09-07-2015, 05:27 PM
Kind of suspicious timing. Netflix just ran Narcos and one scene has a communist revolutionary stealing the sword of Simone Bolivar. The peasant legend was that anyone that owned the sword would become the rightful leader of Colombia. There is this Hawaiian Kingdom bunch that have used the statue location before for protests. They are pretty fixated on the statue as some significant symbol. There is the incident with a spear saving Kamehameha's life when he attacked the people of Puna. It is weird seeing all this twisted social media interpretation distorting events into fanatical belief systems.
"Aloha also means goodbye. Aloha!"
"Aloha also means goodbye. Aloha!"
*Japanese tourist on bus through Pahoa, "Is this still America?*