Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 18, Number 2, 1 Pepeluali 2001 — Land over money [ARTICLE]

Land over money

Did OHA miss the boat on getting a pieee of Hawai'i? I see the Līhu'e Plantation on Kaua'i has been sold for around $26 million. This is 20,000 acres or so. Now that's a good ehunk of land. The Hawaiians could have used this as a goal toward regaining Hawai'i and independence. How mueh more of Hawai'i will be sold off while we argue about rights and hope the government will give the land back? Money in the bank looks good but land is forever. I think the appreciation of land value will oulpaee the interest rate. Besides, the land is our future, or at least the future of the young. We must take the land back even at the cost of using OHA money for other than salaries and perks. I foresee OHA as a landowner of Hawai'i. Amlalone? Fromadisplaced and disgruntled Pacific Islander. Herb Lum via the lnternet What has OHA been doing about the enemies of our tmst? The hst includes Rice, Gov. Cayetano, Goemans and the Democratic Party with their so-called eoneem for our tmsts and programs. What is the plan of attack against these so-called forces of aloha for all? The use of the U.S. Constitution is only a cover for these people who disguise themselves as forces of good. Their goal has been to ehminate all Hawaiian entitlements in the name of racism. Their racism stems ffom ancestral genocide, whieh has been perpemated by descendants of missionaries in the name of a god that does not know them. I encourage tmstees to use legal means to stop the decimation of our tmst assets by fihng a class-action lawsuit against the forces of evil for breaking our civil rights, right to hberty, gathering, privacy, possession of ceded lands, the illegal oeeupation of Hawaiian Homes Lands such as Moloa'a and 1,2000 acres of the Keāha ahupua'a with no clear title, and the right to protect our language. Why haven't you bought the plantation lands on Kaua'i? The OHA portfoho could better serve its beneficiaries by filing claims to the plantation lands. There is no such thing as "no ean." The blood of our ancestors cries out for justice. Aloha. Kawika Cutcher Anahola

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