Reply #39: Another POV

[LeahMira]

http://www.greenaction.org/yuccamountain/alert042002.sh...

Yucca Mountain is called 'Serpent Swimming West' in the Shoshone language, a name borne out by scientific evidence that this highly seismic mountain in Nevada is, in fact, moving. Despite this evidence, and many more facts that show Yucca Mountain is not a safe place to store nuclear waste, the U.S. government is moving fast to approve Yucca Mountain as a federal repository.

Sacred Site on Western Shoshone Land

Yucca Mountain, a high ridge near the Nevada Test Site, is a place of deep spiritual and religious significance to the Western Shoshone and Pauite tribes, a place where the people gathered and continue to gather traditionally in the spring and fall to worship. Yucca Mountain is also on land guaranteed the Western Shoshone by treaty. Treaties are agreements between two sovereign governments and considered by the U.S. Constitution to be the "Supreme Law of the Land." Like almost every treaty the United States has entered into with Indian Nations, the treaty with the Western Shoshone has been violated again and again. The Nevada Test Site was carved out of their territory and today, the Western Shoshone Nation is the most bombed nation on earth. The United States has detonated more than 1,200 atomic bombs in their territory. High rates of cancer and illness related to atomic fall-out plague the people, who suffer from this historic injustice without any government health assessment, rectification or medical aid.

If George W. Bush and the DOE get their way, they would turn a sacred site into a radioactive parking lot for 70,000 metric tons of nuclear waste and confirm that our Constitution can be overlooked to serve corporate needs.
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Wonder how GWB would feel if someone turned his church into a radioactive dump site!!!