Here’s my question. If those activists claiming to be able to prove their legal title to at least parts of the Coco Palms property on Kauai, why are they resorting to frivolous paper threats against the judge in the case?
On January 26, 2018, Noa Mau-Espirito and Charles Hepa filed a rambling document in the lawsuit that is seeking to eject them and their supporters from the Coco Palms property.
The single-page document is referred to as a “Default Judgement and Notice of Entry of Default Judgement” against Judge Soong, who is presiding over the ejectment case. It lists several “charges” against the judge and threatened to arrest him if the judge did not “surrender” within 48 hours.
It is stamped by “The Hawaiian Judiciary Court of the Sovereign” and signed by Moses Enoka Heanu as “Chief Justice, Court of the Sovereign.”
In a legal filing seeking to strike the memo from the court record, two deputy attorneys general representing Judge Soong describe the documents as “nonsensical–they contain legalistic gibberish and make threats of arrest without any merit.”
It’s hard to argue with that point of view.
And it isn’t the first time in this case that such frivolous filings have been made. Back in November, another filing claimed the defendants were “protected persons” under the Geneva Conventions.
Such filings undercut their publicly stated position that they have a valid legal claim to the property and, what’s worth, encourage the public to see all Hawaiian land claims as similarly bogus. In the long run, that’s the real damage done by resorting to such long-discredited tactics.
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Why criticize the inadequacy of Hawaiian attempts to save their sacred sites? Auwe! They are regular guys standing up for their Hawaiian culture against a $175 million dollar mainland hotel and retail complex complete with phony cultural center. Ancient Hawaiian burials should be left alone not turned into mini Florida.
We all should oppose these foolish projects that only further push local families off the land. A few low paying service jobs don’t cut it! We can’t keep catering to the rich mainlanders while local families are expected to move somewhere else or face homelessness.
Deluded fantasies are one thing.
Contempt of court is another.
It is actually par for the course. It is easy to track titles in Hawaii, and simply because you possess some paper purporting to be a title doesn’t mean very much. At some point the land was sold, not taken, then sold again. You can trace the title changes on Kauai in property tax records. Which incidentally, if their claim was acrually true, they would owe.
Photo: “The Honorable Moses Enoka Heanu”
http://protectmaunakea.tumblr.com/post/115093298523/the-honorable-moses-enoka-heanu-moku-o-keawe
Photo: “Moses E Heanu Registered Sex Offender”
https://www.homefacts.com/offender-detail/HIA5012171/Moses-E-Heanu.html
Possibly inspired by the white American “sovereign citizen” movement and probably not by Melanesian cargo cults, but in either case the underlying idea would be to take the trappings of unfair privilege (legalese, aircraft, airstrips) as forms of magic that, if properly imitated, can yield just rewards.
someone should bring a quo warranto against Moses Enoka Heanu.
Loonies!
Nut jobs on aisle 6!!!
Its easy to criticize from afar as local family after local family is squeezed from the aina with no leadership in government to stop it. Lets hear some solutions now. Coughing up millions to stay here isn’t realistic. Standing by as the whole island turns into a hotel/vacation rental is not a pono option either
That’s actually pretty simple. High properrty taxes on offshore owners. This would end real estate speculation that drives high home prices. The Grand Mahele instituted private property in land mid nineteenth century, under the kingdom. So 98 percent of the land was owned by 1 percent of the population, and they were Hawaiian. They liked that because they could get cash. The wise part of that is it prevented taking the land by conquest, such as happened with the creeks. So people sold land, as happened to these peoples ancestors. Destroying private property rights simply means land from anyone can be appropriated.