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About the Chumash Indians of California

Such language does little to encourage open debate of the important public policy issues under discussion, clearly Haley dismisses those, like myself, who disagree with his views as opposed to "civilization." This is of course nonsense that violates the standards of collegiality that I was taught more than thirty years ago in graduate school.

I am very disappointed in the intolerance for debate expressed in this article, and can only wonder that a University of California program like UCMexus facilitates incivility of this category.

Old fashioned standards of collegial debate have great value, in ensuring that all sides to an issues are shown respect and given equal opportunity to express their views. Is it not possible, for example, that someone could disagree with Haley and express right wing political views? Haley seems to believe that a critic of civilization [by definition an unethical person] is of necessity a leftist.

As I write these words, the United States Congress debates a massive Homeland Security bill that many critics believe will seriously undermine the civil liberties of the American public. And these critics belong to the Republican, Democratic, Green, and other minority parties. Civil liberties lie at the heart of the term "civilization." By law, they guarantee to individual rights to free speech, free thought, and the right to act as one wants as long as such behavior is not contrary to the public welfare. Open debate is a fundamental principle of democracy, and and every American should do what they can to preserve related civil rights."

UC Mexus Brian Haley was a post-doctrual anthropologist working in the Mexus program [University of California, Riverside] when he wrote this article.

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