In its latest assault on the U.S. Constitution, the Obama administration is proposing to recognize so-called “Native” Hawaiians as an Indian tribe entitled to separate and become an independent sovereign and to “reestablish” a “government-to-government relationship between the United State and the Native Hawaiian community.”
Such an unconstitutional action would amount to authorizing secession for certain residents of Hawaii.
It would also implicitly authorize government-sanctioned, discriminatory conduct against any other residents who don’t meet the explicit ancestry and blood-quantum requirements to be considered a “Native.” This would balkanize Hawaii, dividing the islands into separate racial and ethnic enclaves, and undo “the political bargain through which Hawaii secured its admission into the Union.”
Allow the Natives to secede only under the precondition that they accept the three adults (and I use that term loosely) pictured below, as their (L to R) High Chief, High Priestess and Viceroy:
I bet that would put a wet blanket on their aspirations for sure.
The duty of a true patriot is to protect his country from its government. ~ Thomas Paine
ZitatIn other words, there is no Native Hawaiian government with which the administration can establish a government-to-government relationship because “it is an extinguished government, and therefore, no government at all.”
So ummmm, based upon the above phrase, could I use this as a precedent, as a capitalist, traditional, white, descendent of Revolutionary War veterans American, the right to secede on the basis that this country no longer recognizes our government as it was founded to be?