Beamer, Billie

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:~OIU)'~ ,;n&tiate with both sides. i:~ ·unthinkable to do nothing d 'idlow this duly elected vernment to fall to the mi'er Rouge, who are sponsible for 1 million deaths :ring their previous four-year •~-'.the government needs llitary aid, and it needs meone to lean on its :ighbors in Thailand to stop ving sanctuary - and big 1cks - to Khtner Rouge rces along their border. Since ft was the Nixon !ministration that ended umbodia's neutrality and set :i people on a path into a :'isly future, more U.S. help ow is not too much to ask. ·. Advertiser ly 2, 1856 ruth, Chairman ublisher ....... . 525-7474 .... ........... ...... 525-8080 1>ham Jerry Burris r.ditor Eduorial Page Edi1or 15 525-8031 Bditor at Large Keir , Jerry Burris, John Hollon, JS, Dick Adair, Kay J,ynch ~acific Corporation >, Chairman 'and.a Adams, Living editor ...... 525-8034 ..:ue Alalhite. Mor.ey editor ..... 525-8062 ..mJe Turner, Sports editor "" " 525-8040 ISlrid Yamada, photo ,.ditor .... - .525·8074 ettiat """"" 525--8066 Ka Lahui has · realistic p an By Billie -Beamer I F I were asked to approve the re-creation of a Hawaiian king-dom and the secession of Hawaii, I too, would be exasperated. Extremist views must be aired, but can they prevail? Sane sovereigntists are not preoc-cupied with royal powers; they seek to correct the criminal thievery of the HawaUan's institutional inheri-tance. Much ado has focused on the tribal Hawaiian squabbling. The 12.5 per-cent of our citizens who arc Hawai· ian arc told, "Get your act together and agree on a plan." But no one is articulating what is acceptable to the ultimate dccision-makers, the 87 percent non-Hawaiian population . In the end, what will hold sway is the hidden agenda of those making concessions to sover-eignty to protect their powcr·estab-lishment kuleana . So, what arc the self-perpetuating plans of: our senior senator; the Downtown and Waikiki wealth gen-erators; lhe Japanese political strate-gists who comprise 40 percent of the voters and the vested interest of 100,000·plus gov-ernment workers; and lhe ambivalent Bishop Estate trustees? Sovereigntists demand long-ov er-due corre ctive ac- Beamer tion and retribution - not the same kind of homestead pqlitical ho'omali· mali (propitiation) and contemptuous disregard for ceded land obligations we have seen thus far. The sovereigntlsts reject the , , state's ali'i posture and "decision by committ ee" that was manifest in the Kahoolawe disposition. All residents will bf>nefit from the cessation of bombing and Kahoola· wc's restoration, no small thanks to Dr. Emmett Aluli The $400 million for restoration should come out of the Navy budget, not be debited from reparations payments . The l!J70 census used statistical manipulation to inflate numbers of Hawaiians . Anyone with a drop of Hawaiian blood now qualifies as a part-Hawaiian . Dollars did accrue to the state by padd ing the indices with part -Hawaiian?...-Unfortunately . this Catch-22 exa~ eration dcvastat· ed the com~ y·s esteem for the Hawaiian. Paid writers and media wrongly glorify as our typical culture : the royal hauteur ; a monarchy in power for but 82 years of our long exis-tence ; and a palatial governance when Iolani Palace was in use for only 10 years . This fairy tale is nev-er reconciled with the indices of so-cial failure or our real culture of rigid servitude. Hawaiians shouldn't be compared to the runaway emigre haoles and Japanese, also born in the pits . Emancipated from their oppressors, both adopted the alt'i aloofnesP to-ward the commoners and both added racial exclusion to the class divic!e. When Japanese politicians e'ltab-lished a beachhead in government, they hired 70 percent of their own kind. The Downtown haole mer-chants and missionary apologists sus-tained a British Calvinist colonial management ethos of white eliti• m. Almost all early Hawaiian a<..hiev-ers were part-Chinese, the only group to share their ethic, Cr,nf u· cian, with a Stone-Age nativ e, so very naive. In light of this prorne. Ka Lahui offers the most realistic optwn . a "nation within a nation .. that calls for rectifying Home Lands misuse by plantations , Japanese contrc1.t·tors, Hawaiian plunderers and the blate with !ts outright, rent-free withur aw-als and cncroachmenL Ka Lahui wants a 40•year .tcMunt· ing of lands and revenues f, r 1.7 million ceded acres; asks wher•• the millions of federal dollars sip l oncd to special groups were spenr · and cites the state's liability for fail ng to execute the Admission Act man-dates. Finally , all of Hawaii mus r klck over the bucket to redeem th ~ de-nied who, a(tcr all, couldn 't have climbed in the darn thing in the flrst place. So who put them there? • BUlie Beamer ii a former director of the state Department of Hawaiian llome Law. D "Voices of Sovereignty• welcomes opinion all sides of the Hawaiian self-determination iuue. Mail your thoughts (in 500 U101'da or fewer) to "SovereigntJJ: clo the Editorial Pagu, Hon.olulu Adueniler, PO Bor 3110, HoMlulu 96802. • I r• ;;, . f t. r. .. -----.. 1• , - •- - " JI ~ .- t,..:.\·--:...· __ · __ 

Ka Lahui has realistic plan

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Ka Lahui has realistic plan

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