HIDDEN AGENDAS & UNEXPECTED OUTCOMES AWAIT HAWAIIANS IF FEDERAL RECOGNITION PASSES !
From The Honolulu Advertiser -
After reading your analyses and studying the complete text of the [Akaka] bill you published April 10, I am not sure whether it is more like a "pig in a poke" or a Pandora's box.
It has characteristics of both:
As your analyses correctly pointed out, no one can be sure now what will be the final result of the sovereignty process that the bill authorizes.
The fact that emotions are already running high in both the pro-bill and anti-bill camps leads one to expect unpleasant racial and ethnic tensions when details are worked out years down the road.
The only thing certain about the Akaka bill is that we have no way of knowing today how it will impact the various segments of Hawai'i's population and institutions, because all the bill does is set in motion a series of negotiations with totally unpredictable outcomes.
The fact that the current strategy of our congressional delegation is to advance the bill "under the radar" speaks volumes.
Tom Macdonald
Kane'ohe
