Extortion

<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/01/16/build/nation/96-indiancasions.inc">Colorado</a> and <a href="http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=QNEEZZEROZLPUCRBAE0CFFA?type=domesticNews&storyID=4136751">Pennsalvania</a> are both being blackmailed by Indian tribes just to get casino building rights. A historical fact, whether we like it or not, is that the Indians were conquered, moved aside, bought out, or destroyed as the people of the U.S. expanded across the continent. Now we can get into a long and complicated discussion on what happened to the Indians in this country and the rightness and wrongness of it but that is not my point. Wherever you fall on the issue on that issue though let&acirc;