Comments on: Price of Apology: Clinton, Obama, and the Hawaiian Quid Pro Quo

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By: micky

micky — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 02:27:14 +0000

Mike.I have lived in Hawaii for 43 years and you have only seen what crap floats to the surface here. Yes our government is corupt, no doubt. Only a full blown idiot would not notice the ole boy system that has been in place for decades.
But we are state full of some the kindest people I ever met in my life as I have spent substantial amounts of time in all major cities on the mainland.
We are also a stae full of “AMERICANS”
We do have some ignorant and racist elements here, no doubt. But not hardly eneough to qualify us to be disenfranchised.
If you truly feel that way maybe we should also apply the same logic to South central L.A., urban sections of Detroit.
For every “local” be what they may that has given me a hard time there are ten that have treated me as human. And I appear as white as they come.
We are also a melting pot of extraordinary proportions that the rest of the country could take a lesson from as far as tolerance and compatability goes.
I am a rabid conservative. As much as I am surrounded by democratic moonbats I love this place, it has always been home.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 02:56:23 +0000

I have visited Hawaii dozens of times in the last 15 yrs for its natural beauty. Unfortunately, it has been degenerating into a racially privileged, aparteid state. Hawaii has the most blatant racial descrimination imaginable against whites. A 4th generation Hawaiin caucasian is called Kama’aina, while the newest immigrant from the Philipines for example, or really any Asian, is called a “Local”. Whites are regularly singled out and beaten on the basis of race alone. Hawaii has turned into a dangerous hellhole, ruined by “Locals”. They despise everything about the mainland USA, except the welfare checks. The state should be disenfranchised, and turned back to the natives. All this in 15 short yrs. Sad!!!

By: H. William Burgess

H. William Burgess — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:49:43 +0000

Congratulations to Andrew Walden for connecting the quid pro quo “dots” behind the 1993 Clinton Apology resolution and the looming Akaka bill. Land, power, political payback and an “indebted” president, either Clinton or Obama.

Vote for John McCain. He has the good sense and balls to veto the Akaka bill and unequivocally says he will do so.

By: Light

Light — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:42:51 +0000

I’m a resident of Hawaii and have long heard about the exorbitant sums of money spent on the mostly undeveloped Hawaiian Homelands. Miles and miles of dark fiber run around the island. Many many many acres of valuable, usable land sit idle with utility connections while Kanaka has his tent set up with the Hawaiian flag upside down. And that’s just the big island.

Something else to note is that today’s Hawaiians aren’t yesterday’s Hawaiians. And that not even Big Island Hawaiians see eye to eye as Oahu Hawaiians. The Hawaiians in the Southern part of the Big Islands resent Kamehameha because he himself was a conqueror of these lands.

The big fallacy is that Hawaii was a stable government of kingdom that was overthrown by the US. In fact, the US was more or less a side player in all this. Before the HIs were discovered Hawaii was split into at least two separate governments. After Captian Cook lent Kamehameha his cannons and guns, he proceeded to “unite” the rest of the islands.

After the “unification”, the missionaries came, whose descendants became the largest landholders in the islands. They also intermarried with Hawaiians and thus had “rightful” claim to the land as well. These large landholding families decided it would be in their best interest to allow the US to annex them. So, with their huge numbers of 2nd generation plantation workers, they voted to have that changed.

Akaka doesn’t even begin to right wrongs from the times of Kamehameha, the Missionaries (read the book Hawaii by Mitchner), and the hordes of “old boys club” politicians who rule the state from a single point and let the outer islands go largely unheard for their corporate or special interests.

Hawaii’s government and politicians have failed it.

Hawaii is also the largest employer in the state. Interesting huh? What a welfare state. Bleagh.

By: Ken Conklin

Ken Conklin — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:58:57 +0000

For a large website providing in-depth analysis of all issues related to race-based political sovereignty for ethnic Hawaiians, see "Hawaiian Sovereignty: Thinking Carefully About It" http://tinyurl.com/6gkzk See also this book: "Hawaiian Apartheid: Racial Separatism and Ethnic Nationalism in the Aloha State" A webpage provides cover, entire Chapter 1, detailed Table of Contents, and how to get the book: http://tinyurl.com/2a9fqa