Friday, January 19, 2018

Vol VI No. 686 Part 2





Laulani Teale





yes, let's have more immigrants from Norway! who voted for this man? hope no black people whose ancestors immigrated (or were stolen from) from 'shithole countries.'

Trump insists ‘this was not the language used’ but senator who attended meeting says: ‘He said these hate-filled things, and he said them repeatedly’
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Maile Huvar Why would Norwegians want to pay for Healthcare and education here?! Really. They already get that free

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Pikake Enos DUMP TRUMP DO DO SHIT ASS!!!!

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Nancy McGee Wongmo Takes one to know one 💥

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Andrew Neale Someone is lying and I have a tendency not to belive Trump because of the 2000 confirmed lies since he was sworn into office fact checked and listed by the Washington post.

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Melissa Leina'ala Haa Moniz
JANUARY 17, 2018
IOLANI PALACE
Aloha Ka Lahui o Hawai’i
...

On behalf of the Royal Order of Kamehameha I and Our Ali’i Nui Sir William Roback,
Let me begin for the record
That today in continuity of 125 years ago
We gather in PROTEST and not in CELEBRATION
125 years ago our ancestors placed their footprints on these very grounds for all of us to walk in their footsteps
ONIPA’A
KA LAHUI O HAWAI’I
ONIPA’A KAKOU
WHERE ARE WE?
125 YEAR LATER
‘Ano’ai kakou !!
On behalf of the Royal Order of Kamehameha I and Our Ali’i Nui Sir William Roback,
We commend all of you that are here today.
On this day 125 years ago Our Sovereigns Palace was surrounded by armed troops of the United States of America, a supposed ally of our neutral Hawaiian Kingdom.
A small group of Traitors betrayed Our Queen Lili’uokalani and implemented their plan to remove the electoral monarch. The intentions of their plan, was to make Hawai’i a territory of the United States. History and the rule of law will tell you that all they plotted and accomplished was, under international and United States law, better understood today as illegal. WE HAVE NOT and WILL NOT FORGET what happened 125 years ago, and here today, the world will see and be aware that it is time now, to make right, the wrong, that was perpetrated so
many years ago.
Our Kingdom was violated and Our Queen was imprisoned as she pleaded to the nation, that she had considered a friend of La Hui, to undo what was done. Her plea was recognized, the President of the United States, Grover Cleveland, sent an ambassador to investigate the incident, and upon receiving his report, he demanded of the perpetrators that they return the throne of the Kingdom to its rightful ruler.
That demand was ignored.
The traitors were determined to become a part of the United States to advance their own greedy interests. Despite their plans being twice defeated in the United States Congress, they plotted on, waited until Grover Cleveland was out of office and approached the new administration under William McKinley with their plan.
Even then, under the laws of the United States, they could not legally give Hawai’i to the United States. Without a long winded speech, consider this a brief history lesson of how Hawai’i became a “territory” of the United States. It was illegal then and it remains illegal now. The annexation of Hawai’i was and remains to this day, ILLEGAL.
“Stolen” is a global recognized term. Is Our Hawai’i Kingdom, It’s Lands, Its waters, its Ocean, and its people, stolen property? Ponder those thoughts.
Our La Hui must enter a court that has “Competent Jurisdiction” and return our Kingdom.
Many of us here today have kupuna who were alive during that time 125 years ago. Many of those kupuna could tell you exactly where they were on the day that this crime was made known to them. Many of those kupuna wanted to fight to rid this Palace of the traitors, but Our Queen advised otherwise.
Our kupuna did not forget what happened here.
Our makua were told of what happened here and all that would hear that story knew that it was wrong.
The occupation of the Hawaiian Kingdom was like an unstoppable tidal wave. There was no resistance. The little resistance that was organized later was overcome by superior forces.
An emptiness in the consciousness of the Hawaiian people took root and was spread to the generations of our makua and a general apathy overwhelmed us.
In time, we all became “good citizens” of the nation that illegally occupies our Kingdom to this day. Only in recent times did anyone question the legal status of the United States with regard to its prolonged occupation of Hawai’i. We, the present generation of the descendants of subjects of the Hawaiian Kingdom, have educated ourselves to see the truth. The Kue petition solidifies that. The international courts and the United Nations must recognize our history and that our struggle for justice must be adjudicated.
Soon, Commissioners from the International Commission of Inquiry, appointed by the World Court are meeting at the Kanaina Building to gather the facts of what happened 125 year ago. These Commissioners are among the finest legal minds in the world and each of them has an unquestioned expertise in International Law. Their findings will be presented to the World Court at The Hague, Netherlands. We must all unify our voice and strengthen their findings so that the truth of our history may prevail and lead us to recognition by all the nations of the world as to the status of Our Hawaiian Kingdom.
LAHUI!! The Kingdom still exists.
The Royal Order of Kamehameha I made that statement years ago in 1995 in a proclamation that was read at Mauna Ala.
E Hookanaka, Our Royal Order of Kamehameha I is a functioning and symbolic Order of Kamehameha V, created by him, by Royal decree in 1865 and under the last Constitutional Government of Our Hawaiian Kingdom Constitution of 1864.
Kamehameha V was our last Autocratic Monarch. Our last successor of the Kamehameha Dynasty. Those that followed after were under an electoral monarchy and in reality; the Kingdom government under Kamehameha V was already turning in favor of those conspirators and traitors of our Hawaiian Kingdom.
We are not the Order of 1865, for the Royal decree says “the said Order shall not be hereditary”. Our Kingdom does exist, the body of Government is in place, Our governing documents are present. However, an unfortunate fact is: that Our Sovereign was removed and remains vacant today. So, we have our body, we have our na’au we just don’t have our head.
The Royal Order of Kamehameha I of today, ask Ka La Hui o Hawaii to stand with one voice and recognize the truth. Come together and reinstate our “body”, be guided by Our Governing Documents and Educate ourselves as Loyal Subjects once again so we may manage Our Kingdom as a whole and if our kupuna o kahiko, Our Na Kua give us the Hoailona and their blessings, then in time we may actually have a Sovereign of this great Kingdom.
In the words of Kamehameha the Great, “Imua e Na poki’i a inu i ka wai ‘awa’awa. A’ohe hope e ho’i mai ai.” Forward my younger Brothers and drink of the bitter waters. There is no retreat, no turning back!! We have come 125 years to right a bitter wrong. We will not retreat and we will not turn back.
ALOHA
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Boycotting the MLK parade! We're not lying down for this insult!

Laulani Teale
WHY I AM BOYCOTTING THE MLK PARADE 2018 IN HONOLULU AND ASK THAT YOU DO SO, TOO.
Sadly, I just need everyone to know that I, along with many other Hawaiians, are BOYCOTTING the MLK Parade, because of their extreme abuse of the kanaka movement. This has not been a secret. Please join us, and DO NOT PARTICIPATE until leadership sets this right.
And please do not put it on us to "reach out" or "make it right". WE ARE NOT THE ABUSERS. In our culture -- the original culture of this land -- in a case of clear wrongdoing, it is the wrongdoer who has the kuleana to reach out to make right.
I love MLKʻs legacy dearly, and will best perpetuate it by non-participation in that which is just plain WRONG. I do not think he would have tolerated the serious abuse of the original people of the land.
Yes, the military presence etc. also irritates the heck out of me, but that is not why we are boycotting. It is because of EXTREME DISRESPECT AND ABUSE OF KANAKA. To an absolutely intolerable level.
The story is: at some point in the early 2000s, folks from the kanaka/independence movement (who were NOT going to walk behind the US Military!) started leading the march. The first time was an awesome drop-in action largely led by Lynette Cruz. After that, we continued to lead the march, largely with the blessing of its leadership due to great peace work done by an awesome kupuna and Civil Rights hero, Marsha Joyner. It is because of her that I have been reluctant to speak out more about the reprehensible actions that ended up taking place.
So, we were in the front position, but it was really awkward all around. This was because the US MILITARY LEADS THE PARADE with its (often all white!!) Color Guard, and right DIRECTLY behind them comes none other than the "Royal Hawaiian Band", who play NOTHING but "God Bless America", "America the Beautiful" and "Iʻm Proud to Be an American" the whole march. I KID YOU F---ING NOT. Yes, these people have the audacity to use the name of the very band that "Kaulana Na Pua" was written for in 1893. But they sold out, and actually literally sign an oath of loyalty to the illegal government. Every one of them. That is their individual kuleana, but I gotta say it straight about the organization: they are worse than traitors, they are total fakes as far as upholding the strong stance of their forebears. They have NO loyalty to the Kingdom whatsoever. Nor any semblance of pono, frankly. You would think that for Martin Luther King, they could at least play Civil Rights songs -- "We Shall Overcome"? "We shall Not Be Moved"? "Ain't Gonna Study War No More?" No. Not even. Pro military crap wale no. They are an organ of the continued occupation of Hawaiʻi.
Anyway, so we led the parade and though it was extremely awkward to have these guys on our heels, it worked. And I mean they were literally on our heels. The Color Guard (which was ALL WHITE several times -- how's THAT for irony?!?) kept going fast even when we could not go any faster, and I think they literally stepped on Karen Murray and Baron Ching's feet.
Of course, what was really awkward was that we were carrying independence, "stop bombing" etc signs and shouting stuff about being illegally occupied to the crowd (in a nice, parade-friendly kind of way -- we never lost aloha at all), while blowing pu etc, with the US military color guard on our heels. Hey, we did have to make the message clear -- if we had not done so, it would have looked like we were ushering them in willfully, with that pro-occupation music playing from the zombified colonial version of one of our dearest bands! And were somehow okay with it. WE ARE NOT OKAY WITH IT, but we embrace Dr. King's legacy AS we protest and speak the truth -- loudly and clearly.
Anyway, so apparently the military complained about this and acted like WE were abusing THEM for speaking the truth and being ourselves. Seriously. Bullshit. But anyway, this was a side issue. And mind you, we were never told about this. We found out there was a complaint long after everything went down.
When we showed up 2 years ago, we were all set up and ready to go as usual, and then suddenly pulled to the side as a group BY POLICE when the march started. Yes that is right -- KANAKA were ETHNICALLY PROFILED AND DETAINED AT THE POINT OF A GUN AT THE MARTIN LUTHER KING JR MARCH!!! Apparently, this was on the orders of Mayor Kirk Caldwell, who told an organizer to do this, and it was carried out without question or any discussion at all.
It was awful. My beautiful sista Moani Sitch was crying, and that alone just absolutely broke my heart. She is the most beautiful form of kūʻē imaginable. She is Christian, sweet, dedicated and absolutely upholds aloha very powerfully in all that she does. She had brought a whole contingent of sweet young kanaka from her church, several of them with keiki ready and excited to participate in the parade in good faith. Baron Ching had his giant flag already strapped on and ready to go. There were several new folks who had no idea what was going on -- they were just there to support and help. I have pictures.
We were detained to the side as the whole parade passed, and then the police left and parade marshals actually started shouting at us that we had "better get in line" at the end. I kid you not. That's right, THE HAWAIIANS WERE TOLD TO GO TO THE "BACK OF THE BUS" AT THE MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY MARCH. Seriously!
Of course, we did not. After heavy-hearted pule, we left in utter heartbroken disgust.
I have shared this story several times here. It is not a secret. And yet, there has been ZERO apology, nor any attempt to reach out to us or make this right. None.
Of course, many well-intentioned people have suggested reaching out to this organizer or that organizer or attending this meeting or that to talk to organizers about this. You know what? THIS IS HAWAIʻI. And in our culture, it is the wrongdoer, not the wronged, upon whom the responsibility falls for making right. Period.
So for now, I am boycotting the march, and ask others to join me in this. Without the Kanaka Maoli leading the way, it is frankly nothing but a celebration of the continued military occupation of Hawaiʻi and does not honor the legacy of Dr. King in a pono manner at all. There is no balance at all. And please don't tell me this group or that has a contingent in the parade --- that is their kuleana, and I respect it, but it does not make this right. At all.
If anyone has anything to say about this (other than questions etc which are always welcome), I prefer that you say it to the march organizing committee, who should have been put on the spot over this long ago. My hope is that they will eventually do the right thing, and that we can walk together once more. We are not asking for a lot -- an apology and restoration of respect for our rightful position would suffice. But until then, please boycott. And spread the word.
No justice, no peace.

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