08.13.07
Deliberately further dividing America
Deliberately further dividing America
Commentary by Wes Vernon.
08.04.07
Challenging Kau Inoa
Reported in the Honolulu Advertiser
Five people have challenged the race-based Kau Inoa registry for participation in future government in Hawaii:
“The most notable of the applicants is former Honolulu Advertiser publisher Thurston Twigg-Smith, long a critic of Hawaiian preference policies. The others are Earl Arakaki, Patricia Ann Carroll, Toby Michael Kravet and Garry Paul Smith.”
Also reported in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin
07.30.07
Civil rights commission should reflect Hawaii’s diverse views
Civil rights commission should reflect Hawaii’s diverse views
THE STAR-BULLETIN’S editorial seems to suggest that the HISAC should report to Washington what is perceived to be the prevailing or popular sentiment in the islands as expressed in a recent poll supporting the Akaka Bill, apparently without the clutter of dissenting or varying opinions. This is a dangerous standard of reportage, and one which can only undermine the reporter’s credibility. There is no universal opinion in the islands on the Akaka Bill.
07.27.07
Hawaii Moves Toward Second ‘Ethnic’ Government
Hawaii Moves Toward Second ‘Ethnic’ Government
As reported on NewsMax.com:
Speaking to the House Natural Resources Committee, Hawaii Rep. Neil Abercrombie, also a Democrat, defined the bill this way: “What we’re trying to do in Hawaii is get the government out of the lives of native Hawaiians so that they can make their own decisions. The bottom line here is that this is a bill about the control of assets. This is about land, this is about money, and this is about who has the administrative authority and responsibility over it.”
“Greed, pure and simple” is motivating Hawaiian activists, One Nation United’s Lindsay tells NewsMax. “A small group of native Hawaiian activists think they can get more money, as a tribe, from U.S. taxpayers. And they also want to be given huge amounts of land in Hawaii worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
“They’ve told local property owners not to worry, they won’t take their land, but in the future they should plan on sending property taxes to the new Hawaiian entity rather than the county. This is very much a threat to the tax base and to local governments in Hawaii.”