Posted on 12/30/2010 10:55:38 AM PST by re_tail20
President Obama is voicing support for a U.N. resolution that could accomplish something as radical as relinquishing some U.S. sovereignty and opening a path for the return of ancient tribal lands to American Indians, including even parts of Manhattan.
The issue is causing alarm among legal experts.
In recent remarks at the White House during a "tribal nations conference," Obama endorsed the "United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People," which includes a sweeping declaration that "indigenous peoples have a right to lands and resources they traditionally occupied or otherwise used" but that later were acquired by occupying forces.
Read the scoop on the United Nations, in "The Beast on the East River"
"U.N. resolutions like this claiming amorphous rights can be a stalking horse for future attempts to have international courts enforce broad interpretations of those rights at the expense of American sovereignty," Theodore Frank, a fellow with the Center for Legal Policy at the Manhattan Institute, a leading public policy think tank in New York City, told WND.
Academic legal experts indicate that American Indians during the Carter era first drew up plans for reacquisition of lost tribal lands, setting the stage for the U.N. resolution that Obama is embracing. The feasibility study, eyeing 650 million acres of federally owned land in the U.S., was conducted by the Indian Education Institute at Eastern Oregon State, one expert recalled for WND.
"Re-purchase would restore land back to its original owners thus strengthening tribal sovereignty and jurisdiction over its people and land," Julianne Jennings Nottoway, a professor of anthropology at Pima Community College in Tuscon, Ariz., said. "Also, it would allow tribes the opportunity to develop socially, politically and economically as competitors as nation-states within a global context under the act of self-determination."
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Not complain...help vote their butt out of office and get people in there who are responsive to the citizens. To begin with we could make our elected official commit to the Lone Ranger Creed. I only saw this today when looking at whether Fred Foy ever served in the military. Here’s the creed:
I believe...
That to HAVE a friend, a man must BE one.
That all men are created equal and that everyone has within himself the power to make this a better world.
That God put the firewood there, but that every man must gather and light it himself.
In being prepared physically, mentally, and morally to fight when necessary for that which is right.
That a man should make the most of what equipment he has.
That ‘this government OF the people, BY the people, and FOR the people’ shall live always.
That men should live by the rule of what is best for the greatest number.
That sooner or later...somewhere...somehow...we must settle with the world and make payment for what we have taken.
That all things change but truth, and that truth alone, lives on forever.
And
In my Creator, my country, my fellow man
Give it back if they meet two conditions.
1) One of the documented descendants of the seller(s) shows up, and;
2) They return the original money used to buy it, plus interest and appreciation.
But, they can’t have the buildings and other improvements. And the bums, dopers and criminals will be thrown in free of charge.
yes,and to sell a book,too.
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam...
Well said Chief, Thanks. Just two more years of this imposter. Have a Happy New Year.
HAHAHAHA!!! Great picture!
Happy New Year to you too!
LOL, we think alike. See downthread...that was my whole reason for posting that!
“The first Cro-Magnon family that walks up my driveway and asks (in English) to have my house can have it.”
Careful. Half the leftists would qualify as Cro-Magnon or Neanderthal.
My ancestors who were there at the time of the sale must be rolling over in their graves...
Philippe Anton Du Trieux, Susanna Du Chesne, Maria Du Trieux, Sara Du Trieux
Jesse De Forest the leader of the 30 families of Dutch Walloons who was responsibile for the first Dutch settlement in New Amsterdam..
"No Jooooos need apply!"
"England for the English; Muslims OUT!" Oh, wait; should the Anglo-Saxon AND the Norman-French descendants also have to pay up or leave?
Who will pay, and collect, "repartions" on behalf of the Clovis People? Or for the Anasazi? (Hint: Ward Churchill will be at the head of the collection line, with the rest of the Gimmee Band of the Wannabee Tribe.)
Will the Mongols have to compensate....?
There is no end to such madness
Neither. The Cheyenne 'stole' it, too.
Maybe give Wyoming 'back' (not sure where they came from, before they were driven out of Wyoming, into Nebraska, then Kansas, then to their current locations*) to the Apaches; move the Blackfoot, Cheyenne, and Crow out to make room for them, while the Lakota/Sioux move back to northern Minnesota....
*There are other, competing, theories concerning how these Athabaskan speakers ended up in the Southwest. One such is that they peacefully migrated into lands recently abandoned by other groups. LOL
In any case it is all moot, because anything that happened before the white man came upon the scene anywhere doesn't count for purposes of this U.N. abomination. Only white man vs "victimized" nonwhite group "takings" will be covered by this, EXCEPT "Zionists" will be deemed guilty of any and all charges concerning any lands anywhere, at any time, most especially Israel.
Excellent! I am right there with you! Let’s identify the enemy and the problem and take some action!
Yes, I can relate to that.
My mother passed away from an illness when I was in my 20s, but Dad has occasionally mentioned that to him, I'm still his little girl. :)
A very Happy New Year to you and your family!
Can’t we just give obama back to Kenya and call it a day?
Same ultra-Marxist thug mindset as Mugabe. Disenfranchise the landed gentry by letting poor hordes overrun them - thus eliminating potential rivals.
Thanks. Just my two cents.
Chill Marty, please! Obviously, you missed the wry subtlety of my comment.
wry (r)
adj. wri·er (rr) or wry·er, wri·est (rst) or wry·est
1. Dryly humorous, often with a touch of irony.
2. Subtlety-2. Something subtle, especially a nicety of thought or a fine distinction.
Well, your irony is what I was thinking. All those highroller Progs living in SOHO will gladly hand over their multimillion $$ townhouses to the tribes. Yeah right!
Sorry if I seemed humorless. Actually, I find a lot of things humorous. Like Progs getting their heads handed to them by their own.
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