1. The Akaka bill contains language that guarantees Hawaiians a land base.
2. The Akaka bill ensures that the Hawaiian Homes program will not be terminated.
3. Hawaiians will vote on whether or not to accept federal recognition. The choice is theirs to make.
4. The commerce clause and treaty clauses of the U.S. constitution do not prohibit federally recognized indigenous people achieving independent nationhood.
5. Federal law provides for the protection of indigenous peoples entitlements and they cannot be taken from them without their consent.
6. The United states has never terminated a government to government relationship with federally recognized people without their consent.
7. Blood quantum restrictions will not result in the exclusion of future generations of Hawaiians from Hawaiian citizenship.
8. Indigenous peoples lives have improved more under federal policy than the lives of people in independent nations in the same time frame.
9. Federal recognition will provide that every Hawaiian will receive land and housing for life.
10. The Akaka bill, would protect Kamehameha Schools and other Hawaiian entitlements.
EACH AND EVERY STATEMENT ABOVE IS FALSE
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We need to say all the things we need to say against the Akaka Bill and not against each other.
I don't need credit or happy faces--just to focus on the details of the issues.
I needed the time element to connect to Keala Kelly's work
I don't usually disagree , but in this instance I do. When Danner's first came to the Islands they contacted Lena Hoohuli, and we had a meeting. I caught the plane to Kauai and tried to head her off the pass. I couldn't, I then contacted all of Ka Lahui people and asked for a reevaluation of what she is doing. Why, because we had many meetings with the Alaskan's in 1984. Both time frames put us way ahead of all of you. Having the background to the oil companies and oppositions from the very Alaskians native, I flew to Alaska many times and did research work on the debth of the Danner sisters, mostly Robin. Robin spreads wide and deep in Alaska. We had a war in my homestead with the city, and Ray Soon hooked up with Danner to cover the deaths that had occurred.
These ten questions are child like and needs more indebt construction to really get closer to the opposition of the Akaka Bill.
My point and I am getting pretty tired of Richard Kinney's harassment and the need to choke out the information of our work that's been in place long before he arrived in the islands as a veteran of the military. My point is that Keala Kelley rings louder in opposition to the Danner sisters. Read her posted opposition points they coincise with my points of view. I don't have time nor the interest to further the issue on Richard Kinney, he is everyone's friend and I don't give a dam. He has been an enemy of native Hawaiians on DHHL lands with a contract that requires 50% bloodquntum to be a leasee since his return to the islands. It's a sexual turn on!!
We are a land based people that was designed to have children to maintain a sizeable population. We are targets of sexual predetors from the onset. I have come to know this because I grew up in this enivronment. Sexual predators cannot stop, they continue repeatedly at all cost. Na Kanaka culture have nurtured this behavior since the civil war, I can't stop it until we sever ourselves from this mentality. Apparently it's not happening.
The bloodquantum is for native Hawaiian women and their children...not a racist argument for the Akaka Bill.
I can't say any more at this time on your points of arguments. I really don't care if you were first to argue with the Danners, what I care about is the lack of information that goes with the argument. The diversions from the central points of contentions is important and all that I am saying Keala Kelley has spoken and on record as having the best connection to oppose the Danners. If not then it's just blowing smoke up one's ass!
We need each other to bring to the central point of argument, this 10 quiz questions are from a stupid source which makes it even more stupid.
Sexual predation is Richard Kinney's game! It's been 30 years of it and I am getting tired of it especially when he clouds the minds of people close to him.
Long Live The Hawaiian Kingdom, o Pomai....
We have some good people that entered OHA and tried to represent the people but failed.
I too went against Mits Ueyhara advise and helped to register people to vote in that first election. Back then, I felt that I would spend the rest of my life cleaning up the mess, I made. I wanted the first election to be about the grassroots leaders not the corporate/general public we have now.
All that I am saying here, it is not just the on going and never ending story of the Akaka bill your energies need to continue far beyond 2010. What ever happens the issue does not stop. I have not stopped the issue of 'Stop the Bombing' but most have.
So here we are "stop the Bombing" and "stop the Akaka Bill" build time, resources, and the talk/walk for the duration of your life.
Read Keala Kelly's version of the debate 'hers' is much more closer to why we need to be on the edge with this bill. It will effect everyone, but again my position mostly those on DHHL, we feel the abuse everyday. I see the deaths, starvation, dirty education, mean spirited directors of DHHL.... endless list.
Danners were pushing for the bill. We also questioned how they got Hawaiian Homestead land in Anahola Kaua'i before many that preceded them on the waitliist.
Danner was going around to the Hawaiian Homesteads instilling fear into the homesteaders and that the Akaka Bill was the only protection they would have. She compared our situation with the Alaskans (whom she favored more than the Hawaiians) and said we needed saving and U.S. recognition was the only answer to improve our situation.
Since the first introduction of the Akaka Bill, I have been sending in testimony personally to each Congress person in protest of the Akaka Bill. So, to set the record straight; this is not a hobby as you call it.
We all do what we can to attain justice and freedom. I also wise you would eliminate the term "colonized" as it doesn't pertain to us. The other thing is that you are misreading what those ten questions are. Those are the comments made by pro-Akaka bill supporters as statements why we should support the bill.
Don't feel alone, those on DHHL aren't the only ones facing the abuse. There are so many layers and issues of what needs to be addressed; one person cannot do it alone. Educating and getting the word out is a drawn out process. Like I keep saying, this is a national issue and not about singling out the native Hawaiian community especially those on DHHL; that's the U.S. way of dividing and conquering.
I know it gets frustrating; but we must persevere and do all we can to stop the abuses and criminal violations committed by the U.S. Right now Danner and OHA are fighting for controlling rights if the bill passes. Their colors do shine through as from the beginning, eh?
Ted Stevens, ex senator from Alaska and bosom-buddy Inouye did get together to create the bill and push it; Alaskan oil and military industrial complex in Hawai'i was the intended marriage and benefit.
As the world turns; so does one's stomach, eh?
I agree, our energies need to continue far beyond 2010.
Tane
Hanford Site is not just a radioactive catastrophe. It's an ecological paradise.
by Charles Mudede
During the peak of Hanford's plutonium production, the windstorms were even worse because construction work had removed a good amount of the shrubbery that covered and contained the desert floor. When the winds came down from the mountain, they would become a great radioactive cloud that crossed the desert and reached and poisoned humans in nearby farms and towns. The poisoning was not immediate but gradual, and not always just accidentally carried by dust but also directly and secretly released into the atmosphere by scientists. And the radiation would fall, cover the ground, enter plants that were eaten by the cows, and enter the cows' milk that was consumed by humans—you are not only what you eat, but also what what you eat eats.
Some of the people who drank this poisonous milk or swallowed the dangerous dust were transformed into a race called downwinders. This race of humans is very familiar with two institutions: the hospital and the court. They go to the former for the treatment of cancers, sterility, birth defects, and genetic mutations; they go to the latter to struggle for some justice and recognition from the source of their suffering, the United States government.
E ast of Richland, there is a strange island. It's on the Columbia River and connected to the mainland by a slim land bridge. For much of its recent history, Clover Island was used as a dump site for construction waste and concrete. During this period, which came to an end around the 1970s, a cloud of dust would often rise from the island and hang over the river. Today, the island is being redeveloped into a consumer paradise. Clover Island already has a yacht club, a hotel, a fancy restaurant, and a marina. The developers want to pack more businesses and recreational facilities onto the island and the shoreline it faces to the south.
"The vision for this area includes an IMAX theater, a gondola, a carousel, restaurants, a public plaza, pathways, and riverfront restaurants and buildings with a mix of commercial, retail, and residential overlooking an existing urban wildlife area," wrote John Fetterolf, the Pasco branch manager for HDJ Design Group, in the Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce.
On the day I visited the island, it was practically empty. There were no other cars there but my own and one owned by a couple I was visiting, Matt and Melissa. They live in Kennewick and work at the community college in Pasco. Both are in the humanities, both are in their late 30s, and both have complicated views about the area.
We were drinking local wine in the only open restaurant on the island, Cedars. I asked about the downwinders.
"There is a dull apathy about safety at Hanford," said Matt. "But you have to remember that this county, Benton, and its neighbors are overwhelmingly, single-mindedly conservative and thus inclined to discount environmental concerns as liberal fearmongering. I believe that the citizens of this area, for the most part, have simply forgotten that what lives upriver has really nasty teeth."
"Are you worried about your own health?" I asked, looking at him and then the moving water flowing by, flowing to the ocean, flowing to the mighty mother of us all.
"Yes, but still. It's hard to explain. There are a lot of things we just don't know. For example, there is a train that I can hear from our house. It does not merely move at night; it crawls during daylight hours, too. A short train, traveling at a low rate of speed." Is it carrying toxic waste? "For all I know, it carries overripe potatoes."
"Have you visited Hanford?" I asked.
"Yeah, they have tours in the summer. People can go all the way to the reactors. We took the tour last year. It was very strange." (The tours, which are five hours long and free, began last week but are already booked through the rest of the year. To sign up next year: www.hanford.gov.)
"I remember we were allowed to see a current excavation site," said Melissa. "The speaker told us that there are layers of buried waste, some of it from the earliest days of the program, and the layers reminded me of a dinosaur fossil site, with various strata showing the project's time line."
The growing population of the Tri-Cities feeds on that waste—the two or so billion dollars the federal government pumps yearly into the economy for the ever-so-slow cleanup project. This politically conservative area thrives on welfare. And the cleanup, by the way, will ultimately make the land attractive to developers and farmers—therefore, as with Clover Island, replacing one poison (industrial waste) with an even worse poison (human beings). And what contradiction surpasses this one? The most rational animal in the area is the most toxic animal.
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