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Hawaiian group demands restoration of the monarchy
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iHm_il0VpUD_F7REiip6c0WF36QAD91DD7UG1 ^ | June 19,2008 | MARK NIESSE

Posted on 06/19/2008 7:16:09 PM PDT by ckilmer

Edited on 06/19/2008 8:02:31 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

AP Material cannot be psted to FR.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: hawaii; nativehawaiians; royals
A state agency, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, is pursuing something far short of a restoration of the monarchy. It is pressing for federal legislation that would give Native Hawaiians a degree of self-government similar to what many American Indian tribes have. The hope is that Native Hawaiians will also regain some of their ancestral land.

The legislation has passed the U.S. House and is pending in the Senate. ///////////// if this passes then soon the hawaiians will be talking reparations and the mexican atzlans will be talking about breaking off the US southwest from the rest of the country all nice and legal like because they will have a precdent in hawaii.

1 posted on 06/19/2008 7:16:13 PM PDT by ckilmer
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To: ckilmer

Are there any casinos in Hawaii?


2 posted on 06/19/2008 7:21:31 PM PDT by Coffee200am
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To: Coffee200am
There could be.

As far as Aztlan goes, all the folks pushing that also subscribe to Lowrider. It's all in English.

These guys are simply into BS. Besides, even if we gave them land we keep the water and they die of thirst.

3 posted on 06/19/2008 7:26:00 PM PDT by muawiyah (We need a "Gastank For America" to win back Congress)
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To: Coffee200am

*snicker*


5 posted on 06/19/2008 7:26:17 PM PDT by Tax-chick (The dragons aren't as hungry as they were yesterday.)
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To: Old Seadog

Eeek! She doesn’t even have a sweet smile, like Liliuokalani. Hawaii deserves better than a Polynesian Hillary Clinton.


6 posted on 06/19/2008 7:27:40 PM PDT by Tax-chick (The dragons aren't as hungry as they were yesterday.)
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To: Coffee200am

Big Kahuna Kasino - our slots are the loosest in town!


7 posted on 06/19/2008 7:29:49 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: ckilmer
Oh Lordy day, it's the AP again.
8 posted on 06/19/2008 7:31:38 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
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To: ckilmer
SECTION 4. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government...

A monarchy is not "a Republican Form of Government." However, as William Rawle noted:

The principle of representation, although certainly the wisest and best, is not essential to the being of a republic, but to continue a member of the Union, it must be preserved, and therefore the guarantee must be so construed. It depends on the state itself to retain or abolish the principle of representation, because it depends on itself whether it will continue a member of the Union. To deny this right would be inconsistent with the principle on which all our political systems are founded, which is, that the people have in all cases, a right to determine how they will be governed.

William Rawle, A View of the Constitution of the United States of America, 1829
[ http://www.constitution.org/wr/rawle_32.htm ]

If the Hawaiians adopt a monarchy, they will no longer be able to "continue a member of the Union"...

9 posted on 06/19/2008 7:31:51 PM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("Sometimes I have to break the law in order to meet my management objectives." - Bill Calkins, BLM)
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To: ckilmer
Associated Press is no longer welcome on Free Republic.
10 posted on 06/19/2008 7:36:25 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: ckilmer

Must I be the One to say it?
.............................Book’em Dano.


11 posted on 06/19/2008 7:36:28 PM PDT by BigCinBigD (")
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To: ckilmer
Looks like the natives are getting tired of dimocRAT rule in Hawaii.
12 posted on 06/19/2008 7:36:48 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Old Seadog

GUILTY !


13 posted on 06/19/2008 7:38:28 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: Admin Moderator

Being ignorant, may I ask why?


14 posted on 06/19/2008 7:38:58 PM PDT by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: Admin Moderator

No loss, less BS to deal with.


15 posted on 06/19/2008 7:39:17 PM PDT by caisson71 (Times change, values don't.)
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To: lilylangtree

Click the link, read the thread. AP extortion.


16 posted on 06/19/2008 7:41:52 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Teachers open the door. It's up to you to enter.)
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To: lilylangtree

Show me the MONEY!!! The Hawaiians want their own kingdom, tax free status, right to sue the US ad infinitum, keep the welfare checks coming and all at the US taxpayer expense. A Dimocrap President and Congress will guarantee that.


17 posted on 06/19/2008 7:42:23 PM PDT by caisson71 (Times change, values don't.)
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To: lilylangtree

AP wants to charge per word for linking to their stories...


18 posted on 06/19/2008 7:42:47 PM PDT by Coffee200am
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To: lilylangtree
"Being ignorant, may I ask why?"

If you click on the link in my post above you can read all about it. There are also some threads about this in Breaking News.

19 posted on 06/19/2008 7:45:57 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: Coffee200am

Question: what if the local newspaper reprints the AP article, can the article still be reprinted without repercussion using the local newspaper’s reference?


20 posted on 06/19/2008 7:47:37 PM PDT by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: Admin Moderator

how do you go about accessing the same info that the AP puts out.

when I searched on google that story only came through the AP.

Is the trick just to link to the AP and write a story based on their reporting?


21 posted on 06/19/2008 7:53:50 PM PDT by ckilmer (Phi)
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To: lilylangtree

No articles originating from Associated Press are welcome here. Thanks.


22 posted on 06/19/2008 7:53:58 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: lilylangtree

Don’t know.


23 posted on 06/19/2008 8:09:24 PM PDT by Coffee200am
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To: ckilmer

I demand reinstatement of The Confederate States of America.


24 posted on 06/19/2008 8:10:56 PM PDT by Liberty 275
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To: ckilmer

Just what Hawaiians need. To be another group of “victims”.


25 posted on 06/19/2008 8:14:44 PM PDT by I still care ("Remember... for it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
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To: ckilmer

I just happen to know of a nationally prominent, multi-cultural politician who is a native born Hawaiian (around 1961, I believe) and would be *perfect* for the job of king on a far away island.

(He’s a Democrat, too!)


26 posted on 06/19/2008 8:17:10 PM PDT by shibumi (".....panta en pasin....." - Origen)
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To: ckilmer

Time to brush up on our book report skills, people. Make a nice summary and whatever you do, don’t click on the link.


27 posted on 06/19/2008 8:31:34 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (If it is going to take 10 years, shouldn't we get started? Drill here, drill now, pay less.)
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To: ckilmer

What a complete crock. She can’t be a descendant of “Hawaii’s last king”, because the last King, David Kalakaua, had no surviving children. Which is why the throne passed to his sister.

To the extent there still remains a royal line, it cannot trace descent to any of the Kamehamehas, or to Kalakaua. Their heirship was willed to Kalakaua’s nephew by marriage, Prince Jonah Kalalaniole, who, in a twist of fate, was elected to Congress (as a Republican) when Hawaii was still a territory.

Even if you think a monarchy is the solution, there is no royal line left to restore.


28 posted on 06/19/2008 8:33:21 PM PDT by CivilWarguy (CivilWarGuy)
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To: ckilmer
Why not give them complete sovereignty?

Bye Bye to two Democratic senators and a Demo congressman.

Perhaps Hawaii and Puerto Rico can merge politically.

Book ‘em, Danno!

29 posted on 06/19/2008 8:45:24 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: ckilmer

If the monarchy bans “Hang Lose” t-shirts, bumper stickers and mugs I’m all for it you howlies. -Wb


30 posted on 06/19/2008 9:14:03 PM PDT by Wagonboy (STOP GLOBAL WHINING!)
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To: ckilmer
Hawaiian group demands restoration of the monarchy

Ok, We'll throw in a KING for you. I believe since he lived there he would ACCEPT the job. I would like to PRESENT KING BARAK the First. Unfortunatly, I could not find the Hawai'ian translation of Barak.

Oh yes, you can have all of the islands except Hawaii, we still want Kona Coffee to be AMERICA's.

Think they'd like King Barak the First?

31 posted on 06/19/2008 9:22:09 PM PDT by EagleandLiberty (Psst... Serious questions Conservatives - want McCain or a Marxist in the White House?)
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To: ckilmer

They have one island where white people are not allowed to go unless personally invited. Right?

I lived on the Big Island for about 6 years. Very beautiful! But if you’re white, you kind of feel like an outsider.

The Hawaiian people would probably like to have the entire chain back . . . but they need our money through tourism.


32 posted on 06/19/2008 9:45:45 PM PDT by Saundra Duffy (For victory & freedom!!!)
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To: caisson71

Particularly one born in Hawaii.


33 posted on 06/20/2008 12:20:00 AM PDT by Roy Tucker ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."--Ayn Rand)
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To: ckilmer

Can my family and I have self-government on our property? No?


34 posted on 06/20/2008 3:32:22 AM PDT by Impy (Hey Barack, you're ugly and your wife smells.)
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To: ckilmer

Also wasn’t their a war because the south wanted out? Yet this gang operates with impunity?


35 posted on 06/20/2008 3:34:33 AM PDT by Impy (Hey Barack, you're ugly and your wife smells.)
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To: ckilmer
if this passes then soon the hawaiians will be talking reparations and the mexican atzlans will be talking about breaking off the US southwest from the rest of the country all nice and legal like because they will have a precdent in hawaii.

LOL!

As one poster pointed out, we are guaranteed a Republican form of government. A monarchy is a totally different animal. Try reading the treatise The Spirit of the Laws by Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu.

There is another flaw in the 'precedent' you speak of-

Hawaii voluntarily became a State, while the southwest was fought for. See the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, February 2, 1848.

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I'm all for the Hawaiians being equal to the American Indians in tribal & political status, but restoring the monarchy ain't gonna happen.

36 posted on 06/20/2008 5:38:10 AM PDT by MamaTexan (* The common law IS the Law for the People *)
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To: ckilmer

LOL...this sounds a bit French Canadian...lets us be separate but still have access to all the tax revenues/federal govt assistance. :D


37 posted on 06/20/2008 7:16:30 AM PDT by 556x45
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To: Wagonboy

That’s “Haole” howlie boy d;^)


38 posted on 06/20/2008 7:50:29 AM PDT by Chuckster (Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoset)
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To: Roy Tucker

Yes, especially one raised by his white grandparents and attended the most expensive private school in Hawaii.


39 posted on 06/20/2008 11:09:52 AM PDT by caisson71 (Times change, values don't.)
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To: Liberty 275
I demand reinstatement of The Confederate States of America.

I'm not sure that unilateral State secession is legal under the current constitution...

40 posted on 06/20/2008 2:49:55 PM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("Sometimes I have to break the law in order to meet my management objectives." - Bill Calkins, BLM)
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To: Chuckster
That’s “Haole” howlie boy d;^)

You're not one of those genuine Hawaiian guys who yells "SMOKE?!?!" when I drive by in my rental car, are you?

;>)

41 posted on 06/20/2008 2:52:48 PM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("Sometimes I have to break the law in order to meet my management objectives." - Bill Calkins, BLM)
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To: MamaTexan

I’m all for the Hawaiians being equal to the American Indians in tribal & political status, but restoring the monarchy ain’t gonna happen.
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Its not about political status. Its about expropriation of assets. That is the Hawaiians want to be more than equal. And as such they want to be given the right to expropriate property of non native hawaiians.


42 posted on 06/21/2008 12:53:48 PM PDT by ckilmer (Phi)
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