I wish this man could come back from the dead and give 0bama a severe ass kicking.
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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As my Anthropologist daughter would explain: My people are “Out of Africa” probably kicked out by darker locals. Does that mean we own the continent?
What IS the statute of limitations on having your land stolen?
Mexico back to Spain??? I think not. Blacks would go back to Africa, however. Oh, I’d love to see how well they’d be received back there.
I wish this man could come back from the dead and give 0bama a severe ass kicking.
Hush, Child. Had WXRGina any idea to whom she was speaking, she’d be ashamed. Leave it be. How was Christmas?
Tough-talking noob? I notice you didn’t answer the question, probably because you have no good answer.
Instead you prefer jackassism.
Uh-huh... and what about formerly federally owned land now in the hands of private interests?
so....I guess this means Gov. Patterson is going to get off their backs about the sale of untaxed cigarettes?
Instead, you chose silly tough talk and unprovoked accusation.
By the way, a good Christian does not accuse another of not being Christian. Especially based on four words.
If you'd been around here for a while, you'd know that I really don't trust any media, regardless of the source. I've seen firsthand on so many occasions how they twist and distort.
I suppose I could come on all tough and attack you for falling all over what the media puts out and eating it up with a fork and a spoon, but I tend not to attack people in such a manner.
I have enough self-confidence where I don't have to be rude to people with no provocation.
Happy New Year!
Boy, Oh boy, that would be a real mess for Europe and England.
Tides of different people swept back and forth over all the land.
Christmas was as good as it could be for being 7,000 miles from home.
I hope yours was good as well.
Happy New Year.
Actually, it's Iraq. ;-)
Thank you for the kind words.
If everybody gave back what everybody took, the world would be plucked up.
Minuit didn’t buy it fair and square.
History indicates he or the dutch were sold Manhatten and assorted other lands some 6 times over.
One popular history of Manhattan notes that the Canarsie Indians “dwelt on Long Island, merely trading on Manhattan, and their trickery [in selling what they didn’t possess to the Dutch] made it necessary for the white man to buy part of the island over again from the tribes living near Washington Heights. Still more crafty were the Raritans of [Staten Island], for the records show that Staten Island was sold by these Indians no less than six times.” http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/715/how-much-would-the-24-paid-for-manhattan-be-worth-in-todays-money
Oh, I just “knew” you’d box my ears for that. ;-) Well, Iraq isn’t any better. Ours was fine. Pat was home from Quantico before he heads to Ft. Sill, so we had a fairly normal Christmas. I guess it’s 29 Palms next year if he’s not in Afghanistan. No, neither of you is a child anymore, but you ought to know by now that no matter how old you get, you are still that darling child to your mother (even though my darling child is 6’4” of muscle that can toss me around like a rag doll now).
Happy New Year.
That would be the best thing to happen to the USA. Let the Indian tribes deal with NYC and the UN. I have had enough.
You’re very sensitive. I was not using “tough talk” in my question. “What’s your problem with WND?” is not tough; it’s just a question.
I’m used to seeing people ridicule and disparage WND, and most of them are put off by WND’s Christian perspective or what they perceive to be yellow journalism. My assumption that it might be the Christianity of it was just that—an assumption.
Those of us with eyes to see have ALL seen how the “media” twists and distorts the facts of life.
Never mind.
Welcome to the “conversation” between me and Allegra.
“Enough please” seems a bit much. I asked one question to which she took offense, though none was meant. As you said, she can surely handle her own conversations without any help.
There’s nothing to talk about anyway.
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