Fourty Thieves

"A Makawao scrub was taken into custody Tuesday to serve six months in jail for his part in the break in of a tourists rental car in Paia town. Ryan Shitbata, 18 also was placed on five years of probation. He pleaded no contest to first degree breaking and entering a motor vehicle and second degree theft. He and two other males were involved in this theft." (Maui News paper, 09/21/08) I know who this person is, he used to live down the street from me. He is part of an up country wanna be gang. My friends and myself know them as the Forty Thieves. These young pups are organized drug dealers and thieves. This groups members are responsible for many up country house break-ins. Their house thefts were mostly in Makawao and Kula. This group is involved with the purchase and selling of marijuana, cocaine, crack cocaine, and meth. Also they are known to be big users of these drugs. They are known to steal Toyota and Nissan model vehicles (mostly the older models) in the up country area. I was told that these cars are stolen, stripped for parts, and the parts are used on cars of their own vehicles. It is unfortunate to say that allot of these Forty Thief punks are locals (Hawaiian). Like my grandfather says, "Dumb locals Making A for all us good local peoples. Not A for ass but A for ashame." "Hawaiians in 2000 made up 46 percent of the population at the Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility. According to the state Department of Public Safety that in 2000, Hawaiians made up 39 percent of Hawaii's adult male inmate population and 44 percent of the adult female inmate population. OHA officials believe the percentages are higher. " (http://starbulletin.com/2002/06/28/news/story4.html)

I notice more Hawaiians enrolling in college since I started my college education. When I started there was about 20 Hawaiian students in the Mu'o A'e Hawaiian cohort program. This semester there was about 50 Hawaiians to join the third cohort. This is a great improvement. I can only hope the Hawaiian youths keep this up and can make the right decisions in life to stay out of trouble and stay out of jail.

References
http://starbulletin.com/2002/06/28/news/story4.html

Maui News paper, 09/21/08

Hawaiinews.com

Interview with a Forty Thief

Interview with victem of Forty Thieves

Smoking Ban in Hawaii

Smoking in airports, restaurants, offices,parking structures and other public areas has been banned. This is great for the non-smoking peoples of Hawaii as long as the rules are being enforced. At Maui Community College the rules are not being enforced. Every time I walk out of the Kalama building there are always some inconsiderate idiots sitting next to the building smoking. Not to mention the ground in the area is littered with cigarette butts. This is truly a disgusting habit for self centered people. Also frequently there are people smoking in the little picnic table building next to the Hale 219. This is not appreciated. This is very annoying for me being a non-smoker with asthma. I shouldn't have to deal with people smoking in non designated areas. What the hell do we have security paid for by our tax dollars if they cant even protect our right to breathe air not poisoned by cigarette smoke. Not to mention these smokers are breaking the law. If people were smoking dope on campus they would be busted. Smoking cigarettes less than 20' from any public entrance or open air entrance is illegal and should be treated that way. In my opinion, smoking should be banned to personal areas only. In America about 50,000 people die every year from second hand smoke related diseases. Does anyone care? I do, I don't want enfacima and I don't want to die of cancer. If i did i would smoke cigarettes like a stupid! Tobacco company products also kill around 36,000 people every month. Cigarettes are proven to cause cancer and other illness. Cigarettes are proven to cause disease and death and proven to kill smokers and non-smokers alike. Why are they still legal. The first reason is the capitol the big tobacco companies bring in. They make ridiculous amounts of money and the government receives a good chunk of that money. Secondly, in a resource based world cigarettes are a type of population control subsidized and supported by the United States Government. It angers me that the smoking rules are not being enforced in our school. School should be a safe learning friendly environment for all. Second hand smoke is proven harmful and very unsafe. I hope school authorities take action as soon as possible to protect myself and the other non-smoking students of Maui Community College. It is not my job to tell people to move or to not smoke next to me. Rules are put in place for a reason. With out rules there would be anarchy. I hope soon I wont have to deal with breathing cigarette contaminated air around Maui Community College.


references
-www.hawaiinews.com
-www.thetruth.com
-www.tobaccofacts.org

Unite For The Benifit Of Our People

As a child growing up on Maui I learned little about Hawaiian culture, history. School for me as a child seemed very standardized and rigid. Leaving little room for young students to use their imaginations and open up their minds. Western schools(Haole schools) are set up this way to assimilate young Hawaiian students into the Western culture. I learned Hawaiian values at home living in a Hawaiian family. Then I would go to school to have my brain overloaded with ideals that were deemed important by the Western culture. This was very confusing for me because Hawaiian and Western values are so much different. For example: In Hawaiian culture the people belong to the land and they are there to make the land shine and prosper. With out the land there would be no Hawaiians so they respected and nurtured the land. In Western culture the land and its resources were given by “God” to benefit Western people. You can see how much the Hawaiian way of thinking differs from the Western way of thinking. Western culture is very self-centered, materialistic, and greedy. Hawaiian culture is very generous culture that sees its lands people as a whole instead of singular entities and shows utmost respect for their responsibilities to the land.
I have learned much in college and have come to realize the wool was pulled over my eyes for most my life. I was only taught lies in my Western minded school. They only want you to hear their glorified and self justified story of history that is just too good to be true. History is a length of time interpreted by any one person or people. He has his story, she has her story, and our people have a story too. Western history is founded on lies, theft, and cruelty. Its funny they don’t teach that in your history schoolbooks. Yes I said theft and cruelty. Every square inch of the United Stated lands were stolen through means of lies cruelty and theft. When the first Westerners first landed from York in North America the first thing they did is loot the native Indian burial grounds. Then they proceeded to kill off nearby Indian tribes stealing their lands, raping their woman and enslaving the native survivors. I don’t think the natives were very thankful of these monstrosities and yet Westerners choose to celebrate their self justified wrong doings with the Thanksgiving holiday. Westerners came to Hawaii with the same plan in mind. Westerners came to Hawaii with the racist assimilation of the vulnerable and trusting Hawaiian culture in mind. Hawaiians were wrongfully discriminated against because of their way of life and religious beliefs. This is in fact a form of racism. Western education, religion, brute force and cultural oppression were used like a lever for Westerners to gain power in Hawaii, with the goal of total domination of the Western peoples. If Westerners could convert Hawaiians to their culture then they would gain power over Hawaiians giving Westerners certain privileges. Assimilation of any peoples or culture is racism through prejudice towards that certain groups culture. This is how Westerners gained power over the Hawaiian peoples stole from their greatest asset. Stolen was Hawaii and the responsibility of the Hawaiians to make the land and its resources prosper. Hawaii was wrongfully and internationally illegal because of Westerners prejudice and greed. President Cleveland in fact deemed the overthrow of the Hawaiian Monarchy unconstitutional. It is also a fact that there has been no internationally legal treaty for the annexation of Hawaii. This is possible because of America’s military brute force and their willingness to use force. The right thing to do is to give the responsibility of these lands back to the Hawaiian peoples to form a sovereign nation.