"In fact, it’s important to remember that today’s society is judging them with eyes colored by today’s standards, which didn’t exist in their time. This makes it somewhat unfair to hold them to the standards of today, when the standards in which they lived weren’t at all the same."

http://www.conservativezone.com/articles/columbus-day-is-out-indigenous-peoples-day-is-in/

A good illustrative article on the mindset (I think) that pervades our state legislature.  The folks in the big square building keep getting away w/ all kinds of monkey business all the time; unfortunately, because of apathy?  Procedural ignorance?  Thanks again for keeping an eye on things a lot of us miss.