Darkseid
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On the issue of Native reservations and tribal law. There are quite a few reservations that live under tribal laws and constitutions. The Lakota reservation in Pine Ridge is a good example. Federal law does apply for felony crimes, like murder. During the 1970's, the American Indian Movement was causing trouble with the tribal council and supporting Native rights nationwide. The federal government didn't get really involved, except for the CIA and FBI COINTELPRO programs. I think it was COINTELPRO...somthing like that. Anyway, 2 FBI agents were killed on the reservation, and the U.S. government had the right to enter the reservation and fight AIM.
Native American tribal law is much more peaceful than most laws that are executed in other tribes worldwide.
And Native American reservations is not a party of federal law. It is a part of U.S. law.
If the United States was a unitary government, you would still have Native American reservations.
A federation is an act of allowing adequete representation to promote a unified state that won't act upon killing a group of people to gain more rights in their country.
Take Iraq right now. The Iraqi people (the violent militia organizations in Iraq) are attacking each other to gain more power and control over the government. I mean Iraq has a higher Shi'a population than Sunni. So the Sunni (militia organizations) attacks the Shi'a communities as an expected result of not having equal power over the country. They could have stormed into the president's palace and just took over the country in a military coup. Too bad most people belonging to a military organization in Iraq aren't that intelligent. Well, al Queda period isn't intelligent at all. They just promote terrorism rather than simply taking over a country by instituting constant military coups for regime change. Instead of promoting peace and thus gaining more support to later use in taking over the world, they promote senseless terror and thus hunted down like vermin.
Nevertheless, as a counter-attack Shi'a military organizations begin attacking to gain more power or to disrupt the power in the government, because they disagree with it on some level.
I think if we just tried to have a conference and negotiate terms, we could stop the civil war right there.
But the end result would establish a federal government to help establish equal power between the main divisions in Iraq. This isn't a bad thing.
Remember than Venezuela is a federal country and almost all Arabs love it, because they are open against Israel and the United States.