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BALLOT ISSUES AND CANDIDATES'
ISSUES:
Adopt the RESTORATION CONSTITUTION -- YES or NO
Candidates:
A. PRESIDENT:
* MARK CASTRO
* FREDERIC MARK IKAIKAKUUKAINAOKAMANAOKEALOHA "KAINA" YASUHARA
I am Frederic Mark Iaikakuukainoakamanaokealoha “Kaina” Yasuhara
I was born in Honolulu on July 30, 1955 at Kapiolani Maternity Hospital.My family name is Haili, fron Johnny and Anne Haili, Island of Hawai’i. I was adopted by the Yasuhara family of Honolulu. Because of my adoptive family’s commitment to Christian music, we moved to the mainland until July, 2007, when I came back hometo Hawai’I for good. I have done extensive community service work for our Hawaiian community, including working for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs which I recently left to work full time to achieve our independence. I am for full independence, OHA is not. My commitment to our Kingdom and its peoples is to work tirelessly to achieve the restoration of our Kingdom’s full and independent governance of our ‘aina. I had initially submitted to be a Vice President candidate several months ago when I left OHA. It was suggested to me that I run for President, therefore I have.
To me, there is no alternative to the Full Independence of our Kingdom. Our Nation must continue By and For Kanaka Maoli. I will devote the remainder of my life towards uniting the Hawaiian people as we move forward to restore our government and governance over our Islands. The election process beginning August 1st is our last and best hope to avoid the destruction of our culture and the permanent loss of our freedom.
If elected I will move quickly to establish town hall meetings throughout the Islands and U. S. to hear the desires and needs of our people. The government must listen, not preach. These meetings will be made immediately available to all of our people on YouTube, the Kingdom government website and on free CDs. We must listen and hear each other, this is the key to our unity, our freedom and our prosperity.
Please participate and cast your vote. Also please pass the message of Full Independence, and Election Ballots, on to other Kanaka Maoli.
Mahalo nui loa, malamo pono
Kaina
B. VICE PRESIDENT
* ROBERT MICHAEL KELI'IKANAKA'OLE--O--HAILILANI--O--KELI'IKOA "BOBBY' EBANEZ
To Hawaiians and Hawaiians at heart, Kanaka Maoli is the correct word and meaning for Hawaiians. We never lost our resolve to restore our Kingdom from the injustice of the World's greatest and democratic country, called America. If America believes in freedom, than America should do the right thing, and let us, Kanaka Maoli's restore our Hawaiian Kingdom. The correct history is posted everywhere, for people to read, a good site with excellent & accurate history of Hawaii, is on FREEHAWAII.COM My name is Robert Michael Ebanez, born in the Hawaiian Kingdom, in the year of 1957,in a small sugar plantation town of Pahala Ka'u Hawaii, on the Big Island. My father is Filipino, and worked on the sugar plantations in the Hamakua coast and then at Ka'u Sugar Company, that was once owned by Charles Bishop of Bishop Estate. My mother was Hawaiian,her mom was Rose Angeline Ka'iakoiliokalaniKaliko'iliahiokalani Kanaka'ole the grand daughter of Keli'iKanaka'ole I. I am a candidate because of my passion for justice and equal rights of our Kanaka Maoli and non- Hawaiians. It is for my children,their children, kupuna, the sick,the weak and the handicap, for generations to come,to live a far better life than today, in Hawaii's troubled past history, that I, as a Hawaiian (Kanaka Maoli) must lead to unite all the great leaders today as one to build a Nation, we can all, ...... be proud of. Aloha no, Robert M.. Ebanez Keli'iKanaka'ole o Haililani o Keli'ikoa
LIVE ALOHA--MALAMA THE 'AINA".
This is an alert to whom it may concern, of what appears to be a scheme to co-opt the Hawaiian independence movement in order to line the pockets of certain ‘carpetbagger’ businessmen of highly questionable reputation.
Primary Players:
Richard “Kamahele” Figueroa, President and CEO of FullOn Holdings, Inc.
Thayer Lindauer, Esq., Attorney for FullOn Holdings, Inc.
Silent Partner:
David W. McQueen, IOC Holdings (gambling investments in Bahamas), Diversified Global Finance – Prospective investor for FullOn Holdings’ ethanol production project.
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Richard “Kamahele” Figueroa
Kanaka maoli, born and reared on the Big Island. He appears to have lived away from the islands since he left Hawaii for the military. He is probably in his fifties, is a U.S. citizen and currently resides in Cambria, on the central coast of California, near San Simeon.
Figueroa is President and CEO of a corporation called FullOn Holdings, Inc. and is a self-proclaimed entrepreneur in pursuit of large US government contracts and other grandiose business schemes.
FullOn Holdings, Inc. is a corporation that is registered through the normal regulatory agencies.
It is also registered as a minority owned business (to access minority status advantages in government bids).
Figueroa claims that FullOn has applied to the U.S. Department of Justice for registration under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). Maybe it got lost in the Washington bureaucratic maze, but as of yet, there is no record of this filing with the U.S. Department of Justice.
Thus, FullOn Holdings, Inc. as a U.S. corporation and Richard Figueroa as its CEO is required by law to report to and comply with all the regulations of the IRS, the State of Hawaii, the U.S. Justice Dept., the Securities Exchange Commission and several other government agencies.
The Board of Directors of FullOn Holdings, Inc. consists of Figueroa, his wife, his daughter and one other woman. Figueroa calls all the shots, the others are rubber stamps.
The house on Laukahi St., overlooking Waialae, being used to court potential participants in the Hawaiian election (and as offices for Full On’s businesses), is not owned by Figueroa or FullOn as people are being led to believe.
The house has been foreclosed upon and is a month to month rental at way below market price.
The house was rented off Craig’s list from a person claiming his brother in Australia owned the house. Actually the title is in the name of the sister in law, not the brother. The bank found out about Figueroa’s occupancy when it came to inspect the house for the foreclosure. The bank people were surprised that Figueroa’s office staff was there.
The house was intended to be living quarters for office staff brought in from California. FullOn’s actual operations were to be based in a suite of offices in Waikiki, but Figueroa would not (could not) provide the management company with proper financial statements. Thus, the office is in the house.
The original staff brought in to manage FullOn’s businesses and the Hawaiian election are no longer working for Figueroa and are owed thousands of dollars in back pay and out of pocket expenses.
http://www.hawaiianindependence....
Figueroa/FullOn Schemes
Since 2005, Figueroa has surfaced in Hawaii with at least the following business schemes:
• Modular Housing for the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands. Figueroa claimed he was securing a huge contract from DHHL to produce and construct “15-30 thousand” homes for new Hawaiian Homes awardees. He claimed to have secured 13 acres on Hawaii island and was in the process of raising $5 million for start-up costs. Contract value to FullOn: $100+ million.
• Shipping of initial manufactured houses (while plant is being built in Hawaii), and hauling construction materials to Hawaii (sand, gravel, cement from Mexico; lumber, steel, etc. from U.S.). This entailed plans to secure a decommissioned U.S. Navy LST to do the overseas hauling. – Contract value to FullOn: $?? million. (As a philanthropical side project, he was to donate the money to secure another decommissioned naval vessel to house a rehabilitation and technical training facility for half-way house inmates, drug programs, juvenile offenders, etc.)
• Shipping garbage from Hawaii to the U.S. Presumably using the same LST, Figueroa claimed his company FullOn was bidding for a City and County of Honolulu contract to ship O’ahu’s garbage to the West Coast to be transported to large land fills in Oregon and Wyoming. Contract value to FullOn: $20+ million a year.
• Underwriting the Native Hawaiian Bank. This is the bank that Bumpy Kanahele had been trying to start for a number of years. The plan was that Figueroa/FullOn would provide the money to purchase a distressed bank in Minnesota, then use its federal ‘licenses’ to operate the Native Hawaiian Bank in Hawaii. Value to FullOn: $?? million.
• Importing Venezuelan Oil. Figueroa planned to import Venezuelan crude oil to Hawaii to take advantage of Hugo Chavez’ offer to sell island nations oil at a deeply discounted rate. The catch was that Hawaii would have to be an independent nation to utilize the discount. And find a way to refine the “heavy-sour” crude into usable products. – Contract value to FullOn: $100+ million.
• Ethanol Production. Figueroa’s current project is to build a plant (or plants) to process sugar cane into ethanol. His targeted customer is the U.S. military. The feed-stock (raw bio-supply) is to come from the two sugar plantations still in operation in Hawaii as well as other lesser sources. – Contract value to FullOn: $100+ million.
Though each scheme had/has the potential to earn tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars, it appears that thus far, none of Figueroa’s projects have actually materialized. Many seem to be outright fabrications or at best, the pursuit of pipe dreams.
The pattern seems to be, to string people along, using them as bait to attract finances for his various schemes.
This has left a trail of people in Hawaii and in the U.S. feeling misled, frustrated and used by Figueroa and his failed schemes. Also, like his many unfulfilled business propositions, Figueroa has failed to come through with his offers to help with charitable projects.
Hawaiian Independence.
Figueroa’s most ambitious and audacious scheme is his crusade to personally create a “Sovereign Independent Hawaiian Government.”
Figueroa started on this track while “helping” Bumpy Kanahele pursue the Native Hawaiian bank and the scheme to import Venezuelan oil. At that point, Figueroa began to realize that Hawaii, as an independent nation (outside the jurisdiction of the U.S.), could be very advantageous for his various schemes.
In June 2008, Figueroa launched a website that announced that he and Kanahele and the Nation of Hawaii were calling for a “constitutional convention” to be held in September 2008.
Within days, Bumpy Kanahele completely disavowed any connection whatsoever to Figueroa.
Figueroa then indicated that he would proceed with his plan to “unify the factions” to create a new government and that his company, FullOn Holdings, Inc. would bankroll the effort. http://www.hawaiianindependence....
Figueroa set out to woo the support of what he calls “the factions” — the various Hawaiian national governments and other prominent leaders that have been in the movement for some time.
After meeting with them, Figueroa heavily name-drops via emails, conversations, presentations, etc., implying that these leaders support him and his process; even though not one leader has joined Figueroa.
Figueroa is actively seeking to build a registry of “Native Hawaiians” to hold an election to create a new government as stipulated by the strange constitution that he (Figueroa) and his lawyer concocted. His insistence on implementing his seriously flawed election process indicates that Figueroa is being motivated by factors other than sheer patriotism.
Figueroa’s run-in with Bumpy over nation building, and failure to recruit long-time independence leaders indicate his independence process is seriously flawed. Yet, Figueroa’s MO of grandiose schemes, and his insistence in pursuing his process strongly suggests his real goal is to reap substantial financial rewards for himself by showing his investors that he (FullOn Holdings) can deliver Hawaii as an independent nation.
FullOn Business Schemes Contingent on Hawaiian Independence.
Figueroa/FullOn’s newest project is the large-scale production of ethanol. He apparently has big plans to receive a large military contract for this fuel.
It appears that the finances for Figueroa’s proposed ethanol production is contingent upon his being able to deliver Hawaiian independence. Apparently, no election, no nation, no money.
Therefore, Figueroa is under pressure to perform and has been putting all the money he has (and what he has been able to scrape together from friends and family members) to fund his Hawaiian nation.
Figueroa’s main goal is to hold an election that will ratify his constitution and the members of the government. To hold an election he has been to build a registry of Native Hawaiians. Thus far few have actually committed to his proposed election process.
Every Hawaiian, particularly prominent ones, that Figueroa meets is automatically considered a new recruit, and Figueroa uses that person’s name to impress and attract others. Still very few have signed up to participate in Figueroa’s election.
Figueroa has now resorted to acquiring names of Hawaiians surreptitiously from civic club membership rosters and from marketing lists off websites such as : 123freetravel.com, sun-sentinel.com, dailypress.com, latimes.com, classifieds.com, nytimes.com, washingtonpost.com. This is how he claims to have “over 200,000 names!” He is stealing or buying names!
To buy more directly, Figueroa made an offer on his website to give FullOn stocks to people who sign up for the national election. Perhaps someone (like his lawyer) pointed out that buying an election is patently illegal. The offer was soon removed.
Buying voters, manipulating people by waving money around, name-dropping and making enticing, ‘too good to be true’ promises is the work and style of a con-man.
FullOn Attorney, Thayer Lindauer
Mr. Thayer ‘Ted’ Lindauer is Figueroa’s lawyer. He lists addresses in Edwardsville, Illinois and Cambria, California.
Lindauer is supposedly the legal mind behind Figueroa’s FullOn Holdings’ effort to establish Hawaii as an independent nation. To this end, Lindauer claims expertise in constitutional and international law.
Actually, his expertise is in business law; particularly the business of network marketing (i.e. multi-level marketing) which is regarded by law enforcement as one of the sleaziest “businesses” just a cut above the Nigerian inheritance scam. Lindauer’s reputation is that he is one of the best in field. In lawyer terms that means sleaziest of the sleazy.
Lindauer has been implicated numerous times in investigations of shady business dealings of the lucrative multi-level marketing (MLM) schemes. But he has been able to escape being convicted. He is a very good MLM lawyer.
But a cursory glance at the “constitution” he drafted for Figueroa reveals a document so replete with mistakes, contradictions and trivialities that one wonders how the constitutional and international lawyer that he claims to be could possibly write this drivel.
That is because he is not a ‘constitutional lawyer.’ Furthermore, his experience in ‘international law’ is only from his multi-level marketing scams, which also tend to be multi-national marketing scams.
Given his background of business activities, it’s not likely that altruism is Lindauer’s motive in this 2009 Hawaiian National Elections, or Sovereign Independent Hawaiian Government (or what ever they are calling it this week). Like Figueroa, Lindauer’s incentive is to make a lot of money off this sovereignty, Kingdom of Hawai'i National Election stuff.
The Investor, Dave W. McQueen
McQueen may or may not be an innocent in the Figueroa/FullOn Kingdom of Hawai'i National Election/Ethanol scheme, but he provides the incentive (money) because he apparently controls the large pool of funds from which FullOn intends to draw.
McQueen’s email address is with a company called IOC Holdings.
IOC lists its HQ as Grand Rapids, Michigan, but its main activities seem to be located in the Bahamas and its website (stagnant) indicates that they are a gaming (gambling) company called Isle of Capri, but says very little more.
The first phone number listed on the website is no longer in service, the second has a recording machine identifying the business as International Opportunity Consultants. Either way, it is I.O.C.
McQueen leads an affiliated company called Diversified Global Finance which purports to be domiciled in Auckland, New Zealand.
Complaints are beginning to surface that Diversified Global Finance is a ponzi scheme on the order of (but nowhere near the scale of) Bernie Madoff. http://forums.registeredrep.com/...
It is McQueen that Figueroa and Lindauer are trying to impress and reel in.
It appears that the first increment of their funding for the ethanol project is contingent upon convincing McQueen that FullOn (Figueroa/Lindauer) is getting the Hawaiian nation together (dialoging with “the factions,” getting people registered, etc.). The rest of the funding is to be released after they pull off a “Kingdom of Hawai'i National Election” (now purportedly scheduled for August 2009).
Summary: Follow the money…
Keep in mind, that none of these three actually live in Hawaii. None are Hawaiian nationals.
Figueroa who has been away from Hawaii for the greater part of his life is a U.S. citizen, not a Hawaiian national. The other two, besides being U.S. citizens, until recently have been complete strangers to the islands.
Yet, incredibly, they claim to be working for the best interest of the Kanaka Maoli to reestablish the Hawaiian Kingdom. What’s wrong with this picture?
Well, it could happen… that these sharks, these lifelong scammers, have suddenly developed such empathy for the Hawaiian people that they are compelled to champion the cause of independence because of an overwhelming sense of compassion and justice. But it is highly unlikely.
Their plan to build a new nation is so clumsily sophomoric (if not idiotic) that it has no chance of success. Therefore, it is more likely that these three are advocating Hawaiian independence for self gain…to line their own pockets in the process.
Just as many other sharks have come to Hawaii over the years, they are not motivated by some altruistic desire to do good, they are attracted by the smell money. They are really “carpetbaggers.” (google this term)
As we have seen in the past with the sugar plantations under the territory, and tourism under statehood, when money is the motive, we the people will get trampled in the feeding frenzy of greed that ensues.
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Specific analysis of Figueroa’s election process and “constitution” yet to come…
Disclaimer:
Please note that the information contained in this document is what I believe to be true. They are my own conclusions and opinions derived from what has either been said to me, or that I have personally witnessed, or that which has been documented with e-mails, or through research and inquiries. I do not wish for anything that I state here to be considered libelous or slanderous. If any individual feels that I have misstated any thing in any way, I am receptive to being corrected if it can be so justified and validated.
Leon Siu
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This website is the support website of The Kingdom of Hawai’I National Election Office and is sponsored by FullOn Holdings, Inc. an Hawaiian corporation owned by Native Hawaiians, Richard Kamahele Figueroa, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors. Fullon Holdings is active in the alternative fuels and modular housing industries.
The National Election Office is the sponsor of the currently ongoing election whereby Native Hawaiians seek to restore the government of Hawai’i which was overthrown by the United States by military force in 1893. In 1898 the United States unilaterally annexed the Hawaiian Islands into the United States. On the ballot is the adoption of a new Restoration Constitution and the election of a President and Vice President. A Legislative election is scheduled for early 2010.
When the government of The Kingdom of Hawai’i is restored, the new government will seek to join the General Assembly of the United Nations and to negotiate a Treaty of Peace with the United States defining the relationship between the Native Hawaiian people and the United States.
The restoration of the Kingdom’s government is for the purpose of obtaining justice for Native Hawaiians in multiple areas of concern to us, including property rights, housing, cultural preservation, employment, education, political participation, protection of sacred lands and finding the Native Hawaiians victimized by the systematic adoption genocide affecting tens of thousands of Native Hawaiian children from 1893 into the 1960’s.
The Hawaiian Independence movement is not about seceding from the United States, it’s about obtaining long delayed justice for Native Hawaiians. The intended Treaty of Peace between The Kingdom and the United States requires the approval of a majority of voting Native Hawaiians worldwide and may include continued statehood, territorial status or full independence.
As the United States Supreme Court has recognized, the United States has the power to control the Hawaiian Islands as a military occupier, but the Native Hawaiians are still citizens of the Kingdom and owe their loyalty to the Kingdom, not to the United States. Only a Treaty of Peace can change this reality.
In 1901, less than 10 years after the invasion of Hawai’i the United States Supreme Court decided the case of Cross v. Harrison, 16 How. 164, 14 L. ed. 889. The Court cited former Chief Justice Marshall from the case of American Insurance Company v. Canter, 26 U. S. 1 Pet. 511 (1828) as follows:
“One of the ordinary incidents of a treaty is the cessation of territory. It is not much to say it is the rule, rather than the exception, that a treaty of peace, following upon a war, provides for the cession of territory to the victorious party. It was said by Chief Justice Marshall ……….’The Constitution confers absolutely upon the government of the Union the powers of making war and of making treaties; consequently that government possesses the power of acquiring territory, either by conquest or by treaty’. The territory thus acquired is acquired as absolutely as if annexation were made, as in the case of Texas and Hawaii, by act of Congress".
The position of the National Election Office on behalf of Native Hawaiians and the Kingdom of Hawai’I is contained in the balance of Chief Justice Marshall’s ruling in the American Insurance case, as follows:
“The usage of the world is if a nation be not entirely subdued, to consider the holding of conquered territory as a mere military occupation until its fate shall be determined at the treaty of peace. If it be ceded by the treaty, the acquisition is confirmed and the ceded territory becomes a part of the nation to which it is annexed, either on the terms stipulated in the treaty of cession or on such terms as its new master shall impose. On such transfer of territory, it has never been held that the relations of the inhabitants with each other undergo any change. Their relations with their former sovereign are dissolved, and new relations are created between them and the government which has acquired their territory. The same act which transfers their country transfers the allegiance of those who remain in it, and the law, which may be denominated political, is necessarily changed, although that which regulates the intercourse and general conduct of individuals remains in force until altered by the newly created power of the state.”
The independence movement of the Native Hawaiian people is non violent and transparent We have not been subdued by the United States and never will be. We seek the support of all peoples and nations of good will, including the United States and its people, in achieving justice for our people. Richard Kamahele Figueroa - 09/15/2009
Comments
I still like Bobby and cannot blame him for trying to do the right thing.
What Figueroa tried to do so Bumpy Kanahele's inoa though is so uncool. Das why.. one's name is one's honor... or dishonor and Bumpy Kanahele and Leo Siu have honor in their inoa.
On the other hand, the same cannot be said about Richard Figueroa. His inoa is stained forever with dishonor. He is from the Bad Seed.
FigueroaReport.doc
For some of us we are in a very awkward position --- though in Hawai'i it seems as though lying and being fake are rewarded... while being honest and truthful are penalized LOL
But out of respect for my kumu hula *who is one of the best people I have ever met in my life*... I will not diss his cousin's name. However what his cousin is doing is bringing some shame on my kumu hula's name which is unfair to him.
There are other innocent people being harmed too.
E malama pono... Pono.
There is a lot of Hewa going with these Bio~fuel company ripping up our rain forests setting plantation and paying slave wages in third world countries and nations.
Figueroa's right hand man FREDERIC MARK YASUHARA worked with Kau Inoa and OHA is running for "king" aka PRESIDENT.
Howzit Kalani.
I was really hopeful even about Figueroa until I realized his corporate structure is based on the AMERICAN paradigm... and the fact that he has yet to answer some questions that have been posed to him.
I have hope in all of those who try to do something but then have they done much?
A few have but more have yet to work together as ONE for the betterment of ALL so while my hopes are repeatedly dashed LOL... I still have hope and will always have hope that some of these people can put their ego aside for the sake of OUR mo'opuna.
If not oh well their mo'opuna WILL be on their own and to put it bluntly it may take them about 2o years to build a portfolio of over $1 million in order to return home. My present --- as in being on the East Coast WILL BE THEIR FUTURE where they WILL leave everything and EVERYONE they have EVER KNOWN if they continue to act this way but I am fortunate because I can cash out soon.
WILL THEY WAIT 20 YEARS or even 30 YEARS PLUS TO BE ABLE TO GO HOME?
Maybe then they will snap out of it but I don't really know. They may never put aside their ego and work together as ONE for the betterment of ALL... for the sake of OUR mo'opuna. Who knows.
E malama pono.
Exactly. They from the ali'i bloodline.
With Figueroa though he is very shady that he uses some people as shields to try to deflect from his mission. I even wrote a diatribe about him and how shady I think he is:
http://www.maoliworld.com/profiles/blogs/richard-figueroa-there-seems
Which puts me in an awkward position because one of them is a cousin of my kumu hula whom you KNOW... so out of respect for my kumu hula I have not posted the pic of Figueroa wearing a Kau Inoa shirt as he is smiling with a huge smile.
I love my kumu hula very much and for his cousin to do this to the rest of us... IMHO is just so terrible on the iwi level which makes these people that much more dangerous to OIWI.
However Figueroa may think he is getting away with *it* but never fool around with the iwi less one gets cursed.
E malama pono.
Kamehameha was originally known as Paiea and Figueroa uses his likeness on his website that implies that they have the support of ali'i bloodline and implies that they are electing ali'i. However *we the people* do not elect ali'i. They are born ali'i. They are not elected by us.
That is why I am surprised that Bobby whom I like very much is allowing his name and is running for "office." We are not running elections for king or queen. The ali'i are ali'i. We the masses do not vote for them. I am *this close* to posting pics of Figueroa wearing a Kau Inoa shirt with a huge smile on his face because it's kane like these who ruin it for the rest of us who believe in unity for the sake of unity for all of us as in Kakou--- instead of for financial gain for himself while involving others. BTW as some people already know it does not indemnify him of possible legal action in the future. If anything he is opening himself up to legal action in the future.
That is why... me personally NO OFFENSE to anyone but I do not want dumb people "leading" us as one body.
I want SMART people... like how the ali'i are. NO OFFENSE but Figueroa is not smart.
If he was smart then he would not have a picture of him taken wearing a Kau Inoa tshirt. He is NOT the Chosen One --- even if he is trying to push it on the rest of us LOL...
E malama pono, Lana
This is so unbelievable the intent starts out for our people but when one attaches to a corporate structure--it turns on you. Question, who is Paiea? Mahalo Kaohi
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