Gov. John Waihee testimony opposing SB609
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Our Na Kupuna are gone and what we have is the wannabees that did not have their Na Kupuna experiences are wreaking havoc on sacred aina and iwi with their 'windmill' approaches.
thanks again for posting this video, it was surely appreciated.
For those of us who were on Kahoolawe in 1978, we wanted to protect the Na Iwi on the islands from being a bombing target by the World's military. Certatin time during the year the US military would invite other countries to Hawaii and use Kahoolawe as a bombing target. All Navy Veteren's participated in bombing Kahoolawe.
The US Navy used culture sites as bombing targets on the island of 'O Kanaloa Kohe Malamalama, and we wanted to protect the Na Iwi--especially the mother and child grave. Another site that the Na Kupuna wanted to protect was Kealaikahiki. Emmet and I discussed the reasoning of protecting Kealaikahiki--it was our again it was our Na Kupuna that wanted to protec this particular culture site from the American Military Bombing exercise. I was very young at that time and I didn't really know much about the island
but our Na Kupuna knew a lot about the island by place names and its culture practices.
So much was happening before, during and after our accesses to Kahoolawe. They were many Na Kupuna on the island with us--the Protect Kahoolawe Ohana was directly instrumental in caring for the Na Kupuna on this first legal access. It was there voices which was inherited from their grandparents. When Uncle Harry Mitchell, Aunty Emma DeFries, and many others spoke up they mentioned their grandparents and what 'O Kanaloa meant to them and how they connected Kohe Malamalama instead of or in addition to Kahoolawe.
The battles on the island was with US outsiders from the Bishop Museum. Later and for months to follow we battled with the Bishop Museum director at many meetings. It was denegrating in a sense that the PKO was reduced to tree choppers, revolutionist, and insignificant. It was not only non Hawaiians that favored the military bombing, it was the very same jokers sitting in the audience at the SB1 609 hearing that favored the US Military bombong. What is so very ironic--they were Navy Veterans sitting in that room at the hearing that participated in the live bombing of 'O Kanaloa Kohe Malamalama.
thank you KKB for posting the video,
I was very concern about not seeing the video. I did my response in three segments because it doesn't allow full comments. thanks again
I spoke to Chuck Burrows after, and told him he was mentioned in the hearing as the responsible person for bringing the future and funding to forefront of this Bill SB1 609. Shrinking cost, true, and to move forward seemed more likely in this process that we stepped backwards 2,000 years. It was more like the sisterhood collectively was carving out the ‘peepee’ in their political amendments at this hearing. That is they were carving out our Na Ki'i mana. The evidence of carving out the penis can be viewed at the Honolulu Academy. A sad sight! Our first legal access to Kahoolawe was based on Public Law 95-341 back in 1978. A trip planned by the PKO and logistically set up as a Freedom of Religious Access and those of us that participated (hesitantly it may be) walked the journey across the island and returned in a day’s time, 15 plus miles back in '78. This hearing was removing that valued practice and political will of the people.
Molokini is appreciated; however, if that means regulations from Mars, Venus, and the Moon we will have too many people spending a whole lot of time in courts as they already are out here in Waianae.
Secondly, speaking of the evil doings--already the military are cleaning up starting April here in Waianae offshore Maili. The arsenals are from WWII which contains unused uranium. There is a notion that the ocean will break down U 235 back to its original state. Therefore, this nuclear waste is deemed safe, weak and low for humans by the Atomic Energy Commission. This is false! William Aila wants this clean up to happen; I am opposed to this type of clean up. The debris will be labeled 'construction debris' and placed on our 'aina' as land fill after it is shredded off shore and its nuclear toxicity spilled back into our offshore Waianae Coast.
Kahoolawe will follow through after Maili 'hopper' (bogus) clean-up. We (fishermen) had a small 'kine' conversation on the Capital veranda in between the hearings on Saturday. Another reason why I opposed the bill was because of the conjoining Molokini to the existing problems of our accesses to Kahoolawe. It adds a larger mess to our already weighted down responsibilities 'Alaloa'.
As for the cost--bogus lie only because we use money out of our pockets from the onset of stopping the bombing and today education for our children such as Kamaile Academy--our children recently visited ‘O Kanaloa Kohe Malamalama.
When I had my confrontations with Sus Ono DLNR Director under then Governor John Waihe'e over Kahana Bay--Ono said, "We the Na Kanaka are squatting on state land." Again at the Federal Building at a Civil Rights Commission Hearing that resulted in "Breach of Trust' Sus Ono said, "They can never be an inventory of the ceded lands."
What Waianae forgot at this hearing that Dr. Emmet Aluli chastised and too listened to the sides of the victims of the Nanakuli Rape Case--that were children. This is the case that was headlined across different foreign countries. This man Dr. Emmet Aluli not only risked his life to stop the bombing on O Kanaloa Kohe Malamalama, but he gave his time to our children. I got a call from Emmet Aluli to go to Ala Moana Hotel and stop the public hanging of these victims. I was living in Hauula at that time. I met De Cambra, Enos, Kahikini and many others that went to the hotel conference room and it was packed to hear only one side of the story for an immediate public hanging. If one listens to the Saturday hearing panelist-- questioning of Dr. Emmet Aluli one will hear the alluding to this sad history.
Malama Solomon--Senator--if one studies her body language, I thought for a moment I was sitting in "Three Coins Restaurant on Kapiolani Blvd. Revolution was never a bad thing in our minds; however, it is what was needed to 'Stop the Bombing' on Kahoolawe.
It is true--many of us who participated in organizing our people back in 1974 enacted a whole list of native Hawaiians against our better judgment for the sake of solidarity and Lokahi. Repeat, I say it was against our better judgment because we knew at the 1978 Con Con it was a 'no go' for the ‘Native Hawaiians Only’ voting list to participate in an American election. Bill Patty was sitting in the audience at this past Saturday hearing of SB1 609. Rethink yourselves in this process as to what our future holds.
As for the Hurricane, FEMA has not rendered services to our people in Hawaii--so therefore like all Pacific Islanders we can manage our natural disasters on the island of Kahoolawe. The insurance carriers can be paid for by each individual if necessary, we don't need to expand an unnecessary expenditure for fiduciary reasons.
I did not understand the questioning of Wm Aila as to whether he was for the Senators or the PKO --this had caused hard feelings, confusion and massive hemorrhage in our culture values and practices. Was Senator Clayton Hee handing a rope to Wm Aila to hang himself or playing the 'kipuka' fear mongering as if Wm Aila was a wild cow thrashing between two trees or his rights of passage to the Fake State of Hawaii.
The amendments carve out our children, our future and the 'aina' that holds the ‘iwi’ of our ancestors’ mana.