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HEWA ALERT: Lingle Urges Senators To Pass AKaKa BILL

Posted by Pomaikaiokalani on July 13, 2010 at 9:37pm in Politics

Lingle Urges Senators To Pass AKaKa Bill

By Star-Advertiser Staff

POSTED: 02:00 p.m. HST, Jul 13, 2010

 

Members of the U.S. Senate will receive letters from Gov. Linda Lingle asking for their support of the Akaka Bill.

Lingle reached agreement last week with Sen. Daniel Akaka and Sen. Daniel Inouye on revised language to the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act, and the two senators want a vote on the bill this summer.

In her letter that went out today, the governor wrote, “The Akaka Bill is constitutional, is good public policy, is (in its to-be-amended form) supported by Hawaii’s citizens, is consistent with Congress’ approach to recognition of other native peoples of American, and is just and fair.”

The Governor also wrote that passage of the bill would, “put Hawaii on an equal footing with its forty-nine sister states, and will recognize Native Hawaiians just as America recognizes it other indigenous groups.  It is fair and just – nothing more, nothing less.”

 

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  • Tane July 14, 2010 at 3:10am
    This is another promotion of the U.S. WASP racist Manifest Destiny doctrines. Putting Hawaii on equal footing with the 49 states is a demotion of it's lawful status as peer to the U.S. We are not their indigenous group; we are national subjects, citizens of the Kingdom of Hawai'i. It's disingenuous for the governor to say the Akaka Bill is constitutional and it is fair and just. She better review the first Amendment that states the ratified treaties are the supremem law of the land. If it's fair and just; then, the U.S. must de-occupy our national country of Hawai'i. Liberate Hawai'i by de-occupying it.
  • Pomaikaiokalani July 13, 2010 at 9:38pm

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