Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 12, Number 12, 1 December 1995 — What a tangled web we weave when we practice to deceive [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

What a tangled web we weave when we practice to deceive

by Billie Beamer T rustee-at-large Dante Carpenter received $30,000 on November 7, 1995 when the

Board of Trustees voted by a margin of six to three to buy off the suit filed by the ex administrator. Add the $21,000 he received in vacation pay, plus all of those other charges he made to petty cash, like $164 lunehes, travel, etc. A $51,000 minimum is not bad for one who couldn't cut the mustard,

Frenchy DESOTO moved for the payoff with trust funds, you know those funds

supposedly held for the KEALOHA Hawaiians who elaim to be 50%. REMEMBER FOLKS THIS IS $51,000 OF TRUST MONEY THAT CARPENTER TOOK. AND

REMEMBER, THE MONEY VOTED FOR LEGAL FEES BY THE TRUSTEES WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN DEPOSITED IN THEIR PERSONAL ACCOUNTS, BUT SPENT TO PROTECT YOUR TRUST MONEY FROM THIEVERY. Klnau KAMALII joined the bandanna gang in power

for her own agenda, onee she considered Carpenter gone. Our ex-Maui eop Aiona,

who still thinks the trustees are his cadets and can't understand why we don't salute him, voted to terminate our right to legal counsel as of the same day. All is swirling about AKAKA just happy to give her vote for a trip anywhere.. KEALOHA nui with his four letter word vocabulary filed an ethics suit claiming we non 50% trustees had no right to vote trust monies to defend ourselves personally, but of course he has the right to squander it. The BOT chairman, kapulu in dress as usual, gloated as his personal attorney, paid a minimum eontract of $50,000 from those for Hawaiian only funds, led the way for the payment of a bonus to reward non performance of duty. The gang funded $50,000 for his defense in a suit brought against OHA by

a disgruntled employee. OHA is out of control! On isolated Lānai, the gang voted itself $10 million of trust funds for salaries of non-Hawaiians and non-Hawaiian programs. Nary a word was said of prudence or fiduciary responsibility.. I should be upset, but I am not, I just consider the caliber of the decision makers elected. As Frenchy goes, so goes the Hawaiian nation, the perennial swing vote made another canned speech that claimed that I thought my way was the right way.. She was correct. I do believe in the rightness of my stand, and it

would be a cold day in hell before I would relinquish my principles to be part of "da gang." Political hacks are so transparent. The specter is their private theater in whieh they all make their entrances on eue on this stage of deceit. Eaeh weaves a personal territorial web with trust funds. First they pray, Pule ka kou, they never bother to listen to what God has to say. Then the gamesmanship begins. HOG the video, throw in a eouple of Hawaiian words that you think the people want to hear, fight if necessary, then out of eamera, kissy kiss to make aloha, the Hawaiian way they say. Eighty five years ago in 1910, Hawai'i celebrated the burning of PILIKIA, AN EFFIGY OF ALL OF THE UNWANT-

ED. Pilikia's burning took plaee at Union Square behind Iolani Palaee. Pilikia was trouble of any kind, an ignorance or unwillingness to grow, or greediness and those qualities that define immoral behavior. Pilikia's effigy was a mammoth ugly monstrosity, three times the height of man, burdened by the chains of ignorance that keep men posted to their own selfishness. This could be OHA's Makahiki, throw the red Tapa over the troubled sanctuary and burn out the ugly greed of deceit and ugiiness. IN THE COMING DAY WE WILL HAVE JUSTICE AGAINST THE COURTROOM LIE.