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Hawaii Is Holding an Election That Only Allows People of Certain Racial Background to Vote
Daily Signal ^ | 11/13/15 | Hans von Spakovsky

Posted on 11/15/2015 10:24:28 AM PST by SoFloFreeper

It's bad enough having a state hold an election that is racially discriminatory. Now we have a judge willing to allow it to move forward.

That would be federal district court Judge J. Michael Seabright (a George W. Bush appointee, surprisingly enough). He's refused to issue an injunction to stop an election in Hawaii to set up a separate government that excludes anyone who doesn't meet the state's definition of "Native Hawaiian."

Seabright's deplorable decision in Akina v. State of Hawaii is on an emergency appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals--which, unfortunately, doesn't always seem to believe in following Supreme Court precedent.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: 2016; hawaii; hawaiielection; race; vote
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To: CondorFlight
Let Hawaii go. All we would lose are 2 Democrat senators and a giant welfare bowl.

I agree. Maybe Japan could take it over once the Native Hawaiians screw thing up. Pull all American interest and business away from the fools and see how they do. Keep all military bases and consider them American soil.

21 posted on 11/15/2015 11:02:48 AM PST by Logical me
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To: SoFloFreeper

Folks need to review the history of Hawaii and how it was taken over in a coup of DEMOCRAT business men and U S troops with a an abject LIE to the Queen, literally in a single night. Simply stated, It was stolen from the Hawaiians ILLEGALLY. If this were to happen today it would cause total outrage. The judge is correcting history. The USA should never be allowed to own Hawaii. If this goes forward, Hawaiians will have a say in their government, but also will be given the chance to rebuild their rich and peaceful culture.


22 posted on 11/15/2015 11:03:59 AM PST by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else)
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To: SoFloFreeper

” . . . meet the state’s definition of ‘Native Hawaiian.’”

There is evidence that Asians arrived in Hawaii before Polynesians. Will their descendants be allowed to vote?

The following is from Hinduism Today of December, 1992:

Excerpts:

Micronesia Mystery

On a tiny island of Micronesia lies one of archaeology great mysteries — the ruins of the ancient canal city of Nan Madol (500 CE), home of 1,000 royal and elite islanders. It is built of uncut stones weighing up to 50 tons on artificial islets bearing residences, meeting houses, a palace, tombs, temples, baths and artificial ponds. Basalt columns laid end-to-end extend half a mile into the lagoon. Twelve vertical columns found planted 2,100 feet below the ocean’s surface may be man-made. Nan Madol disappeared in the 17th century. According to archaeologist Prof. Ayres (University of Oregon) the intricacy of the design suggests external cultural influence, probably from Asia. This may give weight to the theory that Hinduism once flourished deep into the Pacific, as far as Hawaii.

Hindu Timeline feature from Hinduism Today

[...]

-45,000: After mastery of marine navigation, migrations from Southeast Asia settle Australia and the Pacific islands.

-40,000: Groups of hunter-gatherers in Central India are living in painted rock shelters. Similar groups in Northern Punjab work at open sites protected by windbreaks.

-35,000: Migrations of separated Asian populations settle Europe.

[...]

-10,000: Last ice age ends after 65,000 years; earliest signs of agriculture. World population 4 million; India is 100,000.

-10,000: Taittiriya Brahmana 3.1.2 refers to Purvabhadrapada nakshatra’s rising due east, a phenomenon occurring at this date (Dr. B.G. Siddharth of Birla Science Institute), indicating the earliest known dating of the sacred Veda.

[...]

-1500: Polynesians migrate throughout Pacific islands.

[...]

ca 400: Polynesians sailing in open outrigger canoes reach as far as Hawaii and Easter Island.

[...] End of excerpts from http://www.hinduismtoday.com


23 posted on 11/15/2015 11:06:00 AM PST by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
“What is the goal.here? To set up something like an Indian reservation in Hawaii for native Hawaiians?”

They already have it. Its called Niihau

24 posted on 11/15/2015 11:08:32 AM PST by Polynikes (Ahh you teal de money. We talk to you den. Hombre - 1967)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Welfare state enshrined. Big money for some real estate folks through eminent domain and a certainty of an Obama Statue to replace the King.

Like K. Jenner, you may feel Hawaiian that day...
If they followed Hawaiian law, only the royal blood would own land and they could enslave the others at will.
Who’s checking and who makes the rules. This is just a Democrat move to insure another safe voting block and try for a 51st or 58th state and another senator.


25 posted on 11/15/2015 11:11:32 AM PST by Steamburg (Other people's money is the only language a politician respects)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Those who are conducting this sham should be fired!


26 posted on 11/15/2015 11:14:04 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
This could be a good thing.

Texas, for example, could hold a similar election, intended to select delegates to a convention, which will draw up governance documents for a Native Texan government--registration to vote restricted to Native Texans, who are defined as only those whose ancestors lived in Texas prior to 1835, and even then only to those willing to confirm a statement affirming the unrelinquished sovereignty of the Native people of Texas.

27 posted on 11/15/2015 11:15:07 AM PST by Savage Beast ("Whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad." Then they watch them self-destruct.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Oh all right! 1848.


28 posted on 11/15/2015 11:16:49 AM PST by Savage Beast ("Whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad." Then they watch them self-destruct.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

once they get that thru, there’s no valid reason to block sharia in other US states


29 posted on 11/15/2015 11:51:01 AM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Why does the planet have to crack up while I’m still on it?

I remember as a little girl learning about the Soviet Union and thinking to myself: I’m so lucky to live in America.

I truly believed I was protected. Pretty naive, huh?


30 posted on 11/15/2015 12:10:08 PM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I like to destroy the Turks (Moslims))
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To: BenLurkin

“The least American of the 50 states.”

I believe that there actually are some tricky legalities involving when they became a territory and state that might allow this.


31 posted on 11/15/2015 12:11:54 PM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day".)
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To: ThePatriotsFlag

Native Hawaiians were no more peaceful than any other Stone Age people. There were frequent inter-island wars for dominance.


32 posted on 11/15/2015 12:22:13 PM PST by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: The Antiyuppie

Is not the island of Ni’ihau restricted to ancestral islanders per the statehood agreement?


33 posted on 11/15/2015 12:33:24 PM PST by buckalfa (I am feeling much better now.)
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To: ThePatriotsFlag

Bullshitte.


34 posted on 11/15/2015 12:50:13 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

can you imagine the panic if an army of ICE showed up in South Bay or Indiantown?


35 posted on 11/15/2015 12:51:49 PM PST by Joe Boucher ( Obammy is a lie, a mooselimb and pond scum.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

This should be a lesson for any moron who would like the Third World refuse of Puerto Rico to become the 51st state.


36 posted on 11/15/2015 12:57:13 PM PST by Clemenza (Lurking)
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To: All

Does what they vote on affect only them, or everybody? I’d be screaming discrimination if I lived there.


37 posted on 11/15/2015 1:00:14 PM PST by jackibutterfly
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To: Graybeard58

LOL


38 posted on 11/15/2015 1:05:53 PM PST by BigEdLB (Congress will have blood on their hands if anything happens because of the Iran appeasement)
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To: euram

They had a pretty good run from 1781 through 1866.


39 posted on 11/15/2015 1:23:27 PM PST by Vermont Lt (I had student debt. It came from a bank. Not from the Govt.)
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To: Vermont Lt

What a bunch of socialist racists.


40 posted on 11/15/2015 8:07:35 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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