Remember David Keanu Sai, one of the men convicted a decade ago of attempted theft stemming from the activities of his company, Perfect Title?
He is back in court, this time with a lawsuit filed in federal district court in Washington, D.C., with named defendants including President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and outgoing Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle. This legal complaint, like several others Sai has pressed over the past decade, begins with a selective and rambling history of the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1893, followed by a claim that adherence to Kingdom law led Sai and his cohorts necessarily to name themselves as the rightful leaders of the Kingdom.
Oh, what a wonderfully tangled web…I especially like the section, beginning on the bottom of page 15 of Sai’s complaint. Here’s where Sai explains how he just happened to end up as part of what he calls the Regency Council.
It starts with his belief that the Hawaiian Kingdom still exists, apparently in some kind of historical-spiritual hibernation. This, in his own telling, prompted Sai and his partner, Donald Lewis, to attempt to set up a company under the law of the Kingdom, which required registering the company with the Kingdom’s Interior Department and Minister of the Interior. Of course, Sai acknowledges the immediate problem. There was no Hawaiian Kingdom government in existence, no Interior Department, and no minister of the Interior, contrary to his stated belief in the Kingdom’s existence. Therefore, no one to receive the business registration or “ensure the company’s compliance” with the statute.
Therefore, in order to “establish a legitimate co-partnership pursuant to Hawaiian Kingdom Law,” Sai and Lewis proceeded to name themselves “officers de facto” of the Kingdom, in order to process the paperwork of the founders of the new company, themselves.
First they had to declare themselves officers of the Registrar of the Bureau of Conveyances because, otherwise, it did not exist; then Minister of Interior because, again, no minister existed; then they became the “Cabinet Council” because, once again, they had to admit the Kingdom that didn’t exist also had no Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Finance, or Attorney General. And, finally, since the Council had to report to somebody, they decided, again, the simply declare themselves as the Regency Council to receive the cabinet’s reports. In effect, they morphed themselves into the people with the right to wield the power of the Kingdom that didn’t exist.
My head spins, but Sai is serious, and has spent a lot of time peddling this theory of royal metamorphosis. Just search YouTube and you’ll see a lot of his self-promotion.
Of course, it’s all more than a little self-serving since one primary and continuing goal of his efforts has been to nullify his own criminal conviction on that felony theft charge. I might take a more generous view if he had worked as hard to pay back the people who lost their homes or incurred large legal bills after they relied on Perfect Title’s smoke-and-mirrors advice and stopped paying their mortgages because the demise of the kingdom had supposedly broken the chain of land titles.
As you can tell, I’m not sympathetic to Sai’s kind of pseudo-legalistic posturing. It reminds me of the button that was in our collection for a long time: “I’ve got charts and graphs, so f**k off”. But I know that I’ll take a lot of flack for saying so.
The motion to dismiss, filed on behalf of Gov. Lingle by Attorney General Mark Bennett, does a good job of cutting through Sai’s arguments, as does the federal government’s shorter motion.
In any case, you can read Sai’s complaint in this case via the link below.
Documents
Exhibits
State v. Simagranca, Order denying defendants’ motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction
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of course, if you read his dissertation, most of it is really a strong argument under international law for the wrong of annexation occupation. it is just when he gets the conclusion where his thinking twists. because of this strong case, every contract since 1893 and every transfer of land since then is void. not voidable, but void. no footnote, no argumentation. no reasoning. it just drops out of the sky and undoes the thrust of the work.
this current lawsuit is most interesting because the remedy he seeks is to overturn his felony conviction and $20 million in damages and he’s doing it in not just any US court, in the federal district court in washington dc
It’s surprising that Mr. Sai has as a partner Donald Lewis, a one-time key staffer of DBEDT’s predecessor State agency and one of three co-founders of Locations Inc. (that became a major realty firm) known then for a laid-back, cheerful persona.
If Keanu Sai were not such a nice and well-educated fellow, you’d have to write him off as a cuckoo. I just always wish he’d use that good education to higher purpose. He’s been pushing his version of the Lost Kingdom of Hawaii for 20 years now with no court sympathy and nothing to show for it except some poor people who took his advice and lost their property and their credit rating. Sai is off on a tangent that has no goal.
Keanu Sai great leader of the Hawaiian people who occasionally steals their money and homes.
$400,000 is “nothing to show for it?”
All revolutions are illegal in the eyes of the overthrown. And none of them needed permission.