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Add the Garden Island News to the list of media outlets that are out to ruin the kanaka maori. The coverage of PMRF was out to cut the throats of the kanaka maoli. Here's what really happened. Do NOT believe the vicious lies on the front page of Garden Island News. This newspaper is leading the attack on all human rights on Kaua'i !

When I was told that Henry Noa would testify I responded: "It'll never be in the paper !" I have come to understand the policies enforced in the State of Hawai'i. I was right then!

U.S. Navy Asks

the State of Hawai'i for 5,280 acres of kanaka maori land;

the State of Hawai'i Gives

the acres while OHA assists as a "running dog lackey"

 

I was there from about 8:30 to about 5:30. Believe it or not. Monday May 24th, 2004. The State was careless with the agenda for the meeting which was not formally posted but just lying around in two pages tosssed from table to floor to table. People were confused. People had to yell or we would have never known what was said, if we had let the State have its way. In other words, the government fully asserted its POWER to be just as arbitrary as it chose to be. We took hold of the shit end of the stick. The "sign up sheet" was hard to find besides.

I would have never stayed all day if Pana'ewa Kaoni had not been allowed to swear at everybody at the meeting. "Fuck you !" was the most encouraging and positive item on the "agenda". Naturally this WAS covered by TGI news. Just like the humorous aspect of Lloyd Ikaika Pratt's event in Hanalei got coverage while the serious aspect was ignored.

Joanne Yukimura showed up and rapped some "diversified agriculture" crap from the '70's. Then this zombie lady, Heidi Kai Guth, showed up for OHA. She spoke swiftly as though what she read was not all that important, like delerious murmurrings of a vampire in its casket during its mandatory daytime confinement away from na kukuna o ka la. Lots of people cheered because there was a little rhetorical stuff in what she read. I got her business card and a copy of the letter from the head zombie, Haunani Apoliona. This OHA letter had a moldy, graveyard kind of smell, like it had spent years in a coffin and had been handled by dead people. The letter was like OHA coaching the DLNR on how it should handle the navy's request. Why on earth would the State of Hawai'i pay any attention whatsoever to advice from an institution that had been fatally butchered by none other than the United States Supreme Court ?? I personally get worried whenever the Undead at OHA mention the bones of the kanaka maoli ancestors on the Mana plain because, whereas these departed souls have been "resting in peace" for the most part, some legal magician at OHA might ,under cover of darkness, attempt to resurrect these departed souls for some doomed OHA project.

There were some mature kanaka maoli milling about who would throw in a comment across the Hall from time to time. They did not have name tags or anything. It took me a while to figure out who Henry Noa was. I did not know he was so young. Lono and Rupert were there.

After lunch was announced at 12:15 somebody told me Henry Noa would speak after lunch. I told someone "If Henry Noa were to stand in front of the DLNR and slashed his throat and his blood splashed all over the panelists and he died in a pool of blood right there on the floor, it would NOT make the news." That is how solid the news BLACKOUT is in violation of the human rights of the kanaka maoli.

KANAKA MAORI BLACKED OUT

RUBOUT FOLLOWS BLACKOUT

Like me you probably think that the word "genocide" is a little strong in regard to the predicament of Hawaiians. Yet the first really insightful explanation that I have found to help me understand news coverage in these islands came from Keola Ala- lem.

"You see, newspapers have a way of being transformed into records, legal records. We all know the term "newspaper of record". For long the U.S. "newspaper of record" has meant the New York Times. But you know what newspaper is the record for the State; right ? And what newspaper is the "newspaper of record" on the island of Kaua'i ? Apparently there is a traditional conspiracy to keep the kanaka maoli off the record, at least off the good record. Freedom of speech in one thing; denial of existence in another.

To deny Henry Noa the right to speak is one thing; to deny he was there is another. He WAS indeed allowed to speak. Yet no media was moved to inquire about the papers he served the Board members or publish what he said. These experiences add up for kanaka maoli into a knowledge of BLACKOUT. But kanaka maoli do not just walk the streets of these islands in a state of being blacked- out, denied the right of speech and the right of existence. Blackout becomes Rubout. So many kanaka maoli just like Henry Noa have dreams of being rubbed out. Genocide.

There is a conspiracy in these islands to keep the kanaka maori from "making news" ! We all walk about in our daily lives with the notion that we can "make the news". If we get run over by a car, we expect to make the news. If we are shot in a bank, we expect to make the news. But not Hawaiians. When Hawaiians stand up to defend their most basic human rights, the news media in this State WILL NOT cover their cries for help ! Subjectively, the kanaka maoli have visions of genocide. If I am treated as though I do NOT exist at all, someone very powerful must be seeking my ------Death.

Yet when the pictures of what the USA was doing to Iraqi civilians in prison flashed around the world, the first thing out of the President's mouth was "Americans are not like that !" The residents of these islands ARE indeed "like that". They live and breathe every day an atmosphere from the Advertiser, Star- bulletin, and Garden Island News that the very existence of the kanaka maori is best BLACKED- OUT, except for entertainment purposes like when Lloyd Ikaika Pratt humorously frolicked in the Hanalei court. This is a serious attack on the most fundamental human rights of human beings right here in our midst.

At 12:55 PM May 24, 2004 Henry Noa was indeed physically present at the War Convention Hall in Lihu'e Kaua'i. He introduced himself as the Prime Minster of the Reinstated Hawaiian Kingdom since 1999. His apparent secretary, Elaine Dunbar, carried some documents. He announced that he had "served papers" at a previous meeting. After describing that the Hawaiians had been pursuing "new directions" in honor of their Queen. He testified that this State Board had absolutely no power or authority to grant the US Navy any kind of occupation or control of the Crown or ceded lands of the kanaka maori on the Mana plain. He explained to the Board members that they would be brought to Justice over this matter of stealing and transfering kanaka maori lands into the possession of the United States Navy. His secretary, Elaine Dunbar, handed out the documents to each Board member who in no way resisted being "served". I did not see any journalists rushing up to get copies of the documents that were a curiosity to everyone present. Henry Noa did not say much. He got up and the meeting continued.

Allen "Keola" Alalem told me that people who supported the US Navy were bussed into Lihu'e free of charge.

Lono, from the Re-instated Nation, distributed a handout and recounted some history for the participants.

Rupert, from the Re-instated Nation, spoke about the enslavement of Pacific peoples as well as genocide.

The American Friends Service Committee had a representative, Kyle Kajihiro, speak against the US Navy.

One ha'ole wahine in khaki shorts went up one side of the US Navy and down the other. In a "give them no quarter" delivery, that wahine rattled off a machine gun Kelly list of the devastation left in the wake of the US Navy from Puerto Rico to the Phillippines. When she concluded and got up from the table, the Navy brass cut their eyes at her like "You traitorous white trailer trash bitch!" She looked like one of these lawyer types from Ivy League New England that have consciences as well as money, lots of it.