I apologize for going dark here for several days. Over the weekend, I received a tip that about the arrest of Lindsey Kinney, who made headlines in 2020 with his public statement that he had turned down an offer of $50,000 from Mike Miske to murder Jonathan Fraser, who was best friends with Miske’s son, Caleb, as well as a separate offer of cash to keep quiet about the original offer. Kinney said that when he turned down the second offer, he became a target himself. Miske faces several charges stemming from directing and being present in May 2017 when Kinney was ambushed while working on a movie set at Kualoa Ranch.
In any case, I spent several days chasing this down, and my story was posted early today by Civil Beat (“FBI Arrests Miske Witness After Waianae Harbor Confrontation“).
The story starts with this a confrontation at the Waianae Small Boat Harbor as DLNR tried to serve a written notice that a sailboat had to leave the harbor because it’s owner had approximately $30,000 in outstanding fines for illegal mooring, etc. This is the boat, a small sailboat that is considered a “warship” by a sovereignty group I had never heard of, Occupied Forces Hawaii Army.
Members of the group “identify themselves by military titles/ranks, describe their efforts as ‘operations,’ don military uniforms, (and) carry illegitimate military documents.” Occupied Forces Hawaii Army is “commanded” by a man who uses the name Sam Lilikoi, and claims the rank of colonel.
In any case, it’s a weird tale to get you through the week.
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Great story in Civil Beat Ian – mahalo for keeping us on the cutting edge of the Miske Saga.
It seems there is no limir to the gangster type of crime that Miske and all his “associates” committed.
Every bit of it is just horiffic!
While Hawaii is certainly no stranger to kooky racial separatists with delusions of royalty, the existence of a paramilitary group, possibly armed, that utilizes military nomenclature and trappings takes things a few steps beyond mere academic quackery, bumper sticker rhetoric and t-shirt meathead-ism, and is far more significant and newsworthy than the incredibly foolish antics of a single loud-mouthed dufus.
By the way, what ever happened to those backwoods potentates who violently stormed OHA’s offices a few years back, injuring state employees and damaging state property? Did it all just go away? Was anyone held accountable? It’s amazing that there has been no media scrutiny of such an outlandish fiasco and security failure.
Unfortunately, indulging such nonsense to avoid unpleasantries has become something of a tradition, to our collective detriment.
It’s scary to learn that there are such criminals in Hawaii. I appreciated your CB article.
Wowser.
I know that at some point this whole complex tragic sordid tale will come to some kind of ‘stopping’ place, or at least a place to pause in the telling. Whenever that time comes, Sir Ian, I surely hope you write the book. NYTimes Book Review potential, yes? Hawaii has (at least for a while) a relatively low rate of violent crime, compared to many places. But when we do a thing, we seem to do it big.
What a tragic story, layer on layer.