RACIST POLITICIAN FIGHTS "B.O." ON BUSES

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HONOLULU CITY COUNCILMAN ROD TAM SMELLS, SOMETHING AWFUL

BUT HE'S TRYING TO FIX THE PROBLEM

Is He Promising Not To Ride Da Bus?

This is the guy who used the term "wetbacks" in a public meeting not too long ago. His new racist offensive is targeted at foreigners whose hygiene standards may be different, or at the poor whose access to bathrooms is limited --In part by lax planning, zoning, building and housing codes and a lack of affordable housing and public facilities. Tam's our Zoning Committee Chairman, by the way, so he's responsible for a lot of that. But it's so much easier to target the disenfranchised and humiliate & punish them than it is to offer real solutions that are already available elsewhere and to people with money right here in Honolulu.

The fact that Tam has already established himself as a race-warrior with his attacks on "wetbacks" makes this new measure smell pretty bad in itself. The homeless population and immigration from global-warming and economic depression victims throughout the Asia-Pacific region keep growing, putting some less recent immigrants' and forgetful long-time Locals' noses out of joint, "Aloha" be damned. Da Bus is one of the few places where the old and the new, the poor and the middle classes come into contact. Maybe now is the time those living in comfort paid attention to the problems of the system that has benefited them so much more than others.

The solution to the unpleasant realities of poverty and disenfranchisement is not the typical conservative one of punishing the victims by criminalizing poverty, but the more liberal approach of helping people to help themselves. More affordable housing, more living-wage jobs, more public facilities for health and hygiene are a better and, in the long run, cheaper and more workable solution than locking immigrants up for smelling different, or fining homeless people for having no access to bathrooms. If you think the buses smell bad, wait till you smell the jails, the courtrooms and the prisons. But, if you're middle class, you probably never will smell them. Auwe, brah, dey steenk, ho!


HONOLULU STAR BULLETIN
"Tam sorry for saying ‘wetbacks‘"
Note how Tam harps on his own ethnicity, Chinese, as if that somehow makes it OK to disparage others. Typical Hawaii BS. So is his comparison of "liberal" [?] Hawaii with the evil haole [white] Mainland.

' On May 13, Tam's Council Zoning Committee discussed the planned University of Hawaii-West Oahu campus in Kapolei. Tam warned the developers that labor unions are saying "that they (the developers' workers) have to be skilled, licensed workers. We don't want any, uh, wetbacks, basically." The Council's Zoning Committee, of which Tam serves as chairman, discussed development plans for UH-West Oahu on May 13 when Tam warned the developers to have better communication with labor unions. "The concern from (labor unions) is basically that they (the developers' workers) have to be skilled, licensed workers. We don't want any, uh, wetbacks, basically," Tam said. "OK. We've been receiving (reports about) developers or contractors been bringing in wetbacks from New Mexico. Uh, Mexico. I'm sorry. Mexico. OK. Illegal aliens. And that's a problem here, basically. We don't want that type. We want safety building here." "Over here in Hawaii, we're so liberal," Tam told the Star-Bulletin. "We have multiethnic cultures. We don't think in the same terms of the mainland. People look at it different. I learned something, and I apologize if I offended anybody." Tam said he first learned of the offending term through a 1950s musical called "Flower Drum Song," about Chinese illegal immigrants. From this musical, Tam said he thought the term referred to illegal immigrants. "People interpret it differently now," Tam said. "It's a terminology used in the past." '

CBS NEWS KGMB-TV9 HONOLULU: VIDEO
"City Council Member Apologizes For Racial Remarks"
He's sorry "if" he said anything that was "politically incorrect," he says with a sneer. This is the guy who zones your neighborhoods, Honolulu.

' Hispanic community leaders say they've been flooded with calls from people in Hawaii and on the mainland outraged by the remark. Tam recently apologized but not everyone was satisfied. Some want him to step down as chair of the zoning committee and meet with members of the Hispanic community. '

THE HONOLULU ADVERTISER
"Bill targets pungent riders of Honolulu's transit system"
Would this cover Chinese immigrants too, Mr. Tam? Or just homeless Chinese?

' Councilman Rod Tam, a co-sponsor of the bill, explained why it is needed: "As we become more inundated with people from all over the world, their way of taking care of their health is different. Some people, quite frankly, do not take a bath every day and therefore they may be offensive in terms of their odor." '

ABC NEWS KITV-TV4 HONOLULU: VIDEO
"Council Considers BO Ban"
Heath Fascism: Six months in prison for not taking a shower? What about "offensive" odors from soaps, perfumes, colognes, "body sprays," and deodorants? Or garlic ahi, kimchee poke, or sweet balut? Will the police board buses with sniffer dogs? Or do they detect B.O. with their own snouts? Nosy people want to know!

' Honolulu City Council members are considering a proposal to ban riders from buses if their body odor is too stinky. Councilman Rod Tam and Councilman Nestor Garcia introduced the bill to regulate a number of dangerous or annoying behaviors on city buses including bad B.O. Under the bill, police could cite riders if their body odor annoyed others and a convicted offender could face up to $500 in fines or six months in prison. Tam said he's received complaints about bus B.O. "People are very concerned they don't want to get sick when they experience body odor... offensive body odor they identify it with germs, diseases," said Tam. '

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HAWAIIAN ANTHEMS

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SONGS OF THE ALOHA STATE

OFFICIAL OR NOT, THEY'RE ALL ANTHEMS

The Less You Hear Them, The More "Official" They Are

National anthems tend to be big, clunky, unsingable dirges. The official Hawaii State Anthem, "Hawaii Pono," is a good example. People tend to find their own anthems, and take them to heart. They are always uplifting, sometimes sad, but definitely singable. You'll know them by the tears in the singers' eyes, and the sincerely bad, heartfelt singing. That's how a song should be sung, always: With tears in your eyes and a smile on your lips.

It may only be through music that we are ever able to express the ineffable effing sadness and unbearable ball-breaking beauty of life. Like a song, our lives seem to pass away into nothingness as if they had never happened, leaving only the memory of a feeling in the hearts of those we leave behind. When it is an entire culture that passes away, a great and terribly beautiful anthem is required. The songs posted below are possibilities.

If nothing else survives of Hawaiian culture, there will always be the music to remind us of what we have lost.



[NOTE: For Video Tyros & Those With Slow Computers And/ Or Narrow Bandwidth, Or Something:
For Smooth Playback: click "PLAY" on the video, then click the "PAUSE" button on the video, and let the video download completely, till the RED LINE at the bottom is all the way to the RIGHT, then click the "PLAY" button.]



YOUTUBE: HAWAII ALOHA ACADEMY
"Hawai`i Pono`i"
The official State Anthem of Hawaii.




YOUTUBE: ISRAEL KAMAKAWIWIOLE
"Bruddah IZ ~ Hawai'i Aloha"
The people's State anthem.




YOUTUBE: MEL AMINA
"Maui Hawaiian Suppa Man"
A song to the god Maui, the Trickster.




YOUTUBE: AMY HANAIALII GILLIOM
"Amy Hanaiali`i - Aloha `Oe"
A song written by the last Hawaiian Queen, saying goodbye.




YOUTUBE: HAPA
"Ku'u Lei Awapuhi By HAPA"
My own nomination for a Local National Anthem.




YOUTUBE: HULA HALAU O KAMUELA
"Merrie Monarch 2003 - Hula Halau O Kamuela - Wahine Kahiko"
It wouldn't be Hawaiian without a hula.




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GHOSTS OF A NATION

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HAWAIIAN SOVEREIGNTISTS MOURN STATEHOOD

Old Territorial Office Building, Honolulu, Hawaii

ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-SIX YEARS AFTER THE OVERTHROW OF THE HAWAIIAN KINGDOM,
HAWAII MARKS THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF STATEHOOD

Statehood protest at the Kamehameha Statue 8/21/09 ["Hawaii Five-O" HQ]

US Customs House, closed for Admissions Day

The Spirits Of Ancient Polynesia Were Abroad Tonight In Old Honolulu

While most people of Hawaiian ancestry today may not wish to renounce their citizenship in the United States of America, not many Local people celebrated Hawaii's golden anniversary of Statehood either, this week in Hawaii. Admissions Day is a State holiday but it is usually marked only by a few US flag-waving right-wing haole's, a perfunctory official press release, and varying degrees of drama from some of the wackier splinters of the tiny sovereignty community. This year, there were actual dramas at the Iolani Palace, former prison, never home, to the last Hawaiian monarch, Queen Liliuokalani, composer of the unofficial anthem, "Aloha Oe."

Hawaiian "Ghosts" at the Old Fort

Instead of a violent take-over of the Palace, like last year, or a racist rumble on the Iolani grounds like two years before, historical dramas were staged by activists today at the downtown Honolulu site. Men and women in period clothing, circa 1890, narrated, spieled and re-enacted scenes from the last days of the fledgling Kingdom, a British creation less than a hundred years old at the time of the Overthrow. The only drama was the play-acting, and there were no disturbances this year. A small crowd of mixed ethnicity listened respectfully to each set-piece as the Sun gradually fell in the West and the Moon rose in the East.

The Tomb Of King Lunalillo, Kawaiahao Churchyard


These pictures were taken at the event. There did seem a ghostly presence, which we tried to document. We are all, in a very real sense, living on the ruins of another civilization, surrounded every day by the spirits of a doomed race. And we're the ones who doomed them.

Iolani, the Royal Palace, in mourning.





HONOLULU ADVERTISER
"Iolani Palace to remain quiet as Hawaii observes 50th"
This was a quiet year at the Palace.

' Sandra Reyes strolled across the empty grounds of 'Iolani Palace this week and fully understood why state officials are not marking 50 years of Hawai'i statehood today with any kind of celebration. "I can see why they would be afraid," said Reyes, who lives in Makaha. "You have to understand the history of Hawai'i." Some Native Hawaiian groups asked that 'Iolani Palace — the seat of Hawaiian royalty and the center of Hawai'i's statehood celebration 50 years ago — be draped in black today as a way to mark the continuing struggles of Native Hawaiians, said Kippen de Alba Chu, executive director of 'Iolani Palace and chairman of the Statehood Commission charged with commemorating 50 years of Island statehood. Outside the palace grounds, the commission has helped organize educational walking tours of the sites of historic events in Island history, as well as a conference to discuss what Hawai'i could look like 50 years in the future. Palace officials and state sheriff's deputies, however, are prepared for the possibility of protests around 'Iolani Palace today and — perhaps — yet another attempt to occupy the palace grounds, as groups have done in the past. But the only official event scheduled today at 'Iolani Palace is not even considered part of Hawai'i's statehood commemoration. Eighteen chanters each will offer an oli, or chant, intended as a gift to Queen Lili'uokalani, Hawai'i's last reigning monarch who was exiled to her palace bedroom following the 1893 overthrow of the Hawaiian kingdom. '

HONOLULU STAR-BULLETIN
"Palace takeover"
Last Admissions Day, 2008, clownish thugs disgraced the sovereignty movement, disrespected Hawaiian history, culture & customs.

' A native Hawaiian sovereignty group briefly took control of the grounds of Iolani Palace last night, leading to the arrest of at least 22 protesters. Palace officials closed the historic site "until further notice" to assess any possible damage. About 25 members of the Kingdom of Hawaii, Nation, with its self-proclaimed king Akahi Nui, began locking the gates at about 5:30 p.m. One palace employee was allegedly assaulted at the palace gates. The takeover occurred on the Statehood Day holiday, which commemorates Hawaii becoming a state. It was the second time since late April that a Hawaiian sovereignty group took over the grounds of the historic site. '

HAWAII REPORTER
"Children Threatened by Anti-American Protestors at Hawaii's Statehood Celebration"
August, 2006: Here's the other nuts' take on this, an actual & notorious incident, but provoked by a racist clique of politically-motivated Mainland-funded professional white Republican aggrievants, three years ago. No excuse for the crackheads' behavior, nor for the lack of police protection.

' However, 47 years later on the day the state observes “Admissions Day” with a state and county holiday, there was a very different scene at Iolani Palace. There was complete lawlessness wielded by a pack of snarling gangsters who called themselves native Hawaiian protestors. They ranted irrationally about their hatred toward America and its citizens. State Sen. Sam Slom, a Republican who also heads the small business advocacy group, Small Business Hawaii, organized a 47th annual statehood celebration at the Iolani Palace grounds and invited everyone in the state to participate. He remembers the time before the Capitol was built that legislative business was conducted at Iolani Palace, so for historical accuracy, he planned to hold celebration there. Slom and other attendees said they were excited because this was the first celebration in 6 years - and the last statehood event was held in California because then Gov. Benjamin Cayetano said it was "too controversial to celebrate statehood at home." On Friday, the day statehood was observed, Slom welcomed a group of about 50 people who arrived with big smiles, American flags and plans to enjoy music by the Kalani High School Band, who were recruited to play its favorite songs. But instead of a warm welcome, the patriots were greeted by a gang of about 50 hostile protestors with bullhorns, a state-of-the-art sound system, and preprinted signs protesting the statehood celebration. They claimed to represent the feelings of an estimated 400,000 native Hawaiians throughout Hawaii and the world. These hoodlums shouted profanities in front of young children, spit and yelled at those there to observe statehood, and said they wanted to "wipe their ass" with the American Flag. One protestor screamed at a military family that it was a really good that Americans died in the 9-11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Centers because Americans deserved to be "slammed down." All who spoke on the bullhorns said Americans - even the native Hawaiian people who showed up to celebrate statehood - should get off "their land" and out of Hawaii. One of the rabid-eyed leaders of the pack shouted profanities directly in people‚s ears. He pushed women, children and senior citizens. He spit on people. He bit the American flags people carried, and tried to tear them. He took down his pants and told people to suck him. In front of their children, he called women "bitches" and told them to "show him their tits." He even bragged about being high on crystal math, and said he could do whatever he wanted because he belongs to the "kingdom of Hawaii," not America. Threats of Physical Violence, Verbal Attacks, Targets Kids First: The protesters first attacked the weakest people - in this case the children - so they could break apart the groups and scare them into leaving. The belligerent group began their protest by shouting threats of violence at the young band members who were sitting quietly waiting for the go-ahead from their bandleader to play. They told them and their parents that they would be in danger if they played even one note. “We cannot guarantee your safety unless you put down your instruments and leave the premises immediately,” one protestor shouted from a microphone, feet away from the kids sitting with their instruments in hand. The berating continued for 15 minutes until the bandleader and frightened parents led the kids to the bus that their senator had rented for the occasion. As the kids left, the protestors said that they were victorious, and would be taking back Hawaii from America. State Law Enforcement Never Showed, Despite Lawlessness: As the remaining 50 people there to celebrate statehood stood in a circle and sang the National Anthem and Hawaii Pono I, the protestors interrupted them, yelling, cursing and threatening to burn the American flags. Threats were also made against other citizens including Senator Slom and State Rep. Barbara Marumoto, who enthusiastically arrived at the celebration dressed as “Lady Liberty”, freedom torch in hand. Surprisingly, the Department of Land and Natural Resources, based just across the streetl, did not send its officers to intervene during the hour-long event. Some of the "unlawful events" included threatening children, parents, elected officials, and innocent civilians. Immoral “flashing” in front of women and children, demonstrating and using sound systems without a permit. They even rode a motorcycle up to the palace steps - off-limits to automobiles and motorcycles. '

THE MAUI NEWS
"The effects of statehood differ among Hawaiians"
It's my party and I'll cry if I want to! 2009 on Maui.

' As Hawaii observes a half century of statehood Friday, some Maui County Native Hawaiian activists remained steadfast that the achievement only cemented the 1893 overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy. It is an irritating reminder, they say, that statehood further fortified existing government- and business-created ramparts against native sovereignty. With statehood, Native Hawaiians lost property ownership rights as well as native control of natural resources, such as unfettered access to shorelines, fishing and hunting, and fresh water. In their view, the 50th state had already been transformed by pineapple and sugar plantations and later became an overwhelmed and kitschy tourist mecca. To many other Native Hawaiians, the timing of statehood's 50th anniversary is impeccable. After a decade of toil, this very likely could be the year a bill before Congress by U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka establishing sovereignty - in some form - will become a reality. Hawaii-born President Barack Obama has said he'd support the Akaka Bill, which would give Native Hawaiians self-determination rights similar to those possessed by Native American and Alaskan tribes. Sovereignty would not be possible without statehood, said retired 2nd Circuit Judge and Office of Hawaiian Affairs Trustee Boyd Mossman. "Our people generally have turned off to society. They're with drugs, the education is the worst, their standards of living are the worst. They make up all the social ills of Hawaii," he said. "You gotta ask yourself, 'What good did statehood do for the Native Hawaiians?' Although, some have assimilated into Western Hawaii, lost their Hawaiianness and become coconuts - dark on the outside and white on the inside." To many, statehood allowed mostly Mainland white and foreign business interests to exploit the native culture over the past 50 years, providing a luau of profits for themselves while Native Hawaiians were left, often literally, with the leftovers. The Hawaiian kingdom was overthrown in 1893 when a group of white businessmen forced Queen Lili'uokalani to abdicate her throne. Meanwhile, U.S. Marines came ashore. Until Congress declared it a U.S. territory in 1898, Hawaii was a republic, a political status many activists would like to see reinstated. '

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50th STATE'S 50th BIRTHDAY

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HAWAII AFTER HALF A CENTURY

THE ALOHA STATE HAS GROWN & SHRUNK

Over A Million People Now Inhabit This Pricey Polynesian Paradise

Today the foreign country which produced the fake birth certificate for our first alien President celebrates the 50th anniversary of its' illegal Admission to the Union. The archipelago of Hawaii, the northernmost Polynesian islands, where white people are regarded as a tasty snack, became our fiftieth State in 1959. The Isles were once attacked by the Japanese, who later decided to buy them. Many Americans died defending these islands, but none of them were Republicans. Therefore, Barack Hussein Obama is black.


YOUTUBE: UNIVERSAL NEWSREELS
"Aloha Hawaii! Statehood Celebrated 1959/03/16"
Dah way we was, braddahs and titas.



YOUTUBE: CARL DUDLEY
"Hawaii, The Island State, 1959"
Another blast from the past.



YOUTUBE: THE NEWS MAGAZINE
"Hawaii, 1952"
News from the Territory.



HERE IT IS!!! THE SMOKING GUM (YOUR FOOD)!!!
"OBAMA'S AFRICAN-AMERICAN BIRTH CERTIFICATE!!!"
Call your WHITE CongressMAN quickly, Grampaw!


Some graphical aloha from the Aloha State.
"Hawaii In Pictures"
More foto's coming, brah.


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PROOF: PRESIDENT IS NOT A CITIZEN!

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FOREIGN MEMORIALS ATTEST TO OBAMA's TRUE NATIONALITY

PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE SHOWS HAWAII IS FOREIGN COUNTRY

If This Isn't A Reach, You Must Impeach!

If the glove doesn't fit, you must shut the f**k up about it! Think Hawaii's not a State? Think Obama wasn't born in the USA? Think again, right-tard!

MORE EVIDENCE OF OBAMA's "NON-CITIZENSHIP."


HONOLULU ADVERTISER
"Ortiz to be honored for rescues in 1941 Pearl Harbor attack"


Mr. America: Chinese-Filipino-Spanish Hawaiian cowboy grew up on Hickam Field (next to the Pearl Harbor Navy Base) before there was a US Army Air Force Base there: Just one of the real American heroes denied, denigrated and disrespected by Republicans. Why do conservatives hate the REAL America? Too brown? Too slanty-eyed? Too courageous?

' It was Dec. 7, 1941, and the battleship had rolled over after taking five torpedoes. Altogether, 429 crew were killed. But after the attack, dozens remained trapped inside. Ortiz, a Pearl Harbor shipyard worker, was strong — he later took sixth place in a Mr. America contest — and he was called on to chisel through the steel hull to save the trapped sailors. "So I cut a hole about 30 inches in diameter and everyone started jumping out. Some guy grabbed me and kissed me," the now white-haired Ortiz said with a laugh. He became a hero that day, but it was just part of the remarkable story of Claude Ortiz. Ortiz is a paniola, record-holding rodeo rider, saddle maker, champion weightlifter, Navy veteran and among the Pearl Harbor shipyard workers who pitched in to save others on Dec. 7, 1941. "Our Navy will always remember the heroic civilians like Claude who, on the morning of Dec. 7, jack-hammered through the hull of the USS Oklahoma to save the lives of our sailors, pulled sailors to safety from oil-covered water, and rushed to fight the hundreds of fires burning across Pearl Harbor," said shipyard commander Capt. Greg Thomas. "After the attack, Claude and the shipyarders resurrected the U.S. Pacific Fleet from the bottom of Pearl Harbor, repairing 15 of 18 major ships damaged in the attack — ships that returned to battle and carried the war home to Japan." '

PUA'AINA CRATER: NATIONAL MEMORIAL CEMETARY OF THE PACIFIC
The Arlington Of The Wars In The Asia-Pacific Region
Only United States Military Veterans & Family May Be Buried There
Citizens all, many heroes, evidence of our ongoing struggle for freedom, and the commitment of the good people of the 50th State of Hawaii to protect, preserve and defend our democracy, and honor the memory of our fallen soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen and Coastguardsmen & women.

















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