Military In Makua Issue Unresolved

Honolulu Star Bulletin March 30, 2010

Military in Makua Issue Unresolved

I would like to congratulate the U.S. Army on its public relations effort in the article entitled "Growing Relationship" (Star-Bulletin, March 25). It was very strategic to have favorable quotes from Waianae and Nanakuli residents. It gives the false appearance the Makua issue has been discussed and resolved.

It will make a nice attachment that Army leaders will send to Washington to "prove" that the Army is working well with native Hawaiians to solve the Makua problem. This is the PR side of it.

Let me clear the record by stating that those of us who continue to be kept from sacred sites in Makua, and the beneficiaries of flawed scientific marine and subsurface archeological studies, were never asked to be on the "advisory council," nor to review the covenant.

At the very minimum, our native Hawaiian representatives should have at least asked about our position on the statements in the covenant, by our fellow Hawaiians, before signing off.

How can you sign an agreement after hearing only one side of the story? Unless that was the objective in the first place.

William J. Aila Jr.
Waianae

While we marched down Kalakaua in our protest for the Asian Development Bankers towards Kapiolani Bandstand, "I asked my fellow marchers on both sides and around me-if we should stop and Kahea to our Na Kupuna at Fort DeRussey" my fellow marchers said no. We need to return to Fort DeRussey and Kahea to our Na Kupuna for their spirits are still there--eventhough their bones were removed. This happened at the time-- right before the ADB protest march. I was able to get an agreement for one more last stop at that was at the Duke Kahanamoku Statue where Evern through her beauty and grace faced Duke's Statue and Kahea. My personal prayers went out to the horizon too.

My stops along the way from the Ala Moana Park (my grand father built) to Kapiolani Park where I was born on Hollinger Street on my grandmothers bed was an intended stops for the safety of the marchers. Trust me, I did the Riot Participation Assesment two weeks after the Rodney King beating from Marina Del Ray to Long Beach California. I was not going to have any 'Riot' happening in my home where I was born! $7 million riot clean up budget, no dead bodies, no damages, and the foreigners got to say their speech. Mr. Balo thanked me personally for the 'peaceful' march, which he said was 'unprecedented' in otherwords--he experienced the possibility of ALOHA.

William Aila and his supporters should face the problem head on and stop building bridges to hell! Our babies should have the quality of life and grow old, not be angels in heaven. Kaohi

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Kaohi March 31, 2010 at 6:28am

While we marched down Kalakaua in our protest for the Asian Development Bankers towards Kapiolani Bandstand, "I asked my fellow marchers on both sides and around me-if we should stop and Kahea to our Na Kupuna at Fort DeRussey" my fellow marchers said no. We need to return to Fort DeRussey and Kahea to our Na Kupuna for their spirits are still there--eventhough their bones were removed. This happened at the time-- right before the ADB protest march. I was able to get an agreement for one more last stop at that was at the Duke Kahanamoku Statue where Evern through her beauty and grace faced Duke's Statue and Kahea. My personal prayers went out to the horizon too.

My stops along the way from the Ala Moana Park (my grand father built) to Kapiolani Park where I was born on Hollinger Street on my grandmothers bed was an intended stops for the safety of the marchers. Trust me, I did the Riot Participation Assesment two weeks after the Rodney King beating from Marina Del Ray to Long Beach California. I was not going to have any 'Riot' happening in my home where I was born! $7 million riot clean up budget, no dead bodies, no damages, and the foreigners got to say their speech. Mr. Balo thanked me personally for the 'peaceful' march, which he said was 'unprecedented' in otherwords--he experienced the possibility of ALOHA.

William Aila and his supporters should face the problem head on and stop building bridges to hell! Our babies should have the quality of life and grow old, not be angels in heaven. Kaohi
- Pomaikaiokalani > Kaohi March 31, 2010 at 8:17am

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