John McCain Gets Told and Chased Off the Reservation

by Kim D.

Over the weekend, Senator John McCain thought he was attending a friendly meeting to discuss the potential for a Navajo Code Talker Museum. Out of touch as always, he probably didn't expect the less than friendly greeting he received by a group of Navajo activists, fueled by the recent disastrous EPA Gold Mine Spill and McCain's role in "land swap legislation into the must-pass National Defense Authorization Act, trading away . . . land that includes Oak Flat, a sacred site to the Apache, so that a foreign mining company can mine there."

According to Dusty's Navajo Political Sphere Facebook page, McCain was run straight out of town:

About 60 protesters and or more ran John McCain out of Window Rock today. Code Talker day was celebrated today and in attendance were McCain, NN Executive Branch and NN Legislative Branch. The whole group left to attend a secret meeting with John McCain at the NN Museum. The group was met with protesters who made it clear that giving our water rights away will not happen under our watch. The meeting, I am told, did not happen. Delegates, McCain and others went out the side door.

There were about 50 NN Police, as well as County Police. Protesters took off in cars and followed McCain to the airport. The bridge to the airport was closed off.

Bye John McCain! There are a lot of things on the Navajo Nation that our groups large and small are going to tackle. We cannot trust our Government, so we will make things right, ourselves.

This perhaps is another positive sign that McCain's days in the Senate are numbered.