My latest story was published at Civil Beat this morning (“Standoff In Waipahu: Hawaiian Rights ‘Army’ Has Illegally Occupied A Private Pot Farm“).
As I explained here yesterday, I had to strip it down and stay on the central points in order to get something publishable while retaining my own sanity.
Enjoy your read, and I’ll be back later today with some additional context and my own thoughts after digging around in the case for well over a month..
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I love it. Am anxious for more. What a fantastic movie in my head as I read.
These folks are in QAnon territory.
Fred Arsenmeyer, the landowner’s atty, was Gary Dubin’s right hand man for years. He will spin his wheels and run up big legal bills.
And Gary Dubin was Attorney General of Keanu Sai’s “Hawaiian Kingdom” at the time of the “Perfect Title” scam and when Sai staged his circus at what he called the “World Court” at The Hague
I’ve a different take: as example — Instead of selective demonizing, why not look at the owner’s occupation as off shore “real estate investor.” Is he, by taking his rents out of state, engaging in practice healthy for HI? There’s a lot of extraction going on that affects the viability of our State. It frustrates residents in different degrees and adds to harmful parsing out moral high ground.
You mean we should selectively demonize the owner instead of the hit man and other criminals trying to steal his property from him.
Criminals are naturally attracted to an ideology which claims the law and private property are invalid.
I admire your perseverance. A good read.
You’re no fun.
For the sake of other readers trying to decipher this comment, “Rewrite Desk” rewrote my story with a stress on the zaniness of it all. I declined to share it because underneath some of the ridiculous beliefs, there are some serious social processes at work here that we would do well to understand, crazy or not. That was my call, at least.
A big part of the zaniness was on the part of the golf course dude and fairly cries out for both humorous mocking and serious analysis. It’s pretty astounding that anyone, and especially a former elected city official, should be photographed pointing a handgun at people and receive so little scrutiny. And his situation and costume do remind folks of a certain age of Bill Murray in “Caddyshack.” Perhaps you simply consider Monty Python to be more highbrow and thus acceptable. But that’s your call.