OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS MUST REPRESENT HAWAIIAN NATIONALS
Current Trustees & Staff Should Be Ousted
Honolulu Advertiser - August 3, 2006
America, through U.S. Public Law 103-150, has confessed that "the indigenous Hawaiian people never directly relinquished their claims to their inherent sovereignty as a people or over their national lands to the United States."
Yet, on July 31, 2006, that very same people, descendants of nationals of the Hawaiian Kingdom, get arrested and cited for re-claiming what is lawfully theirs?
OHA Administrator Clyde Namu`o, by stating, "It's too bad that people are trespassing," clearly reveals that he lacks the legal knowledge to recognize the rights of our people and is unworthy of allegedly representing our interest.
He and all of those who share his views in OHA should be ousted from the very seats they hold and filled with those who have the heart and courage to truly represent our people.
It's fortunate for both sides that the demonstrations for Hawaiian rights have been, for most part, peaceful.
Dominic Acain
Kekaha, Kaua'i
