Originally Posted by Mark Rapier

"Special" laws, for "special" people at "special" times in "special" places, under the guise of the "crisis du jour" is not good policy under a constitution that idealizes equal rights, justice and protection for all before the law.

Your own anecdote tells the story, the tribal police officer who observed you breaking tribal law which he was sworn to uphold, under tribal jurisdiction was wrong to use the excuse that you wouldn't be eventually prosecuted to violate his oath to enforce law he had sworn to uphold. The problem is that the law against any rape of any person by any person is not prosecuted. Your ponies and sheep for rape justice is a perfect example of exactly why "traditional" "tribal" justice should be avoided.

Let the tribes where this is happening to their women litigate the failure of the jurisdictional authorities to protect victims of crime and the failure of those same authorities to prosecute those crimes, hold those officials accountable rather than altering the larger and broader jurisdictional status quo to impliment a quasi-Taliban judicial reservation to address an over-hyped, media-manipulated cause celeb, which is purely politically motivated. I expect any day now some Hollywood celeb-head to pick up the torch ala`Marlon Brando.