Grandpa - Yes, your accusations are pretty well know... I have to give you that much.

You may think that I take an apologist's role for the tribes. Nothing could be further from the truth... but you probably knew that. My comments are meant to balance the seemingly uninformed and biased discussions about Tribes that normally occupy this site... pure and simple. Someone has to offer steerage corrections once in a while or the discussions on this board just keep turning right and right and right until they auger themselves into the dirt... as we have witnessed so many times.

Take the Tribes to task? Hardly. You are a complainer, thats all.

No axe to grind on my part... except offering all sides of a story, especially if not reflecting the popular opinion here. Again, I admit to a tendency to stir the pot.

There is a LOT of abuse going on with our fisheries resources. You like to point to Tribes as the sole source for those injustices. I know many, many cases where I can agree that Tribal fishers have abused the resource. But I see an absence of comments about non-Indian abuses from you... where is the balance? You seem like a relatively smart person. Perhaps you begin to see my point. The absolute lack of regard for the resource dispayed in a fishery like the Quilcene River "sport" fishery is a great example. Hence, my earlier comments.

The only grain of salt or anything else that my opinions need to be taken with are a grain of fairness... and to offer the "other side of the story" that is so often missing in so many topics brought up by you and others.

There are many that want to see the Tribes "hit" so they will grab this initiative and use it as a weapon... that is completely the wrong reason to vote YES for I-892.

Again, just one person's opinion and attempt to "level this playing field."