GOVERNOR SAYS "NO!" TO AKAKA BILL

Associated Press - Dec 16, 2009

Gov. Linda Lingle strongly opposes proposed changes to legislation in Congress that would grant federal recognition to native Hawaiians, state Attorney General Mark Bennett said yesterday.

In a letter to the ranking Republican on the House Natural Resources Committee, Bennett said he and Lingle have long supported the so-called Akaka Bill, named after US Sen. Daniel Akaka, the measure's chief sponsor.

But he said changes proposed by US Rep. Neil Abercrombie to the House version of the bill would unacceptably alter the relationships between federal and state governments and the native Hawaiian governing entity the measure would create.

"This creates a whole set of unknowns," Bennett said in an interview yesterday. "We welcome an opportunity to have a discussion (about) the changes and the impact, but were never afforded that."

NEW DISSERTATION ON HAWAI`I'S INDEPENDENCE
Prolonged Occupations of Hawai`i & The Baltic States

"FOR YOUR FREEDOM & OURS"
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AKAKA BILL = HAWAIIAN LAND GRAB

American Indian Land Sold Off By IRS To Pay Off Taxes

The Telegraph - December 4, 2009

US tax officials have sold off thousands of acres of an impoverished Indian reservation in what the tribe claims is a "shameful" and unprecedented breach of laws protecting Native Americans.

The 7,112 acres - or 11 square miles - of Crow Creek Sioux ancestral land in central South Dakota was auctioned off on Thursday by the US Internal Revenue Service to help pay off more than $3.1 million (£1.9 million) in unpaid taxes, penalties and interest.

The land, part of the tribe's original reservation established in an 1868 treaty, was originally held by the federal government in a trust for the tribe....

..."Members died and were buried on the land. Indeed, the lands were considered so important to the Crow Creek Sioux tribe that the tribe went into debt to acquire the land as part of its land consolidation effort to enlarge the Crow Creek Indian Reservation," the lawsuit argues.

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HAWAI`I - 50th STATE OR FAKE?


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LA KU`OKO`A
HAWAIIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY

When - Saturday, November 28th 10 AM
Where - Queen's Statue Next To `Iolani Palace, Honolulu
Who - Public Welcome To This Free Event

Presenting The Re-enactment Play
"Ka Lei Maile Ali`i - The Queen's Women"
Followed By Potluck Lunch & Talk Story
At The Ahu On `Iolani Palace Grounds

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“Perpetuating Makahiki- A Time Of Peace - A Visit With Kapono Aluli Souza”

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AKAKA BILL - PONO OR POHO?

Dear Senator Akaka,

It saddens me that a kanaka maoli (native Hawaiian) such as yourself would want to perpetuate the United States' belligerent occupation of Hawai`i by introducing legislation such as S. 1011 (Akaka bill.)

If you believe this is good for maoli, why is it then that your classmates, Louis Agard (Buzzy) and Kekuni Blaisdell are opposing it? Is it that you believe you are a wiser man then they? I believe you are all wise men, but the difference seems to be that they recognize the truth behind the United States-Hawai`i relationship, a relationship that has brought dispair to maoli for well over a century.

Selling our soul to the devils with S. 1011 won't help anything, it'll be another smoldering trident thrust into our backs by the devils.

I'm sorry but I must disagree with your statement that S. 1011 benefits everyone in Hawai`i, S. 1011 benefits the American occupation of Hawai`i, and it is clearly racist.

It does not benefit from the truth that maoli are NOT native Americans and we will never be native Americans. That is an insult to our maoli ancestors, including yours. Take a look at the sad conditions of the majority of native Americans and ask yourself, is this what I want for my people? I hope your answer is no....

I have the greatest hope that S. 1001 dies like all prior attempts to place maoli under the plenary authority of the Interior Department. Dialog needs to be opened between the United States' State Department and all descendants of the Hawaiian Kingdom regardless of race.

I urge you to practice pono (integrity) or the high position in the United States government to which you have climbed to will be poho (hollow,) a sad and embarrassing legacy left for your descendants. They'll still be here after you're gone. What should they say when people ask them why you did this to Hawai`i?

If S. 1011 is adopted and they remain in Hawai`i they will become outcasts amongst the maoli. Is this the future you want for them?

If you really want to help your people 1) drop your efforts to further the United States belligerent occupation of your homeland, and 2) Work towards getting Hawai`i placed back on the United Nations list of nations to be decolonized.

The United States lied to the members of the United Nations that Hawai`i became the 50th state. The statehood process was just as illegitimate as the fake annexation of Hawai`i by a majority vote of the US congress. You know and I know that Hawai`i was never lawfully annexed and was never lawfully a state of the United States.

Please don't sell Hawai`i's soul to the devils....

He Hawai`i Au!

Isaac Harp
Hawai`i Island