A new webpage has been created regarding the role of religion in Hawaiian history and sovereignty. It analyzes how the ancient native Hawaiian religion is being revived to serve the political goal of establishing race-based sovereignty. It describes how the native religion and Christian religion shaped culture and politics in the Kingdom of Hawaii. It includes a compilation of selected webpages and books on these topics. The new webpage is at
http://tinyurl.com/yjyn9b5
We all know that the State of Hawaii government has terrible budget problems. There are bills in the Legislature to legalize gambling as a source of revenue.
One of those bills is to establish gambling casinos on the native Hawaiian Homelands. The bill HB2759 HD2 has already passed second reading with approval by two committees (Hawaiian Affairs, and Judiciary) and now awaits a hearing by the Finance Committee.
This information should raise many doubts in the minds of Congressional Representatives and Senators who have been relying on assurances from the Hawaii delegation that the Akaka bill prohibits gambling by the Akaka tribe.
Even though the Akaka bill has language which seems to prohibit the Akaka tribe from gambling, that language could nevertheless be evaded. Suppose the State grants a license to establish casinos on the Hawaiian Homelands, and does so before the Akaka bill is passed and before the tribe gets certified by the Secretary of Interior. The tribe might be able to keep the casinos despite language in the Akaka bill prohibiting them, on the theory that the Constitution says Congress cannot pass ex-post-facto laws. The Akaka tribe could ask a court to nullify the Akaka bill’s prohibition on gambling without fear of nullifying the rest of the bill, because the bill has a severability clause.
Following are excerpts from a lengthy Honolulu Advertiser article of Sunday, February 14, 2010 about legislation for gambling.
http://tinyurl.com/yzujhhv
The excerpts show that Hawaii legislators, including the Chair of the House Committee on Hawaiian Affairs, believe casinos could be placed on native Hawaiian homelands without interfering with the Akaka bill.
“Gambling interests spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on lobbying and public relations in Hawai’i nearly a decade ago, tempting state lawmakers with new tax revenue from a grand resort and casino. Nothing happened. This year, with no similar lobbying blitz, state House lawmakers have opened the door to legalized gambling, either through a single casino on O’ahu or casinos on Hawaiian home lands. … Even the talk of the state allowing casinos on Hawaiian home lands may undercut years of assurances in Washington, D.C., by Inouye and U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka that federal recognition for Native Hawaiians would not lead to gambling as it has on Indian reservations. … [G]ambling bill pending before the House Finance Committee would give the Hawaiian Homes Commission the authority to allow casinos on Hawaiian home lands. … The Native Hawaiian federal recognition bill — known as the Akaka bill — prohibits gambling by a new Hawaiian governing authority that would negotiate with the state and federal governments over land use and cultural issues. Inouye and Akaka added the prohibition, aides say, to answer critics who have suggested that federal recognition is a potential back door to legalized gambling. … State Rep. Mele Carroll, D-13th (E. Maui, Moloka’i, Lana’i), the chairwoman of the House Hawaiian Affairs Committee, who introduced the gambling bill, said she supports federal recognition and does not want to interfere with the debate in Washington. But she added that she wants Hawaiians to have a discussion about casino gambling as a potential revenue source. ‘They know that my intent is not to take away from the Akaka bill,’ Carroll said.”
On January 15, 2010 there was a public forum on the Akaka bill. Pollster John Zogby gave a slide presentation of the results of his poll on the Akaka bill that was released in December, and answered questions.
Results of the Zogby poll are at
http://tinyurl.com/yczuo3q
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs was invited to send a spokesperson to give a speech and answer questions, but at the last minute OHA backed out. Ten-minute speeches opposing the Akaka bill were given by civil rights activist Jere Krischel and by ethnic Hawaiian sovereignty activist Leon Siu.
Jere Krischel published an essay based on his speech, at
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?2f8cd402-479f-4abf-8361-c05d53a93c38
An audio podcast of the speech by Jere Krischel is at
And an audio podcast of the speech by Leon Siu is at
“Killing Aloha” updated 65-page point by point analysis of Akaka bill by attorney Paul M. Sullivan
Nov 19
Attorney Paul M. Sullivan has updated his monograph “Killing Aloha”, which is a point-by-point rebuttal to the Akaka bill. The monograph includes several wonderful cartoons by Daryl Cagle related to Rice v. Cayetano and to Hawaii’s racial entitlement programs. Some of Mr. Sullivan’s comments draw upon important historical and legal issues from the Kingdom of Hawaii (such as Rex v. Booth). This new 65-page version of “Killing Aloha” is approximately one megabyte, and can be downloaded from
http://tinyurl.com/yefy8od
A book review has been written of “Hawaii — The Fake State (A Manifesto and Expose of a Nation in Captivity)” by Aran Alton Ardaiz
Even though the book itself is worthless, this review provides some interesting information about the sovereignty movement. We enjoy hearty laughter at the irrational thought process of some sovereignty activists and the absurdities they put forward as truth. Folks might also be surprised by the criminal activities some activists engage in as part of their effort to rip the 50th star off the flag by undermining the sovereignty of the United States in the State of Hawaii through tax evasion, filing fake legal documents, and refusing to comply with licensing regulations.
The book also addresses numerous widely scattered topics that seem popular among conspiracy theorists who wear tinfoil hats to prevent the Martians from reading their minds. Many Hawaiian sovereignty activists seem attracted to conspiracy theories. The book review identifies some of those topics briefly.
The book does make some substantive claims regarding alleged illegality of the revolution of 1893, the annexation of 1898, and the statehood vote of 1959. All the substantive claims are rebutted by a series of well-documented webpages whose links are provided at the end of the book review.
Please read the book review at
http://tinyurl.com/lhc3zv
David Sai is perhaps most well known for his Perfect Title scam, for which he recieved a felony conviction. In a recent email shared on hawaiiankingdom.info, in which he refers to his conviction as a “so-called felony,” Mr. Sai gives his take on the recent SCOTUS decision which eviscerated the so-called “Apology Resolution” and its whereas clauses.
In 1993, radical activists managed to pass PL103-150, otherwise known as the “Apology Resolution.â€Â The resolution itself was based on the writings of a single activist author, Davianna McGregor, and went through no vetting process to establish whether or not any of the “whereas†clauses regarding the history of the Hawaiian Islands and the Hawaiian Revolution of 1893 were accurate. It was passed through the Senate with limited debate and assurances that it was a “simple apology,†and was passed by the House of Representatives with no debate at all through a voice vote. It was stealth legislation of the lowest order, and its passage has reverberated with adverse consequences for the past 16 years.
Dear Mr. Obama,
As the final days count down to your inauguration, I would like to share with you one very specific hope and its corollary fear I have. Throughout your campaign, although I did not support your candidacy, I greatly admired your rhetoric on race and race relations. As the first “hapa” president, although you and I don’t share specific bloodlines, we do share the experience of being built and raised struggling with the idea of whether or not we were “half” this or “half” that, or a “whole” something else. I believe the answer we both arrived at is that we are “whole” people, and that beyond “black” and “white” we are both in fact “human.”
Amicus brief jointly by the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii and the Southeastern Legal Foundation
Amicus brief jointly by the Pacific Legal Foundation, the Cato Institute, and the Center for Equal Opportunity
Amicus brief by the Mountain States Legal Foundation
Amicus brief of the Commissioner of Public Lands for the State of New Mexico
Amicus brief of the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence
To see what the “bad guys” think about the State’s position on ceded lands, look at
Book review of Jon Van Dyke “Who Owns the Crown Lands of Hawaii?”
Apr 15
Posted by Ken Conklin in Commentary, Reference, Reviews | Comments off
Book review by attorney Paul M. Sullivan, published in UH Law Review:
http://tinyurl.com/ctbopx
Sullivan’s book review in the context of other materials about the ceded lands and the recent Supreme Court decision:
http://tinyurl.com/chbkpx