GOP lawmaker threatens new Indian war
November 11, 2022 Bill Weinberg
In a little-noted interview on the Oct. 28 episode of right-wing online video show “In The Trenches with Teddy Daniels,” Arizona Republican Rep. Paul Gosar suggested that his party’s gubernatorial candidate, Kari Lake, could order the state’s National Guard to surround and blockade the Tohono O’odham Nation, a Native American reservation that borders Mexico, ensuring that “no one passes.” Gosar also offered the notion that Lake could go to the US Supreme Court to seek state authority over the reservation.
“What if, just what if, somebody like Kari Lake wins the governorship, which she should, and she follows through on her promise like Donald Trump did, and says, ‘OK, I’m calling a state of emergency across the state of Arizona. I’m militia-izing the National Guard. I am putting them on the border. And let’s do this: Let’s outline the Tohono O’odham Nation’,” Gosar said during the interview with Bikers for Trump member Teddy Daniels, who placed third in the Republican primary for Pennsylvania lieutenant governor earlier this year (his campaign derailed by accusations of domestic abuse).
Gosar continued: “We outline them all—with all our National Guard. And we say, no one passes. Well, that tells the Tohono O’odham, you’re either America and Arizona first, or you’re Mexico first. And Mexico doesn’t recognize you. Oh, that’s a good one.”
Gosar went on to say Lake could take the matter to the Supreme Court: “And then—then we say, ‘Wait a minute. You failed at your jurisdiction and your guarantee clause of the invasion clause. So we’re taking back order. What does the state have that you and I don’t? It has direct redress to the Supreme Court. You’re at that point now where you have to start that fight. Take the fight to the Supreme Court.”
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saddle up and lead the charge. Yep I can see that.
