Hawaiian Sovereignty group attempts to claim US land

AP ^ | 08/01/2006 | Mark Niesse

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A Native Hawaiian sovereignty group took two boats from Maui to Kaho'olawe yesterday, landed on shore, set up a rock altar and planted a flag laying claim to the island.

The 18 members of the group calling itself the Reinstated Hawaiian Kingdom is challenging U.S. sovereignty over land taken during the 1893 overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy, said Henry Noa, who identified himself as the group's "prime minister" by cell phone from the undeveloped island.

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A few hours later, state officers arrested two of the members and issued citations to the rest for entering a restricted area, said Randy Awo, branch chief of the Department of Land and Natural Resources enforcement division. Their names and the exact charges against them were not immediately released.

"Our purpose is to reclaim our national land," Noa said. "We're staking our claim here. We're not terrorists. We're far from being terrorists. We're reasonable people."

No doubt delusions of grandeur

[proud_yank]

I say let them have it, in hopes that the rest of our liberal population will flock there in droves.

I'm willing to help pay for their ticket if need be.

[decal]

Why would anyone want Kaho'olawe - it's nothing but desert and unexploded ordnance.

I've maintained for some time that it would be a perfect place for an Alcatraz-type prison if the death penalty is ever taken down again by the courts - let the first boatload of felons clean the island of the stuff the Navy has lobbed on it for decades and THEN have them build the prison themselves.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

The liberal democrat government of Hawaii has festered this crap for decades.

[Crazieman]

Wonder if they'll go back to cannibalism if they secede.

[GeronL]

Future 3rd world kleptocracy??

[GeronL]

I still want to wall off San Francisco and declare them independent and then watch them find out they could starve if they don't grow something besides pot and mushrooms

[IslandJeff]

"Yeah, man, like the RHC party, Dude! No, not the THC party, the RHC party!"

Hell, America could use a monarchy. If nothing else, as a national park. Does Kahoolawe even have a boat launch?

[Anti-Bubba182]

More grifting natives! I guess they to build a Casino.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

They're just doing the reclaiming that other Hawaiians don't want to do.

To quote Triumph the Insult Comic Dog: "Hawaii is a p*ssy!"

[Jaysun]

F*** Hawaii, me and the boys are going to Cuba if we can ever decide on a flag.

[coconutt2000]

YES!!! About time!

Now let's quarantine the island and see how well they manage to live off the land.

(No need to recognize their claim. When they finally give up, or die of starvation, we can send in a few environmental impact teams to evaluate the damage, and then publish the findings.)

[thomaswest]

What are you, a national socialist? The coastline does not belong to the Guvmint. The coastline is paid for and owned by private investors.

Opening up private land for nudism and immorality goes against everything that missionaries strived for, like the missionary position.

Missionaries got rich from sugar-christianity, of course.

[vox humana]

A few hours later, state officers arrested two of the members and issued citations to the rest for entering a restricted area.

The authorities should have just let them wander around the island until they stepped on some unexploded ordnance.

Problem solved.

[JSteff]

"let them wander around the island until they stepped on some unexploded ordnance"

Yeah, the next boat load of native Hawaiians the take over could be be on a boat named the Darwin.

[LeoWindhorse]

"less than 10 percent of the surrounding waters are considered safe."

full of Tiger sharks ! dats why.....

[Tulsa Brian]

Give them Ni'ihau and see how long the locals put up with their nonsense...

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A Native Hawaiian sovereignty group took two boats from Maui to Kaho'olawe yesterday, landed on shore, set up a rock altar and planted a flag laying claim to the island.

Idiots all.