{"id":658,"date":"2023-12-09T05:29:46","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T05:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ehoalakaea.net\/?page_id=658"},"modified":"2023-12-10T19:40:52","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T19:40:52","slug":"the-motivation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ehoalakaea.net\/index.php\/the-motivation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Motivation"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"658\" class=\"elementor elementor-658\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4199b6d e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"4199b6d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;content_width&quot;:&quot;boxed&quot;}\" data-core-v316-plus=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-00c7c44 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"00c7c44\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.18.0 - 20-12-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"355\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/ehoalakaea.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-19-at-6.37.40-AM.png\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048 wp-image-8\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ehoalakaea.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-19-at-6.37.40-AM.png 355w, https:\/\/ehoalakaea.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-19-at-6.37.40-AM-300x155.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 355px) 100vw, 355px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6bd35cb e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6bd35cb\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;content_width&quot;:&quot;boxed&quot;}\" data-core-v316-plus=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-162add3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"162add3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.18.0 - 20-12-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>In the Fall of 2005, I was one of sixteen who had been arrested and charged for trespassing. Most of my companions were <em>k\u016bpuna<\/em> (elderly).\u00a0 We had been assisting an older friend remove debris that land developers had shoveled into her <em>\u02bbauwai<\/em> (irrigation ditch) which fed her small taro patch.\u00a0 In the process of our <em>pro se<\/em>[1] defense, to prove to the court their lack of jurisdiction to convict us, I began a path of discovery about the land laws in the State of Hawaii, and how developers, such as the ones who tried to arrest us, had no rights to the land or court jurisdiction.\u00a0 After days and hours spent in the law library, at the Bureau of Conveyances, and the Hawaii State Archives we were able to mount our defense standing as sovereign citizens under Kingdom Law: the constitution and laws that existed within the Kingdom prior to the \u201coverthrow\u201d of the <em>\u02bbaupuni o Hawai\u02bbi <\/em>(Hawaiian[2]\u00a0 government) in 1893. The result in the court, after six months of arguments, was that the case against us was dropped, probably out of frustration. Court officials did not acknowledge that they had no jurisdiction, but they did agree that we had a right to be on the land.[3]\u00a0 We, as sovereign activists, thought it confirmed our belief that since the State\u2019s existence was based on illegal actions, the State courts had no jurisdication. Our win was the exception, yet we attracted little public attention.<\/p><p>My journey, however, towards becoming a sovereignty advocate had started earlier; in 1967, when I first arrived on the island of Maui at the age of ten. Hawaii had only been a State for eight years.\u00a0 Our rental home was in the town of Kihei, where we could feel the distant bombs being dropped on the military training grounds on the island of Kaho\u2019olawe, shaking our home, disturbing our sleep, and my education. The explosions were constant and unnerving.\u00a0 Plantation workers\u2019 families were only just being moved out of the plantation camps into newly developed unsegregated residential subdivisions in what was to become Kahului. Many of the <em>K\u0101naka Maoli<\/em> (Native Hawaiian) families that I had come to know still lived on their ancestral lands.[4] The public schools, like the ones I attended, were only just beginning to de-segregate, and were majority non-white, while private schools were still largely <em>Haole<\/em> (Euro-American; foreigner).[5]\u00a0 It was in this atmosphere that I first began to witness the discrimination, oppression, and forced Americanization that many <em>K\u0101naka Maoli<\/em> lived with daily. At school, I heard my teachers ridicule <em>K\u0101naka Maoli<\/em> students for not speaking \u201cgood English,\u201d and watched them track the <em>K\u0101naka Maoli<\/em> \u201chard-head\u201d boys into the lowest level classes, sometimes even physically removing them from our upper-level classes.\u00a0 As part of the States\u2019 required Americanization process of recognizing the authority of the American flag, we, as students were all subjected to the required stop at attention when we heard the bugle call before and after school, as well as a complete education in English classics. We learned nothing about the history or culture of Hawaii, except for May Day, the yearly student presentation of music and song. This is why my own exposure to Hawaiian studies consisted only of \u02bbukulele lessons.\u00a0 It would not be until adulthood, and the start of the \u201cHawaiian Renaissance,\u201d[6] and the rising tide of <em>K\u0101naka Maoli<\/em> activisms, did I learn about the illegal \u201coverthrow\u201d of the Hawaiian Kingdom.[7]<\/p><p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\"><\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Fall of 2005, I was one of sixteen who had been arrested and charged for trespassing. 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