Amicus brief jointly by the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii and the Southeastern Legal Foundation

http://tinyurl.com/5stwtk

Amicus brief jointly by the Pacific Legal Foundation, the Cato Institute, and the Center for Equal Opportunity

http://tinyurl.com/58sxzk

Amicus brief by the Mountain States Legal Foundation

http://tinyurl.com/6bym7x

Amicus brief of the Commissioner of Public Lands for the State of New Mexico

http://tinyurl.com/6grdpo

Amicus brief of the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence

http://tinyurl.com/6dwvzb

To see what the “bad guys” think about the State’s position on ceded lands, look at

http://tinyurl.com/5sd8be

Governor Lingle’s main motive for supporting the Akaka bill, OHA, race-based entitlements, and Kamehameha Schools’ racially exclusionary admissions policy is her strong support for Zionism and her mistaken belief that the Hawaiian sovereignty movement is comparable to the struggle to establish and maintain a Jewish nation of Israel.  See webpage

http://tinyurl.com/6plhb7

In mid-November 2008 the Honolulu Advertiser reported that the FBI is investigating a scam whereby Hawaiian Kingdom bonds are being sold to people for use in paying off mortgages. Several foreclosures have resulted when people stopped paying their mortgages because they “paid” their debt by using the bonds. Andrew Walden has published a major article in Hawaii Free Press exposing the names of individuals and Hawaiian sovereignty groups which the mainstream media seem to be concealing. See:
http://tinyurl.com/676tl6

Thurston Twigg-Smith is the grandson of Lorrin A. Thurston, a major leader of the revolution which overthrew the Hawaii monarchy in 1893.  Mr. Twigg-Smith’s book, “Hawaiian Sovereignty: Do the Facts Matter?” provides historical details and a valuable perspective.  Two chapters are of special relevance today:  Chapter 9 (land) and Chapter 10 (the 1993 apology resolution).  Those chapters deserve careful reading in view of the U.S. Supreme Court decision to consider the state’s appeal of the Hawaii Supreme Court decision that the state is prohibited from selling any ceded lands until the claims of ethnic Hawaiians have been resolved — the Hawaii court based its decision largely on the 1993 apology resolution.  Mr. Twigg-Smith has generously agreed to have his entire book posted on the internet in pdf format, so that anyone can read it free of charge.  Click this URL, or copy and paste it into your browser, to download the book:

http://tinyurl.com/6osxwp

A 90-minute wide-ranging radio interview of Ken Conklin was done on June 10, 2008 on KKCR Community Radio, Kaua’i. The audio tape is now available in the radio station’s archive, here:

http://www.kkcr.org/archive/2008-06-10.mp3

America is in an uproar about the anti-American and anti-Caucasian rhetoric of Barack Obama’s pastor, who has been his friend and mentor for 20 years.But here in Hawaii anti-American and anti-“haole” rhetoric are accepted as normal.   People are accustomed to hearing UH Professor Haunani-Kay Trask rail against “the power of a white country called the United States of white America. … Learn your history, and then you will know which side of history you belong on.  And you do not belong on the American side.  You do not belong on the Hawai’i state side.  You belong on the side of your people — lahui Hawai’i [racially defined Hawaiians]  On December 1, 2003 Eric Poohina wrote in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin:  “Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden are not the enemy of the Hawaiian people and the Hawaiian nation. The United States is the No. 1 enemy of the Hawaiian people and the Hawaiian nation.”  On November 25, 2005 he wrote “The U.S. should be concentrating on the evacuation of its military troops in Hawaii and the restoration of the government of the independent nation state of Hawaii to the kanaka maoli, or Hawaiian nationals, the aboriginal people of Hawaii.”   On August 6, 2005 Governor Linda Lingle herself stood next to Lieutenant Governor Duke Aiona at Iolani Palace, both wearing the red shirt of 15,000 protesters supporting racial segregation at Kamehameha School.  In her speech she could not possibly miss seeing huge anti-American signs with phrases like these: “We don’t need no American government.  Don’t like to see too much foreign power here cause Western influence been killing us for years.” and “We are not American. We will die as Hawaiians.” She could no more miss seeing those signs than Barack Obama could miss the rhetoric of his pastor of 20 years.  Acceptance of hate-filled rhetoric in Hawaii is fueled by the apology resolution of 1993, which is filled with twisted history and outright falsehoods, and forms the basis for the Akaka bill.  Let’s hope the apology resolution will be repealed as part of a Congressional resolution congratulating Hawaii on the 50th anniversary of statehood.   For a more detailed analysis, see http://tinyurl.com/2mxj8s 

On January 10, 2008 Ken Conklin gave testimony to a Kaneohe Town Meeting hosted by state Senator Jill Tokuda and Representatives Pono Chong and Ken Ito.  All of them are either chair or vice-chair of the committees that focus on “Hawaiian Affairs.”  

The testimony identified racial separatism as the most important issue facing the Legislature.  

Recommendations to the Legislature were as follows:  (1) Do not pass any resolution supporting the Akaka bill; on the contrary, place a question on the ballot for November to see whether Hawai’i’s people want Congress to pass the Akaka bill.  Stop giving away state resources even before the Akaka bill passes and before negotiations begin between the Akaka tribe and the state government regarding how to carve up Hawai’i.  (2)  The ceded lands belong to all Hawai’i’s people; the Legislature should rescind the law it passed in 1980 awarding OHA 20% of ceded land revenues.  (3)  In June 2006 a confidential OHA memo became public which outlined Plan B to set up a state-recognized Akaka tribe even if the Akaka bill fails in Congress; that plan is likely to unfold in 2008 and the Legislature should resist it.  (4)  The Legislature should resist paying for OHA boondoggles like a new headquarters building; OHA has over $400 Million in assets plus an annual income of tens of millions and can easily pay for whatever it wants.  (5)  The government funded “host culture” charter schools should be held accountable for violating the separation of church and state, for indoctrinating children with religious views asserting racial supremacy, and for teaching twisted history supporting anti-American and anti-Caucasian attitudes.  (6)  The Legislature should resist proposals from a special commission on bioprospecting that would strip landowners of basic property rights to invite researchers onto their land and to profit from technological discoveries.

For full text of the testimony see
http://tinyurl.com/27p59j

Honolulu Advertiser says “Mixed-martial arts superstar B.J. “The Prodigy” Penn, 28, was sentenced today [December 11] to one year probation and ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution for hitting a Honolulu police officer during a melee outside of Waikiki bar two years ago.”
Since the crime happened two years ago, OHA clearly knew about it when they chose him to be the star of a Kau Inoa commercial. The ad shows him throwing a rapid flurry of punches while background music features an ipu [gourd] being hit, slapped, and pounded (just as Penn hits, slaps, and pounds his sports opponents and that policeman).
Obviously there’s a message of strength and pride being sent to ethnic Hawaiians. Equally obviously there’s a message to the larger community that ethnic Hawaiians are quite capable of using violence to get what they want.
Mr. Penn laments that someday there might be no “pure” Hawaiians left — thus implying that 99% of ethnic Hawaiians are impure, having their genealogies stained by “outsiders.” He concludes: “Before anything, be proud to be Hawaiian.” That’s what Kau Inoa is — a racial registry. There is one thing and only one thing required to sign up — a drop of the magic blood. Individual accomplishment is irrelevant.
See transcript, complete analysis, and link to movie of the commercial, at
http://tinyurl.com/33j6qk