The Daily Caller – by Neil Munro
President Barack Obama’s administration has quietly suggested it is willing to create a two-tier race-based legal system in Hawaii, where one set of taxes, spending and law enforcement will govern one race, and the second set of laws will govern every other race.
The diversity proposal is portrayed as an effort to create a separate in-state government for people who are “native Hawaiians.”
If Obama succeeds, “what’s to prevent creating similar [self-governing racial] groups out of say, Cajuns, or Orthodox Jews or Amish?” said Gail Heriot, a commissioner on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
“If you can do that with groups that are already part of the mainstream, you can balkanize the country,” said Heriot, who is a law professor at the University of San Diego.
But the proposed measure to increase legal diversity is illegal because the president doesn’t have the power to grant one group of Americans the status of a separate government, she said.
“There is no constitutional basis for conferring such status, and Congress has repeatedly refused to confer this status,” said Carissa Mulder, a spokeswoman for two members of the federal Commission on Civil Rights.
“This seems to be yet another case of the Obama administration ignoring the law to achieve its policy objectives,” she added.
The move was announced Friday before Memorial Day as White House officials and congressional Democrats stepped up predictions that the president will try to bypass congressional opposition to his progressive policy preferences.
Is this a trial balloon for religion based government?
Or as it’s known elsewhere, Sharia law.
If Obama gets his way in Hawaii, this country is officially over.
Once again, he’s playing the social diversity game for absolutely no reason whatsoever other than to create conflict. Unfrigginbelievable. Hello! Treason anyone?
Treason…or worse….
can’t put down here what should be said….
I was in Hawaii with my parents back in 1986. We went to a Luau and the MC informed us that the closest thing to a pure blooded Hawaiian was 1/36 % Hawaiian (some 90 year old lady). It’s basically an extinct race.
Not according to Barry and his Communist race card. He’ll use the MSM to do a poll on the almost extinct race and then skew it to high, non-existent numbers in order to try and prove that there is such a thing as a Hawaiian race. Just like his 2012 presidential election and his unemployment numbers. Maybe he’ll even throw in a few Hawaiian people who have been dead for 50 years into the poll to make it count, too.