With Sharia law and all.

just seems so strange. Especially considering that such a thing has never existed in the past. According to the WSJ, they’re actually going to have public lands set aside as “reservations” for native Hawaiians, I suppose so they can build casinos on them and not pay taxes. I wish my own Fugawi tribe could get this sweet deal.

It’s a sickness in their souls and a lack of simple common sense that lead them away from a colorblind society and toward a resegregated one.

Time to set Hawaii free. We don’t need to pay for their follies of class envy and entitlements. Just keep our base at Pearl Harbor and give the rest of the islands back to the natives.

As reprehensible as it sounds when described as it is in this diary, what the Hawiians want, some of them anyway, is to undo their assimilation and establish themselves like the “treaty tribes” in the Continental US and Alaska.

Those of you in the East have little dealings with Indians qua Indians except for seeing a few Cherokee dressed like Souix at Smokey Mts. NP or going to an Indian casino – on “Indian Land” in places where there hasn’t been an Indian in 200 years. In the West, the Indian reservations are considered dependent sovereigns and in large measure self-govern and enforce their own laws using tribal police. There are constant struggles between tribal governments and state and local governments, sometimes even with the federal government. And if you think the Inner Cities are cesspools of corruption and dependency, you ought to try an Indian Reservation.

If the Hawiians get the same sort of tribal rights the Indians in the rest of the Country have, the next thing will be identifying all “native” Hawiians and having the “tribe” or some other agency, the BIA does it for Indians, issue a Certificate of Degree of Hawiian Birth. That will be the ticket to the lottery that will come when the “tribe(s)” sue for compensation for the harms done them by the US and the State of Hawii and then make their land claims.

I was talking to the tour bus driver when I visited Pearl Harbor a few years ago; she looked and acted more like an Anglo than I do – the Hawiians call us Honky Dogs Howlis – but was ranting on about how she had rediscovered her Native heritage and how great Hawaii was going to be when the “natives” get their land back. She had the whole rap of the “indian sovereignty” types down! And it is a heady mix of racism and left wing politics.

Here in Alaska we had gone far out of our way to at least legally treat Alaska’s native Indians, Eskimos, and Aleuts the same as everyone else. The Territory of Alaska passed a comprehensive civil rights law in 1945. There were no treaty tribes in Alaska but a New Deal program called the Indian Reorganization Act had set up – and funded – some IRA “Tribal Governments” though most had languished once the ink was dry and there was no money – until oil. Then the land claims came. People who other than those in Southeast Alaska had always been nomadic or seasonally nomadic anyway suddenly discovered that they had deep ties of heritage and culture to the land – especially the land that might have oil under it. People who had for generations been white or Asian, mostly Filipino or Chinese, suddenly discovered that at least one of their grandparents was a full-blood Indian, Eskimo, or Aleut; that’s what it takes to be a “real” Alaska Native and get your Certificate of Degree of Indian Birth. Nobody much checked and we found suddenly that we had a lot more Alaska Natives than we thought we did.

We tried to avoid the Bureau of Indian Affairs cesspool of reservations and Indian Agencies with the Native Corporations established with the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act in 1972. It took a billion dollars, back when that was real money, and 103 million acres of land to “satisfy” the Native lands claims and clear the right of way for the TransAlaska Pipeline. Most Alaskans thought that settled it, but the BIA simply would not go away and became the benefactor of the tribal sovereignty advocates here. The Corporations established non-profit alter egos that contract with the State and federal governments to keep the cargo cult benefits coming in.

The BIA and BIA supported tribal governments live in a world of Indian preference hiring and contracting in which no Honkies need apply. Since the tribal governments don’t have a land base, they cannot exercise the sovereignty over territory that, say, the Souix or Navaho can, but we’ve had lots of trouble enforcing State law in the more radicalized villages.

Anyway, you’d think that the Hawaiians would look at the mess that the BIA has made elsewhere and also note that the Alaskan version is only somewhat more successful and want no part of it but I think the siren song of reparations and land claims beckons them. Since the Japanese own a LOT of Hawaii, you’d think they might be interested in this. Far as I’m concerned they can give the State of Hawaii back to the Native Hawiaiians and we can become a nation of 49 states; Pearl Harbor isn’t that important anymore.

nutjobs and hopeful future casino skimmers.

Hawaii is totally worthless as a State and should be sold to China in exchange for a few 100 billion in treasuries and a 200 year lease of our military installations.

Other than poi, which is not fit to eat, and Obama, who is not fit for anything, Hawaii has given the world zip.

In the mid 1900′s on the pristine sands of Ala Moana my relations gathered for barbecues. Not native Hawaiians, they were immigrants settling on the territorial islands before it became another star on the U.S. flag. Still my elders became proud working Americans.
Nowadays the beach is home to an exploding homeless class the state of Hawaii tries but fails to hide. Hawaii’s beaches and parks are peppered with homeless squatters. There is no more room in thestate run shelters or housing. According to 2009 Honolulu statistics, Hawaiians make up the largest ethnicity of the homeless population.Now left-leaning federal legislators want to parcel this decimated paradise to its ancestral tribe.
Perhaps we should yield to the historic natives more than what they demand: sovereignty of the islands, total. Say a bittersweet “Aloha” as we lower the Stars and Stripes to embroider blue over one white star.

I’m no legal eagle, but it seems to me that one descendant of a former missionary could wreck the whole thing.

anyone who is “a direct lineal descendant of the aboriginal, native people who – resided in the islands that now comprise the State of Hawaii on or before January 1, 1893.”

All one would have to do is show that the islands themselves were not originaly inhabited at all, much like a large percentage of all of the worlds islands. (otherwise the left would have to use the “God put them there at the begining” argument, which is not one that the left ever seems to use)

Then use the fact that all inhabitants are in fact immigrants to ensure that either all descendants of those born on the islands are included or no one can be included, as there are no true native peoples.

So all of the respective descendants of missionaries who had children while on the islands will be elligible no matter what their ancestry.

Before you all begin to tear this up with technical trivialities and deride it’s simplistic nature, think about it. This argument is desgned to obstruct, not repair. It would cause no end of head ache to those that would like to see a smooth transition of their “kill whitey” philosophy.

“Far as I’m concerned they can give the State of Hawaii back to the Native Hawiaiians and we can become a nation of 49 states; Pearl Harbor isn’t that important anymore.”

Without being more informed, I would tend to agree. I suspect that the folks on the Island would not however. They would be deeply impoverished without the security backing of the U.S. Otherwise, tourism would tank, and demand prices would match tourist rates in the crime ridden Caribbean. That is no way to run an island-nation.

Other than that – this vote appalls me. It is divisive and inflammatory. It is also probably unconstitutional. I know we have at least one wise latina on the Supreme Court, and I am sure she will she this bill for this non-sense that it is and vote to overturn it when it is challenged in court.

Racism is a Darwinian belief that there is a genetic superiority based on race. The racist we need to oppose are in the government at all levels. Those, by the power of the government, their position and power, reward or punish citizens based on race. This is the kind of legislation we should be concerned about in practice. Good post, good comments and good conclusions.

In promoting the in perpetual support of the Democrat party. Dividing a group out makes them feel isolated and vulnerable, most likely to blame others for their lacks. The Progressives then get them as another loyal voting block with nothing more than “words”, no substance.

This raises again an issue that got completely buried in campaign rhetoric and Obama’s need to hide just about anything and everything about his background.

OK how does Hawaii and this bill fit? First, realize that $Billions in land is involved and China and the “natives” are entangled to benefit.

China’s involvement goes back to the Clinton campaign and a scandal involving Chinese funds getting into the campaign and Chicago/Daley was part of this. Some of the same people from then has shown up as part of this Hawaiian native based land grab.

Some of these same people were players in the Obama presidential campaign. The question was raised to the effect the Hawaii government’s refusal to expose Obama’s real birth certificate was a quid quo pro for his backing of this legislation when he became president.

This president has more nefarious debts with some really “dark side” characters could produce in years.

Just something to think about. Obama really stinks when you get too close.

PC is Thought Control
LEE