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HONOLULU POLICE ADMIT QUOTAS

FOUR SPEEDING TICKETS PER HOUR NOW REQUIRED BY HPD

The Funny Thing: It's The Cops Who Are Complaining



The deal in Hawaii is this: We don't pay much, but you don't have to do much. And take your time about it, we have lifetime employment here; in government, anyway. Teachers, judges, firemen and cops complain about low pay, and many leave for the hated Mainland. But those who stay don't expect to have to hustle to keep their jobs. The local teachers' union spends most of its' time fighting any sort of performance reviews, despite the fact that we are 48th in education, behind Alabama and Mississippi. But so are our teachers' salaries. Judges whine that they can't live on their measly $100,000+ annual salaries, although that is more than double the average household income here. And their job is basically part-time.

The cops are famous for standing around in big bunches doing nothing at every opportunity. Unlicensed bicycle? Twelve cops stand and talk about it for two hours. Then it's off to lunch. They start every shift by taking a meal break. Check any drive-in at 7-8am, 3-4pm or 11pm-12am. And don't look for them in the last hour of their shift, either. They're probably already back in the barn. But now some trouble-maker wants them to crank out thirty tickets every day, for the same low wages as always. Auwe!

This is funny because, for years, cops have been perjuring themselves in court by swearing that ticket quotas don't exist: Every ticket is given on its' own merits, for genuine "offenses." So, if they'll lie about why they gave the ticket in the first place, how can any of their testimony be taken seriously? Especally now that they have publically admitted that they have been lying in court for years? And THEY called the local TV news to report this.

They're being "forced" to ticket people for doing as little as five miles over the speed limit on the freeway, where the speed limit ranges from fifteen to fifty-five pretty much at random. This is after several Chiefs of Police have announced on our local television news over the years that they only start ticketing at ten miles over the limit. Fair and unbiased judges might have been inclined to throw out the manini little tickets before. Now they will all have to throw them out, at least for those "offenders" who can afford a legal representation.

The poor get public defenders for free, so they'll be OK. That just leaves the working poor and the already hard-squeezed middle classes, who don't qualify for legal aid, and can't afford real lawyers, to rack up these fines and these points against their driver's licenses. The real penalties will come when all of our already highest-in-the-nation (except for NJ) car insurance rates get jacked up because of these spurious tickets. And then there's the loss of jobs, or the failure to get one in the first place, since most employers require a "clean abstract," even for a desk job.

The brass at HPD probably don't care about this any more than they care about all the people they strand every time they close off the one road that goes in or out of the Windward or Leeward sides of the island. If they feel they have to spend eight or ten hours measuring the scene of an accident, or talking down an irate husband with a gun, or scaping body parts off the road, then a hundred thousand people can just sit there on the freeway and wait. They don't even bother to close the entrance ramps or post warnings: They just let traffic keep entering the closed roadway until it is jammed solid for twenty miles. The public be damned, it says on their cruisers. Well, it should. But it doesn't have to. We already know.


ABC NEWS: KITV-4 HONOLULU
"Officers Voice Concerns Over Ticket Quotas"

' Since the middle of October, traffic enforcement officers said supervisors have required them to ticket four motorists an hour for speeding during the three hours they usually spend on traffic enforcement. That's 12 speeding tickets required per motorcycle officer per shift and officers said they feel that's a quota. KITV has obtained an internal HPD memo that says: "For each hour of enforcement, the officer is expected to issue the number of speeding citations as set by the command." '

ABC NEWS: KITV-4 HONOLULU
"HPD Officers Say They Must Reach Quota"

' Many people said they think if they don't go more than 10 miles per hour over the speed limit police will not give them a ticket. But a KITV investigation has revealed new ticket quotas at the Honolulu Police Department have some officers writing speeding tickets to drivers going just a few miles per hour over the limit. Since October, police officers in the traffic enforcement division told KITV they have been required to give four speeding tickets an hour. To keep up with that quota, some officers said they're ticketing motorists for driving only a few miles over the speed limit. '

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UH BECOMES GAME PRESERVE FOR CRIMINALS

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THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII LETS HOODS RUN WILD

BORN FREE, AS FREE AS THE WIND BLOWS, ALL YOUR STUFF IS FREE TO THEM, LA-LA LA-LA-LA LA-LAAAH!

That Would Include Your Sex And Your Life If They Want To Take It

Hawaii's only State university has no real security whatsoever. One of their rentacops was beaten and robbed right on his own post the other day. You can sail right through the college gates and cruise around all day with no question, unless you park illegally: Then they'll tow you, even if you're a student. If you're a violent criminal, eh, no probs, brah!

If you want to rob, assault, rape or kill someone, it's open season there all year round. The UH Manoa, in a wealthy section of Honolulu on the south shore of Oahu, has become the hunting ground of choice for Hawaii's crooks, the largest group of thieves in the nation. Bus lines run right around and through the wide-open campus day and night, carrying thugs from everywhere on the Main island right into the vulnerable institution of higher learning. The criminals know that there are virtually no patrols by either the Honolulu Police Department or the Hawaii State Sheriff's Department. It's a cop-free zone. Not that it matters.

Even off-campus, Hawaii has one of the highest rate of robberies and burglaries in the nation: Proportionally more than New York or Los Angeles, Newark or Oakland, Detroit or Houston, Miami or Chicago. Most of the property crimes victimize tourists, but locals are feeling the pain now too. The highest crime areas on Oahu, the most populous island in the chain, are the major hotel and shopping areas, and the wealthiest neighborhoods. "Haoles" and foreigners are targeted, students and Japanese tourists are easy prey. Law enforcement officers do little or nothing, criticizing victims for "being in the wrong place at the wrong time," "carrying valuable jewelry and electronics," and "tempting local people by having cash."

Crime reports are discouraged: "We're not gonna catch them now," "You're never gonna get your stuff back," "You'll be long gone before this ever comes to trial," "The courts' gonna let 'em go anyways," "They never do time," "They'll just target you if you testify," "The police cannot protect you 24/7," "Why are you reporting this," "Are you just trying to get someone in trouble," "Are you lying," "Would you be willing to take a lie detector test," "Do you have any warrants outstanding," "Gotta check up on you first," "Are you Local," "Do you have any proof like pictures or recordings," "Too busy to do the paperwork right now," "Paperwork takes hours," "You have to go downtown to file an official report," "You're in the wrong place," "We're closed," "No can."

The attitude of many "Local" people is that anything that isn't nailed down is fair game. If somebody has something you want, just take it, it's OK. If they have more than you to begin with, it's only fair, they probably deserve to get ripped off. Especially if they're black, white, from Asia, the Mainland, tourists or military. Not only do many "Locals" not care if these people get assaulted or robbed, some even applaud it. Is it any wonder the crime rate is so disproportionately high? Is it any surprise that the cops simply don't care? Nobody does. Just having something, anything, makes you a legitimate target. Eh, you asked for it, braddah! Be humbo no grumbo!

This apparently applies even to uppity "Locals" who show they "tink you betta dan me," the worst possible crime in "Local" society. You know, students, strivers, hard-working people struggling to better themselves, rocking the "Local" boat. The idea that anyone here might bust their ass for a better life, and then attempt to enjoy it, just infuriates many of these "Local" losers. It makes them feel like, well, losers, which is what they are. So it's totally OK to strike out at anybody who is doing better than you, even if they just look like they're doing better, you know, like, by going to college, having a good job or being a different color. That's our system of reverse-apartheid here in the Aloha State.

"Local," by the way, means "not white or black or oriental." Even if you're "Fresh Off the Boat," you're "Local" if your ass is the approved shade of brown: Not too light, not too dark. Doesn't matter if you're even from anywhere around the Pacific, or whether you speak English or any Polynesian language: You're brown, you're "Local," until proved otherwise: Mexican, Portuguese, Egyptian, Pakistani, Indonesian, or just really really tan. If you're not the approved shade, even if you're Hawaiian, born here, ancestors buried here, going back centuries, you can never be "Local," until you can prove it, by connection to someone who is the "right" color. Although you are welcome to put on your pidgin, wear a coconut hat, fake the hula and curse "da fockin haoles," for a few "Local" points; you'll still be judged by your skin color.

So, don't send your kids to college here. If you live here, send your kids someplace nice on the Mainland, where they can get a real education. If you leave them here, they will become human prey on any campus of the University of Hawaii system. And nobody cares.
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HAWAIIAN KING CLOWNED

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CRAZED FELONS ASSAULT WOMAN, CLAIM HAWAIIAN THRONE

ONLY, THEY COULDN'T FIND IT



Now These Clown-Princes Are Beating Up Women

Wife-beating, of course, really is an old Polynesian tradition. Nothing like a good beating to put da wahine in her place, eh, Brah? Hawaii probably has the highest rate of domestic violence in the nation, if not the world. The police do nothing about it. A Honolulu Police Department Sergeant stood by today, at the gates of the State-owned Iolani Palace museum two blocks from HPD headquarters, watching a female museum worker being repeatedly struck by several men, and did nothing. Well, not nothing: The cop walked away.

Hawaii State Sheriff's deputies have previously stood by and done nothing as "sovereignty activists," i.e. racist thugs claiming to be Hawaiian, assaulted women and children at State functions on the grounds of the Iolani Palace museum. The deputies indicated they sympathized with the attackers. One of the thugs in Friday's attack claimed to be a U.S. Marshall. The assaults at the former palace might almost be said to be sanctioned by law enforcement, if not perpetrated by them.

The Hawaii State Department of Land and Natural Resources, which is supposed to exercise control over the palace museum on behalf of all the people of Hawaii, has closed the museum. New rules for access to the palace are now being considered. Maybe they'll start checking for Hawaiian blood-quantum. But that could backfire, as most of these sovereignty clowns are less than half Hawaiian.

This is allowed to go on because it provides a convenient outlet for the personal frustrations of the life-long losers and fringe elements that make up most of the so-called Hawaiian sovereignty movement. As long as they have a sandbox to carry out their play-acting, there will be no attempts to actually accomplish anything. The palace provides a convenient place to watch and contain these fools, and a stage where they may humiliate themselves and de-legitimize their "cause." No serious Hawaiian would ever want to be associated with these assholes. So, no serious Hawaiian sovereignty movement will ever get off the ground. Problem solved. The clowns are just doing the work of the State and Federal government: Keeping the Hawaiians in check, forever.


HONOLULU ADVERTISER
"Police end 'Iolani Palace occupation"

' At one point, witnesseses said, three men shoved aside a palace employee as she attempted to allow someone onto the grounds. The incident occurred near the diamondhead side gate. A witness, attorney James Wright, said the men struck the employee and slammed her into a gate in front of a Honolulu police officer. All the officer said is "this is not HPD jurisdiction," Wright said. Wright said the woman was attempting to escort him onto the grounds when three men began to assault her. "They hit her and hit her and hit and the police sergeant stood there and did nothing," Wright said. While they were not punching her, "they were slamming her against the post and then slamming the gate on her," he said. "And the police officer did nothing to protect her. The cop literally walked away while she was still being pushed around." Said Wright: "They said she could leave but no one could come in." He said the woman did nothing to fight back except to shout "stop hitting me" and "stop assaulting me." The group let reporters onto the palace grounds for about an hour. '

HONOLULU STAR-BULLETIN
"Palace takeover"

' Alfred Love, a group member who contended he was a federal marshal, denied that anyone had been manhandled at a side gate. Love said he would escort the king to the throne. Love "placed the king of Hawaii and his kingdom under federal protective custody and arrested the state of Hawaii from doing anything that would harm or endanger the kingdom, or threaten the treaties of the USA by armed force" against the Kingdom of Hawaii, Nation, the group's statement read. '

HONOLULU STAR-BULLETIN
"Purported monarch couldn’t find throne"

' Followers of James Kimo Akahi had planned to chain him to the throne in Iolani Palace that he claims for the Kingdom of Hawaii. But, Akahi said yesterday, the group couldn't find the throne room after breaking into the historic building. Akahi, 67, of Haiku, Maui, said he had never been inside the palace until Friday -- Statehood Day -- when he and 22 others in a Hawaiian sovereignty group were arrested by state officers. Court records show Akahi has 20 criminal convictions in Hawaii that date back to 1961, including assault, theft and burglary. '

HONOLULU ADVERTISER
"Police conduct questioned"

' DLNR spokeswoman Deborah Ward said yesterday that the palace would be closed at least through the weekend. "We are continuing our investigation into what happened and no further comment would be appropriate at this time," she said. Public access will be restricted "until it is possible for us to assess any damage and to ensure the palace doors are secure ... . We regret that we are unable to share the palace with visitors until the assessment is complete," a statement from the palace said. Lingle said the DLNR is in the process of reviewing the rules regarding 'Iolani Palace security. Those rules need to be rewritten in order to restrict access to maintain security, she said. "It's always a balance between having access for the public — because it belongs to the public — but also protecting it." Law enforcement officers from the DLNR remained on palace grounds overnight and into the early morning hours yesterday. Fifteen of those arrested face misdemeanor trespassing charges and were released. But eight of the protesters were arrested on suspicion of second-degree burglary, a Class C felony under Hawai'i law punishable by up to five years in prison. Those arrested on suspicion of burglary were listed on the arrest log as His Majesty Akahi Nui, leader of the group; as well as Wayne Nunes, Vinessa Fimbres, Tanya Kaahanui and Terry Kaahanui. Also arrested on suspicion of burglary were Donald Love-Boltz, Waynette Nunes and Akahi Wahine. Akahi Nui, a retired heavy equipment operator from Ha'iku, Maui, was released pending investigation. He said yesterday he'll be back. "I plan it. I know I can take it over. With the help of God, I will take it over," he said. Akahi Nui has a criminal record with 20 prior charges, including four felonies. "Everybody when they're young, they do a lot of mistakes. Your parents say not to do that, you still do that. I got plenty of charges, yes," he said. The charges were for burglary and assault and battery, he said. '

HAWAII REPORTER
"Proposed New Rules for 'Iolani Palace and Grounds"

' I was a participant in the attempt to hold a pro-American celebration of Statehood Day in August 2006. That celebration was led by Senator Sam Slom and Representative Barbara Marumoto, and included the Kalani High School band. We had an official permit. But a crowd of secessionist agitators showed up before the celebration could begin. They posted very large banners stretching between the trees on the King Street side of the building, played music loudly from at least one boom-box amplified through loud-speakers, yelled at the participants through an amplified megaphone. They were there for the sole purpose of disrupting and preventing the celebration of Statehood Day. Like sharks, they began their attack by singling out the weakest, most vulnerable targets -- the children of the Kalani High School band. They walked right up to the Kalani students who were seated and ready to play their instruments, yelled loudly in their faces, gave warnings through their megaphone that bad things were going to happen and the students should leave. The parents and chaperones, fearing for the safety of the children, did indeed lead them away and back onto their bus before a single note of music could be played. Having successfully intimidated the band, they then swarmed the adult celebrants, with individual and small groups of hooligans stepping up nose-to-nose to yell in the faces of the celebrants including cursing, spitting, thrusting fingers repeatedly to within inches of eyes, and yelling historical nonsense. It was clear that the hooligans had a well-orchestrated plan, with individual protesters singling out individual celebrants. There was no attempt by any state or city or DLNR law enforcement officers to restore order and protect the legitimate celebrants -- indeed, it appeared there were zero security personnel present. A few weeks later at another Palace event (Liliuokalani's birthday) I questioned a group of three sheriffs in uniform who admitted that some sheriffs (perhaps themselves) had been sitting inside the Palace basement on Statehood Day and did nothing (perhaps because they sided with the views of the secessionists). '

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