02-13-2020, 12:51 PM
some law makers saying that certain groups of people, perhaps based on race, can create a non-profit organisation should be exempt from laws others have to follow? That's how I'm reading it.
Me too.
Section 1 of the bill states:
Accordingly, the purpose of this Act is to prohibit the attorney general from investigating nonprofit organizations for exercising their constitutional right to free speech and assembly or protecting constitutional grants of rights, such as the traditional and customary Hawaiian cultural rights expressly protected under article XII, section 7 of the state constitution, with exceptions.
Native Hawaiian rights are defined and protected in the state Constitution. If those rights are violated they already have recourse through law enforcement and the courts. If law enforcement and the courts have ruled their rights haven’t been infringed upon and they then break the law because they don’t agree with the outcome, this bill seems to say fine, you can break the law without consequence.
The bill is carte blanche to invent cultural practices, religion, etc on the fly, wherever, whenever one or more decide it’s expedient, without historical precedent, without question. Even Kamehameha had kapu.
Me too.
Section 1 of the bill states:
Accordingly, the purpose of this Act is to prohibit the attorney general from investigating nonprofit organizations for exercising their constitutional right to free speech and assembly or protecting constitutional grants of rights, such as the traditional and customary Hawaiian cultural rights expressly protected under article XII, section 7 of the state constitution, with exceptions.
Native Hawaiian rights are defined and protected in the state Constitution. If those rights are violated they already have recourse through law enforcement and the courts. If law enforcement and the courts have ruled their rights haven’t been infringed upon and they then break the law because they don’t agree with the outcome, this bill seems to say fine, you can break the law without consequence.
The bill is carte blanche to invent cultural practices, religion, etc on the fly, wherever, whenever one or more decide it’s expedient, without historical precedent, without question. Even Kamehameha had kapu.
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