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."
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If this guy were as incompetent as Carter, we could just dismiss him as a buffoon. Unfortunately, nObama does know what he is doing, making him 10 times more destructive as Carter could ever hope to have been.
Property OWNERS.
I think not the target is the United States.
>>>As long as they return the $23 in baubles they received for it originally.<<<
My understanding is that the Dutch were sold Manhattan by the Canarsie tribe, who lived in what is now Brooklyn. The Manhattans summered upstate, and when the Dutch got to the island, the Canarsies canoed over and “sold” the land of their traditional enemy to the Dutch. When the Manhattans returned in the fall and found a Dutch trading post, there was a brief war, causing the Dutch to create a palisade across the bottom of the island - the place now called Wall Street.
So who gets the island?
And speaking as a Jew, this should mean that the Jews get their traditional homeland, too.
I agree with the writer who stated that this is just a way to stir up discontent and disunity for the purpose of allowing the leftist minority to come in and assume power.
No, they don’t intend to give back the actual land, just the control of the land and everything that you do with that land, especially farming. Small farms, in particular, are anathema to the left. They hate farms and they really hate farm animals. What they are doing in WA is relating everything to salmon fishing. They want to give control of all water to the Indians and charge residents for all non-deeded water rights. Non-deeded means all water rights that were granted after the Indian treaty was signed. They want to charge people for the storm water that runs across their property as well. They tried passing a law that would require a permit for placing a rain barrel or a cistern on your property, but that failed. So, now they are charging for controlling the storm water that runs off your property.
The idea is to force people into the cities, into tacky little condos that will be ghettos in twenty years.
It’s the UN Agenda 21.
Everyone pack up. All 6.5 billion of us moving in between the Tigris and Euphrates and letting the rest go back to nature.
I think I’ll change my screen name to “Running Bear”. Then I can file for my half-acre of Manhattan.
Not to mention, evicting those third world b@stards at the UN!!
Barack HUSSEIN Obama! The anti-American! (Unfortunately, 42% of the pinheads residing in the U.S. think Barry is a swell guy). MoRons!
Okay, but I want the beads back. Fair is fair.
The world has been conquered and reconqued so often you cannot assign title except by possession after more than a generation has passed. This is a point so often overlooked when, for example, you hear Mexicans complain about losing the SW: they forget that they took it from the Aztecs, who only a few generations before took it from the Toltecs, who took it in their turn from the Olmecs, who took it from God knows who. If we follow this absurdity to it logical conclusion the entire U.S. belongs to the Clovis Man, and we should hold it in trust until we can identify his surviving descendants.
Return Anatolia to the Greeks! Send the Turks back to Turkmenistan!
Sigh? What’s your problem with WorldNetDaily? It is a credible news source that just happens to have a Christian foundation. Maybe it’s that Christian foundation that bothers you.
Greater Israel Lives!
Get the Arabs out of Libya, Algeria, etc. and return it to the Berbers!
Several million well-armed Texans might have something to say about that. What exactly? First we’ll play along if obastard wants to kick Texas out of the US. But Mexico will have another thing coming if they think we’ll be ruled by them.
The Republic of Texas would so just fine on its own. Frankly, the fedgov and states like California need us FAR more than we need them!
Does this mean 0bama (self-chosen “African-American”) have to return to Kenya? Please?
Being a multi-ethnic mongrel from way back, does this mean I own the world?
Leave it to a tough-talking n00b to make such a stupid, baseless assumption. LOL
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