Reel Wamps

The echo chamber (tribal government center)had a little activity last week, but, sad to say, it only confirmed the pathetic state of affairs in the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal government. The leadership is leader—less.

A tribal member named Larry B went to the tribal office to get help. Now keep on mind this guy was a big visible supporter of Cedric’s.  He’s the guy to the immediate right of tearful Cedric’s clenched Dorchester power fist.

Cedric worries not for the Mashpee but for his bank account victory.

Well, Larry B marched into Ceddie’s office confident he would get some help.

Cedric says ” You ain’t even Mashpee.”

Now this is coming from the guy that Glenn Marshall and Patty Oakley had to define the ROLL to and help him get on the ROLL so he wouldn’t take us  under.  The damned fool isn’t even one of the 1001.  Ask him what that means. Good luck on that too….cause his family is not even close to be part of it…but Larry B’s is.

Anyhow Larry B throws his head back and says, ” What ? You ain’t nothing but a ” Dorchester nigg–.”

Ouch! WampaLeaks said that too after researching the guy.

Larry B is dragged out of the echo chamber by the less than busy security hired to protect the frightened tribal chairman.

Poor Cedric.  He don’t get no respect.  He did a great job of destroying us in Indian Country with all his stupid hub bub and made up tradition and record breaking indebtedness of a tiny tribe.  Anyone with Google can search our tribe and see that all Jessie’s fabrication is just that.  If no one in the tribe believes Jessie, why should anyone else. There’s no land in trust on the horizon. But there’s a lot of debt.

Almost a billion for a faculty that will never be built. And upwards of nearly 60 million funneled through tribal Gaming Commission without a casino….better believe  the FBI is eyeballing this.

Can’t you just see all of them pointing at each other squealing especially Bobby, he always breaks down.  Anyone who get’s paid to go to funerals is slimy.

Well its come to that…When Cedric, Jessie, Robbie and Tah Tah are leading us.  Okay.  No more reminders.

Ain't that cunnin'. Maybe we can sell that robe and buy some food cards or maybe that fancy school will give us some scholarships. Heh heh.

You got nothing…Cedric get’s an HONORARY degree from Sulfolk law. It’s totally superficial. It’s like  a  plaque.  Cedric and Cheryl are so ghetto, so uneducated they think it means something, or they’re running game on our people who don’t know any better.You’re paying millions to  those lawyers who have brought us nothing for 5 years.And you accepted an honorary degree for bending over, to keep that pay check.

What are you doing for our kids, our elders, our future? We cannot blame the White man.  These non Mashpee are devouring us.

Trouble In Indian Country

In some Indian Tribes, particularly west coast tribes with casinos, disenrollment is a growing problem. Disenrolled members lose all their rights as tribal citizens and are cut off from all benefits. In the case of the Pechanga, that means the end of $20K checks each month—and the increase in the remaining members checks.

A young Mashpee Wampanoag posted a link to a YouTube video on the subject, followed by the usual likes and comments, mostly comments about the greed that can result from sudden riches for people who never had money before. $20,000 a month, that’s almost a quarter million a year. And that’s not enough?

Digging Up Bodies

So it went, as you scan down the page, until you reach this line:

Paula Peters Shameful to think how close we came to this. So glad our future is in the hands of tribe members like you Brian. Stay strong.

 What is she talking about, one wonders. Why is she coming from out in left field with a statement like this? Then someone who knows poses the question:

 Paul Mills So Paula, are you trying to say that the diligent and careful consideration of past enrollment workers is somehow equivalent to disenrollment? do you really want to go there?

 It would seem that Paula is attacking the integrity and competence of the genealogists and membership committees. But there’s even more:

 Paula Peters So that was diligent and careful consideration that disenrolled my Aunt Amelia and three others for asking questions??? Hmmm…. Like I said Brian, stay strong.

 So, There it is, she wants to dig up old bodies, and for what purpose? Is there going to be some sort of propaganda campaign to try to discredit the proper and constitutional means of placing candidates for membership on the rolls?

Let us continue:

Paul Mills First of all, Amelia was not disenrolled. Please do not spread lies. And the shunning was not for asking questions, it was for suing INDIVIDUALS in superior court, and in fact, making it impossible for my niece to refinance her house. The suit placed lis pendens on all properties and threatened peoples livelihoods. When are you going to smarten up? You may fool these young kids, but no one else.

Clearing The Air

Why don’t we start with the truth.

• Paula Peters lost her lawsuit in Barnstable Superior Court against the Tribe for not putting her on the ballot in a Tribal election. She could have easily gotten on that ballot had she done like all other candidates and showed proof of meeting attendance, but refused, in her own uniquely narcissistic way, because she was above all that.
• In the next chapter, we find Amelia Bingham and others filing another lawsuit, this time for $7 million, claiming financial mismanagement by the Tribal administration. The suit was not just against the administration as a governing body, but against each and every individual member, as well as against their property and assets. Are you hearing me? They tried to ruin people. Not only that, but they got their exhibits wrong through bad research, claiming property that was owned by non-Tribal people and supplying wrong addresses. Paula’s name was not on the suit, but I guarantee her hand was in it.
• At an emergency meeting of the Tribal Council subsequent to the papers being served, there was a discussion of what the Tribe could do to the individuals involved in the suit. Several remedies were discussed. Chairman Marshall indicated that disenrollment would be unconstitutional, whereupon Jessie “Little Doe” and Chief Lopez both advanced the idea of “shunning,” that is, suspending all rights of membership emanating from the Tribe, but not those due from federal sources. Chairman Marshall neither conceived of nor did he vote on shunning.
• At Barnstable Superior Court, the lawyers for Amelia Bingham, et al, encountered a skeptical judge, who questioned their motives for bringing the suit. The suit was without merit.
• The only thing that the judge ordered was that Tribal members had the right to see financial records. The Tribe promptly complied and gave the opportunity and with the Tribal office vacated, Stephen Bingham, Amelia’s son, was handed the books. Nothing came out of that inspection.

Is This Necessary?

Of course not. The problem here is the continued use, by Tribal and non-Tribal people alike, of the technique of the “Big Lie.” If you tell a lie loud enough and long enough it becomes the truth, right?  You the reader, who may not have been privy to the events that took place while you were in middle school or were too busy to pay attention, really need to learn what transpired and those who were the actors in this drama.  Not all things are as they appear, and there are many skeletons in closets.

We will continue to tell the truth.

There seems to be some confusion over the definition of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, at least in the mind of Cedric the Tobey. He says the Council is the Tribe.  But an elementary school student knows the people are the Tribe.

The supreme laws of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe are embodied in the Tribal Constitution that tells us that our budget  must be voted on and approved by us before implemented.  These supreme laws dictate to the Council …..course that’s how it works in the rest of the country….with Cedric and his wacky side kicks and  sorry attorneys…. lawlessness rules the day. There’s little support for the budget and at the last Sunday meeting over 100 members were raising Cane, asking questions and getting no answers. Clearly they were ready to vote the budget down.

It’s quite a problem for Cedric the Tobey because his rags to riches Marie Antoinette world would come crashing down along with the budget. What do they do? Protect their slush fund. Separate the Mashpee Wampanoag Gaming Authority budget from the Tribal operations budget so they can pay themselves out of the Authority slush fund. So all of a sudden the Mashpee Wampanoag Gaming Authority is not an entity of the tribe but a separate independent body?  Yaaaaaaah, when it comes to guaranteeing the pay checks of Cedric and his pals. What they have done is an absolute violation of the Constitution.   You would think with the Federal judge decision pending, they would stop handing  out ammunition.

It’s like this.  The Mashpee Wampanoag Gaming Authority has a $12 m budget that is spent completely unchecked. No records, no ledgers just money in money out.  We could be paying Gengis Kahn and never know it.  Cedric the Tobey has used the Gaming Authority to keep the Malaysian cash flow going.  Over $40m spent on  lawyers supposedly, who keep saying they can prove that we were under federal jurisdiction prior to 1933.  That would get around the Carcieri  decision “hurdle” that says the DOI can’t take our land into trust. That would work if it were true.  Trouble is all the proof of our status does not support that theory.

As we said repeatedly, that theory was tested during the very thorough  recognition process and soundly rejected by the BIA. There’s no way around it.  Well known is the fact that our only masters were the King of England or the Commonwealth….and Uncle Sam never had a hand in our oversight until they recognized us in 2007. Why tell the Malaysians the truth if they’re buying the scam and willing to keep paying the lie forward…what do they know?

But to show you how bad it is….one of their primo lawyers had a messenger ask Patty Oakley for a map they thought could validate the 1933 theory. The maps had nothing to do with anything federal…just some state roads.  That’s how desperate this has gotten. Its been going on for more than 2 years….they get richer and we try to figure out how we’re going to eat that God awful government  building.

Honestly desperation results in mistakes. An ordinance removing the Gaming Authority from the budget cannot undo it’s permanence in the  Constitution. Right. Tell it to the judge Ceddie.

Crooked Council Chief. I know right?

The tale of the Crooked Council,

Is the story of an absolute mess.

The reason being the shear  incompetence,

And inability to do their very best.

Serve the Tribe are you kidding?

They could never live the legacy of old.

It was all about the Benjamins

At least that’s what we were told.

The worst of the tribe is at the helm,

With paychecks out of this world.

Livin’ the life of their dreams,

Just like the old Pharaohs.

It will all end when they least expect it,

Cause one thing’s for sure….

Stunneded is stunneded all day long,

And there’s not much more we can endure.

Rumor has it that the Tribal Council will sever the Gaming Commission funding from the budget, so that even if the Tribal budget is voted down, they will continue to receive paychecks.  Is this true?  Stay tuned.