Deals between Alaska and Hawaii


Toni Auld Yardley has a letter in the Star-Bulletin about the Arctic Wildlife Refuge oil drilling vote and the Akaka-Stevens bill. Excerpts:

I hope it will mean political suicide for both of them and the "Akaka-Stevens Bill," which is riddled with "deals" between Hawaii and Alaska, mainly because these two bills have the poor native Hawaiians and native Alaskans "trapped again" like trimmings on a package deal!

It's not very different from how Hawaii got swooped-up with the Monroe Doctrine to be annexed to the United States in the first place.

Neither is it very different from how the Hawaiian Homestead Act of 1921 didn't really help "to rehabilitate a dying race," but did set aside the prime agricultural lands and all the waters -- for the sugar industry!


Posted: Fri - April 1, 2005 at 10:04 AM    
   
 
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