EDITOR,

The biggest robberies of all time are not of tombs, trains, banks, or art museums. Aside from central banking and taxation they are the theft of natural resources usually accomplished with the collusion of government.

Exposed. The character of a company and those running it are as real as the character of individual people. Some are moral and virtuous as well as law abiding. Others are moral, totally self-serving, focused on gain regardless of consequences to others, and law breaking.

On Tuesday, April 21, 2015, during a discussion on “The Five” (Fox News) regarding an article just out in The New York Times, it was exposed in the article that Hillary Clinton, while U.S. Secretary of State, backed off an investigation of serious human rights violations by Lundin Mining Co. operating in the Republic of Congo. She backed off after receiving a 100 million dollar contribution from Lundin Mining of Canada and the United Kingdom.

Yes, the money went to the Clinton Foundation but of course, Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea (the new vice chairman) as directors in the foundation receive huge salaries and yes they can access foundation money.

Yes, they can pretend to be kindly philanthropists actually giving away less money than the tax free foundation would have paid in taxes had it been taxed. This allows people like the Clintons to claim a net worth of under 150 million dollars when in reality they have access to over a billion dollars. I found out how this works when Nelson Rockefeller claimed to be worth only 232 million in his vice president disclosure statement when I knew he was worth many billions. It’s the foundation, stupid.

The predecessor to Lundin Mining at Eagle Mine was Kennecot/Rio Tinto who also had some hunan rights dirty laundry. In the early 1970’s Rio Tinto started up mining operations near Bougainvillea, New Guinea. There were huge mineral deposits there. The company threw people off their land and just started operations. Every attempt by the local indigenous people to negotiate some type of resolve or portion of profits was met with hostility, verbal and physical. After three years of this treatment the inhabitants rose up against the miners and drove them out.

At this point Rio Tinto decided to better equip the small military of New Guinea with modern weapons like helicopter gunships and other hardware. The rulers were in the pocket of Rio Tinto and it was time for revenge. For the next nine years the Bougainvillea area was blocked with no food or medicine getting through. Villages were often strafed by gunship and attacked on the ground. The bloodshed and murder by proxy didn’t end until 1983, nearly 20,000 lost lives. They were just black indigenous people though standing in the way of progress, development and huge profits.

Here in the U.P. of Michigan, Rio Tinto used our politicians to force the citizens off their state land and acquire long term use of the land to this foreign company. For a variety of reasons including, heavy citizen resistance, they sold the Eagle Mine operation to Lundin Co.

We don’t know what type of human rights violations Lundin committed in the Congo because Hillary, the champion of the little man and middle class and her boss, the champion of people of color, unless of course they are Christian or live in Africa, did a great job of covering it up. That’s what a $100,000,000 donation can buy.

Now that we know Lundin Mining doesn’t mind paying and pay well, who did they pay in Michigan? Perhaps members of the Marquette County Road Commission? That would explain why they would build a highway to the mine site for Lundin and act like zealots to the point of improperly using the Eminent Domain Law (not for the public good or necessity, but for the benefit of foreign corporation) to force an area of citizen to give up his land. The American Landowner could not match the $100,000 in legal fees that Lundin guaranteed to back the road commission with. The commission and engineer went to Lansing, Mich., to help another suspect of greasy palms who has worked feverishly on behalf of foreign mining companies, State Senator Tom Casperson, to convince the state legislature to sue the E.P.A.

After much work and study, the E.P.A. ruled that the proposed North/South Road 595 to the mine site would be to environmentally damaging and they were correct.

The Lundin Foreigners were not satisfied with the East/West paved highway to their mine that tore up the once beautiful County Road 510/AAA Road area and still wanted the North/South paved highway into the Huron Mountains to shorten the ore trucks haul and go in the direction they intend to expand to.

Guess what. The cost of the lawsuit against the E.P.A. will be supplied by secret donors. The legislature and Governor Snyder agreed to the suit. I’m real suspicious of a governor who can’t say no to a foreign company when they ask for more and more of the people’s state land. Snyder just agreed to let Lundin lease another 40 acres of state land new the Yellow Dog River. Seems rich people can never have enough.

Worth mentioning, is the support of Snyder and Casperson for the cheap sale of 10,000 acres of Lake Superior State Forrest to another Canadian mining company Greymont? One of Greymont’s board members is Lino Lvison, a former vice president at Enbridge. You remember, the Canadian company who’s ill-maintained tar sands oil pipeline broke spilling a million gallons of the nasty stuff into Tall Madge Creek and the Kalamazoo River. It must be a comfort to Snyder working with people that he’s mutually cleaned up after each other with.

Not to be left out of the Lundin deal, I hope certain people at the M.D.E.Q and dealers in Natural Resources are getting their share. They act like they are. Pure Michigan, there is plenty to go around.

Eagle Mine is worth about 8 billion dollars and by the time Lundin completes the disembowelment of the U.P. the amount may be several times that.

Profit. Follow the money. Like IsIs, taking over a Christian town they are there to rape and take, pollute the land and water, and pollute and corrupt our political process and servants.

When several levels of officials are more interested in serving foreign companies with ethics, problems and loads of cash, than their own citizens. It’s a bad sign that only makes sense if payoffs are involved. A few temporary jobs cannot justify anything.

Follow the money out of your land and out of your pockets. It’s time for the state attorney general and Federal Bureau of Investigation to get on this job. Pray for our country.

James Haun

Skanee, Mich.