Posted on 02/25/2010 2:08:11 PM PST by Former Military Chick
Wait until we have to pay every black in the country for slavery. Oh, wait, none of them were slaves nor were any of us slave owners. Oh, well. Shut up and sit down.
Exactly so...
First, we need all of the original New Sweden claim. Then we need most of Eastern Pennsylvania, a lot of Western Pennsylvania, all of Western Maryland, half of West Virginia, huge swaths of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and Kansas.
Then, a number of chunks of land found within 50 miles of any Clovis site ~ which is a lot of chunks BTW.
We'll promise to move there, occupy the land, repel all invaders, and set up our own laws.
The United States should also pay us an indemnity of $1 trillion per year for the privilege of running their highways through our "chunks" and "swaths".
FOOTNOTES: (1) A human coprolite is the sole evidence for human occupancy of Oregon ~ which seems so terribly appropriate!
BTW, anyone who thinks I'm simply ridiculing the Native Hawaiian claim settlement would be wrong. If they can get chunks of Hawaii, I can get chunks of the Lower 48!
The Constitution is so old-fashioned...
After hearing about this last night on Fox New Special Report it occurred to me that this is the perfect setup for eventual “Sharia Law ruled” enclaves (states?) within the United States as they have in France (in France no one (not even the police) wants to go near these neighborhoods). Someone will probably claim that Muslims were in the new world long before the Spanish, the Dutch, the British or the French.
Its not about the problems, its about getting the land for free use! My suggestion would be to let them go and see how well they do after that; I am sure they would lose whatever is left after that.
“I wonder how this will effect the price of macadamia nuts.”
Yep. Priorities!
Agreed! Its about getting the camels nose under the tent; so much for established national sovereignty and identity.
Lets get this straight. They want to be treated like the American Indians? 100 years from now they will all be living on a reservation in Oklahoma, waiting in line at the free clinic.
Al Sharpton is trying to figure out how he can claim some Hawaiian blood to get in on this gravy train.
Good grief. Reparations to black farmers, more cash to native whiners, and all the while
our economy is sinking fast. Do the complete and utter idiots running this country
into the ground even know WTF they are doing?
Time to reload some more ammo.
Or perhaps Dr. Robert Ritter could reestablish his “Research Institute for Racial Hygiene”.
Obama is working on that very thing now. Started with the 3,000 dollars he handed out in Detriot and progressed with the 1.26 reparations to the farmers, acorn, housing, etc and ad nauseum
So I guess native Southerners could form a government to negotiate with the US. I’ll sign on.
They really need to leave this issue to the State of Hawaii to resolve for itself.
The United States Federal Government does not have the authority to redefine state borders, only states can do that for and to themselves.
If the people of Hawaii want to afford “special rights” and autonomy to their native population thats fine with me.
If they want to leave the union lock-stock and barrel thats also fine with me. It’s THEIR state not ours to screw around with.
I see now we should have let the Japanese take Hawaii.
What’s next? A passport to travel to Hawaii and spend our fiat dollars?
IMO, this might fail under the Fourteenth Amendment, specifically Section 1, which states that
"no State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
In other words, there can not be two co-equal governments with jurisdiction over the State of Hawaii ("The bill creates a new Hawaiian government that would negotiate with the U.S. over things like land rights and natural resources, and could cede large tracts of land that became U.S. government property when Hawaii became a state in 1959, back to Native Hawaiians") unless the Federal Government resurrects a sovereign Hawaii (i.e., "Kingdom of Hawaii") and cedes the territory of the present State of Hawaii to the Kingdom.
Whether THAT can be done is a different story, since the dissolution of the Federal Union is a no-no as generally accepted and as settled by the Civil War of the 1860s.
Cut ‘em loose or trade them for Puerto Rico... it’s a shorter flight
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