Posted on 08/18/2005 7:17:37 AM PDT by Alia
There's been a story that we've been following on this program since its early days, and it's this bill in Hawaii sponsored by Senator Daniel Akaka, and it would basically create a racially exclusive government by and for native Hawaiians who satisfy a blood test. In other words, it would Balkanize the United States and set up a separate government in Hawaii run exclusively by and for native Hawaiians, and at first this had some support in the Senate. It had some support around the country because people didn't quite understand what it was, but there are two original supporters that have changed their mind on this. They have a piece today in the Wall Street Journal, Slade Gorton and Hank Brown.
They write: "The Akaka bill classifies citizens by race, defying the express provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment. It also rests on a betrayal of express commitments made by its sponsors a decade ago and asserts as true many false statements about the history of Hawaii and it now should be defeated," and the Senate's now poised to pass this thing. "The new race-based sovereign that would be summoned into being by the so-called Akaka bill would operate outside the US Constitution and the nation's most cherished civil rights statutes. The champions of the proposed legislation boasts that they knew native Hawaiian entity could secede from the Union like the Confederacy but without the necessity of shelling Fort Sumter. The Akaka Bill rests substantially on the 1993 apology resolution passed by Congress and signed by President Clinton.. . "The resolution is cited by the Akaka bill in three places to establish the proposition that the United States perpetrated legal or moral wrongs against native Hawaiians...."
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(Excerpt) Read more at rushlimbaugh.com ...
**Webpage for Referral and Updates: I have also improved my webpage to include a reference to this Legal Brief --"Akaka bill hearing before the U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, in Washington D.C., on Tuesday July 19, 2005"
http://www.angelfire.com/hi5/bigfiles3/AkakaHearingHouseJudiciary071905.html
Kyl argues against bill: SENATOR WANTS ALL CITIZENS TO VOTE
Kenneth R. Conklin: The Hawaiian Grievance Industry - Panhandling for Race-Based Handouts and Political Power
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?dcc6969a-8e14-4512-b843-f3c3fc0dd6c9
Ed Meese and Todd Gaziano: The 'Native Hawaiian' bill
www.townhall.com/columnists/GuestColumns/MeeseGaziano20050715.shtml
Spotlight shines on Akaka Bill
http://www.westhawaiitoday.com/articles/2005/07/17/local/local01.txt
Senate to Vote on Hawaiian Self-Rule Bill
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=947501&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
Native Hawaiian issues gain national spotlight
http://honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050717/NEWS01/507170335
Linda Lingle and Mark J. Bennett: Legislation provides overdue fairness, justice to Hawaiians
http://honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050717/OPINION03/507170310
Sen. Jon Kyl: Akaka bill a recipe for racial conflict
http://honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050717/OPINION03/507170309
Jonathan K. Osorio: Hawaiian dreams reach beyond recognition bill
http://honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050717/OPINION03/507170334
The battle for the Akaka Bill
http://starbulletin.com/2005/07/17/news/story1.html
Anatomy of the Akaka Bill
http://starbulletin.com/2005/07/17/news/story2.html
Illegal overthrow perpetrated land thefts
http://starbulletin.com/2005/07/17/news/story2.html#jump
Excerpts help clear air about Akaka bill
http://starbulletin.com/2005/07/17/editorial/special.html
Honolulu Star-Bulletin Editorial: Akaka bill gets boost from Bush administration
http://starbulletin.com/2005/07/17/editorial/editorials.html
Kauai World Editorial: The Akaka Bill and Kaua‘i
http://www.kauaiworld.com/articles/2005/07/17/opinion/edit01.txt
Bruce Fein: New Racism in New Bottles
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?e55e1f0f-d184-418a-ab9d-3b0440a306e1
State Attorney General Mark J. Bennett: The Akaka Bill is Fair, Just, Long Overdue and Constitutional: A Response to New Racism in New Bottles
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?2680f428-5289-489e-a3b9-368b1f4e4f2f
Gov. Linda Lingle and Hawaii State Attorney General Mark Bennett: Akaka Bill Does Not Balkanize the United States or Set Up a Race-Based Government: Response to the U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee's Opposition to S. 147 (the Akaka Bill)
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?669da604-be5f-4579-bd8b-7083c6b134b3
Legality of Akaka bill to be debated
http://honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050716/NEWS01/507160330/1001
Akaka Bill backers set for D.C. trip OHA trustees are "cautiously optimistic" about the measure's future
http://starbulletin.com/2005/07/16/news/story3.html
Federal spending bill includes $125 million for Hawai'i
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050716/NEWS03/507160344/1007/NEWS
Because that's the way it is, brother!
When does the casino open?
this is sad and pathetic. this is why clinton, the idiot, should never have signed that pathetic apology bill. how stupid. and to think that some people actually agree to this? f'n idiots!
Ah, now there's a crackerjack question! Luau's every night with Tiki-bar styled blackjack tables! Then there'll be the hula-hoop roulette tables where every movement(spin) has a meaning. Hey look, it's "Sweet Leilani - just in from the sovereign territory!"
Any idea what this new sovereign territory would be called?
It's all about gambling....
Clinton could apologize to everyone except those he actually harmed. They were just advised to "put some ice on that".
Just starting to follow this over the past few days and I see the complaint of the ethnicity issue. However, it looks as it could possibly return sovereign rights back to Hawaii and eventually even lead to Hawaii secession from the union? If that's correct that could be good news for others
..as soon as the bill becomes effective...Eradication begins, private property is illrelivant. The Ca$ino MUST open, the $$$$ MUST roll in...its' all about the $$$$.
It is about more than gambling. The leaders of the Native Hawaiian movement tend to be anti-American, bigoted, arrogant, and unpalatable.
the clintons never had a problem "apologizing" for the supposed wrongs of the United States (supporting the Greek generals, slavery (no credit to the 600,000 soldiers killed in the Civil War), Hawaii) -- it was their own wrongs that they would never acknowledge because they are, of course, perfect, infallible and better than your average American.
The one good thing about Hawaiian secession is that it would get rid of two of the most reliably liberal Democratic senators, two of the most reliably liberal Democratic congressmen, and four of the most reliably liberal Democratic electoral votes.
The leaders of the Native Hawaiian movement tend to be anti-American, bigoted, arrogant, and unpalatable.
NO, say it isn't true.
If it wins, legally.. NC, for example, can be returned to "indigenous" people -- your land and mine -- can be under rule by legislators only bearing the correct "watermark" stamp upon their ethnicity. Any and all other American "ethnicities" be damned.
lol. He's too busy making nice with the UN.
Oh, of course... the "great lottery" of life. lol. The liberals -- They speak "lottery" but don't accept the reality of real-life "lottery" as in all people are not born equal.
Clinton knew what he was signing.
I understand that. However, if Hawaii does get this and eventually secedes from the union, another state could theoretically secede to prevent the same thing happening within their state. It's not the precedent of establishing state leadership by race that I'm looking at. It's the precedent of eventual secession from the union of even one state that interests me
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