The Akaka Bill, designed to establish an unprecedented race-based government in Hawaii, was fought off by civil rights activists for the past 10 years. After over a decade of failure, and an impending retirement, Akaka is now stooping to hiding it in a footnote to must-pass legislation.

Auwe!

Enabling language that would have been the first step toward federal recognition for native Hawaiians was left out of the $1 trillion-plus budget bill approved today by the U.S. House of Represent

Jackbooted thugs indeed.

Demand information from public agencies? Get stonewalled until some principled leaker lets the cat out of the bag.

Demand information from private individuals? No problem, just ask the local authorities to walk in and confiscate stuff.

The irony is palpable.

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Just got solicited on the phone by some Arizona tribe to give them money to take care of their elderly. When I kindly informed them that tribal law is an offense to the ideals of equality, justice and freedom, and that I would only be willing to aid them in their plight if they disbanded their tribal government and became equal citizens under U.S. law, well, they decided that conversation wasn't going well for them.

Good times :)

Update: looks like this is a typical tribal scam: http://www.citizensalliance.org/links/pages/articles%20and%20CERA%20news/Questionable%20Indian%20Charities.htm

As hard as it would have been, we should have let them fail. It is going to take decades to unwind the phony "stimulus" as it is, this just adds insult to injury.

The Federal Reserve and the big banks fought for more than two years to keep details of the largest bailout in U.S. history a secret. Now, the rest of the world can see what it was missing.