uwish wrote:
First off Derby that definition is racist and secondly if you give one group special treatment then by default you must yield special treatment to other groups or it becomes discrimination.
Yes, I said it discrimination is a two way street. If you allow this, then you should allow other groups individual sentencing / justice rights.
And sorry, I don't buy the whole we were here first argument anymore, because they weren't. They might have preceded the Europeans..so? We don't live in the stone age and we don't fight wars on horseback anymore.
So what gives us a right? because they live HERE, and not somewhere else. That's why.
Racist? I don't think so. I see it as allowing the Natives the right to live according to their laws on their lands.
Don't hand me that nonsense us westerners are recently touting that they just came here earlier. By that nonsense anybody can invade anywhere and proclaim they simply arrived a little bit later.
OUR laws should not be as binding to them as it is to us. That is entirely the reason why we have set up reserves under Native jurisdiction.
THEY did not have a choice in Canada other then treaties that we more often then not ignore. They have only recently been able to have even a say in how things are governed and if the Natives decide that sentencing circles are apart of their tradition to be upheld legally then its for them to decide.
CKA Super Elite 
