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Amidalltheproblems that currently split our re- public and our peo- ple down the middle, the US Pat- ent Office has unerr- ingly struck at the big- gest of them all – the persistence of the Wash- ington Redskins Foot- ball Team in retaining the name by which they have been known for more than eighty years — not. The Patent Office bowed to po- litically correct pressure from lobbying groups, the US Senate Majority Leader, and the President himself and declared that the team name is racially disparag- ing and therefore illegal. They revoked the trade- mark status of the name, and in so doing they have joined the long line of gov- ernment entities intent on re-making our nation into one governed by the whims of men and not laws. The patent office justi- fied its decision with refer- ence to an obscure section of its mandate that permits denial of trademark status from the get-go if it can be demonstrated the mark is offensive or disparaging to a definable group within our culture – but only from the get-go. In other words, if the Redskins name was deemed offensive to Native Americans in 1933, when the trademark was first sought and granted, the Patent Office would have had grounds for denying the petition. But the pres- ent controversy over the name began in the early 1990s, and no one has of- fered evidence of any ob- jection to the trademark at the time it was granted. So far as I can tell, there is nothing in the law gov- erning the patenting and trademarking process that permits a do-over sixty to eighty years after the fact. But then there is nothing new in this administration going lawless. When a similar action was brought before the feds in the nineties they revoked the trademark at that time also. It was overturned on appeal be- cause the petitioners of- fered no documentation on the impact of the alleged "discrimination" on the in- jured parties. The same deficiencies are blatantly evident in the present ac- tion, but that does not ex- haust the issues left unad- dressed by a longshot. There was no outcry at the time over the dis- paraging impact of the name; there has been no substantial wave of pro- test even at this time. The action in question was brought by five members of the Oneida Nation. If an entire class of peo- ple were injured it would make sense to bring a class action; the petition- ers evidently could not find enough offended Na- tive Americans to make even a pass at establish- ing a class. The most re- cent polling to my knowl- edge was done in 2004 and ninety per cent of Na- tive Americans polled said they had suffered no harm. (I get my informa- tion from the Washington Post – hardly a right wing newspaper – and an edito- rial in that paper written in June by Jonathan Tur- ley.) The only people who seem to have their knick- ers in a knot are the white liberals – inside and out- side government – who are grimly determined to make their life business minding that of others. Don't get me wrong. If I believed for one moment that a substantial num- ber of Native Americans were actually upset about the Redskins I would be backing their play with all the strength and gifting I have. But I would be advo- cating for private citizens to pressure – through boy- cotts and such – the team to do the right thing. I would not ask government to trample the team's free speech right. Agencies acting outside the laws that justify their being only make a bad situation worse. And God knows we have bigger fish to fry – whether in terms of Na- tive American issues or ed- ucation or health care or the destruction of Ameri- can credibility worldwide – than a trumped up spat over a name. There is no excuse for the damage – genocide is the appropriate word – done to Native peoples through massacre, re- moval from their lands, in- fliction of infectious dis- eases, and the destruc- tion of their food supply and habitat – and much of it is still denied through- out our culture. But if we want to address the seri- ous issues facing this por- tion of our ppopulace we might start with the forty- nine per cent of Native young people who do not graduate high school. We might even ask the Obama Administration why it prevents nations like the Crows of Montana from developing their energy and mineral resources – both rich and available – on their sovereign and guaranteed-by-treaty res- ervation lands. Jesus – the only unblem- ished bringer of justice in history – calls Lazarus to emerge from his tomb in John 11. He does not stand around assessing blame for Lazarus' death; he calls the man – and all mankind – to accept abun- dant life going forward. JamesA.Wilsonistheau- thor of Living As Ambas- sadors of Relationships and The Holy Spirit and the End Times – available at local bookstores or by e- mailing him at praynorth- state@charter.net GODTALK Redskins? Really? Jim Wilson BLESSINGS AROUND THE WORLD THEASSOCIATEDPRESS A Russian Orthodox Church clergyman blesses a convoy of white trucks with human- itarian aid in Alabino, outside Moscow on Tuesday. By Dylan Lovan The Associated Press LOUISVILLE, KY. Workers are clearing land in north- ern Kentucky to build a long-stalled tourist attrac- tion featuring Noah's Ark. Ken Ham, head of the Christian ministry Answers in Genesis, posted video of the excavation work on his Facebook page this week. It is the first sign of large- scale construction activity at the site in Grant County since plans for the 510-foot long biblical ark were an- nounced by Answers in Genesis in 2010. The project had been delayed when pri- vate donations did not keep pace with the construction timeline. "They're doing all the site work now to get the spot ready," Michael Zo- vath, the project's coordina- tor, said Thursday. Zovath said heavy machinery will eventually push away about a million cubic feet of earth and rock to make way for the 200-acre ark site and parking lot. Ham has said the ark will be built to the dimensions described in the Old Tes- tament story. In it, Noah is summoned by God to build a wooden ark and gather pairs of all the world's an- imals to protect them from a worldwide flood. The story is presented as a true historical event at the ministry's Creation Museum, which opened in 2007 in northern Kentucky near Cincinnati. The mu- seum has attracted head- lines and more than a mil- lion visitors for asserting that dinosaurs roamed the earth alongside humans about 6,000 years ago. Zovath said the ark proj- ect calls for millions of feet of lumber to be delivered to the site by January, but a wood supplier has not yet been contracted for the project. The project recently se- cured a stormwater permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that allowed construction to begin, Zo- vath said. NOAH'S ARK Ex ca va ti on u nd er wa y at K en tu ck y at tr ac ti on Tehama County Church Directory Red Bluff.... ABUNDANT LIFE FELLOWSHIP 21080LutherRd.•528-2499 Pastor J.E. 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