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Originally posted by TomK
I hope the following link works. It's a google translation of Galileo's second link. Posted more for humor than anything else.
https://goo.gl/pHfbTf
Here's how Beata described Lanny:
"Uncle with huge black beads flew from the Hawaiian Islands - an adherent of some local exotic religion. Calls the United States accomplices of the devil."
I wouldn't be surprised if the FBI has a dossier on Sinkin.
It appears that Lanny is destitute - a gofundme page was set up on December 24 2016 for him.
https://www.gofundme.com/protecting-sacr...n-mountain
Lanny wrote on Facebook:
"Went into a store to look for two gifts for loved ones. Contested case has drained all my funds, so I was looking for something very inexpensive. Started visiting with the owner and mentioned that I was involved in the Mauna Kea contested case. He said he has watched the hearings on television and asked if I was Lanny Sinkin. When I confirmed, he said my money was no good in his store, so pick out whatever I wanted."
So far $901 has been raised.
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"The Protectors" had their day in court (years, really) now they'll get their day in jail. Three of them were arrested at a state Land Board meeting today for disorderly conduct. I hope this response to their illegal actions continues outdoors, as well as indoors:
After ignoring requests to calm down, the meeting was put on hold as law enforcement officers carried some of the protestors out of the room.
"In the midst of that intervention, three individuals engaged in passive resistance causing us to physically remove them from the room and place them under arrest," said Jason Redulla, deputy enforcement chief for the Department of Land and Natural Resources.
They were arrested for disorderly conduct.
"We understand their right to express themselves and the point they were trying to make this morning. However, whenever those types of expression cross the line into disorderly conduct, we as law enforcement have to act," said Redulla.
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/36705...ard-member
“Facts fall from the poetic observer as ripe seeds.” -Henry Thoreau
"I'm at that stage in life where I stay out of discussions. Even if you say 1+1=5, you're right - have fun." - Keanu Reeves
This video gives insight to what transpired at the state meeting.
http://www.bigislandvideonews.com/2017/1...-tmt-vote/
Expect many more arrests as long as the Hawaiians (The Kanaka) remain unrepresented at these types of meetings.
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These are the same 3 guys that were arrested last time. I guess if by "expect many more" then yeah, they'll probably be arrested again multiple times.
Going into a meeting and shouting veiled racist things in Hawaiian isn't going to win them any friends. They were perfectly fine with haoles and other mixes joining their cause in court and on the mountain instead of just native Hawaiians, but speak against them and even the other native Hawaiians aren't "Hawaiian enough" for them. His tirade in the video turned my stomach.
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http://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/news...-late-2018
Cachola said DHHL wants a "pool" of potential lessees big enough to draw from. ... The average age of invitees was 66, and they had first applied for home lands between 1952 and 1985. ... 44,000 Native Hawaiians on the waiting list for home lands.
I wonder why "the Hawaiians" are so upset ... but I wonder even more about their letting DHHL get away with denying them a home (on their own lands, which were generously "set aside" for this specific purpose.)
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DHHL has developed a number of nice subdivisions that sit empty. Graded lots, nice roads, water, power, fire hydrants, DHHL uses these projects as cash cows for their contractors. Often relatives. Then they insist that any Hawaiian grantees have a credit score of 750 or so... so the lots sit empty.
One line item I noticed once on a DHHL budget was for surveying seven lots. My survey of my non DHHL lot cost me about $700. The line item for the seven DDHL lots was $67,000. Go figure.
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44,000 Native Hawaiians on the waiting list for home lands.
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survey... line item for the seven DDHL lots was $67,000. Go figure.
Here's another number. DHHL manages over 200,000 acres of land. Almost 5 acres for every Hawaiian on the waiting list. 5 acres would make a nice homestead for a family.
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DHHL has developed a number of nice subdivisions that sit empty.
That's why they're developing more, then?
they insist that any Hawaiian grantees have a credit score of 750
Assuming they can first prove a 50% blood quanta, of course, using documentation that is difficult to authenticate, instead of a modern DNA test.
DHHL manages over 200,000 acres of land.
Keeping it from the rightful occupants is a form of theft ... yet "the Hawaiians" are more concerned about a few acres of Mauna Kea...
Meanwhile, the circus has died down ... and April is less than 6 months away...
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Our moderator Rob Tucker said: "DHHL uses these projects as cash cows for their contractors."
So very true. One only has to look at the multi-million contract that Sandwich Isles Communications got from DHHL to see just how bad this is. Company founder Al Hee got 46 months in federal prison for fraud after Sandwich Isles received over $249 million in federal subsidies to provide telcom services to 3,600 Hawaiian Homelands customers. If that doesn't take the cake for "cash cow," I don't know what does. And yet, rather than terminate the contract with the family owned company, a DHHL spokesperson would only say, "The position of the DHHL is to ensure the quality of the services to our beneficiaries is not interrupted." At $69,167 per location, I hope they are getting some good internet speeds and clear voice connections.
Meanwhile, the most visible and vocal Hawaiians are trying to block a telescope that will benefit all mankind and particularly benefit Hawaiian youth through educational investment. What's wrong with this picture?
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Those federal subsidies are being paid for anyone that has a cellular phone or landline in the United States. The Universal Service Fund, which these funds are being paid into, are being used to subsidize these Sandwich Isles landlines and pay off the USDA RUS loans that were used to construct their network.
The house cards is starting to fall in though. The FCC reduced the subsidized amount per landline from 850.00 to around 250.00 in 2013. Then in 2015 they were denied these USF funds because of Al Hee's conviction, and subsequent investigation into SIC's finances.
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