UPDATE: to Michelle about final extinguishing of matrilineal land rights in Hawaii. "love this and thankful for u 6" Too late for help with the land it sits with the guys who "Wouldn't finish our contest!"
Hawaii's Republican Governor Linda Lingle (campaigned 2 wk S.Palin,snubbed Pres Obama)could end up hurting us all. MY POINT: She is hidden away and very much being used in a corrupt political climate. Hawaii is not on anyone's radar, a good place for sneaky Republican PRECEDENTS!
ANOTHER RECENT EXAMPLE: 3/1/09 announcement in Hilo Tribune Herald of NOW THE STATE of Hawaii WILL TAX INTERNET!
only link paper gave
"What, not reported on the mainland? Surprise, surprise, NOT!"
THE LETTER that follows is bits and pieces of all(THE BAD CRAP)LINDA has done. Letters, snail and e-mail,blogs,posts,phone calls to all Reps and Sens and 'Houses' who might CARE AND News agencies... ALL Media ETC... in Past 2 years.
"Sorry so PASSIONATE. Heart Hurt! NO HELP! i do know the correct way."
(The gay point; Legislation(Hawaii Gay Marriage)was in the news that day but not the SUPREME COURT land part,a comment directed at the media)
Press Release: Open Letter to First Lady from an Obama Mama/ or, I can’t get my Republican Governor to even care!
Dearest Mother of ‘Our’ White House and Bless You All for giving me this feeling!
My President is showing the Country that it is about individuals not political or financial - mass held beliefs. President Obama, My President, will call on each of us by name to account, not for our philosophy but for our actions. I am writing you, dear First Lady, because I have written everyone else, including your very busy husband, as I again will send this to all who will receive it. Bear with me as I will try to limit, all my attempts, to just one chance, fast and in a readable newsy-way. Because my goal is to Be Heard about issues which my soul constantly sobs about...
This is a prayer to anyone who will listen; Please stop my Republican Governor from appealing the Judgment of the Highest Court of Hawaii to the US Supreme Court tomorrow. Gov. Linda Lingle wants the power to SELL Hawaiian-Trust Lands, she calls them ‘ceded’. Hawaii’s Supreme Court ruled the Government should wait until all the Hawaiians’ land claims are heard. Linda can’t wait. Even darker is the concern she is trying to break the entire Hawaiian ‘Inheritance’ that is still left. Like Hawaiian Language Schools, or Gathering Rights.
I do not expect the oil white men in wigs in Congress to understand, just as I expect the African Americans will never get their 40 acres and a mule. (Where’s Pres. Obama’s State Monument to his Log Cabin in Hawaii?) The Mainlanders won’t even get Hawaii straight on the national weather maps, much less understand the history of how only a few decades ago America (7 white men, one of them named Dole) annexed all the Hawaiian Islands to the US. How the Hawaiian Queen commanded her people not to fight. Maybe if it had been bloody, like the Native American’s, it would have been taught in school, how brave our soldiers were. The Queen didn’t want the Hawaiians that were left to die in war.
Understanding this history is important. The Queen was a mother, just like you Mrs. Obama, just like me. 70% of the Hawaiian Population was killed by disease when the missionaries 1st came here. The HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE was OUTLAWED. The Hawaiian Priests and Priestesses were killed or jailed; their traditional spiritual dance was outlawed, turned into today’s hula. The Queen had become an educated woman; she believed the promises of the legal system of the white man. She wrote a will, she petitioned Washington and its Presidents until the day she died.
What the Supreme Court needs to know is... The Hawaiian’s linage, birth certificates, heritage was a chanted prayer each child learned in his turn. Never written down! ORAL HISTORY! When the language was outlawed they lost all credentials, all proof of blood, birth and relationship to Queen. Hawaiian’s had no words in their language for ownership of land, the thought of anyone owning land was sacrilege. The Queen left all her land (So generous of the US to give her some, as they plotted and divided the majority for themselves) to the people of Hawaii!! Anyone who has a beating heart cannot misunderstand the intent of the Queens Last Will and Testament!
This remains a battle over blood, and making the Hawaiian’s produce legal facts that have been systematically erased by the same who now are suing for more of what the Hawaiians’ never gave. Gov. Linda Lingle is rushing through a position that if allowed a vote, I believe, the majority of Hawaiian voters, no matter what color or creed or culture, would reject.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT MONEY, THIS IS ABOUT HEART! My Republican Governor has none!
And just to prove it, I summarize all my other letters:
---EDUCATION: Just as sign-ups for free school lunches has shot to almost 98% of all children, Linda has cut those benefits. 3 months ago Linda wanted to close all failing schools to balance her budget. Now suddenly she wants to Take-Over all failing schools after President Obama’s Federal Money appears.
---HEALTH CARE: Linda stopped the Children’s Health Program campaigning with Palin, stating that it didn’t work. Linda wouldn’t fund it. She gave her State of the Union Address and bragged 1st how she cut 50% percent off the children’s welfare rolls. Linda was proud, I cried through the rest of her speech. I know these children, their teeth are rotting out of their mouths and they can look forward to bad heart health because of it.
4 months ago the poorest people over 65 and all the disabled, below the poverty level received a one page letter demanding they choose by Jan. 1st or the state would choose for them, instead of Medicaid an "Ohana" program or an "Ever Care" program. After much research I have learned no one knows anything about what is coming. But the poor know because they have started receiving doctor bills that read like this one, an over 65 man’s example of one office billing...
One Office Visit: 45 mins... $157.18
Medicare payment -33.62
Medicare Adjustment -44.97
Medicaid payment -141.98
Medicaid Payment Adjust 141.98
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YOU OWE..... $78.59
Welcome my dearest Grams and Gramps, Tutus and anyone disabled through no fault of your own. Those living below the poverty level welcome, to your new insurance, which is none at all. The Doctors are scared they will never get paid the $30 dollars which is their portion if they are on salary at their clinic. The Doctors are in the dark about what is going on and tired of more applications and red tape and paper work, all for the average Hawaiian Salary for Doctors of $34,000 a year. We are losing our Doctors in droves, with no sympathy or help from Lingle, who can afford to fly to the mainland if she needs to. I wonder if singling out the old and disabled only, for these programs, is discriminatory.
---Gov. Lingle refused to help when Dole Pineapple left; kicking 5 Generations of plantation workers off the only land and homes they had ever known. Dole plowed all the Pineapple fields under, so no-one would "profit off the pineapples.
---Gov. Lingle refused to help when Molokai Ranch left and told the residents of that Island now they had to pay for water from them, Gov. Lingle refused to help even when it appeared they would soon be out of water.
---Gov. Lingle just watched as Aloha Airlines Failed.
---Gov. Lingle announces cuts to all charities, and non-profits, education, teachers.
---Gov. Lingle refused our new Presidents invitation to meet him in Washington, Lingle just having returned from campaigning for weeks with Gov. Palin for Vice Pres., said she didn’t think we could afford it! Pres. Obama wrote her a letter and she refused to answer. When asked for shovel ready projects why didn’t she say our Monorail done the way it was promised? Fix our Gas Problems? Instead she plans to TAKE-OVER our failing schools.
Just give the damn money to the Teachers, Schools, Doctors and those living on the streets. Our poor Vietnam Vets living on the beaches, homeless, unrecognizable as former soldiers, lost in a system that won’t admit it’s mistakes.
And stop your appeal to take land from all Hawaiian’s; I am a Hawaiian too, although white, I have a heart. Are you, like all the Republicans, only worried about your political future? Can’t you spend one minute and think who you are hurting with your agenda!
Texas is getting a whole billion more than Hawaii, WHY GOVENOR LINGLE didn’t you ask for us.
Thank you Mrs. Obama, for listening, I hope there is someone you can show this to, who can at least care about what this woman and her politics is doing to the Hawaiians.
Sincerely,
Faith Pau’lele
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P.S. I still believe my past e-mailed bailout plan would have worked: Give each Citizen, man woman and child ½ million by check. They take the check to their local GOOD bank and deposit it. The first thing the bank does is send the Federal Treasury that person’s portion of the national debt. Each person then has over 400,000 to pay off their house, buy a new car, pay for their education and invest for the future. The government insures these amounts for two years. Everyone spends their money as they wish. Everyone has the same amount. If you have more debt, or more than one mortgage, well, tough. If you are mad because some families have more kids, thus more stimuli, tough you could have had children too. I believe it would be cheaper and fairer in the long run. Very stimulating. A great Equalizer.
And the Gentlemen that scream at us from the floor of the Stock Market, that it is our entire fault and you won’t bail us out. We are not stupid! Your blame makes me believe you live in ‘at least’ one house, have enough to eat, have health insurance, a pension and make over a ¼ million a year. You might have to pay taxes this year and you are pissed! Tough! Take it like the homeless, elderly, children, single moms and all those in America living in Poverty.
Even Rupert has to apologize today! It is not about Money it is about Heart! And those who don’t have heart will out!