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RE: sovereignty squatters arrested - dmbwest - 08-22-2015 Apologies to not acknowledge Opihikao,,,,, your "squatter post" is what woke me up enuf to post again ... I was gonna ask for the video of that ... Especially you not blinking ... Camera on your face, guy kowtow to you >>> Blank stare, then wink he neva' see. Aloha, Catholic schooled, no permanent( physical)marks, pog RE: sovereignty squatters arrested - HereOnThePrimalEdge - 08-22-2015 A tip I heard from a social worker concerning ice heads: If they start to back off while you're confronting them, they're not retreating... they're preparing to attack you with a running start. Glad your Dad survived the nuns opihkao. If they couldn't kill his spirit, no doubt it made him stronger. RE: sovereignty squatters arrested - opihikao - 08-22-2015 quote:A'ole video (on my phone), pog, I get one "flip phone", which doesn't have "service" in our (that) area. It is a new world, where I should have video, the kids do, I no more. Don't care. Dead stare, dead eyes, no blink, etc. When it's "stare down" time, all I got is my "Mother's eyebrow" (the one on the right that goes up, as the head is bowed to the left), and Kupuna "mana". Freaking people really unnerved me. Ugh! Still playing "War". Mahalo for the link, as the side videos (the ones after the initial song) are inspiring and thought provoking, neva mind, good music! Aloha, pog. Sincere kine, not BS. This is freaking a new world. WTH? All we can do is "Roll With It"...(volley, again. [8D]) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWptXUblA4E JMO. P.S.[:0] (as I'm writing) My kids posted on freaking FB the entire confrontation. They are now in purgatory, "time out", and everything else that goes with, "do NOT air our private matters". [!] These freaking kids. PA'I! (Squinting my eyes...waiting to strike...with more than an eyebrow.) PIA. (Not a "Hawaiian word, btw.) RE: sovereignty squatters arrested - opihikao - 08-22-2015 quote:[] Daddy had a four (4) octave voice. Could sing each and every song, within range, and pitch perfect. Miss him terribly. (Sorry, O/T. You can see that we are still winding down from the day's events. Kala mai. [V]) Miss my Daddy, he stood for what is right. Always. Mahalo, again, HOTPE, gonna go check on mo'opuna, who have to rest, and stop playing that horrid music! OMG! [:0] Aloha to you. May all the squatters of the world get some rest, get a job, and get a life. Or, at least, the very least, ask permission to "squat". Some of us may understand your plight, as we hope you understand ours. Good night all. JMO. RE: sovereignty squatters arrested - Mtviewdude - 08-23-2015 quote: To answer this, you did good and were brave for standing up for your rights. You were in the right. Personally it makes me sad, it seems lately that hawaii has become a dumping ground for those with mental issues from the mainland. RE: sovereignty squatters arrested - beejee - 08-23-2015 quote: Very well said opihikao, pretty much sums up the whole thread. I certainly appreciate your perspective and enjoy your posts. I'm glad you were able to get the squatters off your property, and that it didn't turn ugly. Aloha. RE: sovereignty squatters arrested - Mtviewdude - 08-23-2015 quote: I seriously don't know how respond to that.. Do you know how that sounds? quote: Googling for beaten for hawaiian, only brings up the same articles and the same two examples. It appears that some teachers took it upon themselves to enforce a law that shouldn't have. Then it also brings up this article, which seems to contradict everything. http://www.angelfire.com/hi2/hawaiiansovereignty/hawlangillegal.html The Hawaiian language was never banned. The worst was that occurred, was that it wasn't allowed to be the primary language taught in schools and that seems to be more targeted to the Japanese than Hawaiian. The "beatings for speaking hawaiian" seem to be on the scale of a spanking and not real violence. I am sorry, but I do not consider "rapped on the head by a teacher" to be on the same level as "beaten". Growing up, my friends and I received worse beatings for being the wrong skin color. RE: sovereignty squatters arrested - Mtviewdude - 08-23-2015 quote: Not ohana, my apologies, teachers. RE: sovereignty squatters arrested - shockwave rider - 08-23-2015 MT View dude: "The "beatings for speaking hawaiian" seem to be on the scale of a spanking and not real violence. I am sorry, but I do not consider "rapped on the head by a teacher" to be on the same level as "beaten"." You carefully leave out the deprived of food and not allowed to return home to family as punishment for speaking your own language part of the narrative, can you imagine being punished for speaking you own language by being deprived of seeing your family for months on end? These are exactly the methods used by missionaries in the Native American boarding schools to destroy the Native American cultures and turn the younger generation into what the missionaries defined as "productive citizens". Wrenching children away from their families and culture, and physically punishing them for speaking their own language, is "real violence" to individuals and to a culture. Sorry you were beaten as a child for having the wrong skin color, but that does not justify what was done by the government and missionaries to an entire people to ensure they were the ones in power, and that the Hawaiians would have no voice in government in the new system. The Hawaiian Kingdom went from non literate, without a written language, to being the most literate nation on the planet in one generation; when the official language was changed to English, and schools imposed an English only policy in the education, they became "illiterate" again in terms of being able to use the language of the government and business. What better way to disenfranchise a whole people than to switch the language from one they read and write to one only the conquering elite use, and then make sure they punished for using the language their families and the Hawaiian Kingdom had used for the business of government? If you can't read, speak, or write in the language of government, you can't participate in that government. RE: sovereignty squatters arrested - kalakoa - 08-23-2015 If you can't read, speak, or write in the language of government, you can't participate in that government. Try to "participate" in our current government without an army of lawyers and a big pile of money, and guess what, you'll find that you can't read/speak/write in the "language of government". |