THE ADVENTURES OF JONATHAN GULLIBLE BACK HOME ON RADIO

Ken Schoolland's international monster hit is coming home to radio where it all started once upon a time. The book now translated in over 50 languages has just received the George Washington award for literature, one of many for author, economist and Hawaii Pacific University professor Ken Schoolland. Although dubbed as "A Free Market Odyssey", The Adventures Of Jonathan gullible go beyond the principles of economics. It's a "how to" for critical thinking and a survival guide to world citizenry with universal relevance. The first Turkish edition has recently sold out in a matter of weeks and the book/cd set in Polish has been a best seller in that country for some time.

Schoolland narrates the episodes soon to air on the Hawaii Radio Project website http://www.thehawaiianlonegunman.com/ . The Gullible cannon will also be available via podcast worldwide http://www.hawaiiradioproject.podcastpeople.com/ The dramatized readings will kick off just in time for the holidays on December 1st. An exclusive interview with Ken Schoolland is to precede the adventure at ThanksGiving.

DUMBESS FAULCKIN' HAOLE O DA YEA' AWARD

It has been talked about and a long time coming but Da Dumbess Faulckin' Haole O Da Yea' Award is officially hea' as of Monday 22 October 2007 with da publication o dis pikchah of Geoff Morris, on da front page o da Honolulu Star Bulletin.

Many ovah' da years had shown uncommon creativity, valor and perseverence from Linda Lingle, da governah and her red t-shirt elucubrations on tax payers' time, her impeccable command of "Hav v v v aii", da official pronunciation in da Lingle adm., to Keith Haugen, da great albino ali'i from Mil"V"aukee, da only au"t"entic Hawaiian troubadour in Waikiki.

Now in da "mos'-pathetically-contrived-localism-uttered-by-some-guy-so- faulckin'-white-you-can-almost-see-through-him" category, da winnah....Da guy in da picture. Congratulations!!!

You, sir, are da Dumbess Faulckin' Haole O Da Yea'.

Shaka brah'.!

VANUATU BOYCOTT

another bullshit postcard from paradise: Vanuatu tourism office "tanna" island

The outrageous manner in which Vanuatu authorities have handled the rape of a 70 year old American tourist in September 2007 sends quite a different message: No woman is safe in the Pacific where macho "chief" mentalities still rule. Forget it if you're a woman and a foreigner to boot in paradise in the middle of the sea. The magistrate Court has just released on bail a man accused of raping the woman on the island of Tanna. Under new revised statutes on "forceable sex without consent" he could face life imprisonment. Despite the nature of his crime he has just been released into the community because living conditions in the Tanna jail are substandard (!) He is to appear for arraignment on October 27th. According to Vanuatu police superintendent John Taleon, he was released on condition that he agree not to leave the island and interfere with prosecution witnesses. One could argue that if his comings and goings are monitored, he is unlikely to go anywhere. But that's hardly the point. Violence against women is an everyday occurrence in Vanuatu as it is throughout the Pacific. The Vanuatu Women's Crisis Center has been clamoring for years for a change in attitudes among authorities that tend to hold women responsible for crimes committed against them. Now the problem has been internationalized and Vanuatu still doesn't get it and chances it won't. Why anybody should want to spend money in Vanuatu is anyone's guess. Why they shouldn't couldn't be any more obvious.

TEMARU, WHADDA HECK'S NU?

South Pacific Forum 2007, Tonga. Oscar Temaru is re-hashing independence, the decolonization of Tahiti Nui (French Polynesia), the Pacific and all that lies beyond his presidential mandate. It's as if he never left. Except that now, critics who less than a year ago were literally raising the roof over O.T.'s racist diatribes have become strangely meek since the mind-blowing alliance with the main pro-french party and the blessing of its boss Gaston Flosse.

It was the coalition to topple Gaston Ton Sang, disciple fallen from grace that put the pariah Temaru's ass back on the throne. Yeah, that same Oscar who went down for the count in January 07 through a no-confidence vote was back on top in September as head of the country with the same cronies back in tow. Of course voters have no say in these back alley parliamentary shenanigans. The outrage of a year ago has toned down considerably. One blog traditionally vitriolic towards the Tavini, the UPLD and generally all things Temaru describes his rant at this year's forum as "same tune without the hate". It's the story of the bank robber in the Mickey Mouse mask who shot the cashier. At least she died smiling. "Without the hate!?" Temaru whose closest allies include New Zealand's Tame Iti as of this writing in custody under suspicion of aiding and abetting in the training of maori pro-independence paramilitary factions under that country's new anti-terrorism law (funding sources unknown) has built a political career on divisive hatred. His return to the Pacific forum sends a message to all who like him feed off the gesellschaft. He is seen from Honolulu to Noumea as a voice of the oppressed. The oppressed don't care much about the details of a complex process that would make actual decolonization of the Pacific virtually impossible without the "colonizers" willing participation. It's the old Stalinian concept of "nation" cemented with ethnicity that resonates among the masses and that's what Temaru and others exploit with ever increasing vigor. The cult of irreconcilable differences has turned the Pacific into an unfriendly place to visit and a dangerous one in which to live. Oscar even warns of trouble ahead, instability, maybe social unrest, who knows...But...there's always January. Oh, you didn't know?. There's going to be another vote. We'll see if there's any truth to the old "once bitten, twice shy, thrice..." How does it end again?

TEMARU @ TONGA: BRAS D'HONNEUR TRANSPAC

Un an deja et a nouveau siegeant au forum du Pacifique au nom du peuple qu'il est cense representer tonton OT y remet de son couplet-refrain independance. C'est quand-meme pas la gro-grosse surprise, surtout que cette fois on ne peut l'accuser d'etre revenu sur de vagues promesses de ne pas en parler. Aucun engagement necessaire grace a cette voodoo-science a laquelle le petit peuple est tenu de croire sans poser de questions. A l'exception de Jean-Christophe Bouissou qui n'a cesse de remettre en question l'enigme qui a mene a cette recidive infernale, il reigne parmi les pundits de Polynesie francaise un magnanisme deconcertant surtout de la part de ceux qui il y a quelque mois denoncaient les propos racistes et xenophobes de celui qui se fait passer pour Mandela et decrire dans un journal Hawaiien comme liberateur. En meme temps que Tame Iti est arrete par les autorites neo-zelandaises sous suspicion de complot terroriste et que Sina Brown-Davis continue a se degosiller a Melbourne contre l'axe du mal Washington-Canberra-Paris-Auckland, Oscar Temaru vient refaire son bras d'honneur transpacifique aux grands applaudissements des soit-disant nationalistes animes de la meme ferveur separatiste. Une fois mordu, deux fois timide, la troisieme fois stupide. En Janvier tout le monde!

COFFIN JOE KICKS OFF HONOLULU CHINATOWN'S SPOOKFILMFEST '07

WELCOME TO THE "HAWAII RADIO PROJECT"'S "PANORAMIQUE"

http://www.thehawaiianlonegunmant.com/

Rogerio Araujo's "Garage Cinema" kicks off this year's "Hollowierd Festival" with one of the world's least known spooksters on celluloid. Brazil's own Ze Do Caixao (COFFIN JOE). What Wood, Romero and Carpenter dared on safer grounds, Ze Do Caixao did under much riskier circumstances, risking deportation, imprisonment and worse by just mentioning or alluding to the status quo of a militaristic society anchored in Catholic tradition, that of the Brazilian junta of the 1960's. Stay tuned!!

PACIFIQUE, OCEANIE ET MECONCEPTIONS FATALES

Si le crime contre la jeune Akirina suscita l'emoi a Tahiti, il fut loin de defrayer la chronique au-dela de la Polynesie et de la presse francophone.

La violence contre les femmes en Polynesie francaise et les crimes racistes contre Caucasiens a Hawaii ont un point notoire en commun. Le refus d'en reconnaitre l'existence et leur caractere culturel; le refus d'admettre que dans certaines societes la brutalite est monnaie courante. En Pf ainsi qu'a Hawaii, les adeptes du status quo hesitent A alimenter toute polemique pouvant porter atteinte a l'industrie du tourisme alors que les mouvements nationalistes et independentistes y trouvent excuse pour remettre le colonialisme en cause.
La perpetuation des fleaux devient ainsi possible grace a l'inertie officelle et la complicite d'un public qui ne s'exprime qu'en prive. On encourage ainsi violeurs et tabasseurs a s'identifier en tant que marginaux ethniques a perpetuite. Dissuades ainsi d'assumer toute responsabilite tout devient pretexte a elucubration physique envers une societe victimisante et donc meritante.

A Hawaii une des campagnes nationales non localisees est celle contre le racisme. Celle pour la prudence au volant, le port de la ceinture ou la conservation sont adaptees "couleur locale". La campagne "Don't Teach Hate" par contre est curieusement absente du palmares. Cette lacune est symptomatique d'un dilemme dont il est difficile de s'extriquer. Le racisme a Hawaii ne provient pas des communautes euro-americaines. Cela pose un probleme, celui de reconnaitre publiquement la violence comme produit de certaines valeurs traditionelles. La politique du blame contre le colonialisme, le mercantilisme, la pornographie et l'acohol est un des pires fleaux dans la lutte contre la violence et le racisme. Si l'alcohol libere le monstre, il ne le cree pas. Les theses simplistes tuent les femmes de Polynesie et continuent a faire d' innocentes victimes de crimes haineux a Hawaii. Elles le font avec autant d'aisance et d'efficacite que l'apathie publique et la reluctance des elus a admettre l'existence de ces problemes sociaux, par soucis du decorum et surtout par correction politique.

QUI A TUE AKIRINA? - EMISSION DE JP MUNTAL

QUI A TUE AKIRINA?:
Une emission de JP Muntal sur la violence contre les femmes avec Patrick Cerf, auteur de "La Domination Des Femmes A Tahiti" depuis Honolulu Hawaii USA.
http://www.thehawaiianlonegunman.com/ ou en podcast http://www.hawaiiradioproject.podcastpeople.com/posts/9370

Dr. Larry Price, Ph..kin' D..k head

"I can't believe you haven't been all over this Larry Price thing", said my friend Liz. I'd been known to opine long before I had to start scratching the blog itch. Some local jock had insulted a politician on the air, questioned his right to use words like "honestly" and "frankly", not because of politics or ideology but because he was blue- eyed, mainland-born and raised. Personally I had not heard what sounded like someone trying to cash in on Imus. To Listen to the interview click link below

http://www.khnl.com/Global/story.asp?S=6475244

Let's retrace our steps a bit. The year, 1994. I perused the dial. The NPR affiliate had no local origination worth listening to except Randy Roth's "Price Of Paradise". The university station was a sandbox with an antenna sticking out. Meanwhile free-form "Radio Free Hawaii" was in litigation and in the news. Instant recall did great in average-per-quarter-hour-listening indicators. Everybody claimed to listen but nobody did. Not surprisingly, advertisers bailed. It went off the air. At the other end of the spectrum, "Perry And Price" on KSSK was market's #1, Perry, pompous, sounding like a middle aged teenage ass; Price, slushy lisp'd, contrived localisms, unable to put a sentence together. Holy Guglielmo Marconi! this was THE morning team not just in metro Honolulu but the whole fricking state!!! God help us, I thought as I slammed "Sticky Fingers" into the car tape deck, already missing Howard more than I had imagined I would.

All this, to make the point: I never was, not now nor could I ever be a Perry and Price listener so I thought I'd extend the benefit of doubt until after I'd heard the interview. Having been in front of a mic, I knew a thing or two about slip ups when the damned toothpaste won't go back in the tube.

One of my favorite talk radio hosts, Andrew Krystal in Halifax, Canada http://www.news957.com/station/bios.jsp turns provocative one-liners into an art form, playing devil's advocate for argument's sake. I figured Price had done just that and listeners didn't get it. I was wrong.

Larry price came up again recently in conversation. "You know what, it's the damnedest thing," I said, "but I never heard that interview" changing the subject. But I wasn't to be left off the hook that easily. The link to the infamous exchange was in my e-mail box the next morning.

There's food for some serious thought here. It's not about some old jerk spitting into a microphone. It's the pernicious mentality he peddled that day. Price, PhD is a high-profile member of the community with access to airwaves and press. He lashed out on behalf of locals who view themselves in divisive terms and helped perpetuate a dangerous way of viewing others as a way of life. He's just too much of a Ph..kin' D..k head to see it.

"to us...when people from the mainland say things like honestly..and frankly... there's something wrong."

Kiss my mainland haole blue-eyed ass, Doctor Price. "Honestly" and "frankly", go Ph.ck yourself.

HAUNANI APOLIONA. HOLY MACKEREL, THERE SHE GOES AGAIN!!!!

Haunani Apoliona, Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs has spoken. And by Gosh when she says that "the majority has spoken: Hawaiians deserve self-determination" (Honolulu Star Bulletin, Sunday 9/12/'7) you better believe I damned well listen.

Except for that stuff again about that Grass Root Institute Of Hawaii. If it didn't already exist, we'd have to make one up. Quite frankly, I don't know what Haunani is on about with all those "push-polls" she says the Institute has been force feeding the public. I, for one have never been polled by them. In fact, in nearly 15 years of continued residence in Hawaii, I have never, ever, ever been polled on one single native Hawaiian issue. I was not one of the 380 polled by Ward Research, a scientific poll this one conducted on behalf of OHA, not like one of those "push-polls" she mentions (twice) in her editorial. Nor will I be, sadly, among those weighing in on that "democratic process" she speaks of. Haunani should know about democracy given the Voltairian respect she holds for dissenting views.

As a high profile spokeswoman for the Hawaiian community, she should really get past name calling and attempts to infantilize the public. No Ms Apoliona, the Akaka bill isn't some Matignon Accord or preamble to the decolonization of Hawaii; just ask the pro-independence, anti-Akaka bill activists in the Hawaiian community. No, the public isn't shaking in its slippas at the thought of gambling in Hawaii. No, those who oppose, criticize the Akaka bill or just question its validity are not Hawaiian haters intent on depriving them of their civil rights as implied by the two geniuses Kaohano and Galuteria on your OHA radio show a few weeks ago (Gee Whiz, speak of barrage!)

So how about not taking people for idiots and how about we quit calling them "big liars", "propagandists" and "fear mongers of misinformation"(?)

The mention of Civil Rights brings to mind the historical 1988 vice presidential debate between Lloyd Bentsen and incumbent Dan Quayle.

I remember the Civil Rights movement. I remember the issues around the Civil Rights movement. I remember the people in the Civil Rights movement and most of all, I remember their eloquence.

Ms Apoliona, THIS is no Civil Rights Movement.

RACISM HAWAIIAN-STYLE. IS THE AKAKA BILL DEBATE ATTEMPTING TO REDEFINE CIVIL RIGHTS?

"...nothing justifies racism in the Pacific. Not the islands' colonial history, not globalism, even less the radicalizing of culture..."

Emma Algan, Vice-President, Rautahi party, Papeete-Tahiti, French Polynesia. July 2007





CIVIL RIGHTS 101






Why won't the State advisory panel on civil rights focus on Civil Rights? What's the obsession with the Akaka bill?. Follow the dough. whoever controls resources dictates the cost of doing business. Talking about real Civil Rights issues like racism in "paradise" is more than a blot on the landscape. It's bad for business. Who needs Haunani-Kay Trask on the front page of USA Today?

Ever since it began with the new appointments to the Advisory Panel, the so-called debate on Civil Rights has been about whether some real estate project can happen with lands in Hawaiian hands and whether Hawaiians can have their cake and eat it too, a private club funded with public money .

Entitlement, appropriation? yes. Civil Rights? no.

No Taxation Without Representation is a sacred principle. Tax payers should protest racially exclusionary programs. They should voice gripes with the same over-the-top grandiloquence Hawaiian activists voice theirs. God help us if it ever comes to that. The business community is entitled to doing business. but that's different from CIVIL Rights. Concerns with the Akaka bill are real and justified. It's the shape of bad things to come if the leadership in the new tribe is anything like that in the Sovereignty movement. And it will be, let there be no doubt.
But when children are bullied, teachers brutalized, visiting friends murdered for looking at some guy the "wrong way", it's time to reshuffle the deck. Hawaii does not recognize hate crime if the victim is white. Under aged offenders go to family court while adults plea bargain their way around federal hate crime laws. Whether the Akaka bill passes or not, and unless racism is recognized as clear and present danger ...it will become more pervasive and at times deadly. That is the job of the state advisory panel to the US commission on Civil Rights, to deter hate crime despite the myopic incompetence of this governor, the posturing of this Attorney General and a Department of Education consumed by decorum and self preservation.

Hatred of Caucasians is an institution, Racism, payback for colonialism, the militarization of the islands, globalization, expressed in the public square unchecked. Because Unlike victims' Civil Rights, racial rhetoric, preamble to violence, is protected. Not just under the 1st amendment. but through unspoken rules, obscure island tradition, cronyism, pandering media. but most of all , a public politically correct and hopelessly polarized. Caucasians don't report racial abuse for fear of ridicule. The devil's triumph was convincing the world he didn't exist. In Hawaii racism doesn't exist. Since the Massie case, we've been painting smiley faces on the gargoyle. Calling racism by any other name is a crime.
A "real" Civil Rights issue came up in February 2007 . practically a memory now. Not just another case of selective amnesia but because in Hawaii, Civil Rights are not created equal .
When a young couple was beaten in front of their child to the sound of " fuckin' haole", the city prosecutor dilly-dallied over the definition of hate. What was a hateful crime with racial overtones was not to qualify as hate crime. A man knocked a woman half his size and age unconscious, kicked her husband repeatedly in the head when he'd already passed out, causing both concussions and facial fractures in front of their 3 year old child but in the "aloha state" that ain't hate. The racial epithet? irrelevant said prosecutors. A fender bender caused the rage, not race. Why bother with a defense with a prosecution like that?. The most disturbing aspect of the case? There were no demonstrations, no " haoles for justice", no kids draped in flags for the cameras. From the Hawaiian community, no compassion for the couple or their little child. University of Hawaii professor Jon Okamura told the September 14 issue of the Honolulu Advertiser the whole thing could have been averted with more "programs" for native Hawaiians. Days following the beatings, Sovereignty activist Daviana McGregor told Honolulu TV news those who wanted the assault prosecuted as hate crime were themselves guilty of racism. Echoes of the Gabriel Kealoha case all over again. The press even hinting at overcrowding as an excuse for the beatings, the "haolification" of the 'aina.
the circumstances in the murder of Christopher Reuthers two months later on April 22 fit the M.O.: haole in the wrong place, crossing paths with the wrong "local". He did not have permission to take pictures at a luau with the local guy in the shot. and for that he died. It happens, in broad day light. to people on their way to work, the store or the beach. to defenseless tourists. Mostly unreported or dropped at the "suggestion" of police or private security personnel, and when reported, the perpetrators ending up in juvie or plea bargaining.

Following a 2005 attack on tourists on the big island of Hawaii, Henry "puka" Bell skirted the mandatory 20 year sentence under the state's hate crime law by pleading guilty to lesser charges.

In 1998, a Kamehameha school grad who had killed a police officer allegedly in self-denfense went to family court...at 19! so he could enroll at the University of Hawaii in time.

Honolulu prosecuting attorney Peter Carlisle was publicly stoned and branded a racist by Kealoha's parents and the Hawaiian community for wanting him

tried as an adult. There were no expressions of sympathy for the police officer or his family, editorialist David Shapiro commenting at the time, the public only too eager to believe tales of a rogue haole cop chasing down Hawaiians. In typical "Haole Go Home" fashion, Hawaiian pundits said it was the case to end Carlisle's career and send him paddling "home back" to New Jersey. What the public will believe and accept in Hawaii is infuriating and criminally stupid.

Why criminal? because of the message it sends to haters, would-be rapists and murderers. Because it tells hate-criminals that non-locals and particularly haole's are fair game and they can get away with murder.

In August 2007 the Kona newspaper Hawaii Today, http://www.westhawaiitoday.com/articles/2007/08/01/local/local02.txt

published a story about routine and flagrant Civil Rights violation in the school system.

8 year-old school girls beaten to the sound of "haole bitches and whores", the offenders suspended for a token 24 hours, parents leaving jobs, homes and self-respect behind because of the inertia of State and Department of Education officials and non-existing Civil Rights enforcement.

CIVIL RIGHTS in Hawaii as elsewhere is about citizens being allowed to go about their lives without fear for their lives. It's about their children's Right to learn and play without being told each day they don't belong because of their skin color or as one kid warned another, "my dad says you folks bettah leave...or else". It's about tax-paying citizens' Right to dissent without fear of intimidation. Those are Civil Rights.

Also included in the list of Civil Rights is health care for those who need it the most and can afford it the least. It appears that many if not most who support the efforts of this Advisory Panel On Civil Rights are radically opposed to health care reforms even those affecting children of low income families. Those need to re-consider their stance on Civil Rights

The Akaka bill debate is redefining Civil Rights in Hawaii by diverting public attention away from universally recognized Civil Rights issues. This panel would not know Civil Rights if it bit them on the ass. Nor for that matter would the Hawaiian activists who parade their kids at every one of those so-called public hearings on Civil Rights. So let's leave this panel to talk about the Akaka bill and all the bad stuff it's going to do for business if it passes and appoint a real panel with members who will tackle Civil Rights even if at the cost of a temporary blot on the landscape. We can handle the blot. I don't think we're ready for what's coming if we can't contain racism Hawaii-style, Akaka bill or not.

DEBUNKING "MEMORANDUM-46" CASEY LARTIGUE ON THE JP MUNTAL HONOLULU RADIO SHOW

Don't go debunking myths people want to believe. That's what one of the brightest radio personalities in America learned the hard way. Casey Lartigue, formerly with the Cato Institute, now an independent education consultant and side-kick Eliot Morgan just got booted off their XM radio show in Washington D.C. over the controversial so-called "Memorandum 46" theory. Allegedly signed by former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, the document outlines a conspiracy begun during the Carter administration to cause havoc within the African American community in the U.S. and chaos in Africa. Brzezinski has denied the allegations pointing out his name at the bottom of "memorandum 46" isn't even spelled right. But despite a long list of clues that clearly spell out F.A.K.E. the urban legend has caught on among African Americans who came out swinging at two of their own. A heated controversy began on the air, continued off and ended in the abrupt cancellation of the popular show. Is this a case of the power of myth in a way Joseph Campbell couldn't have imagined, or something more sinister? Can people be made to believe anything if it reinforces belief: an alliance between AlQaeda and Iraq, a Jewish conspiracy behind 9-11 or a white plot to blow up levees in New Orleans? In Hawaii, can the privileged minority pulling the strings of the sovereignty movement use "memorandum 46" tactics to keep the lower classes in a permanent state of discontent for political ends? Who are the puppet masters?
Casey Lartigue is special guest on the JP Muntal Honolulu Radio Show NOW STREAMING and PODCAST downloadable now @ http://hawaiiradioproject.podcastpeople.com . The JP Muntal Honolulu Radio Show @http://www.thehawaiianlonegunman.com/

KENNETH CONKLIN (Sparring with the devil)

the devil and the finger lady






The interview behind the interview heard on the Hawaii Radio Project at http://www.thehawaiianlonegunman.com/



fractured memories and dubious extrapolations.

I needed to witness it myself. After perusing the blogs, I now believed, there in the shadows of the Ko'olaus evil lurked, a loather of things just and sacred. After nearly 15 years on the windward side of Oahu I wasn't unfamiliar with evil. Not old white men in Colonel Sanders suits; but villagers who dump leaky batteries by the road side, keep roosters in tiny cages or tied to trees , speed along Lilipuna, run over hapless ducklings for fun then peer over blacked out windows with disgusted pout, raised eyebrow and frown known collectively as the "stink eye". That was nothing, I feared, compared to the ordeal I must now face.

The surroundings appeared innocuous, the abode unassuming. I would not falter in THE quest, I said out loud for courage as I ventured on the last elevator ride to Hades.

"Nice view you've got here" I said, nodding toward the mountain. The handshake was firm but cordial, the eye clear yet not defiant." a glint of humor in the demeanor. I recoiled. El trickster suprimo? Nahhh this was no prince of darkness, no angel of light. "I'm JP", "Yes I know, welcome to my house."

"So, you want me to talk about my book" he said.
"I skipped the last couple of chapters" I confessed. "That's quite alright none of the critics have read it". "Perhaps they didn't feel they needed to", I ventured, suggesting he had put in print (and at his own expense) years of web publishing begun long before the world had heard of the word "blog".

There was more Hawaiiana here than at Bishop museum; a tiki-like trinket, scattered about the room, an assortment of nick knacks of vague oceanic provenance, on the wall a painting evoking some Hawaiian legend. I had rescheduled the interview due to Conklin's prior engagement: some Hula and falsetto event the day before. "Do you like Hula?" he asked. "Uhhh it's attractive done by ladies particularly when they smile" I said but didn't find it necessary to opine about men in dangerously ill-fitting diapers who sway hips and play scissor-knees. "as to falsetto, it's an acquired taste beyond my acquiring abilities I'm afraid". He almost looked hurt despite my awkward dabb at diplomacy.

"You might be the only one who's read the book" he said, breaking the uneasy silence.

I had read the reviews on Amazon.com. I had also written one, critical of Conklin for appearing to trivialize the overthrow of the monarchy and the annexation. He might well have a point. There was one review by a guy who gave the book five stars and admitted he hadn't read it. Here, was another by someone in Minneapolis too incensed and self-absorbed by his own "Hawaiianness" to actually write about the book; there, a rambling re-hashing of stuff against Conklin readily available everywhere on the web.

"you see", he began as if reading my mind "Hawaiian Apartheid" is available by print-on-demand only from the e-publisher and Amazon.com. If stores and libraries don't carry it, detractors have to fork out 20 bucks for the privilege. What's the likelihood do you suppose?

I pondered the unassailable logic.

This exchange was getting uncomfortably chummy. Time to kick it up the odd notch. "I saw you try to bite the Hawaiian lady's finger on YouTube" I blurted. It came out shrill. The eye lit up "ahh yesssss, they're still showing it are they?" "they sure are and that's all everyone's talking about" "what possessed you?", I was going to add but didn't. "I just warned the good lady I didn't have breakfast and I might just eat her finger if she stuck it in my face. I thought I might inject some humor into these proceedings. She was angry because I said something in Hawaiian. She said the language is sacred and Caucasians have no soul." "Oh!" I said "So now the whole sovereignty movement's got Caucasians pegged as anthropofagists on top of everything else." I wanted to say "and....on top of everything else, you had two American flags, not one mind you, two, I counted them. Have you any idea what message you send?" I thought better of it and instead said "why couldn't you just say, Madam, it's not the done thing and leave it at that. She's still upset I'm sure." "Oh dear, do you really think so? Would it help if I told her I have never bitten anyone I didn't love? oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. if only I hadn't skipped breakfast". The devil was slowly morphing into G.K.Chesterton's Father Brown.

Screamers would be furious with the man. He's immune to harangues. Invectives bounce off the outer walls of his intellectual bubble. I can see how pro Hawaiian sovereignty detractors of dimmer wit, of whom there are a few, would find him a frustrating sparring partner; but a racist? a hater of things Hawaiian? as likely as his biting off a finger as claimed on blogs from Iwalei to Las vegas and bantered across the valley from hill to mountaintop like a Ricolah commercial.

Dusk was setting on O'ahu's Borgo Pass. The Pali highway a blurr past the window of my old Ford pick up, I cursed my own temerity and foolishness. In my quest to get to the bottom of this sovereignty thing, I had overstepped my boundaries as mere observer and offered to convey to the finger lady an invitation to a rematch with Satan. The rules were simple: no yelling, no shoving and as far as Conklin was concerned, a one-flag limit and for Pete's sake, no sarcasm! In the light of day it sounded tame, but now, as darkness fell? I wasn't so sure. I had seen the finger lady on YouTube, that was true. But in person? brrrr. What if she turned the all-admonishing digit on me, pout, raised eybrow and all?. Would I be strong, would I be weak, could I turn the other cheek? The resolve grew weak. Shadows fell. Van Helsing I'm not.

I had become a player but did I really want to play umpire in an epistemological joust between the deaf and the blind?. Could I go back on my word? Mine was a quest for things sacred and just indeed. All sides matter, all voices count, deserve respect. Can't we all get along?, I yelled shielding my eyes from some jerk's high beam in the oncoming traffic. I reached out and pressed "play" on my favorite cd. As it had many times, the disembodied voice of wisdom again rose, reassuring in the night. Professor Longhair live in New Orleans; first the unmistakable opening to "Big Chief"; cheers from the crowd; then, Fess's truth, frozen in time on a tiny silver disc for eternity, the prophet's word devastatingly, metaphysically relevant: " Yeahhh righhht!"

QUI A TUE AKIRINA? avec l'invite special PATRICK CERF

PATRICK CERF est l'invite de JP MUNTAL dans le cadre du JP MUNTAL HONOLULU RADIO SHOW a Hawaii. Cerf qui sera a l'university d'Hawaii le Jeudi 4 Octobre 2007 parlera a JP Muntal de son livre "La Condition Des Femmes A Tahiti"(editions du vent, Papeete). L'entrevue faite en Francais et en Anglais est MAINTENANT disponible en "audio sur demande" sur le site officiel de l'emission http://www.thehawaiianlonegunman.com/
De plus amples renseignments seront egalement disponibles sur le site officiel de Christine Bourne http://www.tahititoday.com/
e-mail transpac_info@yahoo.fr

WHO KILLED AKIRINA? VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN TAHITI

During the night of May 5 2006, a young Tahitian woman, AKIRINA, 18 suffered a brain hemorrhage and died as she was raped repeatedly by a gang of 11 men, some, teenagers as young as fifteen, as well as by her 42 year old uncle. As Akirina lay dying, the men continued abusing her inert body while as many as 20 onlookers watched without intervening. The incident has refocused law inforcement and sociologists' attention on the problem of sexual violence against women in Polynesia.
Patrick Cerf is the author of the controversial book "The Domination Of Women In Tahiti". He is JP Muntal's guest on Muntal's Honolulu Radio Show.. Interviews in French and English are currently streaming on the net and available via podcast. at www.thehawaiianlonegunman.com and www.hawaiiradioproject.podcastpeople.com
Cerf has written a complex in-depth analysis of the condition of women in Polynesia, its deeply-rooted cultural history and by extension of the Polynesian psyche. It contradicts the widely accepted notion of a matriarchal society corrupted by western influence, a notion frequently invoked as the basis for anti-colonial political posturing. More information soon available on the radio show's website and by contacting transpac_info@yahoo.fr

MILKING IOLANI PALACE (WRONG PLACE,WRONG TIME)

Keep your stars and stripes under wrap or be a Yankee doodle dandy fool. Every year, Iolani palace, symbol of nationalist rebirth, plays host to anti-American grievances by activists with a thing for Hollywood and Cecil B.deMille . The Queen was once held under house arrest here. But it's old Union Jack flapping today, louder than a chorus and verse of "Rule Britannia", testament to the submissiveness of the monarchs to British rule and today's nationalist movement's obsession with nobility. It is subconscious inherited behavior going back to the dawn of Polynesian aristocratic thought. If, as Hawaiians are told from birth and reminded through life, the "white man" brought disease and pestilence, he also helped create the royal icons revered today throughout the Pacific by those who call for its decolonization. In Tahiti, Wallis enabled Pomare to crush Te Fana, his arch rival . Here, it was the English flint that put Kamehameha on the throne. Without instructions from Isaac Davis and John Young the "great" warrior whose first glimpse of a wheel was of one under a canon wouldn't have known which end of the fuse to light. The British gun helped a self-appointed "descended-of-the-gods" marauder subjugate a people under one iron fist and proclaim himself absolute ruler. In Hawaii, history books call that "unifying". Even Julius Caesar writing about his victory over Vercingetorix called it a "Conquest". The one responsible for the deaths of six thousand Oahu warriors in one day as they tried to push him back is worshipped by school children today, many of who, under his rule, would have been infanticized for being of the wrong gender or lineage. Yet, the British flag waves as a symbol of Hawaiian pride; Hawaiian royalty, of benevolence and wisdom. Noblesse oblige. One doesn't question the logic of icons. Nevertheless, whatever inexplicable sense of national fervor the royal abode may stir in the common man, it's a curious choice as symbol of redress for the destitute, displaced and marginalized. Iolani Palace is about privilege and power, ordained by God, unquestioned by man. It still resonates with pump, circumstance and the fatal consequence of sleeping with the enemy. Here, portrayed in full Masonic regalia is "Merry Monarch" King Kalakaua; There, the echo of crystal toasts to wolves in sheep skins, the frivolity of the ruling classes, the curse brought down on a voiceless people. It can be argued whether or not, with or without the back-alley shenanigans orchestrated by the US, the monarchy would have ended. It can be disputed whether during her visit with Victoria, Lili'uokalani failed to grasp the distinction between reigning and ruling. One may speculate that not enough effort went toward establishing a constitutional monarchy and thus prevent the overthrow. We will never know. The guilty and the innocent are long gone. One thing is certain about today though: the poor, destitute and displaced bussed in from Waimanalo and Wainae to worship the ground monarchs once trode are used as poster child by those who know or should know better.
The hapa Hawaiian grandiloquent and tenured elite behind the sovereignty movement is obsessed with caste with good reason. It too, is privileged, self-aggrandizing and aristocratic. Let them eat cake.

FAIRNESS IN NEWS - Of Lies And Trooz

Alicia C.Shepard "Image Problems" (Honolulu Star Bulletin insight editorial section, Aug 12) makes a good case for journalistic fairness. She fails, however, to mention the public's responsibility to get the real story and not be taken for the proverbial ride down B.S. alley.
The proliferation of news sources gives a bird's eye view of the marketplace of ideas those of us who grew up on shortwave radio could never have foreseen. But news origination has become, to paraphraze Frank Llloyd Wright, "mob-ocratized" with the advent of home grown and grass root initiative. The influence of blog-journalism has rendered the Fairness Doctrine virtually irrelevant. Now more than ever do sources require healthy scrutiny.
Why should one Hawaii newspaper agree to publish "Broken Trust," and not the other? Why should National Public Radio, despite an ombudsman, regurgitate official slogans (Operation Iraqi Freedom) without disclaimers during their newscasts in the early days of the war? By the way did anyone ever ask Juan Williams why he carried (literally!) Condee Rice's books on the way to her 9-11 testimonial? (run that MSNBC footage please).
To demand rather than expect journalists to justify the how and why of what they do is no mere academic curiosity. Caveat emptor.