Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 20, Number 8, 1 August 2003 — Stop payments! [ARTICLE]

Stop payments!

Most Hawaiians do not support federal recognition for the right reasons. They support it because they are being held hostage to their lands, monies and resources. Akaka lets these people know, who depend on federal fundings that if they do not support Akaka they will lose their grants, homes and livelihoods. That is a heavy test against good and evil. Hawaiians are better off not "feeding" the purported Akaka case that is supposed to help Hawaiians. The webs we weave syndrome have left many people with many negative thoughts about independence and independents. The fact is, if not for the independents many Hawaiians in the homes today would never have been able to have a home. So it's Akaka that we must dismiss and look to what our ancestors left us ... a country intact and coming soon. Stop the payments that is driving the Arakaki/D.C. lobbying group. Most Hawaiians do not support this either because it is a huge legal/lobbying fee forced on Hawaiians to pay. I think not! Community meetings pushing federal recognition is a slick bureaucratic presentation that has nothing to do with Hawaiians. The Danner presentations have only stirred the community in their resolve to stonewall Akaka because of the continued abuses by OHA, DHHL and their cohorts in taking the rights of Hawaiians away. Kupuna Philip Hyatt Waimānalo OHA reserves the right to ed.it all letters for length, d.efcimatory anel. libelous material, anel. other objectioncible content, anel. reserves the right to print. All letters must be typed., signed anel. not exceed. 200 word.s. Letters cannot be published unless they are signed anel. include a telephone contact for verificcition. Sencl letters to Ka Wai Ola o OHA, 711 Kapi'olani Blvcl.., Ste. 500, Honolulu, HI 96813 or emeiil to kwo@oha.org. ■