E kala mai! Correction. Recently I mistakenly referred to the fake state Akaka scam as HB1520. It is actually SB1520! Please make the appropriate adjustments in making ku’e plans. When Abercrombie signs SB1520, as he is expected to on July 6, it will then be called, “Act” such and such (an assigned number), as in “Act 13.”
We can use that name, but it would be even better to come up with catchy, heavy-hitting labels and slogans for this act, that will tell the public what it really is.
Here’s a description of what the act intends:
“Establishes a five-member Native Hawaiian roll commission in the Office of Hawaiian Affairs for administrative purposes to prepare and maintain a roll of qualified Native Hawaiians; requires the commission to publish the roll to facilitate commencement of a convention for the purpose of organization; requires the governor to dissolve the commission after publication of the roll; requires the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to fund expenses of the Native Hawaiian roll commission; requires a report to the governor and legislature prior to the regular session of 2012.”
If you want to read SB1520 in its entirety, go to...
http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2011/Bills/SB1520_CD1_.HTM
All this of course, is based on the false assumption that Hawaii is part of the US. It is intended to set up the initial mechanism for an Akaka-type “Native Hawaiian Governing Entity.” But the language is open for interpretation. It is conceivable that during the process of the vetting of this act, we could co-opt it to favor independence.
This is what happened in the 1990s with the morphing of the Sovereignty Advisory Council into the Hawaiian Sovereignty Advisory Commission into the Hawaiian Sovereignty Elections Council, and into the Native Hawaiian Vote. But when it got to to convening the Aha Hawai‘i ‘Oiwi (the Native Hawaiian Convention), the state balked and cut off funding because after this long vetting process, the ‘independence model’ had emerged as the stronger contender over the ‘nation-within-a-nation” model. The state definitely did not want to go there, so they cut the funding and came up with the Akaka bill ‘tribal nation-within-a-nation’ scheme.
It came up again a few years ago with an OHA-sponsored dialog of ‘sovereignty’ groups. When the talks indicated independence was the favored option, OHA stopped the process by
cutting off funding.
The point is that we can use SB1520 to not only blast at the state’s Akaka scheme, but to use the opportunity at all levels, to turn the hearts of the people away from deeper servitude under the US toward a Free Hawaii.
Malama pono,
Leon
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