Personally, I’m sick and tired of the few bones that the establishment media throws us in a pathetic attempt to make us believe that they are the watchdogs for the public.

For instance, who in this country doesn’t know that we’ve mistreated the Indians for ages? We’ve all seen movies like Dances With Wolves and Little Big Man. But now that America’s first citizens have become prosperous with casinos, discount cigarettes and housing projects of their own, it’s safe to mention some of the other injustices that have plagued minorities all over the country. And it was cute to see Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt stumble out of an interview he saw as a trap.

John Stossel didn’t bother to mention the fact that three years ago the Indians sued the government over the mismanagement of Indian Trust Funds, and won. On August 16, 1999, in the court of U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth, both Robert E. Rubin, Treasury Secretary at the time, and Babbitt were fined $625,000 for failing to produce documents. This fine was paid with our tax money. Neither offender came up with anything out of their own pocket or even their department budgets.

From that, he could have gone into the fact that Senators Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-Arizona) introduced a bill (S-739) requiring the government to turn over Indian Trust Funds to firms in the private sector. A bill that, on March 25, 1999, went to committee and has been stuck there ever since.

Oh no, that would be getting too close to the wholesale rip-off of Social Security, Medicare, and other trust funds being robbed with impunity by our federal government. Trusts that really need to be turned over to firms in the private sector. You can be sure that John Stossel isn’t going to even come close to mentioning anything like the $149.9 billion surplus taken from entitlements last year, $94.7 billion from Social Security alone.

He could also have gone another direction. He could have mentioned the fact that Robert Rubin resigned as Secretary of the Treasury only months after being fined. That his reason was “to spend more time with family” even though his son Jim works in Washington and became the spokesman for the State Department while his son’s wife, Christiana Amanpour, the Treasurer’s daughter-in-law, handles news from the Far East for the Clinton News Network (CNN). Or that she has admitted slanting the news to favor our government. CNN keeps her anyway and sent her to Cuba to cover the Pope’s visit. They wouldn’t want Bobby Batista going down there.

Heavens, we wouldn’t want John getting into the nepotism of our Aristocracy, now would we? After all, we’re a Democracy. Let’s not question how people like Ken Bentsen got their jobs. If we do that, we’ll start to question how the succession of Georges and Hillbillary assumed seats of power.

You can take the John Stossel show, put it together with others like Stone Phillips, and stick-it.