Especially, when we consider the breadth and width of their criminal behavior. This fraudulent quasi police agency is funded by a banished felony enterprise. The DoG has an enormous amount of criminal baggage hiding behind their tainted badges. Nothing surrounding the BIA crime sanctuary is lawful or moral.
The real reason I was indicted by the DoG agency was because I had uncovered the true history of the BIA gambling cartel and its unlawful origins. When I began to call attention to the fact that it is simply not possible for a crime cartel to operate or even exist, unless some elected public officers were willing to betray their oath to uphold and obey the laws of the State -- the BIA gambling cartel open a website and filed a specious lawsuit, they were forced to withdraw to avoid being exposed as a fraud.
Those public officeholders thirty years ago, who sat down with cronies from the universally outlawed slot machine cartel and conjured up a plan to skirt the State anti gambling statutes, where without a doubt betraying the voters who entrusted them to enforce the law. Their betrayal is what has allowed an unregulated, non taxed crime syndicate to operate against the people that elected them to public office. No elected officer has ever been empowered to disregard their oath and negotiate a means to skirt statutory laws, or provide sanctuary for criminals within taxpayer controlled lands.
Merely joining in the discussion of a plot to skirt the law constitutes a felony conspiracy, entering a crime pact does not bestow legitimacy to criminal conduct, it only furthers the conspiracy. Continued support of the BIA reservation system is merely sustaining a government policy of human genocide and racial cleansing.
A sworn public officer cannot lawfully plot to skirt those laws that they have sworn under oath to uphold; without committing an act of felony criminal conspiracy in the process.
Ergo, it is not possible for an unsupervised, unregulated, non taxed crime haven, such as rigged slot machines, to lawfully operate within Arizona tribal lands because, it presupposes that any public officer involved in the negotiations must first violate their oath to uphold the law they are agreeing to disregard.
Then there is the problem that Arizona tribal lands are comprised entirely of Arizona citizens and voters. Those citizens are not being treated equally pursuant to either State law, or the Constitution, with its equal protection clause.
It is undeniable that the Indian Affairs bureaucracy is guilty of perpetrating a long term policy of genocide, theft, and abuse of their charges, who are not coincidentally, the inhabitants of the BIA reservation system. It is a historical fact that every single acre of BIA controlled tribal lands has been procured by a government insurrection over a Majority Opinion of the Supreme Court, which concluded that the Country must obey its treaties with the tribes. The Majority opinion of the Justices was rejected by Andrew Jackson, Congress, and the Georgia militia.
The U. S. Army under the direction of Andrew Jackson and the BIA committed unspeakable acts of violence and genocide upon the tribes. This policy has continued unabated throughout our history, even unto this day. Yet, Congress is resolutely guarding their ancient crime cabal, which they empowered long ago to enslave American Indian Tribes, within BIA internment camps. All of this was part of President Andrew Jackson's ethnic cleansing program, which he and Congress executed by introducing racist legislation, with the not too subtle titled of the INDIAN REMOVAL ACT.
Passage of that act was a dream come true for its architect President Andrew Jackson. Who, as it happens, was also a notorious Indian killer, unrepentant slave owner, and up until his dying day, a strong proponent of dueling. The Indian Removal Act overturned the Majority Opinion of the Supreme Court in the case of Cherokee vs. Georgia (1831). Petitioners contend that the Cherokee case is the true legal precedent and all subsequent authority is merely flotsam left in the wake of Jackson's insurgency, and his clearly unconstitutional Indian Removal Act.
We continue to live today with this insurgency as the law of the land. Why? The remnants of the so called Indian Lands are nowadays euphemistically called "Indian Reservations". They are inhabited by the progeny of those poor souls, who have managed to survive generations of genocidal policies, along with the many crimes and abuses perpetrated upon them and their Forefathers by BIA agents over the past two centuries.
Those lands and the tribes that have been enslaved within them are administered to by government bureaucrats, along with their cronies who have been pilfering the tribal trust lands since the 1831 coup. The power behind the Throne today is the BIA's banished gambling cartel. For certain, it is not the tribal communities, nor is it the many taxpayer wards, who continue to suffer under the thumb of these admitted thieves and outlaws
The BIA crime sanctuary merely offers hard evidence of the blatant dereliction of duty by public officers, who gave an oath to guard voters from just such crime syndicates as the BIA's rigged slot machine Empire. This amoral agency is merely hiding its crimes behind the impoverished taxpayer wards it has enslaved within its race based reservation system.
Frankly, it is fair to say that the BIA has not been legitimate a single day of its existence. It was born of bad intentions, and later empowered by an insurgent dictatorial Chief Executive, with the support of a Congress controlled by pro slavery forces. The people should no longer abide this grotesque antebellum government agency that violates human rights, and is an insult to the integrity of the American system of jurisprudence and its Constitution.
The BIA crime syndicate exists today because for three decades Arizona's political leadership has been deceived by false claims of the Indian Affairs bureaucracy. While, the vast majority of those leaders have simply been misinformed, others are too timid to challenge the status quo, regardless of the harm and injustice caused by the failed policies of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Not even the fact that this agency has had to concede to billions of dollars of theft from their impoverished wards seems to move current political leadership to seek solutions.
Petitioner believes it is time to put down this two hundred year old political insurgency, ordered by the Chief Executive and Congress over the dictates of the Law of the Land (the Supreme Court). The legitimacy of Andrew Jackson's INDIAN REMOVAL POLICY has never been properly challenged. The petitioner herein issues such a challenge and demand for redress of grievances.
Whether, the BIA crime cartel is marketing drugs or rigged slots is not relevant; neither activity is immune from the long arm of the law. Both pursuits are deemed high felonies under Arizona statutory law and no legitimate business enterprise should ever help the BIA's gambling cartel's crime haven to grow and prosper. Of course, proffering this idea is what landed me in the cross hairs of the Arizona gambling cabal DoG police agents in the first place.
Operating a crime sanctuary for outlaws and their banished slot machines is not the solution for poverty ridden tribes. Granting government overseers and BIA agents permission to fleece our communities, with rigged slot machines is not suitable reparations for the theft of the ancestral tribal lands.
Nor, will the crime haven do much to ease the suffering and genocide experienced by current BIA reservation residents, who are only attempting to retain their birthright. To do so we have required them to live in isolation and poverty under the command of notoriously crooked government agents.
The only just reparations for our negligence would be to hand over the tribal lands we have reserved for the "Indians" enslaved on those lands for a couple of centuries. The Country should feel both guilt and anger that the agency we entrusted to guard the tribal lands (the BIA) has been forced to concede to having swindled BILLIONS OF DOLLARS from our most impoverished public wards.
There can be no argument that the tribes have the skill and ability to manage their own trust and affairs under a private consortium. The enterprise should include all of the casinos that were forced onto tribal communities by the Department of Interior's Indian Affairs bureaucracy. This government sub agency has been plundering the tribal trust from its inception. FIVE BILLION DOLLARS in settlements tendered so far and yet, no one is ever held accountable. Why?
Nearly all of the above information would go unseen by the jury in my criminal trial because, a Motion in Limine would severely limit discussion on the nature and character of the BIA syndicate and its origins. While the jury is quite limited in the evidence it can consider, neither the trial judge nor the appellate courts would be handicapped by this tactical ploy from the State prosecutor. Obviously, the court did not allow the motion to cloud its vision of the facts or motivation of either party in the case, as evidenced by its sentence.
For, as my sentence clearly demonstrates; the trial judge was frustrated and put off by the DoG's case against me and my ICGPA associates. So much so, that he imposed no punishment in the case, beyond one year of unsupervised probation. He surely knew that the case should have been adjudicated years earlier in a civil venue as a response to the ACL Notice of intent filed with prosecutors. A criminal response five years after the fact is hardly appropriate under the law.
The burden of justifying their existence will become more difficult for this rogue police agency as more people become aware of the massive fraud that created the DoG agency in the first place. This is knowledge I was forced to acquire after these outlaws attacked me in 2008. Their bogus lawsuit is what compelled me, in the parlance of the sport of poker, to "call their bluff". I agreed to face down a very long prison sentence to defend my right to petition and receive a redress of grievances; pursuant to the 1st Amendment in the Bill of Rights.
Until May of 2005 no one in the history of Arizona jurisprudence had ever personally filed a 1st Amendment petition and written demand to redress grievances with the State; in which they formally accused the State of misapplying State statutory law. The charge related specifically to the rights of professional poker players to control the international sport of Poker.
Nor, had anyone ever faced down the DoG enforcers in a court of record (Superior Court), while claiming protection of the 1st Amendment. My public accusations charging the BIA with operating an illicit monopoly and criminal empire on State tribal lands was the real reason I was indicted and convicted. Of course, those same facts explain why the trial court declined to impose punishment on those who were indicted by the BIA gambling cabal's paid enforcers, in the case of State of Arizona vs. Lee, et al.
But, from the beginning I had surmised, the judicial system would ultimately see through the DoG's ploy to silence me. Unfortunately, the rules regarding admissibility of evidence would severely restrict what could be introduced by the defendant. At trial I could not even mention that I was motivated to action by discovering that the BIA gambling syndicate existed, let alone that the agency was empowered by an insurgency over the law of the land.
However, the trial judge was not restricted by the Motion In Limine. He flatly refused to join in on the DoG effort to silence me. I was sentenced to a single year of unsupervised probation, no fine, no jail and, I was instructed by the Court; that I could write anything I wanted to on the case.
Not too bad of a sentence for a former judge just convicted of conspiracy and racketeering. I was staring at a potential prison sentence of 20 years. However, please do not misunderstand, the sentence meted out was both equitable and appropriate under the circumstances existing in the case.
The justice system is doing its job but, it hasn't finished quite yet. The case is headed to the Arizona Court of Appeals, where they cannot help but notice that the trial judge declined to impose punishment. Hopefully, the Appeals Court will also notice the misuse of the criminal system in responding to a civil petition tendered by citizens pursuant to the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights.
My goal from the beginning was (if necessary) to bring these issues to the Court of Appeals. That goal was attained when the trial judge ordered that an attorney be appointed to handle the appeal of the case. He also ordered that the trial transcripts necessary to that appeal would be provided by the State.
In the end the State's attorney and the DoG police were successful only in garnering a guilty verdict sans punishment, against an unrepentant, pro per defendant. The Superior Court trial was but one more skirmish in the long running Arizona Poker War between professional players and the BIA gambling cartel. A struggle that poker players will surely win.
Regardless, I achieved what I set out to do in challenging the DoG's authority; I proved that the DoG police threats are hallow and not supported by the criminal justice system. The DoG's decision to utilize the criminal courts will only further expose their crime cartel to public scrutiny. One day that misstep will cost them their bogus agency. The attempt to railroad me into silence has already set in motion actions that will insure the BIA syndicate will not prevail in the Arizona Poker War. Fortunately, the case is now in the hands of the appellate courts, where the state will not be able to file a Motion in Limine to impede the trier of facts.
This story of the Arizona Poker War is so compelling that one day it will explode into the mainstream media. Exposure will help bring an end to this unsupervised rogue police agency. The Arizona Poker War is a manifestation of the too long dormant "Indian Wars". The battle is being rekindled by Poker players in their struggle for freedom and liberty from the BIA crime lords and overseers.
My guilty verdict (which I am honored to accept) will become worth a great deal more in the end to both, me personally and the beloved sport of poker. However, after being set upon by the BIA gambling cartel police, and uncovering the government fraud and crimes that created the BIA crime haven, I have lost interest in the sport of Poker. But, there can be no question that the sentence I received from the trial court established that the DoG is a toothless tiger, with little support within the criminal justice system and local governments.
I now consider the case to be the opening salvo in a revival of the so called Indian Wars, which were fought against the indigenous tribes that were later enslaved by agents from the Department of Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs. Those policies are racist and genocidal towards Indigenous people of America. Born of a criminal insurgency and maintained by a banished crime cartel, this agency must be held accountable for the billions of dollars it has robbed from the BIA tribes it was entrusted to guard and protect. The price tag for taxpayers to cover is now more than FIVE BILLION DOLLARS.
Today the Indian Wars will be fought by white guys that recognize slavery when they see it. The struggle will be enjoined by non Indians when folks come to realize that it is a non Indian ox that is being gored by the BIA, rather than an Indian buffalo. It is one thing to enslave downtrodden descendants of former reservations internees. It is quite another thing to try to monopolize a serious poker player. Especially, when the player has concluded that they hold a winning hand. Anyone that looks closely at the BIA reservation system will find it an appalling Government institution that should never have existed under the dictates of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, or the laws of humanity.
NOTE: Two recent legal settlements which have been forced upon the BIA victims, establish as fact what most informed folks already knew--- the BIA has swindled billions of dollars from their poverty ridden taxpayer wards enslaved within lands promised to and reserved for the tribes as their birthright.
I had been compelled to represent myself when my two court appointed lawyers withdrew from the case, citing some amorphous conflict of interest with their professional ethics because I would not remain silent. Since, I had already invested a year of pretrial hearings, including a Rule 11 sanity hearing requested by the State, I certainly did not see the point in delaying the inevitable. So, I waived my right to a lawyer and would continue to not invoke my right to remain silent. I am still at a loss as to why my refusing to follow their advice constitutes an ethical conflict for my lawyers?
Besides, I concluded that a guilty verdict was necessary for the case to proceed forward to the Appellate Courts. An acquittal, while good for my ego and bragging rights, would not establish any new legal precedent regarding the sport of Poker. An acquittal would simply take us back to square one; the DoG would still be able to flash their bogus badges and intimidate poker players back to their employer's card parlors.
Now, the only goal that remains for me to pursue is the abolition and closure of the Indian Affairs crime sanctuary. It must be shut down and fee simple title handed over to a tribal confederation, so it can have control of the trust, which has for too long been pilfered by BIA agents and their criminal cronies from the government's banished gambling cartel.
No one can dispute that the government unlawfully and immorally acquired tribal lands by disregarding the Majority opinion of the Supreme Court. Tribal lands should have been privatized with enactment of the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, which made all BIA residents natural born citizens; with equal rights under the law.
The damages attributable to BIA agents and government administrators having pilfered tribal Trust Lands is now approaching FIVE BILLION DOLLARS! Surely, the time has arrived to demand that Congress privatize tribal lands and allow the thirty thousand poverty ridden owners entrapped within them to share in the profits of the land of their ancestors. How long must we hold tribal lands in RESERVE? Are the tribes really too incompetent to manage their own affairs and birthright?
Regardless, the time for bona fide taxpayer funded police agents to oversee the BIA gambling cartel operations is NOW! It is also long past the time when public officers should abide by their sworn oath to uphold the law and guard the people from the immoral, felonious rigged slot machine Cabal. Neither, statutory law nor, the law of reason, can justify the existence of a self-policing crime cartel bilking the people of Arizona with impunity. It is still the law in Arizona that accepting the fruits of a known criminal act is itself a crime. The crime is called money laundering.
Voters on the reservation cannot claim immunity from State criminal laws. Tribal sovereignty (if it exists) is still subservient to State and Federal criminal laws. Operating rigged slot machines remains a felony offense pursuant to Arizona statutory law. Therefore, accepting the earnings of a known amoral or criminal enterprise is codified as money laundering. Merely relocating amoral felonious conduct to a BIA reservation, does not sanctify the behavior. BIA reservations are inhabited by Arizona voters and, as it happens, those voters are also government wards, who are being manipulated by BIA agents and their gambling cartel cronies.
Nor, can a misleading ballot referendum be allowed to rob me of the right to be protected from crime cartels. This despite the fact that those who have sworn to uphold the law have decided to shirk their responsibility to enforce the law equally. Instead, they have conspired with criminals to skirt the law.
Not one of those public officers has the authority under law to negotiate immunity to the BIA to commit third party theft and conversion of poker player prize pools. Neither, the State nor Federal government can command me to waive my right to equal protection and treatment under the law. Nor, can it legally order that BIA wards be treated differently from all other voters and cultures within the State.
Frankly, it is hard to fathom the cruel arrogance required to encapsulate an entire culture of humanity in space and time? It is not unlike the innocent cruelty of a child encapsulating a living creature in a Mayo jar, adding a few blades of grass, and poking a few holes in the lid, and then watching it slowly perish. That is a microcosm of the BIA's failed reservation system and its 30,000 poverty ridden public wards, whose overseers have been robbing them blind for a couple of centuries.
In 1988 the outlawed gambling cartel had itself banished to BIA controlled tribal reservations, which are all overseen and controlled by cartel cronies. The clear objective of the banished crime cartel was to skirt statutory law. Of course, few took note that this was in fact a criminal conspiracy to get public officers to forsake their oath, and not uphold or enforce Arizona's anti-gambling statutes on state tribal lands.
Those officers commit a felony conspiracy, by merely discussing a means of skirting statutory law, even before they bothered to conjure up their amoral state-tribal gambling compact. The original conspirators who claim that they were merely acting pursuant to law in ignoring their oath and opening the State to an non-policed, non-taxed crime cartel. They were simply shirking their responsibility to guard the people from crime cartels and their scams.
The cowardly argument that "I am
The BIA gambling syndicate still proffers the same false claims today, which continues to hold political leadership at bay. Of course, even if it had been upheld, a congressional mandate would not change the law or alter the moral turpitude of the behavior outlawed by those laws being violated by the BIA gambling syndicate and state officials under oath to guard those laws.
It is not a coincidence that the DoG police are funded by revenues from the banished gambling cartel. This crime cartel has become ensconced on State tribal lands via a criminal conspiracy, and the malfeasance of sworn public officers who have neglected to keep their oath to guard the people from criminal cabals, such as the BIA's rigged slot Empire.
Since the original group of public officers came together in 1988 and conjured up the original State-tribal illicit gambling compact, it has been very clear that they all consider themselves to be above and beyond the power of the very laws they have negotiated with outlaws to violate. Obviously, they have no compunction in giving up their constituents to an immoral crime cartel, without fighting to defend taxpayer rights to control the gambling syndicate
I had refused to discuss settlement or anything with the plaintiff's attorney regarding the frivolous lawsuit brought by the BIA gambling syndicate in the name of the downtrodden Pascua Yaqui Tribe. Instead, I sought a ruling from the court on the legal standing of the Plaintiff (A Recognized American Indian Tribe) to bring a lawsuit in State Court instead of the Federal Courts?
Please bear in mind, when perusing the following documentary outline; all of the BIA tribal lands are exclusively controlled by Government agents paid by the Department of Interior's Indian Affairs bureaucracy.
OUT OF BOUNDS
The untold story of the Arizona Poker War
Professional Poker Players vs. BIA Gambling Syndicate
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DEDICATION
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Out of Bounds is dedicated with love and respect to the Mother of my children, along with all of those Native American Mothers (past and present) forced to languish with their children and grandchildren, in isolation and abject poverty on government reservations.
All, of this suffering is being endured, while they struggle in vain to guard their birthright and the lands of their ancestors, from BIA overlords and too many of that agency’s criminal comrades and cronies. In the name of God and humanity; when will the American people free these wretched souls?
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PART ONE
MASS MURDER
Andrew Jackson
7th President of the United States
Brutal Slave Owner
Indian Killer Extraordinaire
Architect of BIA Ethnic Cleansing Policy
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The mere fact that a law is not being enforced does not convey legitimacy or alter the moral turpitude of that statute or the behavior associated with it. A felony act does not become lawful because it is being conducted within State tribal lands. A homicide is still a crime there. As are theft and conversion of player prize pools in Poker.
Likewise, a change in geographical location within the State does not change the laws of Arizona or alter the morality with respect to either the outlawed drug cartel or, its cousin from the illicit gambling cartel; neither can operate lawfully within the boundaries of the State, without taxpayer oversight.
Nor, should a written compact designed to skirt statutory laws crafted by politicos, in concert with agents and associates from the universally outlawed gambling cartel, be deemed a lawful act. Such a document could not exist, lest those officers ignored their sworn duty to guard the citizenry from just such crime cabals as the BIA crime syndicate's rigged slot machine Empire. Each one of those officers must also assume they are above and beyond the reach of those laws they are agreeing to violate.
Simply because public officers have been derelict in their duty to guard their constituents from crime syndicates like the BIA's rigged slot machine Empire or, that others have conspired to skirt anti gambling laws, does not make their actions lawful or moral. It merely demonstrates how ineptly the people are being served and misled by political leadership, which has badly abused their faith and trust.
This manuscript is being posted unedited to maintain a chronicle of the facts and events during the Arizona Poker War. At least until we can awaken a professional journalist to help break the story in the mainstream media. It is a newsworthy story in any criminal action; where the State prosecutor has overcharged to the point that the justice system declines to impose punishment. The conviction and sentencing of former State judicial officer should be frontpage news. At least, in any responsible, civic minded media news outlet, with reasonable ethical standards.
Warning: Please be cautious in mentioning publicly anything read here. Even though it is the truth, you too could be railroadrd into criminal court on overblown charges by the BIA crime cartel's paid ENFORCERS! All while, the mainstream news media ignores your plight, and simply refuses to publish your motives or the BIA gambling cartel's abuse of your civil rights.
How is the conviction and sentencing of a former member of the state judiciary not a newsworthy item in any State with a legitimate press corps? The answer is rooted in events that occurred in antebellum times.
After spending the last several years in studying the history of the BIA reservation and its origins, I am appalled that a mass murdering, slave owner, and insurrectionist, should be honored on our currency. My God, the man was censured for defying Congress, and robbing the United States Bank of its assets in order to destroy the institution they had created--- why are we honoring a bank robber on our money?
It is tantamount to Germany placing a likeness of Hitler on their currency. If we must honor an insurrectionist let it be John Brown. His rebellion was motivated by a lust to free the blacks from slavery. Whereas, Andrew Jackson overturned the Supreme Court Majority and denied their authority over his administration and Congress; with the intent to install his personal plan to enslave Native tribes as Government real property into perpetuity
Andy's political coup forced the Nation
The Jackson led rebellion has enslaved America's indigenous tribes on
Today taxpayers have been stuck paying billions of dollars in damages to the tribes for having shunned these proud people, and leaving them in the hands of government agents; who have been robbing their trust and brutalizing them since their agency was empowered by Andrew Jackson's rebellion.
It was Jackson who dreamed up the idea of Indian reservations to enslave the tribes as enemies of what he called his "white children". Obviously he deemed them to be no better than livestock, and of substantially less value than the slaves he owned and brutalized on his reservation at the Hermitage.
Today, Emperor Andy's "Indian" interment compounds have been converted into a crime haven for the BIA and their cronies in the rigged slot cartel. The agency utilizes the taxpayer wards they are supposed to be guarding, in order to staff the BIA casinos opened and control exclusively by government agents from the Department of Interior.
The BIA syndicate use the amoral felonious gambling revenues from their banished slot machine Empire, in order to fund their own regulatory agency which they dubbed the Arizona Department of Gaming, or simply the DoG. The DoG operates sans any direct taxpayer funded police oversight. Oddly, DoG police only claim authority to enforce laws off the BIA reservations, even though it is the BIA cartel's interests they are guarding?
More troubling is the fact that the DoG claims all other state enforcement authority are subservient to the power of the crime pact, which created their agency. The Dog police agents maintain that the State and municipal prosecutors only serve them in an adivisory capacity. Interestingly, that is what Emperor Andy wrote in his veto of the Bank bill regarding the power of the Supreme Court over his administration. Both theories clearly interdict the separation of powers doctrine of our three tier system of government required by our Constitution(s). The Bureau of Indian Affairs has never been a lawful government entity; having been born of an insurgency over the law of the land and the constituted government.
The BIA is now a Fourth (and unequal) branch of the body politic
The DoG is a rogue police agency, which proffers bogus badges blazoned with the Great Seal of Arizona on the face. They brandish them and claim to have the authority of law. This despite the fact that those badges are paid entirely from the fruits of the rigged slot machine cartel, which must compel any ethical law abiding person to reject their authority on both legal and moral grounds. Primarily, the DoG police utilize their badges to coerce professional poker players into facilities operated by their employer.
Those facilities are all being operated within taxpayer controlled lands; pursuant to terms of the BIA syndicate's one-sided, completely self-serving State-Tribal gambling compact. The gambling compact is so self serving that no court of justice could honorably uphold it. Their is simply no benefit that accrues to the benefit of the people of Arizona from opening their community to this massive criminal empire. Neither, their illicit gambling compact or the bogus badges should ever command the respect of law abiding citizens.
A Traitor to the Rule of Law
Emperor Andy in full regalia
Andrew Jackson, more than any other person in our history, is responsible for the inhumane treatment and genocide of our Native tribes. While, Emperor Andy may have been a man for his time; neither he nor his racist views are acceptable in the World of today. Considering our true national history this President is not worthy of the adulation or honors we have bestowed upon him.
Petitioners have two primary goals: Abolish the BIA reservation system and assimilate Native communities into mainstream America. We intend to do so while seeking to have taxpayer funded police garner oversight over the BIA crime cabal. Only then can the taxpayers finally begin to regulate and control the rigged slot machines that are victimizing the State with impunity.
Those who entertain the absurd notion that the tribes do not want fee simple title to their own lands miss the point entirely. That is simply not relevant to the issue or the law. It is their responsibility as U. S. citizens to handle their own affairs, including controlling the development of their ancestral tribal lands, sans the BIA.
Presumably, the Government has been reserving Indian Reservations for someone? Could it possibly be "reserved" for the Indians that have been interned on those lands since that reservation was established? Perhaps, we have reserved tribal lands for the Native tribes for too long already. The time has come to grant to the BIA tribes all of their civil rights; especially the right to hold fee simple title to the lands of their ancestors.
Lakota Chief that kicked Custer's Ass
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Poker War graphics and misc. images ---
BIA Seal - Now that is lipstick on a pig
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Current DoG Czar
The agency that Brnovich directs also controls and disburses a $100 million dollar sluch fund. The Director personally led the effort to railroad the International Card & Game Players Association and myself into silence. Brnovich is a staunch defender of the BIA's amoral gambling compact that was conjured up by State and Federal agents, in concert with the BIA gambling cartel in 1988.
Of course, his agency is paid by the cartel to guard their interests exclusively. Naturally, the State of Arizona has no interests to be guarded, since they only provide victims and addicts for the BIA slot machine Empire.
Former Gov Fife Symington
To his credit Former Governor Symington declined to enter into the State-Tribal Gambling Compact mandated by Congress. He correctly concluded that the compact violated the laws he had sworn to uphold. Ironically, he too was subsequently convicted of a felony. It is not outside the realm of possibility that his prosecution was helped along by the BIA gambling interests that railroaded me?
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Former DoG Director Gary Husk
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How do the Indians feel about the BIA?
The agency's long term insurgency, coupled with its gross mismanagement of trust assets, has come home to roost. Taxpayers are now burdened with billions of dollars in damages, which the BIA administration has accumulated from recent lawsuits settled. The settlements establish as fact: That ne'er-do-wells and scoundrels have been pilfering the tribal trust since its inception. It's likely there are more lawsuits on the horizon.
It is a certainty that Congress and Jackson did not seek permission from the tribes to pass the Indian Removal Act. It's just as certain that Congress and the President do not need to obtain permission from the tribes to repeal that vile, amoral legislation. Nor, is permission required to privatize the BIA's reservation system. Another, certainty is that the tribes cannot abolish the Act of their own free will. Primarily, because they do not possess free will under the Department of Interior's Indian Affairs bureaucracy. Every single piece of legislaton, ordinance, or proclamation born of the Indian Removal Act is tainted by the unlawful legislation ---it is all null and void.
I mean no disrespect to the tribes when I say: I couldn't care less if the tribes do not want to be responsible for their tribal lands via fee simple title. Tribal lands are the responsibility of the tribes, who are more than competent to manage their trust lands, without help from the BIA cronies and ne'er-do-wells like Jack Abramoff. The taxpayers are already being billed for Five Billion Dollars in damages thanks to BIA administrators and their criminal associates!
It is blatant malfeasance of the public trust for Congress and Arizona's elected officers to continue funding or supporting the BIA's criminal Empire.
The Tecumseh Tribal Federation of Indigenous Peoples
Tecumseh portrait painted by Benson Lossing in 1848 from an 1808 drawing
Born 1810 Choctaw Nation (Mississippi) Died 1861 Ft. Towson, OK
George W. Harkins Letter to the American People
It is with considerable diffidence that I attempt to address the American people, knowing and feeling sensibly my incompetency; and believing that your highly and well improved minds would not be well entertained by the address of a Choctaw. But having determined to emigrate west of the Mississippi river this fall, I have thought proper in bidding you farewell to make a few remarks expressive of my views, and the feelings that actuate me on the subject of our removal. Believing that our all is at stake and knowing that you readily sympathize with the distressed of every country, I confidently throw myself upon your indulgence and ask you to listen patiently. I do not arrogate to myself the prerogative of deciding upon the expediency of the late treaty, yet I feel bound as a Choctaw, to give a distinct expression of my feelings on that interesting, (and to the Choctaws), all important subject. We were hedged in by two evils, and we chose that which we thought the least. Yet we could not recognize the right that the state of Mississippi had assumed, to legislate for us.—Although the legislature of the state were qualified to make laws for their own citizens, that did not qualify them to become law makers to a people that were so dissimilar in manners and customs as the Choctaws are to the Mississippians. Admitting that they understood the people, could they remove that mountain of prejudice that has ever obstructed the streams of justice, and prevent their salutary influence from reaching my devoted countrymen. We as Choctaws rather chose to suffer and be free, than live under the degrading influence of laws, which our voice could not be heard in their formation.
Much as the state of Mississippi has wronged us, I cannot find in my heart any other sentiment than an ardent wish for her prosperity and happiness.
I could cheerfully hope, that those of another age and generation may not feel the effects of those oppressive measures that have been so illiberally dealt out to us; and that peace and happiness may be their reward. Amid the gloom and horrors of the present separation, we are cheered with a hope that ere long we shall reach our destined land and that nothing short of the basest acts of treachery will ever be able to wrest it from us, and that we may live free. Although your ancestors won freedom on the field of danger and glory, our ancestors owned it as their birthright, and we have had to purchase it from you as the vilest slaves buy their freedom.
Yet it is said that our present movements are our own voluntary acts—such is not the case. We found ourselves like a benighted stranger, following false guides, until he was surrounded on every side, with fire and water. The fire was certain destruction, and a feeble hope was left him of escaping by water. A distant view of the opposite shore encourages the hope; to remain would be inevitable annihilation. Who would hesitate, or who would say that his plunging into the water was his own voluntary act? Painful in the extreme is the mandate of our expulsion. We regret that it should proceed from the mouth of our professed friend, for whom our blood was co-mingled with that of his bravest warriors, on the field of danger and death.
But such is the instability of professions. The man who said that he would plant a stake and draw a line around us, that never should be passed, was the first to say he could not guard the lines, and drew up the stake and wiped out all traces of the line. I will not conceal from you my fears, that the present grounds may be removed. I have my foreboding; who of us can tell after witnessing what has already been done, what the next force may be. I ask you in the name of justice, for repose for myself and for my injured people. Let us alone—we will not harm you, we want rest. We hope, in the name of justice, that another outrage may never be committed against us, and that we may for the future be cared for as children, and not driven about as beasts, which are benefited by a change of pasture.
Taking an example from the American government, and knowing the happiness which its citizens enjoy under the influence of mild republican institutions, it is the intention of our countrymen to form a government assimilated to that of our white brethren in the United States, as nearly as their condition will permit. We know that in order to protect the rights and secure the liberties of the people, no government approximates so nearly to perfection as the one to which we have alluded. As east of the Mississippi we have been friends, so west we will cherish the same feelings with additional fervour; and although we may be removed to the desert, still we shall look with fond regard, upon those who have promised us their protection. Let that feeling be reciprocated.
Friends, my attachment to my native land was strong—that cord is now broken; and we must go forth as wanderers in a strange land! I must go—Let me entreat you to regard us with feelings of kindness, and when the hand of oppression is stretched against us, let me hope that a warning voice may be heard from every part of the United States, filling the mountains and valleys will echo, and say stop, you have no power, we are the sovereign people, and our friends shall no more be disturbed. We ask you for nothing that is incompatible with your other duties.
We go forth sorrowful, knowing that wrong has been done. Will you extend to us your sympathizing regards until all traces of disagreeable oppositions are obliterated, and we again shall have confidence in the professions of our white brethren. Here is the land of our progenitors, and here are their bones; they left them as a sacred deposit, and we have been compelled to venerate its trust; it dear to us, yet we cannot stay, my people is dear to me, with them I must go. Could I stay and forget them and leave them to struggle alone, unaided, unfriended, and forgotten, by our great father? I should then be unworthy the name of a Choctaw, and be a disgrace to my blood. I must go with them; my destiny is cast among the Choctaw people. If they suffer, so will I; if they prosper, then will I rejoice. Let me again ask you to regard us with feelings of kindness. Yours, with respect, GEORGE W. HARKINS
Source: Niles’ Register, February 25, 1832, 41:480. Note: Harkins’ letter was reprinted from a paper in Natchez, Mississippi. Preceding it was a prefatory statement from that paper, titled “The Choctaw’s Lament,” as follows:
“In our paper today, will be found an address to the American people, by George W. Harkins, the present chief of the Choctaw nation. Capt. Harkins is the nephew and successor in office of Greenwood Laflour [sic]; and is now on his way with a large body of people, to their new residence in the west. The address was hastily written with a pencil, on board of the steam boat Huron, the day before his arrival at our landing. The time was so short as to afford Capt. Harkins no opportunity to send us a revised sheet.
“To the speculators and land jobbers, whose grasping avarice force this people from their homes and the graves of their forefathers, the language of this address will be unintelligible; but there are others, who, we presume, are not entirely devoid of shame, and to whom some allusion is made, who will feel the full force of its mild, but pointed rebuke.”
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