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