Congress Tries to Break Hawaii in Two

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Last week, the House of Representatives, in a largely party-line vote, passed the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act.

The bill creates a complex federal framework under which most of the nation's approximately 400,000 ethnic Hawaiians can organize themselves into one vast Indian tribe.

It endows the tribe with the "inherent powers and privileges of self-government," including the privilege of sovereign immunity from lawsuit. It also by clear implication confers the power to tax, to promulgate and enforce a criminal code, and to exercise eminent domain.

Hawaii will in effect be two states, not one.


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Well, the only other alternative is to give the whole thing back to the Hawaiian people from whom it was stolen in the first place!

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