Posted on 03/11/2005 11:27:42 AM PST by JZelle
It is not because Native Hawaiians should be cherished less but that equality under the law should be loved more that the Akaka Bill to create a race-based government should be opposed. The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs blithely approved the legislation Wednesday without seriously examining its constitutionality. The bill previously passed the House in 2000 as a "noncontroversial," like treating South Carolina's firing on Fort Sumter as a July Fourth celebration. The proposed legislation would ordain a Native Hawaiian Governing Entity cobbled together by Native Hawaiians meeting a threshold of Native Hawaiian blood. The Entity would negotiate with the United States and the State of Hawaii for lands, natural resources, civil and criminal jurisdiction, and other matters within the customary purview of a sovereign. It would be a race-based state within a state: a government of Native Hawaiians, by Native Hawaiians, for Native Hawaiians. It does not deserve birth.
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I think either Hawaii needs to be a state, or not a state. They can't have it both ways.
Last On/First Off
Read somewhere the impetus behind this is a single word - Casino.
FMCDH(BITS)
No doubt about it.
even though probably a good 70% of the resident population of the State of Hawaii go to Vegas on casino holidays regulurly, gaming has always been defeated on the local ballots . Even off shore on vessals! Wouldn't be so bad if you ask me . Hawaii is already a Disneyland of tourists and tourism , and wouldn't those same tourists like beaches to relax on rather than Las Vegas hotel rooms and featureless deserts , when they are not gaming?
Hawaii is a state.
The Hawaiian sovereigntists DO NOT define Hawaii.
I think Sen. Inouye is against casinos coming to the islands. At least one good thing he's done for our state.
The notion that there are "Native Hawaiians" is a joke. The islands were first settled by immigrants from Polynesia. Other than being earlier immigrants, they are no more "native" than the whites (haoles) or japanese that came there later.
I heard the natives aren't too fond of white people, that if you're a tourist, to never venture far from the usual tourist spots. I also hear they have a special name for whites, I just can't remember it.
I'm quite aware of the situation, having lived in Honolulu for the past thirty years. Your Disneyland analogy is spot on; the tourists all seem to think they are in a theme park instead of a real working city.
'Haole' ....hah-oh-lay
it means 'no breathe' because the first white people the Hawaiians saw reminded them of dead people , who were the only human beings that they'd ever seen that were so pale ;^)
it brings new meaning to the movie line " I see dead people..." ;^)
Period. Most of activists I've met have NO Hawaiian blood at all.
Hmmm. And I thought this was about Sponge Bob joining the ranks of the terrorists.
...They can't have it both ways....
All they want are a few casinos.
Some "Hawaiian sovereignty" supporters I've met were white folks. It's bizarre.
BTW, the H-sovereignty nuts make up a very small part of Hawaii's population. The vast majority of us here really like being plain ol' Americans, although we wholly reject and despise that mainland abomination you call Uncle Ben's. ;-)
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