[Vision2020] Obama to Return Manhattan to Native Americans?

[Tom Hansen]

Nope.

This is FOR REAL, Roger.

The World Net Daily is reporting this, as well.

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/opinions/view/opinion/Native-Americans-Our-New-Overlords-6366/

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

On Mon, January 3, 2011 12:42 pm, lfalen wrote:
> Joe, Darrell and Cobert all were making attempts at humor. I suspect this
> is in the same vain.
> Roger
> -----Original message-----
> From: "Tom Hansen" thansen at moscow.com
> Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 18:14:45 -0800
> To: "Moscow Vision 2020" vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: [Vision2020] Obama to Return Manhattan to Native Americans?
>
>> The latest right-wing freakout . . .
>>
>> Courtesy of Talking Points Memo at:
>>
>> http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/12/latest_right-wing_freak-out_obama_wants_to_give_ma.php
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Latest Right-Wing Freak-Out: Obama Wants To Give Manhattan Back To
>> Native
>> Americans
>>
>> The good news is that the right-wing isn't talking about President Obama
>> being a secret Muslim right now. The bad news is that they're now
>> concerned that he's going to use his honorary status as a Crow Tribe
>> Indian to return the United States to Native Americans.
>>
>> The outrage began after the President announced on December 16 that the
>> U.S. would reverse course and support the United Nations Declaration on
>> the Rights of Indigenous People. The Declaration was adopted by the U.N.
>> General Assembly in 2007, but the U.S., under President Bush, opposed
>> it.
>>
>> "The aspirations it affirms -- including the respect for the
>> institutions
>> and rich cultures of Native peoples -- are ones we must always seek to
>> fulfill," the President said of the Declaration at White House Tribal
>> Nations Conference where he announced the reversal. He went on to
>> describe
>> efforts to improve health care, education, and unemployment rates in
>> tribal areas.
>>
>> "While the declaration is not legally binding, it carries considerable
>> moral and political force," the State Department wrote of the
>> Declaration,
>> "and complements the President's ongoing efforts to address historical
>> inequities faced by indigenous communities in the United States."
>>
>> Despite this, the right has seized onto some of the language to attack
>> the
>> President -- including Article 26, which says:
>>
>> "1. Indigenous peoples have the right to the lands, territories and
>> resources which they have traditionally owned, occupied or otherwise
>> used
>> or acquired.
>>
>> 2. Indigenous peoples have the right to own, use, develop and control
>> the
>> lands, territories and resources that they possess by reason of
>> traditional ownership or other traditional occupation or use, as well as
>> those which they have otherwise acquired.
>>
>> 3. States shall give legal recognition and protection to these lands,
>> territories and resources. Such recognition shall be conducted with due
>> respect to the customs, traditions and land tenure systems of the
>> indigenous peoples concerned.Obama was adopted as an honorary member of
>> the Crow tribe during the 2008 campaign, and was even given the name
>> "One
>> who helps people throughout the land." Most of the outrage lobbed at the
>> President in the wake of the announcement, naturally, references that
>> fact."
>>
>> Last week, the "Director of Issues Analysis" for the Christian
>> conservative American Family Association, Brian Fischer, wrote a blog
>> post
>> claiming that "President Obama wants to give the entire land mass of the
>> United States of America back to the Indians. He wants Indian tribes to
>> be
>> our new overlords."
>>
>> "Perhaps he figures that, as an adopted Crow Indian, he will be the new
>> chief over this revived Indian empire," Fischer wrote. "But for the
>> other
>> 312 million of us, I think we'll settle for our constitutional 'We the
>> people' form of government, thank you very much."
>>
>> Yesterday, the right-wing blog World Net Daily took it a step further in
>> a
>> post called "Obama to give Manhattan back to Native Americans? President
>> believes nation can spare some sovereignty." The article describes how
>> "President Obama is voicing support for a U.N. resolution that could
>> accomplish something as radical as relinquishing some U.S. sovereignty
>> and
>> opening a path for the return of ancient tribal lands to American
>> Indians,
>> including even parts of Manhattan."
>>
>> The article continues: "Obama's interest is personal. He noted during
>> the
>> 2008 presidential campaign he was officially adopted by the Crow Nation,
>> an Indian tribe in Montana, and he was given an Indian name."
>>
>> Joseph Farah, the founder and editor of WND, followed up on the article
>> today with a facetious column called "I'll Take Manhattan." He writes:
>> "Truth be told, I have a fair amount of Indian heritage on my mother's
>> side. So this proposed redistribution of wealth is welcome news for me.
>> Where do I apply? I want to return wampum for Manhattan."
>>
>> "Anyway, what do we have to lose?" he writes. "The U.S. economy is in
>> shambles. What harm could it do to redistribute lands based on nothing
>> more than the racial and ethnic heritage of Americans?"
>>
>> "I suspect Obama himself plans to cash in on this action," he wrote.
>>
>> Former Ambassador John Bolton was more concerned that the resolution
>> would
>> result in new legal claims. "It's a kind of feel-good document that has
>> so
>> many unclear phrases in it that nobody's really sure what it means when
>> you agree to it," he told FoxNews.com. "It's wrong and potentially
>> dangerous to sign onto a document that you don't fully understand the
>> implications of."
>>
>> "Hopefully most judges will say it's not binding," Bolton added. "But
>> there are enough judges who couldn't care less about strictly applying
>> the
>> law."
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Seeya round town, Moscow.
>>
>> Tom Hansen
>> Moscow, Idaho
>>
>> "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to
>> change
>> and the Realist adjusts his sails."
>>
>> - Unknown
>>
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