Maui News - March 1, 2009...a Kahului resident, whose great-great-grandfather helped draft 1839 documents of the Hawaiian kingdom, said he opposes the Akaka Bill "mind, body and soul.""The Akaka Bill is a race-based bill," said Foster Ampong, an advocate for Hawaiian independence. "Because you're talking about Native Hawaiians, as defined by law - 50 percent or greater Hawaiian blood."Ampong said the Akaka Bill does not address the most critical legal issue for Hawaiians - nationhood."The Akaka Bill is another attempt at creating a fraud or appearance that the Hawaiian Islands and people were acquired by the US lawfully - and in essence and in fact it wasn't," he said."For me, it's my passion. It's what I really, sincerely believe - We are Hawaiian nationals, not just Native Hawaiians by blood or ethnicity. . . . We have our very own bill of rights that formed our lahui, our nation," Ampong said.Likewise, another Akaka Bill opponent points out that the kingdom of Hawaii had a relationship as a co-equal with "England, France, Russia, Belgium, Netherlands, all the powers of the world."Kaleikoa Ka`eo, Hawaiian studies instructor at Maui Community College, said of the Akaka Bill - "I am actively involved to organize against its passage" because the bill would diminish Hawai`i's international standing, making it "go to the back of the line" and give up a status it already had."It's like saying you attained citizenship - and now you give yourselves the right to attain a green card as an alien," he said.For Ka`eo, a major issue "is that the so-called Akaka Bill provides no land, not one acre of land, and no access to water - that's not really self-determination," he said....
I was at the meeting yesterday in Rm 224 at 3:00 p.m. Clayton encouraged the passage of the AKAKA BILL. We have a local boy for president and two distinguished representatives from Hawaii who heads certain committees in Congress. Clayton Hee also encouraged Mele Carroll to take it or leave it for the monies due OHA. Take the 200 million and the interest will be determined by the next administrator. I have it on video tape!
Is this the person who was voted in to representative kanaka maoli? Mr. Hee attitude and persistence to pass the bill really tells the voters he is just as pilau as "SAM SLOM!"
The AKaKa BILL is in violation of the U.S. Constitution. The U.S. Constitution does not grant the Congress of the United States to recognize Native Hawaiians as Native Americans.
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Is this the person who was voted in to representative kanaka maoli? Mr. Hee attitude and persistence to pass the bill really tells the voters he is just as pilau as "SAM SLOM!"