The state of Hawaii moves to censor a cartoon
Hawaii’s forbidden cartoon
Identity politics runs amok in Hawaii: This is un-freaking-believable. Andrew Walden reports:
Does free speech exist in Hawaii?
A government department of the State of Hawaii is demanding the retraction of a political cartoon published Jan. 18 on the satirical web site http://www.zeroshibai.com/ and reprinted Jan. 21 on http://www.hawaiireporter.com/ The demands come in response to images and text ridiculing the Office of Hawaiian Affairs’ Kau Inoa campaign as “Cow Inoa.” Kau Inoa, Hawaiian for “place your name” is building a roll of Hawaiians to participate in a Hawaiian tribal government. Haunani Apoliona, writing in her capacity as “Chairperson, Board of Trustees, Office of Hawaiian Affairs” (OHA) in a Jan. 24 statement demands: “The cartoon should be pulled and the secret author publicly identified.” OHA’s backers are calling and emailing businesses demanding they pull their ads from HawaiiReporter.
If you have followed the Native Hawaiian grievance-mongering movement, you won’t be surprised.
I’ve covered Hawaii’s secessionists here, here, here, here, here, and here.
You should know this: Hillary Clinton (D-NY), Barack Obama (D-IL) and John McCain (R-AZ) (see Walden’s update) support this movement and the activists now using their power in Hawaii’s state government to squash their critics using satirical cartoons to fight back.
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funny
It must have hit home…
We haven’t had real “free speech” anywhere in ages. Just read the news. Everyone is offended now over everything.
Moo in cow talk means hello and goodbye.
aloha
I did it!
Shout from the mountaintops:
This is tolerance.
This is progressive.
TP. I like it.
Seriously though, these people aren’t tolerated of anything that opposes them and/or their agenda and they are only progressing towards suppressing dissenters. Dems and RINOs in cahoots?… No, shant be. There must be some mistake. Which RINO you ask? McCant. Surprise, surprise.
toleratedtolerantI live in Hawaii, and it really can be a strange place. The efforts of some “native” Hawaiians to declare certain rocks, places, and even the taro plant “sacred” and, hence, untouchable, remind me of the nutty Islamic fundamentalists.
We have a RINO governor (LInda Lingle) and a legislature dominated by Dems. The governor’s solution to high-priced gas is to enact “energy independence” measures that would double our costs. We, along with most of the US, already pay an “inefficiency” tax due to ethanol requirements, not to mention the associated run-up in all things connected to the now expensive corn crop.
Boooosh did it.
I’m willing to bet that that friend of the Constitution, St. John of Arizona, will come riding to the free speech defense of the clever people who created that great cartoon.
I’d bet my vote for President of the United States on that…
I’ve always heard that a state has the right to secede from the Union(although the one time it was attempted,it didn’t suceed).Does the Union have a right to kick a state out?Seems like a resonable solution to this problem.
I left Hawaii 14 Years ago in large part because it is the most racist state in the country. It is the only place I know where people feel they have a right to an education, homes and money because of what race they are. Worse yet, the racist attitudes are written into the law. Rules similar to a reverse jim crow are still in effect because the democrat legislature panders to the so-called “Native Hawaiians”. There are legally 2 classes of people there - something the rest of us grew out of long ago.
I did it too. So sue me, you humorless snivelers.
I thought the only state that kept the right to secede from the Union was
Texas and we would be stupid to do so because we would wind up being
blockaded and sitting there with nowhere to go when it came to importing
what we needed except from Mexico and who needs that?
Yes, and it’s the liberals who are blaming conservatives for this. If anything, it’s the lefty MSM with their politically correct rhetoric that’s ruining free speech everywhere.
I think these Hawaiian bureaucrats need to be placed in re-education camps. We don’t control cartoonists in the USA, last time I checked.
Are we going to allow the cancellation of the First ammendment?
This movement to sensor free speech is going on in the EU, Canada, and -of course- in the mid-east.
The books:
Alms for Jihad
Funding Evil
America Alone
come to mind
Bloggers:
Lionheart stands out
Cartoons:
The Danish Mo-Toons and the resulting terror activities come to mind
The former mayor of a city in an Eastern (NJ?) state recently arrested for protesting a fees increase.
What are we going to do about this socialist trend in our great country?
Truthfully, the primary reason I don’t vacation in Hawaii any more is because of the rampant and vigorous racism.
So, will the “secret author” also be pilloried, if they find the cheeky bastard? …. Only seems fitting… That would teach the rest to keep their mouths shut!
The nerve of him/her!!! To express an opposing opinion!!
You haven’t written about this in three years, which is probably why I never heard of it before. If the bill passed, three years ago, why is it only again now on the radar?
Yeah, it’s a funny cartoon. Actually it could be satirical of our own immigration policies here ‘nativism’.
I’m not saying it is about our own immigration thing, and I wish we didn’t have any more illegal aliens here. Oh well, my point will probably be missed and I’ll get lambasted over it. Anyway, funny cartoon - shouldn’t be censored.
I cannot tell a lie.
Bear1909 did it!
These people have no sense of freedom. The only reason we have 1st Amendment protection of our free speech rights is to protect speech we don’t like! If everyone agreed with everything that was said, we wouldn’t need free speech protection. Don’t they get that?
By the way, our free speech protection is to protect us from the government limiting or eliminating free speech. So why is a department of the state gov’t demanding this bit of free speech be stopped? The SCOTUS has ruled many times that political speech is protected. That’s the entire point of OUR government! We’re allowed to voice our opinion and ridicule the gov’t when we feel like it.
I know the “campaign finance reform” laws were ruled “constitutional” by the SCOTUS but those are being tested again and will continue to be tested by people that know and understand what freedom means.
This is very true. Even the U.S. Military bows to the special racial preferences.
I was stationed in Hawaii for three years and there’s one policy that angers many soldiers. Hawaii is the ONLY state in the U.S. which the U.S. Military allows citizens who join the military to choose to remain in their home state for the duration of their ENTIRE military career. While the rest of us are ordered to various locations throughout the world, with absolutely zero choice in the matter, Hawaiians are given the opportunity to spend their entire 20 plus years living in paradise.
I would bet that this special treatment can be traced directly to the ability to buy off government officials with valuable enticements in paradise. It would be extremely interesting to find out how many government officials in Washington have luxurious vacation homes or arrangements for special accommodations, bought and paid for in Hawaii.
Check this video out for a look at just how corrupt Washington is.
Nope. Texas has (or had) an un-exercised option to subdivide, but no special right of succession. From the Joint Resolution for Annexing Texas to the US:
I wonder if the “Native Hawaiians” understand how close they are to being placed under an unaccountable dictatorship and losing their Constitutional protection. A Marxist ideal.
Two reasons Native Hawaiians don’t have a leg to stand on:
1) Native Hawaiians have never organized, acted or existed as a tribe. Unlike legitimate Indian tribes that retained quasi-sovereign powers after ceding their lands to the U.S., Native Hawaiians never established a treaty right to self-governance and exemption from our federal Constitution. (MM Feb 28, 2005 Hawaii’s Secessionists)
2) In 1959 Hawaii voted for statehood.
Having mentioned these two reasons. I believe the overthrow of Hawaii was more illegal than Elivira Arellano!!!!! However, they still voted for statehood. Case closed.
More like cow manure.
The last time I looked, Hawaii was one of the 50 states in the United States of America. Doesn’t the freedom of press and speech apply there as in the other 49 states? I would have thought the constitution applied to ‘all’ citizens there also. Doesn’t Hawaii get ‘their’ fair share of the pork from DC at all the taxpayers expense? They would be screaming bloody murder if the money was cut off.
L.
We left HI this past March after 4 years on the island of Oahu courtesy of the US Army. There are some truly racist people in HI but there are very many others who are not. When we first moved into our home, we were greeted with garbage in our yard, the near burning of our house on New Years Eve, slashed tires and a police force who could care less. However, the ringleaders eventually were foreclosed upon and all of it stopped. I did meet some truly wonderful Hawaiians at my church, Immaculate Conception in Ewa and my neighbors who moved into the foreclosed upon house were wonderful.
It’s a funny thing though, they take “statehood day” off every year but don’t want to be a state. Part of me says “good riddance” to them if they do, they just bring liberal Reps and Senators to the table but at the same time we’re really missing the aloha of the state especially now that we live in NOVA. My former company commander and her husband were there at the same time as well. They left in Feb. and told me that they were shocked when they both nearly cried when the plane left Honolulu Intl. when they came home. I think we felt the same way. Yes, it’s different to live there then to just go on vacation but honestly, as racists as some are, I found that the majority of people I met were not that way and were very kind. I lived in Ewa Beach in a neighborhood called Westloch Estates on Pololia St, if anyone is looking for a nice street to live on as there is a house for sale. Overall though, if you stay out of Longs you’ll be okay. Just my opinion but we really do miss it just not the small parking spaces at the Ala Moana & Pearl Ridge & Waikele.
Truthfully, the primary reason I don’t vacation in Hawaii any more is because I can’t afford it ; ) but back when I could my cousin was stabbed outside the Westin where he’d just setup sound for a native band. The only clue for motive that he ever got (and thankfully the wound healed well) was that the native appearing person was screaming “haole” as he ran at him.
I gotta think that identity politics like these HI politicians are playing play a role in this kind of thing.
This is a very funny cartoon. Most good jokes are based on truth or real life. How can I exist without my cherished sarcasm?
There are good people everywhere, and bad ones too. It’s the bad ones that make the news and get the attention, unfortunately. No news in reported good people doing good things.
Your points on Hawaii being the most racist is verified by me. After five visits I will not vacation there anymore due to the racism targeted at my family. Oh well, I guess they don’t need tourism dollars. My brother and his family with tw0 blond girls in school left a very good job and moved back to Oregon due to racism as well.
Sorry man, I also lived 10 years in Hawaii. I was stationed there and I taught school there and married a local (Filapina - Chinese). I never found Hawaii to be racist. I loved being a Kama-aina and being called a Haole. I am proud to have 3 nephews (Japanese, Chinese, Filapino).
I think if you think it is racist, you need to look at your own behavior and attitudes.
Hawaii had none of the racial prejudices of my native Chicago.
I guess that would include going to a public park to watch surfers. Yes, I brought it on myself. (sarcasm meter on high).
Before we continue to just bash Hawaii and Hawaiians, lets look at our beloved NCAA. It banned the honored Chief Illiniwek of the University of Illinois, saying he was a racist symbol. Anyone who goes to Illinois football or basketball games can tell you that that symbol is revered.
This was done by the Liberal busy bodies since there is no Illini Indian tribe.
So because you had a bad experience at the beach, Hawaii is the most racist state in the nation. Talk about OVER-GENERALIZATION. I have spend much time on those beaches and I am as hoale as they come. But if I judged my opinion of tourist by a few bad apples, I am call American Tourist racists. But I wont do that, since I know better.
But, my editing needs work
MisterP, I don’t think we are “just bashing” native Hawaiians. We are discussing the racism that is very prevalent there and you seemed to have either ignored or just maybe didn’t catch on to it. Some people are not as aware as others. I find it interesting that you were a teacher and didn’t notice it. That was a huge problem for my nieces as even the teachers were prejudiced towards them. You must have been in a private school.
scratch a liberal, find a fascist
MisterP, I didn’t say that was the only experience I had involving prejudice. Did you expect me to list them all. It was sarcasm, like the cartoon we are discussing and it was sarcasm that was based on truth.
Truth hurts huh Kau Inoa, especially when it comes from haole.
Who wants to tell the Native Hawaiians that they’re Chinese? (Taiwan and East China). Oops.
Respectfully, you’re wrong. You cannot be both a kama’aina (born on the islands) and a ha’ole (a foreigner, specifically a white foreigner).
As a ha’ole, I, too, have experienced discriminatory treatment by some locals, if not outright racism. In fact, I was turned down for a job in Honolulu, in part because the manager said he wasn’t sure I could handle being white in Hawai’i. Racism? Perhaps. Discrimination? Absolutely.
I really like Hawai’i, and I greatly enjoy spending time there, but from the absolutely corrupt local government, the cozy business deals, the deep-end far-left Democrats, the extremist environmentalists (Superferry, anyone?), and the exorbitant cost of living, I could never stay there permanently.
Ho, brah, you some akamai
It’s true! There are very few true Hawai’ian people left on the islands. Most people today are some blend of Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, American(of all kinds!), Hawai’ian, Samoan, and Fijiian. The natives-only argument quickly falls apart in light of the facts.
Maybe she had too much Labrador mixed in with her Maui Wowie.
Yes Fourstringfuror, and what MisterP missed is the fourth sentence of the cartoon speaks to that very issue. Of course it’s in the form of cows mating but again, that’s what I love about sarcasm.
It’s not that Hawaii is worse (or better) than any other place, it’s just that many here think that because it is so ethnically diverse, it cannot be racist. Plus, there is the misguided liberal dogma that “whites” cannot be the victims of racism. Hawaii is a wonderful and wondrous state, with great people, but paradise is not an apt description.
There is a separatist movement encouraged by the weak-minded and apologetic-for-all-things western, but western civilization did not achieve its dominance and brilliance through timidity and surrender.
Let’s sell Hawaii and the “M” states, Mexifornia, Mexas, Mexinois, etc.
I have to back up traveler49 on this one. In the 80’s I attended the Hawaii Prepatory Acadamy (a private school) for 1 school year. Most of the time things were fine but there were those occasions where we (outsiders from the school) were harrased to no end. Everytime my friends and I went to the beach…it was like free boxing lessons with the locals. Apparently…..and unbeknownst to us, we were not allowed to use the beach. It’s pretty much the main reason I got into jujitsu. The private schools were no better traveler.
I guess you will have to explain that to the locals in Hawaii. A Kama’ aina is one who has been accepted by the locals as a local himself, whether white, asian or polynesian.
You know for those of you complaining about Hawaiian racism. I think maybe it is a good experience for you to be a minority for a change.
When I grew up in Chicago, I remember a class mate bragging that he burnt down a house because a “ni..er” family moved in. I saw a white student start a race riot in the cafeteria and low and behold, that same student returned the next year as a cop.
I went to the Wake of my best friend killed in Viet Nam (by his own squad). He had become a cop before getting drafted and his “friends” were bragging about how they would beat up black people on the streets.
That my friends is racism.
It is not waiting longer in line, getting called Haole and being told it is a local only beach.
My boy scout leader lead on march against Jews in Skokie (Collin - who became the leader of the Neo Nazi party -it became a movie)
Maybe I wasn’t aware of the “subtle” racism going on around me, but who can blame me after growing up in Chicago.
Thanks Gregor, for the link. Anyone wonder why we need to dump most of these elitist clowns from government. I imagine how much more prosperous this country would be if there were no earmarks?
In the ’70s I taught at St.Francis and Mid Pacific Institute. Just about every friday I would get a lei. I greatly miss the love and the warmth I received in Hawaii and I am happy to be going back next month. I thought math and chemistry and many of my students have gone on to become doctors, lawyers and engineers. I am very proud of them.
My only bad experiences in Hawaii came when I was stationed there (during the Viet Nam war). If I was wearing my uniform I would get the nasty stares from the tourists. I even had a couple call me a “baby killer”. I never had this kind of an experience from the local people. I coached pop warner football while stationed at Scholfield, and had Somoan, Hawaiian, Asian players and I enjoyed them so much I decided to become a teacher.
So sorry for your experience, but don’t go to the beach on Chicago’s south side either.
Yes, the government is corrupt. But when I lived in Hawaii, one governer was impeached, the next was caught at cock fights with her husband, and the next one was convicted of fraud and went to jail - And McCain was the senator
One of my students in Hawaii became the youngest member of Hawaii’s constitutional convention at 19. My wife and I would campaign for her (she ran as an independant.) She saw that the entire thing was being rail-roaded by the democrats, so she joined up and made a proposal with another young member. It made the front page of the Advertiser and it is the best idea I have EVER heard.
They suggested that every election had at least 3 choices. The two running against each other and “None of the Above”. If None of the Above won there would have to be a new election and the two that lost could not run. Donna should be president
What purpose would that serve? Are you presuming that those of us “complaining” are not minorities?
Yes, that is racism. When you treat one group different than another based solely on race, that is racism.
Again, I must respectfully disagree. I would no more support “locals only” beaches than I would support separate drinking fountains for blacks. That would be racist.
MisterP, your student’s idea is brilliant. Maybe there is hope for Hawai’i.
Mister P….obviously we have touched a nerve over your beloved Hawaii. I’m not saying the state isn’t a beautiful place to visit and yes, most folks there I had no problems with. It was the “US vs Them” mentality that left a bad taste in my mouth and organizations like OHA just perpetuate this stupidity.
I am a minority…..have you been to Texas lately?
LOL that cartoon is a brilliant hazing.
Anyone who opposes this kind of speech clearly lacks a sense of humor. Even I can crack a smile at lefty garbage like “Rovemort,” as long as it’s well produced.
As an indigenous Cherokee, I want to publicly identify myself. I AM the author of and creator of COW INOA. Do not accept any other publicity seeking aborigine’s lying confession.
I am wondering if the Mooslims at CAIR will start burning things because of the depictions of Moohamed?
Huh?
What does Hold that Tiger have to do with the cow cartoon?
LOL!
Yep, I love Hawaii AND the Hawaiian people and the Hawaiian culture. In fact my Hawaiian father-in-law IS a conservative Republican
I also don’t like that “US vs Them” mentality and never felt like a “Them” in Hawaii. I was part of the Ohana. But understand there are very few people left that are Native Hawaiians. Maybe just 1 percent of the islands. They are beautiful people who feel they have lost there ancestry to some degree. Lets face it they are the only native american people that had a monarchy. Queen Liliokalani was forced by US troops to be secluded in her palace. Missionaries came to make the native Hawaiians Christians, and the sons of these missionaries became the bankers who took the land. They had no concept of capital or ownership and literally lost all of their land.
We actually treated the Hawaiians better than the FIRST Democrat - President Andrew Jackson treated the Indians, he ordered all Cherokee off their land and down the Trail of Tears with just the clothes on their backs. He intentionally created treaties to break them because he was the supreme racist.
Before we call them racists, we need to look at things at least for a moment from their point of view.
When benefits were bestowed to Native Americans they excluded the Hawaiians. So much of the OHA is simply to get the right to have their own CASINOs, just like the Indian tribes.
There are hardly a threat to the US, the rest of Hawaiian citizens or to the visitors.
Sure there is some bias and bitterness in Hawaii. But for me the Spirit of Aloha literally outshone the anger. Just listen to the Hawaiian music.
And please do not disturb the Polynesian Chicken Bones in Chile
Headsup on the locals only beaches - that’s more a surfing culture, not a race culture. Been surfing for many many years, and race doesn’t come into it, even if may appear that way to you.. if a local makes a racist comment, it’s more of an afterthought relatively speaking, not the reason for kicking you off the beach in the first place. That’s how it’s always rolled where ever I’ve encountered it anyway.
Christian Soldier said:
Let us not forget Sandmonkey.
Looks like somebody stepped in Akaka…
I was born and raised in Honolulu. I remember when former Governor John Waihee furled the American flag over Iolani palace and raised the Hawaii state flag to commemorate the overthrow of the kingdom.
That was a very painful part of both American and Hawaii history. But the nativist talk seems anachronistic, sort of like the “honor Indian treaties” folks and their bumper stickers.
BTW, anyone in Washington who takes that panderer Akaka seriously should be deprogrammed.
Chief Illiniwek is not based on an actual American Indian chief, nor did a historical figure with this name ever exist but there was this tribe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illiniwek
I agree how is this offensive to this Indian tribe. That’s kind of like the KC Chiefs mascot Warpaint. I went to most of the Chief’s games during the 70s and 80s and we thought an awful lot of that horse and it’s rider, then they changed it to a retarded wolf.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warpaint_(horse)
More PC crapola
I think that might be a little extreme.
I’m no McCain supporter but he earns a definite hat tip for a strong statement in opposition to the Akaka bill.
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?75d24e41-590f-4631-b705-0006c5a27acb
On February 3rd, 2008 at 3:48 am, DaMav said:
Right, he made a deal to vote for it (cloture) before he decided he was against it. Sounds like another Machiavellian brain-twister by McCain.