KE AUPUNI UPDATE - OCTOBER 2023
The Struggle to Recover...
I am in awe of the people of Lāhainā and West Maui. I have great admiration, respect and aloha for them standing strong with kapu aloha in the face of such great adversity. Videos of them young and old, speaking at hearings and rallies, and social media are both heartbreaking and inspiring.
The people of Maui are amazing. Not only are they dealing with the tragic loss of loved ones and the devastation of the fire, physically and emotionally, but for the past two months, having to cope with finding basic needs like food and shelter in order for their families to survive. Not to mention insane government bureaucracy, insensitivity and incompetence.
But the most frustrating is the callousness and deafness of those in government and business to the appeals of the people to provide adequate time and adequate resources to recover from the tragedy, before reopening for business.
While giving lip service to the concerns voiced so plainly and honestly by the people, the state and county officials, nevertheless, have chosen to ignore the peopleʻs pleas and reopened West Maui to tourists. Cha-ching! Once again the elected and un-elected officials in the “State of Hawaii” show where their real priorities lie. The ATMs of tourism and development.
Once again, our experience in Hawaii under the American system, shows us their main priority is always: money over the people. Yeah, we’re sorry for your loss and suffering, but get over it and move on... we’re losing too much money as it is…
The pursuit of money and power has been Americaʻs prime objectives and modus operandi in Hawaii. Even if it means sacrificing and harming the people of Hawaiʻi.
From the American militaryʻs backing of greedy, white sugar barons and businessmen, who stole our nation and gave it to the U.S... to the systematic denationalization and looting of our country by the sugar and pineapple industries during the “territorial” days... to the “Fake State” that released the real assault on Hawaii — real estate development, speculation, and mega-tourism — the people of Hawaii are either decoration or collateral damage.
Then there is the use of Hawaii as the forward base for Americaʻs wars in the Pacific: the Spanish American War, the Philippine American War, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War... a huge military presence that makes Hawaii a certain target for nuclear annihilation in the next “big one.”
This is why we are in such bad shape. There needs to be a fundamental shift in agenda and priorities for our nation. For that to happen, we have to free ourselves of the American money-power driven system.
This is why Hawaiʻi urgently needs to be restored an independent country, run by Hawaiians true to our values of putting people and the care of our lands, before greed and money. Like the brave and firmly grounded people of West Maui, that we have come to know... and many just like them spread throughout Hawaiʻi nei. Hawaiians that are true to the principles of Aloha ʻĀina, Kapu Aloha, Mālama Pono.
“Love of country is deep-seated in the breast of every Hawaiian, whatever his station.” — Queen Liliʻuokalani
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Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono. The sovereignty of the land is perpetuated in righteousness.
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Malama Pono,
Leon Siu
Hawaiian National
