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Sen. Daniel Akaka, Hawaii Democrat, wants to create a new "native" Hawaiian government.(The Week ...)(Brief article)

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Sen. Daniel Akaka, Hawaii Democrat, wants to create a new "native" Hawaiian government. His bill, which is scheduled to be debated in the Senate in June, appears to be designed to pacify a small but vocal faction of Hawaiian grievance-mongers who are demanding special rights. The bill is vague to the point of distraction. For example, the interim government can choose its own definition of "native"; that is, the government itself can decide who its citizens will be, which will surely involve some kind of blood test (redolent of earlier, discredited times). The most pernicious ...

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