The WSJ published this complicated editorial about the Akaka Bill — more formally know as the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act. Even if you don’t agree with the conclusions it’s worth a read for a look into the tangled mess that is the struggle for Native Hawaiian rights.
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.
Congress Tries to Break Hawaii in Two: A racial spoils precedent that could lead to new ‘tribal’ demands across the U.S. — WSJ
It is appaling that the U.S. has jurisdiction in this matter inasmuch as it was the U.S. Government, under president Benjamin Harrison (a republican), that stationed that ship in honolulu harbor with the U.S. Marines onboard, said marines to support that cowardly and criminal overthrow of our queen by that treacherous and greedy gang of republican thieves, Thurston, Dole, et al.
Although the U.S. has apologized for that crime the U.S. refuses to admit that that overthrow was a crime! We hawaiians are now in a position where we have to beg the white christian conservative republican criminals who stole our sovereignty, independence and land to return them to us. But that anglo-saxon mafioso is hardly likely to acceed, thier pathological greed for power, property, glory and possesions being what it is.
This matter should have been adjudicated in a
a more equitable and un-biased forum such as the World Court or the U.N. To have this matter
arbitrated in congress and the supreme court is akin to having a pack of hungry wolves gaurding the lone chicken. No way will we hawaiians ever get justice from a republican country that slaughtered millions of innocent women, children and old people just to gain control of the land they lived on.