Posted on 12/18/2009 12:59:20 PM PST by kingattax
The Akaka bill would create a race-based state in Hawaii.
President Obama speaks proudly of his childhood in Hawaii, so we wonder what the state's voters think of his support for a bill that would redistribute its wealth based on race. That's what would happen under the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act, which Congress is trying to sneak through in its final days this year.
Sponsored by Senator Daniel Akaka, the bill would transfer a percentage of public-owned lands to a native Hawaiian government within the state of Hawaii. The legislation would collect some 400,000 ethnic Hawaiians scattered across the country into a newly affiliated tribe, eventually endowed with the powers of a sovereign state, including freedom from state taxes and regulations and separate police power.
Proponents say the plan would duplicate the legal scenario set up for Native Americans, but the Akaka bill carves out new territory. Unlike Indian tribes made up of tightly knit populations that have lived together continuously, participation in the new group would be available to nearly anyone able to trace their roots back to a Native Hawaiian ancestor, no matter where they now reside. U.S. Civil Rights Commission member Gail Heriot told Congress in June that, "If ethnic Hawaiians can be accorded tribal status, why not Chicanos in the Southwest? Or Cajuns in Louisiana?"
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I’d give them freedom from all taxes...and we mainlanders also have freedome from giving them medicare, medicade, social security, welfare, etc. Fair deal.
Perhaps we only need 49 states (or 56 in President Obama’s math.)
But think of the casinos.
Can we put them on the reservation and keep them there?
As long as the U.S. no longer has to spend money on them, give them an island and let them be as Hawaiian as they would like to be.
Right, because that's worked out so well.
Can Freepers get tribal status?
Hawaii has 8 major islands, so we could turn each one into a state and that would give us 57. Just imagine 14 more democrats in the senate!
If we dump Hawaii does Akaka go with it?
IIRC all it would take is one great-great-grandparent. Pro’ly have to show your birth certificate, though.
terrible. I pray this can be stopped
We stole that state fair and square. In the 1850s or something. It was still legal then.
/tongue in cheek
Lived in HI for 3 years - the native racism is well known to all whites, Japs, and others. When I was there, the self proclaimed natives would take over state parks and live there year round. God help the wayward white that would stumble into a HI state park. They stayed drunk most of the day. Don’t have a clue how they got money. Sen Inoyu passed legislation the last year I was there prohibiting DoD from discharging any main land service members in HI. This forced us to go through discharge in Camp Pendleton. Hate the little HI hitlers. Aloha - Shaka Bro - eat Sh*T and die.
I thought the japanese and chinese have pretty much taken over hawaii anyway right now.
Can’t I just direct them to my website, where they can view my Certification of Live Birth?
We did this up here. Don’t do it, or you’ll pay the consequences. Horrible situation. Whatever you do, don’t do like the Indian act and distribute benefits based on race.
If native Hawaiians are “Indians,” then why don’t they do the same for the Chamorros of Guam and the Northern Marianas Islands, and for the Samoans of American Samoa? Same logic.
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