Kealoha Pisciotta - Mauka & Makai

[rainyjim]

* First of all, HOTPE I like your catchy title, your wit is always fun for me to read.

*Second, concerning the quote below:

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Originally posted by HereOnThePrimalEdge
She may be a legitimate practitioner, but if she is, one might ask why she seems to run up against the existing laws, far more than other cultural practitioners? How many times do you hear about other practitioners in a law breaking context as often as she is?

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I think that she is not just a practitioner (legitimate or not) she is an activist, and it is really quite understandable that an activist would be pushing the limits of their rights under the law to appeal towards whatever ideology they are advocating - interestingly she is exercising the very rights she is afforded as a US Citizen, which she would not have had as a kanaka maoli, to advocate against the USA and its oppression of kanaka maoli.

*Lastly, I am not sure she is really guilty of doing anything wrong (my personal moral assessment) other than in the strictest since of breaking the law (our societies ethics), but regardless it does irk me because if I or some other Tom, Dick or Jane decided to do the same thing you can bet we'd be paying the fine. So in that sense, this particular issue or scenario among many others in Hawaii and elsewhere involving 'cultural rights' remind me of the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell and how "All animals are equal but some are more equal than others".