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FREE HAWAI`I TV - "SEEING IS BELIEVING"

FREEHAWAII.INFO PRESENTSFREE HAWAI`I TVTHE FREE HAWAI`I BROADCASTING NETWORK "SEEING IS BELIEVING""It'll Never Happen," Is What Some Say About A Free Hawai`i.Yet Proof It's Coming Is Everywhere.What Is It? Where Do You Find It?Watch & We'll Show You.
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According to Henry Noa, there is a monthly EDUCATIONAL VIGIL that is held about the reinstated government. I know they were at Sandy's last month and will continue to do so. The educational vigil is to inform the public what they have done and accomplished. As more information becomes available, I will post it.It is imperative that you take care of your KULEANA and educate yourself. What would a twenty minute trip cost you if you know what have been accomplished for Kanaka Maoli already. It seems like a lifetime of waiting, however the one hundred sixteen years do not add to what have been accomplish in ten years to reinstate the Hawaiian Kingdom.I encourage you to check it out and learn more about it!

LAWFUL HAWAIIAN GOVERNMENThttp://hawaii-gov.net
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This is what YOU SEND TO ILLEGALLY OCCUPIED COUNTRIES & NATIONS WITH M16's WHEN YOU SUPPORT THE TROOPS!
LOOK @ IRAQ THAT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH 911 or had ANY WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION!




June 2, 2009

Schofield soldier charged in attacks with pellet gun

Woman sent to hospital, others hit in shootings in Mililani, Wahiawa

Advertiser Staff
Authorities have charged a Schofield Barracks soldier with assault and other offenses in connection with a Friday night pellet-gun shooting spree that injured a woman in Mililani, and endangered people and damaged a business in Wahiawa.
Daniel W. Womack, 21, was charged with first-degree assault, reckless endangering and criminal property damage.
Police released a second person without charges, the prosecutor's office said.
According to a police affidavit, the second suspect told an arresting officer, "We just bought those guns from Wal-Mart." But Womack denied that he was at Wal-Mart, and said they had just come "from Whitmore," the affidavit said.
Witnesses told police that on Friday night, they saw a dark-colored car driving in Mililani and Wahiawa with two men inside. In the first incident, a woman reported at 8:15 p.m. that she was shot, possibly by a pellet or BB gun, behind the City Mill store in Mililani Town Center, according to a police affidavit. The assailants drove away on Meheula Parkway.
The woman was taken to a hospital. An update on her condition was not available.
The car was described as a dark-colored sedan with a rear spoiler.
About 8:30 p.m., someone called police to report that a car matching that description was involved in a pellet-gun shooting at California Avenue and Mango Street in Wahiawa.
The caller said four males were at that intersection when a dark-colored car drove past on Mango Street and made a U-turn, the affidavit said. On the second pass, someone in the car fired five shots from a pellet gun at the group. A pellet hit one of the males and three hit a window at 564 California Ave., the affidavit said.
At 8:58 p.m., a man reported to police that he had been shot in the arm by a pellet fired by men in a dark-colored car on Whitmore Avenue. He was not hospitalized.
Police arrested Womack and his passenger about 9 p.m. on Mango Street near Kilani Avenue.
Womack is to be arraigned tomorrow at 1:30 p.m.

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Marines close Bellows for June

June 2, 2009Marines close Bellows for JuneIllegal activities cited, but some say military seeks permanent banBy Eloise AguiarAdvertiser Staff WriterThe Marine Corps said yesterday it is temporarily closing weekend public beach access at Bellows Air Force Station to curtail illegal activities, but residents contend the military is trying to push locals out permanently.The public has been allowed access to the area on weekends for more than 20 years, first by the Air Force and now by the Marines.The area will be closed all weekends in June while the Marines seek ways to better prevent activities such as drug use, fights, large campfires, trash dumping, off-roading on the beach, alcohol use and vehicle break-ins.The goal is to have the camp and beach open again for the July 4 weekend, the Marines said in a news release.The decision was first announced at a hastily called community meeting Friday because of events on the previous Monday, Memorial Day, at the Marine Corps Training Area, Bellows.Wilson Ho, Waimanalo Neighborhood Board chairman, who was invited to the meeting with Marine Corps Base Commander Col. Robert Rice along with city, state and federal representatives, said the Marines demanded immediate action, including around-the-clock police presence."They want zero tolerance," Ho said, adding that the decision was more like martial law, where demands were presented then the attendees were dismissed.In their news release confirming the decision, the Marines said the training area "will remain closed to all visitors throughout the month of June due to persistent unsafe and environmentally destructive activities on the beach and in the camping area."Ho said the Marines talked about infractions that involved less than 1 percent of the people who were at Bellows on Memorial Day, yet they want to punish everyone.This was the first he's heard of any increase in problems at Bellows, he said, adding that the Marines attend every neighborhood board meeting and have never brought up the problem.popular camping beachBellows is the most popular camping beach on the island and typically the city grants permits weeks in advance.The 1,049-acre training site is owned by the Marines, who use it for military exercises during the week but open portions of it to public camping and beach access on weekends.Joe Ryan, a Waimanalo resident, said the June closure is a sham and really had to do with reducing traffic impact at the base, where 48 new cabins are being proposed.The Waimanalo neighborhood board is objecting to the new cabins because they will add to bumper-to-bumper traffic in the town every weekend.A recently released draft environmental assessment for the cabins revealed that future projects at the base include a water park and 18-hole golf course. The neighborhood board also recently learned that the base wants to widen the bridge across the stream that could accommodate heavy building equipment.Closing the base to campers and beach users reduces the number of automobiles in the area and opens the door for future expansion because traffic impact won't be an issue, Ryan said.But a letter inviting city, state and federal officials to the meeting on Memorial Day weekend said crime was the issue. A federal officer arrested a suspect who allegedly had approximately 16 grams of marijuana and stopped four people for allegedly dumping construction debris in a stream, said Christopher E. Blanchard, chief of staff at Marine Corps Base, Hawaii.Criminal behavior has increased, causing concern for Commander Rice, Blanchard wrote in a May 27 e-mail.The camping area has been licensed to the city for recreational camping on weekends since 2004, Blanchard said."It is clear that the commander does not intend to renew that agreement if corrective action is not taken," he said.Mayor Mufi Hannemann met with members of his staff about the issue yesterday morning, said Bill Brennan, city spokesman."(Hannemann) expressed a willingness to meet himself with a representative from the Marines to better understand their concerns," Brennan said in an e-mail. "Mayor Hannemann believes, however, it would be unnecessary and a mistake for the Marines to close Bellows to the public, as the city is already working to improve conditions at the park."Brennan said police statistics show no increase in crime in the Bellows area over last year. In 2008 the Honolulu Police Department handled 163 cases, of which 125 occurred on weekends. From Jan. 1 to May 28, 2009, HPD had 70 cases, of which 57 occurred on weekends.lawmakers' reactionsSome residents said they suspect recent statements calling for the return of the base to Native Hawaiians have brought about this decision."We've been squawking about the land issues, land access and land rights," said Andrew Jamila Jr., a Waimanalo Neighborhood Board member who was at the Friday meeting. "We've been complaining. We don't have access, now this. It all coincides with what we've been arguing about."Representatives from Hawai'i's Congressional delegation were at the meeting, along with state Rep. Chris Lee, D-51st (Lanikai, Waimanalo).Lee said neither the city nor the Marines wanted to shut down the base, but safety concerns have led to this temporary solution."What the miliary really wants is to have the base open to the public as it has been, but at the end of the day make sure that the city promotes some sort of supervision," Lee said.Congresswoman Mazie Hirono said she discussed the temporary closure with Rice and supports it."Bellows is a popular recreational spot and the 4th of July weekend is quickly approaching," Hirono said. "We are all working toward the common goals of further protecting the pristine 'aina, while also keeping the beach area safe for all of its visitors."
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HELP STOP HAWAIIAN KINGDOM THEFT

AKAKA BILL EXPERT WARNS -"It Is The Kingdom Of Hawai`i The US Federal Government Is Asking Hawaiians To Turn Into An Indian Tribe."- David Ingham, Federal Recognition Expert & AuthorityHELP STOP THE THEFT OF THE HAWAIIAN KINGDOMHELP STOP THE AKAKA BILLSend One Of These Letters To US Politicians TodaySign Your Name & Email - It's As Easy As That!Click Here For Stop Akaka Bill Letters
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One-hour-long bike ride

For my family and friends who like KNOW: I am SO inspired. I cannot begin to describe it.I don't want to jinx it but.... during the last week great things have happened to me. They have inspired me but I won't write about it LOLToday my husband and I biked for one hour. Of course in Hawai'i they like us die so biking is nearly impossible.Well we go to the gym regularly and on the weekends I like to go biking whenever possible. In Hawai'i since they want Hawaiians to die and/or kill each other of course they do not help us with the BASICS like with food and shelter (i.e. housing.) Even though I grew up very indigent and never thought I would see beyond the aina because I was so poor LOL... I have seen alot of places in my lifetime and dayum... NO OFFENSE but what many Hawaiians have IMHO is shanty towns compared to what I have seen. It is a f*cking DISGRACE how they treat HAWAIIANS.No wonder some local people are ANGRY, BITTER, and/or HATEFUL. So negative too. I already know what is WRONG with the world. Tell me what is RIGHT. Tell me at least ONE THING RIGHT with the world LOL Seriously so as some of y'all already know I tune some negative people OUT. Ironically on BOTH sides of the fence: On one side you have racist f*cks who are racist against Hawaiians. On the other hand you have some racist Hawaiians who are racist against Haole-s and who want to CARVE out the American and/or haole out of the Hawaiian and in doing so they kill the oiwi so to me they are JUST AS BAD.* I distance myself from some people especially EXTREMISTS who want to kill us and/or our mo'opuna too. IMHO both are just as bad so yes I DISTANCE MYSELF. For example some intellectuals and some so-called intellectuals are getting paid and advocating that Hawai'i be de-militarized. When our mo'opuna die because of their self-righteousness their deaths as collateral damage is on their heads! So yes... I DISTANCE myself from people who will inadvertently HARM Hawaiian children during their self-righteousness trip. Like how they voted for Obama putting a gun to their heads. I do not put much hope and faith in some so-called intellectuals. Sorry but IRONICALLY they are trying to kill us too and/or trying to get us killed LOLAnyway here are some pics which is what Hawai'i should do for local people. However I am NOT surprised that they do not. With that said today my husband and I rode our bike for one hour and wow... it was not as bad as it sounds LOL

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Letter to the Lāhui:Early this week I was a part of a panel “Hoʻopunipuni: The Myth of Statehood” organized by Arnie Saiki, in Los Angeles. Julian Aguon, Kekuni Blaisdell, Kuhio Vogeler and I all spoke about the many different and connected deceptions that have maintained the fiction that Hawaiʻi belongs to the United States.We discovered that the audience, largely consisting of Hawaiians living in Southern California, was desperate to understand the nature and direction of the sovereignty movement in Hawaiʻi. They wanted to be connected to and contributors to the movement but did not understand why there was fighting between Kanaka Maoli in Hawaiʻi, why there was such opposition to Kau Inoa and the Akaka Bill, what the US Supreme Court decision on the Ceded Lands implied, and mostly when we in Hawaiʻi would finally give them a unified and clear path to follow.I told the audience that we fight among ourselves in part because of the pernicious and ingrained deceptions that America has provided that have succeeded not only in disguising its imperial nature in the world but also convincing Kanaka Maoli that the US has some legitimacy in its claims to our land and our loyalty. To their complaints that we seemed to be fighting among ourselves, I replied that we have not just one American lie to contend with, but one lie after another, collectively confusing issues and making it difficult to achieve consensus, much less unanimity, yet we grapple with this constantly, striving to base our movement on fact and truth and some sense of honor.I do believe that we will continue to disagree over many things, but I see no reason why we should not eventually get to the point where we can at least agree on how we see the US/Hawaiʻi relationship and understand the factual history of that relationship. Before we assume that some Hawaiian people will always be Americans by choice, let us at least be sure that they know the history that even America concedes.Simply: The US assisted and participated in a conspiracy that helped fewer than a hundred armed malcontents take control of a nation that ruled over more than 38,000 subjects ardently loyal to the Queen. The US violated its own constitution in accepting the cession of the regime it sponsored and impounded nearly 2 million acres of kingdom property pretending that it was a legal annexation. The US imposed a colonial government on an independent nation state and allowed the colonial administration to lease and sell the very best lands of the Kingdom to a small number of already wealthy plantation owners during the first half of the twentieth century. In 1921 the US passed a homestead act in Congress setting aside slightly more than 1/10th of the land it took to benefit the poor and struggling Hawaiians, after first defining who would qualify according to a random assignment of blood quantum, and allowing the same territorial government to fund and parcel the lands as they saw fit.By 1941, Hawaiʻi was considered an American colony by the international community which seemed to forget that the Kingdom had been a recognized, independent nation state until the United States formed the territorial government, and was placed on the list of “Non self-governing territories” by the newly formed United Nations in 1947.In 1959, the US declared Hawaiʻi the 50th state after removing Hawaii’s name from the roster of Non self-governing territories and reporting to the UN that Hawaiʻi had been incorporated into the American union by a plebiscite in which more than 90 percent of the vote had chosen statehood. In truth less than thirty percent of Hawai`iʻs residents had actually voted and the only choices voters were given were statehood or continued status as an American territory. At this point, if there were Hawaiians left who remembered that we had been an independent country, they were not talking. Under UN auspices, greater scrutiny should have been applied to the process by which America claimed statehood for Hawaiʻi. Without international voices and with few published objections to our incorporation the US proceeded to transfer control of nearly one and a half million acres of Kingdom lands and Liliuʻs crown lands to the state government requiring only that the new state government assume the trust responsibility once borne by the US government for the native people.In 1977 a federal-state task force investigating the Hawaiian Homes Act discovered that only a small fraction of qualifying Hawaiians had received homestead lands while a majority of the lands were leased out to non-qualified residents in order to raise funds to administer the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands. Moreover, other ceded lands had been leased or sold without any benefit allocated to Native Hawaiians, an apparent violation of the requirement stipulated in the transfer of those lands to the state government in 1959. The Office of Hawaiian Affairs was created in 1978 in order to create an agency that could receive state monies and act on behalf of Native beneficiaries. In 1978 the Hawaii Supreme Court and the Legislature both confirmed that Hawaiians were entitled to a 20 percent pro rate share of ceded land revenues because of the terms of the Statehood Act.In 1989 a story in the Wall Street Journal detailing the continued failure of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands had the Hawaiʻi State governments and the US government pointing the finger of blame at each other, although the Task Force in 1977 had already proposed a remedy: spend a billion dollars, half immediately and half over ten years and build the infrastructure necessary to put qualifying Hawaiians on the land. Neither would and both accused the other of bearing the responsibility. In 1998, the governor of Hawaiʻi acknowledged that a 20 percent share of ceded lands revenues to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs would amount to ten million dollars. He offered five million as the maximum that the revenue strapped government could afford and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs accepted.Partly in response to a mounting frustration with the failure of the US to live up to its commitments, and partly in recognition of the dire poverty in which many Hawaiians found themselves, thousands of Hawaiians began to explore sovereignty as an alternative to continued poverty and marginalization. But a growing number of political and community activists and scholars began to analyze the nature of Americaʻs possession of Hawaiʻi and has since identified several different avenues of liberation.One political avenue is to emphasize the Kanaka Maoli’s status as an indigenous people, which places us under the protection of the UN’s Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; A second acknowledges Hawaiʻi as an American colony, not lawfully decolonized, under the UN’s Article 73. A third focuses on the national status of the Hawaiian Kingdom and its rights under international laws to re-secure its independent status and the end of American military occupation.Perhaps in response to these national and indigenous affirmations, US Senator Daniel Akaka proposed an alternative in 1994 that would recognize Hawaiian natives as a native people under the jurisdiction of the Congress and is finally poised to pass this legislation known as the Akaka Bill this year. The protections and assurances of this bill became more and more detrimental to Native Hawaiians over the past fifteen years in order to placate a hostile congress and administration. The shape taken by federal recognition has occurred with almost no consultation with Hawaiian organizations.Regardless of the provisions of the Akaka Bill, federal recognition is merely the latest deception of the US government that it has some legitimate claim to Hawaii’s sovereignty and its lands. The naked truth is that our ancestors created a national government in the 1840s, structured by democratic laws and principles; created property similarly structured by modern laws and principles; secured treaties of recognition, cooperation and friendship; never raised a hostile hand against the United States or any of its citizens; honored the principles of international laws and covenants and strongly and uniformly opposed the takeover by the US in 1897.Hawaiians today may claim that they have been Americanized, but not without fully understanding how this has come about, not through one deception only, but through a series of deceptions that continue to this day. In my opinion, it is possible that Hawaiians could choose continued incorporation with America or a federally recognized status as preferred political futures. But it would be a betrayal of our ancestors to base that choice on lies. It is also quite clear that we are legally entitled to that choice. Perhaps when all Hawaiians can agree on the history of how we have been claimed by America, we will have fewer fights over who we are and how we should proceed.It is important that Hawaiian organizations and agencies like the Office of Hawaiian Affairs do not perpetuate deceptions by pressing for quick and immediate solutions to difficult political issues. As an agency whose mission is to seek the betterment of the Native people, the Kanaka Maoli, it should be leading the attempt to research, uncover, chronicle and discuss the history of our relationship with the United States. It should not be hurrying a process that Hawaiian people have not fully discussed. Unfortunately, its official position with regard to federal recognition is that time will only erode the political, economic and social conditions of Native Hawaiians in Hawaiʻi and that the Akaka Bill, regardless of its provisions, offers the only foreseeable relief.Hawaiian sovereignty activists see the restoration of a Hawaiian nation as a long-term process of education, advocacy and requiring a commitment on the part of Hawaii’s people, not just Natives, to a just resolution of the American fraud. It is not likely that OHA can exert much leadership in this kind of dynamic, and it appears that its strategy, more and more, is simply to try and isolate the sovereignty movement as either hopeless or irrelevant. The extent to which this strategy wastes the talents and energies of a growing number of Kanaka Maoli is the true measure of its failure of leadership.Finally, America’s insistence that it has legally taken our sovereignty has consequences for the fate of the Crown and Government lands. Whenever the US or state governments can assert an unchallenged claim to these lands, we as a nation are a step closer to losing them. Thus far, both governments have been able to assume ownership merely by possessing and controlling these lands and by virtue of US declarations in the Newlands Resolution, the 1900 Organic Act and the 1959 Statehood Act. The Hawaiʻi Supreme Court’s 2008 injunction against the sale of Ceded Lands because of our “un-relinquished claims” was a significant protection of our lands and claims which would afford us the time and the political support that our movement has only rarely received.When the US Supreme Court’s opinion remanded the case back to Hawaiʻi, I concluded that we needed to fight this case again, arguing even more strenuously than ever that the Crown and Government lands are the property of the Hawaiian Nation and that the US permanent control over it is unlawful. OHA and the other plaintiffs chose to dismiss the suit in exchange for state legislation which, in my opinion, simply emphasizes the State’s possession of these lands and maintains the fiction that our national claim is limited or unobtainable. It is my belief that we should attempt to secure this injunction once more in the Hawaiʻi courts and require the United States to call forth or create the law that dispossesses us. That, at least, would clarify our relationship with America and bring forth the patriots who will lead us home.Written in the Republic of IrelandMay 11-15, 2009Jonathan Kay Kamakakawiwoʻole Osorio
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National Public Radio broadcasts some of the most open and truthful news coverage today. With an earlier post encouraging that the truth of Hawai'i and the US involvement there be spread, I was prompted to email NPR (www.npr.org) and suggest that they consider a story about the issue of the US involvement in Hawai'i.Maoliworld is an excellent website as are the discussions and information spread there. But, for the most part, we are 'preaching to the choir'.Encouraging national media sources to consider covering the issues we care about may be an effective means of moving towards achieving justice for Hawai'i Nei. The principles of the Kanaka Maoli would not only benefit the world, but they are greatly needed.If world leaders were to adopt the manao of Her Majesty Queen Lilliu'okalani and place diplomacy above war, the importance of their people above the importance of oil, and aloha above hate and ego, the world would be lightyears ahead of we are now.We are the people we have been waiting for!Aloha Ke Akua
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“Hawai`i - A Voice For Sovereignty,” a film by Catherine Bauknight, is premiering in Washington DC this coming Thursday, June 4th.Sponsors, the US congressional delegation and Office Of Hawaiian Affairs, pulled out upon discovering the film’s message was not to their liking.Sources say they are now actively working to sabotage the film’s premiere, warning people to stay away, even getting the caterer to cancel.But invitations were already sent out and people are coming. The showing is proceeding without promised funding and support.Got a question whether independence is a coming reality? Watch Free Hawai`i TV this Wednesday and decide for yourself.Voices of sovereignty – everywhere this week on Voices Of Truth – One-On-One With Hawai`i's Future.MONDAY, June 1st At 6:30 PM Maui – Akaku, Channel 53MONDAY, June 1st At 7:00 PM & FRIDAY, June 5th At 5:30 PM Hawai`i Island – Na Leo, Channel 53SATURDAY, June 6th At 8:00 PM O`ahu, `Olelo, Channel 53“To Restore Our Kingdom – A Visit With Pomaikaiokalani Kinney”His country never went away no matter what the history books say. You’d be hard pressed to find anyone more loyal to Hawai`i and its people than Pomai Kinney. A long-time activist Pomai movingly speaks of what his grandmother taught him about the coming changes, his own awakening, and years of resistance against the illegal US occupation. He reminds us all the Hawaiian Kingdom is very much alive right now. Watch It Here.THURSDAY, June 4th At 8:30 PM & FRIDAY, June 5th At 8:30 AM - Kaua`i – Ho`ike, Channel 52“Ensuring Our Future – A Visit With Malia `Alohilani Rogers”Hawai`i’s values, language and future. Three important things to Malia, who helped bring the Kawaikini public charter school on Kaua`i into reality. A Hawaiian language educator for over 14 years, you’ll see why both Malia and her school are so amazing. As she says, she wants to create a place where “language, beliefs and practices of the indigenous people of Hawai'i have become instinctive.” Watch It Here.Voices Of Truth interviews those creating a better future for Hawai`i to discover what made them go from armchair observers to active participants. We hope you'll be inspired to do the same.If you support our issues on the Free Hawai`i Broadcasting Network, please email this to a friend to help us continue. A donation today helps further our work. Every single penny counts.Donating is easy on our Voices Of Truth website via PayPal where you can watch Voices Of Truth anytime.And for news and issues that affect you, watch Free Hawai`i TV, a part of the Free Hawai`i Broadcasting Network.
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Hawai`i Superferry Inc., which provided high-speed ferry service for cars and passengers between Hawai`i’s O`ahu and Maui islands, filed for bankruptcy protection today.Hawai`i Superferry and parent HSF Holding Inc. filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy petitions in Wilmington, Delaware. They cited a Hawai`i Supreme Court ruling in March that struck down a state law permitting the company to operate before completing an environmental impact statement.
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Mican Kane's Approach At DHHL

Hawaiian Home LandsSomething else in ’stead?Micah Kane’s approach at DHHL isn’t pleasing everyoneJoan ConrowMay 27, 2009Chairman of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands Micah KaneWith Micah Kane in the running for Kamehameha Schools trustee, his record in managing the Hawaiian Home Lands trust is coming under public scrutiny.Kane, formerly a Building Industry Association lobbyist and head of the Hawaii Republican Party, was named chairman of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands in 2002, in part to deliver on Gov. Linda Lingle’s campaign promise to shorten the waiting list for homestead awards.Kane set a bold goal of awarding 6,000 residential leases during his tenure, compared to the 7,200 that had been granted over the entire prior history of the department. Even bolder was his plan to fund the agency’s operations and projects through revenues generated by commercial leases.But with just 18 months left in his term, critics say Kane has missed his residential lease target and forgotten the original intent of the 200,000-acre Homelands trust–to rehabilitate Native Hawaiians by getting them back on their own land–in his quest to satisfy Lingle’s goal of making the department financially self-sufficient.Big Island homesteader Wallace Beck said DHHL has repeatedly tried to get him to give up his 10-acre farm lot across from Home Depot in Panaewa so that it can be leased to industrial tenants instead. “Now that Hawaiian Homes sees the value of the land, they’re trying to get it from me,” said the 86-year-old Beck, who has farmed there for 50 years. “Most of my neighbors were evicted to make way for industrial lots and warehouses.”Kane has also drawn criticism for supporting the governor’s de-funding philosophy by steadily reducing the agency’s share of general funds. When Kane was named chair, the agency was receiving $1.35 million in general funds. He requested none for the 2010 fiscal year.“What kind of trustee neglects his beneficiaries?” asked attorney Alan Murakami of the Native Hawaiian Legal Corp., which last year sued DHHL and the governor for failing to request or secure sufficient public funding for the agency. A judge dismissed the claim, saying it was a political question that he couldn’t decide.Kane, however, said he’s proud to have “weaned” DHHL off general funds, a strategy he pursued for two reasons. Accepting taxpayer funds to operate programs that “benefit a single class of people” could open up the department to an equal protection lawsuit, he said. Secondly, he believes that “financial self-sufficiency is political independence.”“I don’t want the Legislature to get off the hook,” said Jerry Mauhili, former president of the Keaukaha-Panaewa Community Association, which previously sued DHHL over the loss of trust lands to a Hawaii County flood control project. “The attitude is always, we’ve given you land. You want money, too? We need to look at what can make us money and also what is due us from the state Legislature. The Hawaii Visitors Bureau is given millions annually and Hawaiian Homes has been neglected. We’re lost in the shuffle.”Kane said he has pursued state support of DHHL programs through funding for capital improvement projects, such as roads and water lines that benefit “a broader sector” than solely the agency’s beneficiaries.DHHL also receives $30 million annually under a $600 million settlement with the state over its prior uncompensated use of DHHL lands. That funding ends in four years. Kane has maintained that the general leases he’s pursued will help make up for the loss of those monies. During his tenure, the agency approved 19 new general land leases totaling $4.6 million annually and 102 new revocable permits that generate some $2.45 million each year. Another six properties are currently being marketed, and the agency expects to formalize leases on them over the next 18 months.For Murakami, Kane’s rationale doesn’t make sense because the numbers don’t add up.Even at $30 million a year, it would still take 76 years to exhaust a wait list of 18,000 persons, he said. Kane believes the general lease revenues will provide adequate funding to meet homestead demand. The agency also has partnered with Office of Hawaiian Affairs to float revenue bonds to help pay for future infrastructure costs.Critics, however, contend that the agency’s recent infrastructure spending has primarily benefited commercial leaseholders.“Hawaiian Homes hasn’t provided any infrastructure for agriculture,” said Molokai homesteader Glenn Teves. Nor has the department helped Molokai farmers purchase equipment so they can work their homestead awards, even though DHHL has a program for such purposes.The Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement, which conducted a March 2009 budget analysis of the DHHL, also raised questions about the agency’s infrastructure spending. In its report, it requested “a breakdown of how the $410.9M in trust funds were expended, by year, with specific data for 2007 and 2008 wherein $143.8M and $142.0M was expended in each year respectively [and] breakdown by administration versus capital expenditures with a listing of the capital projects constructed.”Although Kane has achieved his goal of generating additional commercial lease revenues, he has fallen short of awarding 6,000 new residential leases. Only about 2,500 have been awarded to date, a figure that includes some 1,436 “undivided interest awards” in future subdivisions where the infrastructure is still being developed.DHHL maintains that the undivided interest program gives people a chance to get their finances in order so they’re ready when the lots are. But Murakami said it instead serves “to disguise their failure to perform” by artificially inflating the number of lease awards.“These leases are real,” DHHL spokesman Lloyd Yonenaka said in an e-mail, noting that some families who got undivided interest awards in Kapolei are now residing in their homes.Kane said the agency “can award demand” and currently has lots available on the Big Island and Kauai. But many of those on the waiting list, especially those that applied prior to 2003, have financial and social problems that prevent them from qualifying for home mortgages.“When I started, I thought all we needed to do was build homes,” Kane said. “Then I realized we needed to build people, too. We’ve purposely pulled back on lease awards so we can focus on the families.”Mauhili said home ownership could be made truly affordable if homesteaders were given 99-year mortgages that match the length of their land leases. “The purpose of the Trust was to get Hawaiians back on their own land, to keep them from being homeless,” he said.Mauhili and others said their criticisms go beyond Kane and his predecessor Ray Soon. Both men were simply carrying out the wishes of the governors who appointed them–minimizing the state’s financial obligation to DHHL.“What it always comes down to is this: we don’t have money and we don’t know when we’re going to get money so you folks just have to wait,” Mauhili said. “We’ve waited half a century and we’re still waiting. Don’t make us wait another half-century.”
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Here's What The History Books Won't Tell You -
Western diseases, to which Hawaiians had no immunity, decimated their numbers. At the time of western contact, some 800,000 people inhabited the Hawaiian Islands.By 1805 that number had been halved. By 1853 there were only 71,000 Hawaiian or part-Hawaiian people in the islands. Within 100 years of western contact, the Hawaiian population had been reduced by nearly 90 percent. According to the 2000 census, the numbers of people who claim some native Hawaiian ancestry have increased to over 400,000. But only 239,000 live in Hawai`i and they are the poorest, most locked-up population in the state. Although they only make up about 20 percent of the state's population, in June 2001 they made up 39 percent of the state's prison population, according to the state Department of Public Safety. Sadly, they make up 37 percent of the state's homeless population.
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Save The United States - Free Hawai'i !

The most powerful portion of the US Constitution with regards to The Kingdom of Hawai'i is the Supremacy Clause.The Supremacy Clause is the common name given to Article VI, Clause 2 of the United States Constitution, which reads:This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the land;As the SUPREME Law of the land, treaties must be upheld in order to render effect to any of the remaining lessor laws under the Constitution, the Federal or State Governments .In 1850, the US Treaty with the Hawaiian Islands was enacted. Article One of this treaty provides for perpetual peace between the US and the Hawaiian Islands. Obviously, the invasion, annexation, and subsequent occupation of the Kingdom of Hawai'i by the United States, is a clear and direct violation of the supreme law of the land.Moreover, it is pure folly to violate a law of the highest magnitude and to then proclaim adherence to the rule of law.Violation of this provision of The US Constitution clearly, emphatically, and completely vanquishes the fundamental principles of the United States. Any alleged 'State' of such a union incorporated into the Nation in violation of the supreme law of the land cannot even remotely be proclaimed to be united.Therefore, only by a complete restoration of the sovereignty of The Kingdom of Hawai'i, can the United States be free. You can only protect your own freedom if you protect the liberty of all other men. I can only be free if you are free.This is the ha'ole version of malama kakou - we best care for ourselves by caring for othersSave the United States - Free Hawai'i !We are the people we have been waiting for!
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Do You Experience This Today?

What was it about this poem that made me utter the words - This is unbelievable! I discovered many similarities and frightened me to think that this crap is still going on today!Spread the word of your religions - You came to Hawaii and what did you do, you preached about the Bible,Convert the whole world if you can - You forced down what you could and demanded that we listen,Kill and slaughter those who oppose you- You poisoned our people and killed my ancestors with your disease,It's worth it if you save on man - You saved the ones you liked and favored a position in the government,Take the land to build your churches - You stole our lands and expected to take more, leave us landless,A sin to tax the house of God - You taxed the poor and avoided taxes yourselves,Take the child while he is supple - You take our children and shove your words of doom,Spoil the mind and spare the rod - You do no good for others and spare no savage beast,Go and tell the savage nation - You as a settler want to own lands in Hawaii, nonetheless u want even more,That he must be Christianized - You make us be like you and impose us with your work,Tell him, and his heathen worship - You must worship every word I preach or else feel the wrath,And you will make him civilized - You expect us to carry forth and do your work,Shove your gospel, force your values - You took my language and divided my people,Down its throat until it's raw - You shoved so deep while you warped our minds with your valuesAnd after he is crippled - You cut us down to skin and bone,Turn your back and lock the door - You left us landless and cared no lessMissionaries, Missionaries go and leave us alone - The pages are turning expect no gratitudeTake your white God to your white man - We have our own nation and fret no moreWe've a God of our own - We are the descendants of Papa and WakeaWords of Wisdom - Take a look around us and how settlers have treated Kanaka Maoli. Do not allow yourself to be caught up in the "web of deceit." This is a reminder that what happened since the arrival of Capt. Cook has only encouraged settlers to take all that they can.Educate yourself of our true history! Be akamai and take care of your kuleana! We are being blinded sided no matter which way we turn. When is it the best time to use the blinds to obtain full independence from U.S.
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Have you ever seen a fish swim backwards?Of jump out just to grab you?This kind of crap fish is like Daniel Innouye and Linda Lingle and her bandits!Rubbish that has no intentions of leaving.....What do you do with your trash?Innouye has been compelled to stop all Hawaiian sovereignty movements in the Hawaiian Islands! Like many ihep fishes, they consistently discredit kanaka maoli and to ensure that a AKAKA BILL is the solution to their misery.Why would you want a bill that does nothing for kanaka maoli? The IHEP fish is there to "hold" the stolen lands.These settlers have dictated and controlled politics and its time to "take control and continue to ku'e!Lingle may be quiet, but behind closed doors she is shoving her heels against our bottoms like a "kick in our ass!"There is no room for pilau fishes to be around us!CRAP THE AKAKA BILL. GET YOUR REELS AND WHIP THAT PILAU FISH THAT SURROUNDS US!

, LOOK WHO IS IN THE TANK? IT IS US,KANAKA MAOLI SWIMMING AND HELD HOSTAGE IN OUR OWN ISLANDS!Lingle, Akaka, Innouye, Neil, Clayton Hee, OHA, DHHL, U.S., and all those those other iheps are using the reel to control us! Take that reel and whip it the other way!Can you hear the voices of our children calling and being choked by the settlers who oppressed us?Can you hear our kupuna calling?Never allow anyone to tell you who u are! Kanaka Maoli - 133 1/3%. The other 33 1/3% is the blood quantum that will be forced upon us for the next land divisions for Hawaiian Homes!Keep on dividing kanaka maoli by blood quantum. What crap! We need total independence from the settlers!
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WASHINGTON — The Hawai`i congressional delegation Wednesday reintroduced the 2007 version of the Akaka Bill, in both chambers of Congress that would turn native Hawaiians into native American indians.The 2007 version of the bill is one of the most deadly, as any legal recourse for Hawaiians after their land would be seized by the US federal government, has been stripped from the bill.
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On May 28, 2002, Kawailani Maliekini Maiolo Namaka'eha Fifita was born at Kaiser Hospital. Kawailani celebrated her 7th birthday last night! Such a akamai kaikamahine to her siblings! Kawailani had given her "wish list to her god mother" which entails seven items.Of course, I bought her favorite cake - Dobash! That is my favorite too! Hauoli La Hanau to KAWAILANI!Kawailani knows who she is named after and proud to be Kanaka Maoli!

Wishing Hauoli La Hanau to other na keiki too!
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