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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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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