(Curtis Narimatsu is a lifelong resident of Hilo who writes about the forgotten past such as the old
plantation days & untold heroes.)
Mokuola
Mokuola, known today as Coconut Island, was a place of refuge like Honaunau City of Refuge. Mokuola sacred rock still lies in the inlet where kids swim today. Mokuola point is where ancient Haw’ns preserved ancestral bones/islet jutting 
to sea is where bones were cured by elements. More recently, Ike Keli’ipio’s family, then kin Paul, were Mokuola’s keeper/caretaker [Ike tsunami victims' hero for saving lives 1946]. — Curt
Pu’u Kuki’i Behind Pre-1960 Kapoho Village
January 1960, lava is pouring over a dike and has largely destroyed it; Pu`u Kuki`i is in background.
Kuki’i was terraced on all sides like the Aztec ruins. Its heiau stone blocks were used to build ’Iolani Palace, & some remaining ones ended up at Lyman’s Puna home. Pu’u Kuki’i was not overrun by the 1960 Kapoho lava flow, & still retains its walled structure w/a few broken dressed stones. Our Lyman Museum also has Kuki’i remnant. Our Halai 3rd most mauka hill off Punahele St. in Hilo [the middle one was leveled to surface our road development pre-1970, & the middle rolling hill stood where today's former Casey social work bldg. is on Komohana/Pu'u Honu Sts.] shows heiau in old photos of the old jail on Waianuenue/Komohana Sts. 1908. June Gutmanis says that the heiau was astronomical. She died before her findings could be published. — Curt
King’s Landing
Actually, David Watumull wanted to develop our ancient habitation focused around Kamehameha’s law of the splintered paddle/mamalahoe at Papa’i beach/bay area, but failure to fulfill subdivision 
requirements doomed it. Watumull’s Paradise Park development completed itself but w/major snafus [substandard roads/infrastructure]. — Curt
WWI Cattle Anthrax Here
Rumors were that WWI German saboteurs spread anthrax here to disrupt our food supply. After all, heretofore decent outfit German National Hackfeld Co. was confiscated, & eventually taken over by new Big 5 outfit AmFac. Because Parker Ranch had vast ranges that lacked monitoring for saboteurs, gates were placed across the Mamalahoa Highway at both ends of Parker Ranch, with paniolos armed with shotguns, rifes, and revolvers. Parker Ranch always had a schism vs. Honoka’a ranchers/small cattlemen, accusing some of cattle rustling/theft. The anthrax outbreak on other islands exacerbated the tension between Parker Ranch & our proud Luso/Portuguese Honoka’a/Ahualoa ranchers. Lingering memories remain today about Parker Ranch’s heavy-handed ways vs. small ranchers. — Curt
Mahukona
Mahukona was the best shore landing in Kohala & got its start in 1883 when a railroad connected Mahukona to Niuli’i Mill 20 miles north. But by 1956, with bulk sugar containerization, Mahukona ceased to operate, inasmuch Mahukona only could handle older cumbersome bagged sugar. Which is why today’s Mahukona looks like a long-lost port in antiquity. — Curt
Lili’uokalani Did Not Give Her Namesake Park To Our County
Queen Liliuokalani
Kauikeaouli (Kamehameha III)
It’s metaphorical– our Crown lands became government lands to benefit all of Hawai’i residents, not just Hawaiians. Since Lili’u was our last Crown monarch, when our Territory gave her namesake park in 1907 to our County, we revisionists say that she herself gave us her own land. In reality, the original Kainehe park [Waiakea] was named after Kamehameha III [Kauikeaouli], our greatest democratic monarch [Constitution of 1840 that empowered commoners/Great Mahele of 1848]. Only after Lili’u died in 1917 was her namesake park named after her. It actually was Laura Kennedy 1879-1967, wife of Waiakea Sugar Mill mgr. CC Kennedy, who inspired the transformation of the Waiakea fish ponds to our residents. Her trip to Kyoto’s Golden Pavilion Gardens germinated our Japanese Garden concept. Laura was parks commissioner & gave her own money/resources to seed/adorn Lili’uokalani Park, not to mention Mo’oheau Park/Lincoln Park/Kalakaua Park. What is wrong with a war memorial across from the current Nihon Restaurant? We have peace/serenity/tranquility because our valorous defenders gave their last ounce of devotion to preserve our freedoms to enjoy our fleeting time on this earth. The only problem is that the next big tsunami will wreak havoc just like the 1837/1877/1946/1960 tsunamis. — Love, Curt
Vietnam War Purple Heart Veteran Emile Wery
Emile Wery is under an avalanche of opposition to his proxy Korean War Veterans outfit’s proposal to erect a tsunami-resistant V-shaped war memorial for all combat/military veterans across Nihon Restaurant in a weed-infested corner of Lili’uokalani Park. Emile, born 1944, is a career Army infantryman who retired as 1st Sgt. He is from our auspicious Hilo Wery [Haw'n] ohana. Granted, Waiakea buddaheads only knew Lili’u Park as Nihon Koen [Japanese Park]. Nonetheless, our Bi-Centennial Memorial is at Lili’u Park [200th anniversary of our Nation's founding 1976]. It is separated from “Nihon Koen” by beautiful foliage curtilage/border, just as the war memorial would be. The Bi-Centennial Memorial is our Korean War outfit’s best answer to Haw’n separatists/naysayers who argue that the memory of Lili’u should not be disgraced by a U.S. war memorial [the nation that overthrew her nation's monarchy]. Just as our Bi-Centennial Memorial celebrates our innate freedoms/liberty for all, our proposed war memorial celebrates our selfless martyrs/combat veterans who so patriotically gave up their lives in order for us to live & partake in life’s greatest pleasures [love for family/community/country], INCLUDING our lovely strolls thru majestic/ rural charm of Lili’u Park. There is no one more deserving to advocate our war memorial to be emplaced in an unobtrusive fashion at Lili’u Park than Emile, combat wounds & all [noticeable limp]. May I add that in reality, Lili’u had nothing to do with the founding/adornment of our Lili’u Park. Laura Vestal Kennedy 1879-1967 founded our park via land gift/Executive Order from our Territory 1907, & thru her own money/resources adorned/expanded our park. It was only after Lili’u died in 1917 that our park was named in memory of our last crown monarch Lili’u. Laura & her husband CC Kennedy 1848-1919 were our community’s greatest benefactors, having bestowed/blessed us all w/parks-facilities-recreational fixtures/etc. We revisionists today erroneously say that Lili’u gave us her own land for our park only
Liliuokalani Park
because such site was former crown land [ceded-transferred to government for the benefit of us all, not just Haw'ns]. Wrong. If visionary Laura had anything to say about a war memorial at Lili’u Park, she’d endorse unconditionally such a memorial, inasmuch the whole idea of Lili’u Park is to promote international peace & understanding. I’m sorry, but freedom NEVER is free — our valorous soldiers gave up their lives to ensure our domestic peace & tranquility, our so-called rural charm of Lili’u Park. What better place to have such repose/countenance than at our Lili’u Park!! For the record, frickin’ asshole John Okino [AJA veterans council head -- Korean War veteran] hung up the phone on me when I asked him why my Dad’s AJA boys opposed Emile’s outfit’s advocacy for a war memorial FOR ALL VETERANS at Lili’u Park. John is such an ignorant fricker. Like I tell you, post-1920 born Japs like John Okino are somethin’ else, man! [armed w/high school diplomas, unlike sugar planter-subjugated pre-1920 born plantation kids, who only were able to reach the 8th grade, not beyond] [post-1920 born Japs think more highly of themselves than they really are] — Love, Curt
May 1st, 2009 at 4:01 pm
Wow, editor Tiffany Edwards Hunt published great photos pertinent to the topics at hand! Thank you, Tiffany! Again, question asked of me is why I fight my own bloodline [442 boys]? I don’t fight my forebearers, they fight me. I ask an innocent question, they get pissed off. Question: “John, why do our AJA veterans oppose the war memorial being situated at Lili’uokalani Park?” Answer: “I don’t know, and I don’t want to talk about it!” Question: “Uncle Bill, when is it ever correct to tell the truth about Wataru Kohashi’s F Co. give-away to Medal of Honor recipient Kiyo Muranaga?” Answer: “What, you trying to be the big hero?! You trying to make trouble?! You trying to make a name for yourself?!” Gang, it’s about social class, not ethnicity/race. Dept. of Public Instruction [DOE forerunner] chief Oren Long, 1889-1965 Kansas Granger boy/grassroot to the core, social worker bred amid repressive regime of bankers in cahoots w/railroad moguls along the rolling Plains/Stock, Oren’s helm the greatest ever in
public school history, 1934-1946, ensured & made good on his providential mission that on His Watch, no plantation kid in Hawai’i would be denied the opportunity to ascend beyond the 8th grade, as our Big 5 cabal dictated [to keep kids enslaved to the plantations]. Thence, as Fate would have it, starting in 1934 our rural 8th graders now had the opportunity to further their “wisdom of the ages” thru public education/schools all the way up to the venerated 12th grade, culminating with the incredulous high school diploma [ticket to middle class stature, not peasant stereotype]. Oren Long & Oren Long alone, single-handedly, made this happen. Which is why you see an immense gulf in mentality/attitude between my dad Toshi’s pre-1920 born uneducated rural kids generation [Dad 1913-1985] & Dan Inouye/Uncle Bill-Willy Thompson both born 1924 post-1920 born AJAs, along w/johnny-come-lately John Okino, Uncle Willy’s Okino kin/kazoku from Waiakea. Dad’s generation [100th conscripts, original boys born no later than 1918; Dad joined up w/442 out of Pahala mill mechanic job--Dad born-raised in Wainaku mill camp] by necessity was our typecast Uncle Tom submissive/accomodationist mindset, inasmuch haole overlords had power of life/death over our fate, via jobs/economy/schools/dispensaries/etc., ergo, FEUDAL SOCIETY. Oren Long changed ALL of these hegemony/class repression. Essentially, Dan Inouye/Willy Thompson/John Okino typify today’s aggressive/Type A asshole achiever, their genesis being their newfound high school diploma, thanks to angelheart Oren Long. Thence, you see the schism that ensues when I give these MODERNS a smack of their own audacity/independence, & these punks don’t like to be questioned — conversely, Dad/Shigeru Ushijima born 1918 [asshole John Ushijima's born 1924 older brother] accomodate/welcome questions/life’s deepest hunger-yearning. Which is why Dad always laughed off Dad’s younger 442 punks when they got hairs up their asses over my advocacy for amnesty for VNW resisters. Wrong war, wrong foreign policy [imperialism all over again]. You see, our younger post-1920 born 442 boys don’t like to see themselves in the mirror scowling back at their faces. Like a kitten that scratches back at the mirror. Oren Long, gang, our divine enabler. Unquestionably, Dan Inouye is our greatest modern AJA [pork barrel], just as Hung Wai Ching 1905-2002 is our early buddahead messiah [saved the fate of our race/ethnicity by averting wholesale internment of our 160,000 buddaheads WWII -- Chinese Hung Wai, ennobled by Matthew 5/Isaiah 58--Biblical -- felt it uncontroverted that Hung Wai would give up Hung Wai's privileged life --U Chicago/Yale U. M.Divinity-- & dive into the reckoning/destiny of our local buddaheads/Stateside kotonks--hard coconut shells]. Love always, –Curt
May 1st, 2009 at 7:28 pm
Clarification: Papa’i where Kamehameha the Great’s mamalahoe/splintered paddle originated is known as King’s Landing. Papa’i is 4 miles south of Keaukaha’s
own King’s Landing at the end of Kalaniana’ole Ave. where Kamehameha also alighted. This now-uninhabited coastline seaward of today’s Mauna Loa Macnut factory is where David Watumull was going to have his mega-resort/development project. Aloha, –Curt
May 2nd, 2009 at 5:01 pm
Question asked is, “What’s the saddest thing about the post-1920 born AJAs?” Undeniably, retention of power till it’s too late. For the best interests of the State of Hawai’i, Dan Inouye as our titular leader should’ve groomed a successor like Ed Case to ascend up the seniority ladder in the U.S. Senate. As it stands, Akaka cancels out Inouye because both are born 1924. Conversely, a fella like Ed Case should be deferential & not be so bone-headed about being second in the saddle. It’s about the best interests of Hawai’i, not the lawmaker’s ego, gang! On the 442 level, it’s about recognizing the real leaders who UPEND the status quo, such as archivist Alvin Yoshitomi, who has been reminded by me that only Uncle Willy Thompson born 1924, has remembered to place flowers on our oyabun/patron saint Earl Finch’s grave 1915-1970. Uncle Willy was my Dad’s best friend/baby bruddah. Sadly, Uncle Willy is all into himself into terms of grooming & only applauds his submissive/blindly loyal Sons/Daughters acolytes. The other great 442 young leader who also is self-made [no grooming by Uncle Willy] is Uchinanchu Shari Tamashiro, KCC cybrarian. These Davids [unsung heroes] will carry us into the deep of the 21st century. Do you know that at our esteemed 100th Batt. complex off the Ala Wai Canal, hangs the honored portrait of our buddahead savior [saved our fate by averting wholesale internment WWII] Hung Wai Ching [not braggart/money-is-god baby brother Hung Wo Ching] 1905-2002, who gave up a life of opulence/luxury to rescue us buddaheads from FDR/Frank Knox who wanted us imprisoned as an ethnic group/race?? Yes, Hung Wai personally got Eleanor Roosevelt to chide her husband FDR about us buddaheads/Stateside Kotonks– that no greater loyal Americans stood strong/ground than us buddaheads/Stateside Kotonks. Yes, Hung Wai eyeballed/faced FDR/Eleanor at the White House. I was brought to tears when young 442 archivist Alvin Yoshitomi [overall, 442 enlistees are at least 5 yrs. younger than original 100th Batt. conscripts] acknowledged that Hung Wai Ching, a chinaman who gave up his life for our race/culture, is our greatest AJA hero!! To tears!! Always remind yourselves of Jack Burns 1909-1975, a White Trash rebel whose mantra was TO GROOM successors to fulfill “everybody’s equal” [Biblical/spiritual]. Do you know that our own boss Dan Inouye owes Dan’s existence to our Godfather Jack Burns, who GROOMED Dan to carry out Jack’s creed of “everybody’s equal?” Yes, Burns succeeded Hung Wai Ching in the political arena [GOP Hung Wai WWII/Statehood push via GOP Joe Farrington][Gov. Jack Burns 1962-1974]. Love everlasting, –Curtis
July 4th, 2009 at 8:40 am
In case you didn’t know crown lands were the personal lands of the ali`i and not government lands this was done at the mahele whose purpose was to make all land in hawaii as private property and not government land so that if Hawai`i was seized international law required that private property rights had to be recognized and could not be seized by occupiers. If you don’t believe me check out the mahele records and international law.
Also of interest would be the usa congressional records where they state (my paraphasing) that a joint resolution is not sufficient to annex a country. For that you need a treaty of annexation which failed to pass congress twice. A joint resolution is domestic law and did not apply to lands foreign to the US. Email me back if you want the specific location of said government records. Also the US insists other countries should follow international law when it has not done so itself which is very hypocritical there are many examples of this such as the UN list of land that should be decolonized of which the US fought (and succeeded) to make sure that hawaii was removed from such list also the statehood election as per UN requirements was supposed to have the independance option but that was not followed either. I could go on and on but the facts are the US is the defacto government here not the dejure one see Black’s law dictionary for clarification of these terms
as for your name calling of other Hilo citizens regardless of their actions is childish and just diminishes you and your message. One more thing if the MAJORITY FEELS IT IS WRONG TO PLACE MONUMENT THERE THEN SHOULDN’T THAT BE RESPECTED. THIS IS NOT A DICTATORSHIP WHERE A SMALL MINORITY OF CITIZENS CAN FORCE THEIR WILL ON THE VERY LARGE MAJORITY WHO SEEK TO HAVE THE MONUMENT PUT IN A MORE APPROPRIATE PLACE. HOW TELLING THAT EVEN THE JAPANESE GROUPS ARE AGAINST IT. please reconsider your divisive ideas and let’s heal this pilikia. Thank you for letting me share my mana`o.
ps aren’t you also an after 1920 buddha head that you seem to so despise?
July 4th, 2009 at 9:25 am
Hi Hiwahiwa: Kamehameha III Kauikeaouli was our greatest monarch, including his legacy Great Mahele 1848. He and his successors disposed of his crown lands until 1865, when the law prohibited further conveyance of crown lands. When the monarchy was toppled in 1893, the remaining crown lands were seized and made a part of the public domain. You are a beneficiary of the public domain. Public does not mean Hawaiian-only. Your name is Young. It is not a Hawaiian word. Your invective on private property vs. government land is ludicrous — Kauikeaouli signed 2 instruments in the Mahele Book, by which he set aside the larger portion of his lands for the benefit of the government, and kept other lands for himself and his heirs. The part that he kept became known as crown lands. Although a majority of U.S. Senators were for annexation of Hawai’i, the required two-thirds majority for ratification of the annexation treaty was not available. Thence, the annexationists did their Joint Resolution, which required only a simple majority of both houses of Congress for passage. This method had been used in the annexation of Texas. By July 6, 1898, both houses of Congress approved annexation and the next day President McKinley signed the bill. I suppose that Mexicanos, like you, wish to dispose of Texas back to Mexico. Go for it. As the cliche goes, be careful what you wish for, it might come true. John Okino, AJA Council head, is a man who has no heed for history. Not your invective of history, but the real deal history that lay in the actual archival records. You insult me by associating me with John Okino’s ignorant attitude. Thank you anyway for your opinions, which also have no bases in facts. I am post-1920 born, by my heart rests with my father’s pre-1920 born buddaheads, folks you have no conception of. Your issue about the U.N.? Not even a question. U.N. has nothing to do with Hawai’i sovereignty. Aloha, –Curt
July 4th, 2009 at 11:17 am
Hawaiian sovereignty as promulgated by Hiwahiwa Young is but another word for bigotry, as in Hawaiian-only racism vs. the non-Hawaiian world. All fuse, no fireworks [as in Fourth of July today]. Bring your racism on, baby, I’m a waitin’ for you. Love, –Curt
July 4th, 2009 at 11:26 am
Love means my love for family, for community, for country, for humanity, even though I must die fighting to preserve innate love in us all. Bring it on, baby. Love, –Curt
July 5th, 2009 at 3:26 am
Hey Curtis,
Impressive commentary; glad to see you voice heard in a larger forum. Your insights are formidable with a frankness and honesty seldom displayed due to egos and visceral biases much too prevalent in today’s journalism. KL
July 5th, 2009 at 11:12 am
Yikes, KL!! You’ve read Tiffany Edwards Hunt’s website here!! Thank you, thank you, for reading Tiffany’s website!! Gang, KingLit Ching born December 1936, is the son of our greatest modern destiny-maker Hung Wai Ching 1905-2002, Kamehameha the Great being our greatest ancient historymaker. And as encouragement to Hiwahiwa Young above, KL Ching is my biggest scorching critic on Kamehameha Schools [should be kept Hawaiian, per KL, whereas I say socioeconomic need, not one-drop blood Hawaiian barrier, is key] & on Hawaiian sovereignty [KL advocates justice for Hawaiians, who lost their civilization to White imperialists/militarists!!]. No, KL doesn’t live on the beach, unless you consider KL’s Santa Monica CA. as our idea of a beach. KL is Harvard U. Master Business degree/U Penn Wharton/Punahou. Famous schooling/education, but even better common sense, but most of all, the heart of a lion!! KL, despite our opposite political views, is my messiah for alltime!! I’m paroxysmal over KL’s taking the time to read Hiwahiwa Young’s mountainous defiance & my backloader reply to communicant Young. Love always, –Curt
July 12th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Aloha Curtis. First off I am not a mexican.
Secondly, I am not sure where you studied law at but I basesd what I said on fact of law(which is not always followed by sovereign countries.) The US does what it wants and that is a fact so this is all conjecture, but based on fact of laws whether followed or not. I am only after the truth of the matter and take no sides but try to say the truth.
There is a book written in 1958 by Judge Jon J. Chinen of Hawaii. If you obtain a copy you will see that he agrees with me on several points.
On march 8 , 1848 Kam III signed two documents also included in the mahele see supreme court of Hawaii in the case of In re Matters of Estate of Kamehameha IV (2 Hawaii 715(1864)) The jist of which is that Wyllie as advisor to the king was putting the land into private property so that a foreign nation could seize hawaii but had to honor private property rights. Which is where the land patents come in. One of the things he said is the king was to retain title to his lands as private property, of the remainder 1/3 was governmnt land, 1/3 was for the konohikis and 1/3 was for the tenant/farmers. So the crown lands are the private property of the king separate from government lands
Another thing that you have technically wrong is that a militARY COUP TOOK PLACE NOT AN OVERTHROW . iN BLACKS LAW DICTIONARY YOU WILL SEE THAT AN OVERTHROW REQUIRES POPULAR SUPPORT BUT IN THIS CASE A SMALL MINORTY OF CITIZENS TOOK OVER AND THE RESULTING PETITION TO THE US OF OVER 85% OF THE POPULATION DENOUNCING IT ( AS SEEN IN THE RECORDS OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS) proves that the military coup did not have the support of the majority. tHE WORD OVERTHROW IS A FARCE AS IS THE FACT THAT UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW ( LAW THE US IS SUPPOSED TO FOLLOW) the law of nations state that “Terrritory is acuired by discovery and occupation where no other nation asserts sovereignty. In contrast when territory is acquired by treaty or purchase , cession or conquest it is acquired from another nation. So a treaty is neccesary to annex land a joint resolution is not sufficient. if land is obtained by conquest private property must be honored so either way the us is wrong
themost telling thing is , if you read the apology bill signed by pres clinton he states that hawaiians have never given up their inherent sovereignty. That means that hawaiians can chose to be US citizens but at birth are not until they adhesion themselves to the US usually through the issuance of the social security card. If the hawaiian people are still sovereign as per the apology bill it follows that the hawaiian kingdom exists (in exile) as her lands are currently occupied by the us.
I am not trying to make trouble and am not taking sides but seek the truth as per legal documents and referenced sources to this whole event. After more than 20 years of study I have found what I say is true and can prove it siting law and judicial judgements from hawaiian and us sources. email me for references and more legal proof.
THe last paragraph of the hawaiian kingdom by honored
scholar Kuykendall states “Congress on February 7, 1894 in the house and on May 31 in the senate ,had passed resolutions warning all foreign states that intervention in the political affairs of the Islands would be considered an act unfriendly to the United states.” now think about that. That statement is why the us had to issue an apology bill. It had violated a treaty with hawaii and was telling other countries bound by treaty to assist hawaii to back off hawaii is ours. so the us is complicite in the theft of hawaii. If you know the early japanese they were in allegiance to the hawaiians not the us
Ps I am part buddha head too. (now let’s play nicely)
July 12th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
sorry my bad overthrow defintion not from blacks law dictionary but from something else I read. Will try to find source and post it until then disregard overthrow comments
July 12th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
ps also not sure why you think texas would go back to mexico. texas was an independant country that won a war against mexico (so they have to honor spanish royal land patents, private property) then they applied for statehood but they have a clause in their constitution that allows them to secede or at least try (not that the us would allow that)
July 12th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Dear Curtis,
Key word…”the crown lands were seized”. There is truth in that statement of yours. So was our country, (pae `aina O Hawai`i) just seized or was it then occupied? You are saying the lands belong to everyone. Hiwahiwa is basically giving you the true information. We had many non Native Hawaiian Kingdom Nationalist. That supported and still support our rights for self governance and independance..speaking of Kauikeaouli, he was the one who stated, “ua mau ke `ea o ka `aina i ka pono. Why do you think he said that? The sovereignty of this land is by right perpetual. It belongs to the kanaka maoli and all who are patriotic to our country.
You said it yourself…”the crown lands were seized” by the hands of some people who were greedy for sugar lands and had no right to do so. America should follow it’s own laws and admit that Hawaii is an occupied nation. Hawaiians have a word for this it is “maha`oi”.
You reminded me of Conklin who is always bringing up “racism” to try to shut people up.
The morale thing to do is for the u.s. to admit they are occupying our country. You might consider writing a story on the fact that we are an occupied nation. That would be truthful.
Mahalo
July 12th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
NO HAWAIIAN NO ALOHA…………..ALL YOU HATERS OUT THERE SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES…….IF YOU NO LIKE IT HERE THEN GO THE FUCK BACK TO WHERE U CAME ………….IF YOU CAN LIVE IN HARMONY WITH US LOCALS THEN THATS KEWL……………..THIS IS OUR LANDS WE NEVER ASK TO BE OVERTHROWN …..WAS A BUNCH OF STUPID HAOLES THAT WANTED THINGS FOR THEM SELVES.. THATS WHY WE IN THIS SHIT NOW……….THE HATERS STILL HATIN’……….
July 13th, 2009 at 10:42 am
It’s so strange to see a journalist calling someone a mexican when he doesn’t even know ones true ethnicity. We have always had Nationalist of our Kingdom who know the facts. It is based on Nationalism not racism and the Hawaiian sovereignty movement is reality. You seem to be afraid because you think it threatens every American who lives in Ko pae `aina O Hawai`i.
So my advise is to learn the facts from a kanaka maoli point of view. You might learn something.
Mahalo,
July 13th, 2009 at 10:56 am
Good job Mr. Young…keep this biased journalism under constant check. Or we will have more ignorant people in the world. Curtis you seem to be all for yourself and not for the people of this land. Your statements are very offensive to me as a kanaka maoli of Ko pae `aina O Hawai`i. Does the existance of our nation threaten your rights as an Amverican on occupied land? Wow, law school didn’t teach you basic human rights to self governance and living with the Culture here so why are you here? Oh ya right, I forgot you are american so you can slander another Nation cause America gives you that right. I see in your statement that you are biased and all for your selfish needs..not really the good of all.
Ua mau ke `ea o ka `aina i ka pono~ Learn from it.!!
July 17th, 2009 at 11:38 am
[...] the political power, and the legal power on that part of the island, so distant from Honolulu. His wife Laura Kennedy was parks commissioner, and used her own money to convert the old Hawaiian fish ponds [...]
August 8th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Wow, only now I see the above last comments. Thanks, commentators, for your love for ethnic Hawaiians. Call me racist, but I believe in a Federal Constitutional Amendment to recognize ethnic Hawaiians as an indigenous political class. Thanks, gang, sorry I only come to the above last comments now. Keep writing, love always, your fan Curt
August 8th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
Oops, “Mexicanos, like you,…” meant that Mexican sovereignty advocates, like Hawaiian sovereignty advocates, want to restore a past that no longer will be given back. Love, –Curt
August 9th, 2009 at 9:25 am
Hi Anonymous: My apology, I read your comments last nite. I’m sorry for not checing on my past threads. I know Judge Jon Chinen personally, our 1st Uchinanchu federal judge who also wrote his blockbuster book on our hoa’aina nearly a decade ago. My computer is kaput, so I’m on cafe internet time, meaning my composition is truncated for obvious $ reasons. The part that Kauikeaouli/Kamehameha III kept for himself became the crown lands, which he & his successors sold, leased, & mortgaged at will until 1865, when the law was passed freezing the crown lands. The crown lands became part of the public domain after the overthrow 1893. Lunalilo was not an heir to the Kamehameha hereditary line. The legislature chose him to succeed deceased Lot/Kammehameha V in 1873. The crown lands became part of the public domain because the Kamehameha monarch hereditary line ended with its last monarch Lot. Thank you, Anonymous, for your great refutations. Aloha, –Curt
August 9th, 2009 at 9:41 am
Hi Momi: Please excuse my misspellings, inasmuch I’m on an unfamiliar computer at a cafe internet location. My apology to Anonymous/Momi for my misspellings. Hawai’i is an occupied Nation of polyglots, not just ethnic Hawaiians. The U.S. won’t give Hawai’i back to its former polyglots, much less a Momi/Flyboi808/Anonymous. Secession from the U.S. won’t do, inasmuch Momi expects the U.S. to withdraw its occupation. No dice, Lehua. The only surefire restoration of dignity to our hoa’aina is a U.S. Constitutional Amendment which recognizes ethnic Hawaiians as an indigenous political class a la American Indians. Practical, Lehua, not pie in the sky a la misguided Momi/Kekuni Blaisdell, the kupuna bigot. Love, –Curt P.S. Let’s get it on, gang!!
August 9th, 2009 at 11:29 am
For the U.S. to own colonies overseas in 1893 rebuked its own tradition of rebelling vs. its British colonialists in 1776. As Joseph Nawahi 1842-1896 intoned, his Ke Aloha ‘Aina focus after the overthrow was not on the monarchy but on indigenous ownership of land/resources, something which scholar Jon Chinen reprised in Jon’s 2 books on the Mahele of 1848. Nawahi focused on indigenous rights, not on hereditary ranking at birth. Again, to Nawahi, unlike today’s misguided Osorio, Osorio’s so-called cultural basis of native rule, anchored on the mutuality between the commoner & the Mo’i/ali’i, was but an illusion fabricated by the feudal barons. Put simply, the control of both sides of a bargain acquired in such adhesion/manner is not a mutuality but a unilateral dictate. And unlike today’s misguided patriots Osorio/Kekuni Blaisdell, a bigot of a kupuna, our Kaimu native Nawahi wanted to restore hoa’aina power/national authority the correct way, with no distortion of fact/reasoning so pervasive among current revisionists like Osorio/Kekuni Blaisdell. Nawahi’s touchstone was that no such idyllic mutuality existed in olden times — feudal dictatorial rule by hereditary kings was odious to a free republic, which Nawahi advocated. Nawahi was Emma’s backer as a nascent solon at age 32 vs. Kalakaua. Emma/husband Kamehameha IV constructed the British-style St. Andrew Cathedral next door to Washington Place. –Curt
August 12th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
Episcopalian Canterbury House ['Iolani/etc.] did not foment UH radicals 1960s. Neither did Wesley House up the road in Manoa. UH radicals germinated on campus. Till this day, Hilo vocational rehab spec Steve Carter born 1945 regrets his sentence for blocking the road when our Nat’l Guard got activated VNWar. Steve says in hindsight that Steve would’ve been more helpful trying to negotiate instead of being a lawbreaker. What rivetted Navy veteran [!] Steve to empathy for the military’s role in society is when Steve’s son enlisted for Desert Storm 20 yrs. ago. Though Steve was a Navy veteran who went to UH on the GI bill, Steve’s Navy bosses were drunks & oafs, but 2 of Steve’s supervisors urged him on to UH, & Steve thanks them to this day. –Curt