Posted on 03/01/2010 8:41:04 PM PST by americanophile
A racial spoils precedent that could lead to new 'tribal' demands across the U.S.
Last week, the House of Representatives, in a largely party-line vote, passed the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act. Popularly known as "the Akaka bill," this piece of legislation might turn out to be this Congress's single most calamitous decision.
The bill creates a complex federal framework under which most of the nation's approximately 400,000 ethnic Hawaiians can organize themselves into one vast Indian tribe. It endows the tribe with the "inherent powers and privileges of self-government," including the privilege of sovereign immunity from lawsuit. It also by clear implication confers the power to tax, to promulgate and enforce a criminal code, and to exercise eminent domain. Hawaii will in effect be two states, not one.
The method used to create this tribe should make everyone squeamish. The bill delegates the delicate task of deciding who may join the tribe to a federal commission appointed by the secretary of the Interior. Ultimately, the tribe itself will have the power to expel members or invite new ones.
Earlier versions of the bill demanded that the secretary appoint only ethnic Hawaiians as commissioners. In the current version, only those with "10 years of experience in the study and determination of Native Hawaiian genealogy" and "an ability to read and translate . . . documents written in the Hawaiian language" may serve on the commission. These commissioners will examine an applicants' backgrounds to ensure that only "qualified Native Hawaiians" with the right amount of Hawaiian blood join the tribe.
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An unmitigated disaster that only a damned Dhimmie could come up with.
I cannot believe that this passed.
What kind of payoff does it take to get this kind of thing done?
Will lowbama be made king of the islands?
Sounds like what we have on the mainland … special consideration for Native Americans. Casinos to follow.
Or a trial balloon, for the separate territory that Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam insists is owed to black Americans as reparations.
Just more division. What a mess these people are making of this country.
Can we identify "qualified Native Californians" from everyone else?
Can we have a test fof "an ability to read and translate . . . documents written in the California language?"
Can we examine an applicants' backgrounds to ensure that only "qualified Native Californians" with the right amount of California blood" get the advantage of the taxpayers' largesse from living here?
-PJ
Congress is working on anything (like making a new tribe!), except reforming the economy in time to avert wholesale economic malaise...
But, but, maybe this will create or save ten jobs!
These race hustlers are the very same people who said Sarah Palin shouldn’t be elected VP because her Eskimo husband once belonged to the Alaska Independence Party.
Many proponents of the aKAKA Bill will be disappointed. It is commonly believed by many supporters that this bill will give Hawaiians “free” beer and poki every day for the rest of their lives, allow them to use an unlimited credit card at Wallmart on the US taxpayer and let them live in free houses on any beach they desire. In addition, their welfare checks will be received every week instead of every two weeks. Truth be known, most honest and hard working Hawaiians oppose this legislation. Like ObamaCare, they like what they have, are proud to be Americans and wishes that the feds would stay out of their lives.
So will Obama sign a bill that requires native Hawaiians to show a birth certificate?
Ward Churchill just found a new home.
Another day in democRAT-controlled Amerika, another outrage...
“One reason for hope is that Hawaii’s Republican Gov. Linda Lingle has finally withdrawn her support for the legislation”
They have Kenyan birth certificates.
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