Tribal censorship an ironic issue in expulsion

Local media were notified (Feb. 21) that “By a 8-6 vote, the Colville Business Council (CBC) today approved the expulsion of CBC Andrea George.”

CBC expulsions are authorized by the CBC Ethics Code and the Colville Tribal Constitution. Is the Ethics Code implemented ethically under the Law and Order Code?

For instance, can a council member be expelled for promoting the passage of the Ethics Code itself?

A few years ago, a tribal trial judge had already drunk the kool aid of consent-complicity by ruling to violate the Colville Tribal Law and Order Code Chapter 1-5-8, and Tribal Constitution and By-Laws provisions. Judges swear, under oath, to abide by laws.

Collateral damage of errant passive or active consent and complicity to violate tribal law, is the whole censorship of the “Tribal Tribune” newspaper of the Colville Tribes, owned in total, by each and every member of The Tribes.

Ironically, no friends of Andrea George who may think she was abused by this expulsion from office will be able to write about that in opposition to the Council majority vote due to censorship — the very censorship that George did not seek to remove during her short tenure on the CBC since July 2018.

Andrea George is a former Colville Tribal Court judge. As recently as January, she reportedly refused a helping hand, offered by email, on these related matters. It’s a matter of institutional-cognitive and cultural anomie.

Lou Stone

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