Joke's on them.
This dude gets *everything*.
Posted on 12/30/2010 10:55:38 AM PST by re_tail20
President Obama is voicing support for a U.N. resolution that could accomplish something as radical as relinquishing some U.S. sovereignty and opening a path for the return of ancient tribal lands to American Indians, including even parts of Manhattan.
The issue is causing alarm among legal experts.
In recent remarks at the White House during a "tribal nations conference," Obama endorsed the "United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People," which includes a sweeping declaration that "indigenous peoples have a right to lands and resources they traditionally occupied or otherwise used" but that later were acquired by occupying forces.
Read the scoop on the United Nations, in "The Beast on the East River"
"U.N. resolutions like this claiming amorphous rights can be a stalking horse for future attempts to have international courts enforce broad interpretations of those rights at the expense of American sovereignty," Theodore Frank, a fellow with the Center for Legal Policy at the Manhattan Institute, a leading public policy think tank in New York City, told WND.
Academic legal experts indicate that American Indians during the Carter era first drew up plans for reacquisition of lost tribal lands, setting the stage for the U.N. resolution that Obama is embracing. The feasibility study, eyeing 650 million acres of federally owned land in the U.S., was conducted by the Indian Education Institute at Eastern Oregon State, one expert recalled for WND.
"Re-purchase would restore land back to its original owners thus strengthening tribal sovereignty and jurisdiction over its people and land," Julianne Jennings Nottoway, a professor of anthropology at Pima Community College in Tuscon, Ariz., said. "Also, it would allow tribes the opportunity to develop socially, politically and economically as competitors as nation-states within a global context under the act of self-determination."
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Joke's on them.
This dude gets *everything*.
As does 90% of our reps in Washington, Dems and Pubs.
Soo? What are going to do about it? Complain!!
Really, do a few tribal leaders (are they REAL NA’s) think they have a snowballs chance in H of evicting the Manhattanites. This is laughable.
“Obama to give Manhattan back to Native Americans?”
But will they be required to embrace Islam as a condition?
I am, on a level, sympathetic to the suffering of the American Indian. I don’t know much about other “indigenous”
people in other parts of the world.
And I support continued efforts to improve their lot in life, short of wholesale “reparations” or giving back parts of Manhattan. That’s loony.
I believe most Americans think like me. That’s the GOOD news.
Now for the BAD news. IF white Europeans had not come from the East. Then the Japanese, Chinese or Russians surely
would have come from the west. And the treatment of the
American Indian might have been considerably worse by those
people. They might want to ponder the prospect of THAT for awhile.
The fact that the American Indian and other “indigenous” peoples were zoomed past by world civilization, is not the
“fault” of any particular group.
It just IS.
As a result, what these "declarations on the rights of indigenous peoples" are aiming to do is carve out large geographic areas where these "indigenous peoples" are supposed to live under some kind of delusional state of affairs where history is erased and the modern world can be forcibly removed to the extent that it presents a problem of any kind.
In short, they are effectively reduced to the same moral status and legal protection afforded to endangered animals.
Small price to pay for the greatest country in the world though. Especially since you don’t have to gamble and you don’t have to smoke.
What does Jean Luc Picard have to do with this?
To what tribe would Obama give the island to? It is my understanding that even the Manhattan Indians were not indigenous to the island, and that they found it quite funny that the Dutch were willing to bribe them in order to colonize.
That would mean that Mexico would go back to Spain. It would also mean that blacks would go back to Africa and reclaim their land.
simple answer: white people, you know, the ones that have it now.
Stupid Saxon dogs and their tax collectors.
Precisely!
What does Jean Luc Picard have to do with this?
One could only hope. We would never be that lucky to be rid of manhattan.
World Net Daily....*sigh*
Why in the world do you think they would evict high rent payers?
Stuff like this is why I don’t read WND. Irresponsible and inflammatory, and designed to be snorted directly into your brain for maximum rush.
Bump!
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