AKAKA SWINDLE !
Hawai`i Reporter - July 25, 2005
By Leon Siu
Someone once said: "If you get them to ask the wrong questions, you don't have to worry about the answers."
The confusion over the Hawaiian sovereignty issue is the result of an elaborate, protracted campaign by the United States and the State of Hawai`i to conceal and obfuscate their illegal occupation of Hawai`i, and to try to give it a legitimate face.
To accomplish their ends, they manipulate the debate by posing wrong questions.
The occupying powers have deliberately and slyly shifted the question away from 'What redress is called for concerning the theft of a nation?' to that of 'How can we preserve race-based welfare programs?'
Even though these are two completely different questions, the Akaka Bill pretends to address the former by answering the latter.
This is a classic swindle.
The Akaka bill is an elaborate scheme using the native-Hawaiian/indigenous-people/Indian-tribe/nation-within-a-nation/self-determination
screen to swindle the Hawaiian public, the U.S. Congress the American people and the rest of the world into thinking something significant is being accomplished.
When actually, it is just another attempt in the 112-year effort to legitimize and secure the illegal occupation of Hawai`i.
If the Akaka Bill is the answer, what was the question?
