Web site for public comment on UN Declaration | Indian Country Today | Content

Web site for public comment on UN Declaration | Indian Country Today | Content
http://www.state.gov/s/tribalconsultation/declaration/index.htm THIS IS THE RIGHT LINK THE ONE IN THE ARTICLE IS WRONG!!

This is the official link, and the article appearing in Indian country today. I suggest everyone get their fingers cracked and start slapping the keys and get in your comments!

This is about renewing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

There is a comment period for everyone. The link ins in the article. I did it, and I challenge the rest of you do do so as well!

sincerely,
Anne Punohu
Me kealoha pumehana

TONIGHTS MEETING REGARDING DHS OFFICE CLOSURES WAS CRAZY NUTS

Ok, I am so wound up I can't sleep. Not to mention my back is in pain because I am not supposed to do anything. But I joined the rest of the handicapped in the front row, with the blind, deaf, and other disabilities. They were awesome. They conducted themselves a lot better then I did myself. After telling everyone to have Sunday manners, I went a little bonkers towards the end.

I kept asking the two people who came to tell us what we already know why the clients cannot also sit at the negotiation table with the Governor and the Union. Apparently we dont count. Our opinion doesnt count. Everyone else knows whats best for us. I was never so enraged in all my life.

THey didn't care. Plus they just straight out lied to everyone. What they are talking about is privatizing services, kicking out all of the state employees putting in unqualified individuals to be essentially paperpushers, and thats it.

Apparently our social workers are just a bit too nicve to us and caring. we cant have THAT in the Lingle administration. NO WAY.

Well, rather then sit down and be quiet I got a little mouthy. I was seeing totally red by the end of that meeting. We need to sue and sue HARD. Howe does 250 million dollars sound? Nice round figure? Yep it sure is. How about calling in the state department to check things out, maybe a Federal lawsuit, or something huh?

DO THE CLIENTS HAVE ANYONES ATTENTION YET? Nope. They were completely unfazed by this and just couldnt care less.

I was surprised when Jimmy Tokioka showed up and said absolutely no one fwas for this in the legislature.

But as Jimmy darn well knows, this whole thing is being passed through WITHOUT Legislative review because it is allowed by law to change the rules without going through the leg. Pretty smart huh? But think thats all? Its not, sadly.

Now, another agency the state housing agency is proposing similar measures meant to streamline but its really not about streamlining its about getting rid of the dead weight....the clients.

Seems as if the state wants a better class oif renter in their public housing units. So they are shakin things up to make that happen. Just like the DHS wants less people on the rolls so they come in with no plan, no numbers, no nothing. Just "We gonna shut everything down". Thats it.

Housing has plans for credit checks, a preference for working people and looking for better tenants, like ones that can afford the market rate. Then they can go on to home ownership. While the elderly, disabled and thoxse on the street are to move DOWN the priority list. Sounds cozy doesn't it/ Way to go to see your community and the people of this state.

Well, guess what? WE THE CLIENTS, as in We The People, have awoken out of our slumber. WE are fully ready for an attorney to come along and help us with a nice , fat, juicy class action lawsuit. One that will name every client in the state, and give each of us a million bucks a pop so that we dont need housing or welfare anymore. Its the least the state can do. Don't you think?

If you dont like this idea, call the Governors office and your rep and tell them to ixnay on the anplay. (NIX DA PLAN). They shut up then we shut up simple. Pull the plug on the WAR AGAINST THE POOR.

Sheesh enough already.

Hawaii House Kills Gay Civil Unions Bill | On Top Magazine :: Gay & Lesbian News, Entertainment, Commentary & Travel

Hawaii House Kills Gay Civil Unions Bill | On Top Magazine :: Gay & Lesbian News, Entertainment, Commentary & Travel

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My reaction to the HB444 Rally-APPALLED AND DISGUSTED

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MY OFFICIAL RESPONSE

You might want to examine the actions of the "Rabbi Daniel Vargas", who, according to legitimate synagogues is NOT an ordained rabbi, and his screaming that the buildings should fall and the city should be destroyed and then having people blow 10 ram horns was considered highly blasphemous to the Jewish faith. Also, Mufi Hanneman and Duke Aiona are public servants and have a conflict of interest by showing up and espousing their religious beliefs at the state capitol which is not Gods house but ALL OF THE POEPLE'S HOUSE, including taxpaying gay legal citizens of the state of Hawaii. What that means, is that by association, these two politicians were in favor of crashing down buildings by blowing ram horns, and therefore share in the fake rabbis blasphemous sin of misusing the name of another legitimate religious belief. Truly shameful.

Were all of you wearing white because you think yourself more pure than the rest of the people in this state? It was quite gruesome, and I found the videos of the event quite disturbing. Native Hawaiians believed the color white to be the color of evil, and it was the color of all practicing anaana kahunas (ie the ones that prayed people to death). It is also the color used in voodoo ceremonies to pray an enemy to death. That, coupled with the screaming fake rabbi calling for the destruction of public property was nothing to be proud of.

Further, civil unions have nothing to do with religious marriage practices, and will not affect YOUR marriage status at all, therefore I do not understand what your issue is with a secular process, since it has nothing to do with any of your religious beliefs, since according to all of you gays are not permitted in all of your religions, why would you have a problem with it? Its not as if they will be joining any of you in your churches or religions anyway.

SO why don't you just stick to your religious beliefs and practice whatever you want to in your religious life, and leave the secular civil unions alone? It really has nothing to do with any of you, and is not about any of you, and none of you have any stake in it what so ever. Frankly it is none of your business. Further, I am apalled that Mufi who claims to be a Democrat would publicly attend an event like this, and be openly prejudiced against people. I thought only republicans did that shame on all of you. For the record, I am not gay., but straight.

Further, it is entirely reprehensible to me that so many people could be whipped into a frenzy over religious zealotism. Haven't you people learned anything from Jihadist terrorist groups making Islam look like a mockery of itself. You are nothing more than terrorists. Yes terrorists. You are inciting violence against your fellow human beings, you are publicly supporting prejudice, and you are coming out in force to say that some people do not deserve the same CIVIL RIGHTS as you do. WHen I see people of color, and young people in those crowds that's when I really become sick to my stomach.

How many of you are aware that people of color could NOT HOLD OFFICE IN THE MORMON CHURCH as recently as the 80s!!!! And that would include MUFI HANNEMAN!!! I was once enrolled in the Mormon church and was a convert. Not anymore. I found the more I realized what that religion was all about the least I wanted to do with it. I was grown up as a DEVOUT CATHOLIC!!! ANd I was so devout, I went to a Catholic private school, and believed in the church wholeheartedly. That was until all the priests started molesting little boys and girls, and I found out the histories of abuse, murder, torture and mayhem perpetuated in the name of Christ by the Catholic church. What are all of you talking about anyways? Is traditional marriage truly traditional?

I happen to know no fewer than THREE MORMON BISHOPS that have left their wives and children to fool around with mistresses. HOW IS THIS TRADTIONAL FAMILY VALUES? That really turned me off to the Mormon Church permanently and forever. But this show of prejudice, hate and fearmongering is the last straw for me. Do not expect me to stand by while all of you espouse your holy perfections and holier than thou attitudes while you continue to belong to religions that support such reprehensible beliefs. If Christ was here, he would throw you all out of the House of the Lord, let me tell you that. Christ was very political. All of you are like the Pharisees in the bible, which you all claim to espouse so perfectly.

The Pharisees were the conservative, judgmental law of the land who thought they were the be all and the end all of moral values. Christ ran around with 12 men, kissed them publicly on the cheek regularly and was unmarried and had no children. If Christ were alive today, you people all gathered there with your self righteous pompous attitudes would have surely accused him of being gay. DO NOT LIE because you KNOW YOU WOULD HAVE. You would be the ones to have condemned him, nailed him to a cross, and killed Christ, who would have died for your idiocy and stupidity. SO DO NOT TELL ME that you are all about CHRIST!!

There is NOTHING CHRISTLIKE in ANY of you, at all. I remain forever disgusted and embarrassed for each and every single one of you. When your time comes you will be most certainly judged. I am no longer a Christian, but I do believe in Christ. Believing in Christ is far different from being these modern styled self righteous judgmental prejudiced people that these individuals have become. Sickening. Shame.

IS THE JEWISH RELIGION BEING MOCKED IN THIS PROTEST AGAINST GAYS??

Apparantly the answer is YES. In what has become my very first crack at "investigative reporting", I knew something was up when I saw this video. When The nice Rabbi gets all these 12 sacred horns, and has people hold and blow them that aren't of the Jewish faith, while wearing the sacred prayer shawls of the Jewish people, I was immediately alerted to protocol red lights going off in my head.

Maybe it is because I am a cultural practitioner, and I have seen so many many people ripping off the Hawaiian, Buddhist, Hindu, and Native American and Amazonian and South American tribal customs that the hairs stood out at the back of my neck. And it was NOT the costuming!~!

It was what the "Rabbi" was screaming at the top of his lungs..."GOD SAID LET THE BUILDINGS FALL LET THE CITY BE DESTROYED LET THE CITY BE DESTROYED!!", in apparently a re enactment of the "Walls of Jericho" incident in the bible/Torah.

Now, I smelled a RAT. A great big fat one that you could saddle up and ride if you could. SO I started investigating. I called my friend Mr. DePledge over at the Honolulu Advertiser, who gave me the name of the gentleman responsible for calling on the destruction of concrete buildings, while people in Haiti were crawling out from their own destructive earthquake which the "Reverend" Pat Robertson had just declared was "Their fault because they made a pact with the devil". (More on that on my blog).

Then, from there, I tracked him down to the GovernorsPrayerTeam website, calling the coordinator, who I did reach on the mainland. Turns out it was an old number, and the gentleman is no longer a part of the organization.

Well, I decided to unload on the poor guy anyways. Come to find out he was triple X shocked art what I told him, and he said that no Christian group or Jewish group would call on the destruction of buildings which would surely lead to loss of life.

It was then I realized, from looking back at the video I thought I saw someone blowing the horn that was from Kauai and a very prominent leader and an old freind of mine, and certainly not Jewish. But I am thinking maybe my eyes are bad, S so I am asking around trying to see if others think it is that person before I call that person up and give that person a decided piece of my mind.

Ah, but back to the Rabbi. So I tried to call him, but he wasnt taking calls it seems. The gentlemans name, "Rabbi" Daniel Jeshurin Vargas was the man in question. Now before I go on about someone, I need facts, so I called up one of the terrific Synagogues here, on Oahu, and got a terrific person on the other end who was frankly shocked and appalled as well.

I was told, that this person was known and was NOT A RABBI, but believed in coverting Jews to Christianity, or believed in some form of Jewish beliefs and Christianity all mixed up into one another. When I detailed the specifics of the ceremony again, the person was very shocked. I did get their views on civil unions and gays, which I actually found quite reasonable.

But I was told decidedly that his behavior was absolutely NOT CONDONED by the Jewish faith, and that Jewish people would NEVER CALL FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF BUILDINGS OR LOSS OF LIFE> I also learned that again, this "Rabbi" is no Rabbi at all, and is not in any way connected to any legitimate ordained order or sect of the Jewiosh faith.

Then I sent this person, who was with the Chabad Of Hawaii (I did get permission to use the name) emphaticly stated several things:

1. The Jewish community would never condone such behavior
2. He is NOT an ordained Rabbi
3. The Jewish Community is not coming out against civil unions
4. What he did is completely against any type of Jewish faith.
5. He may be of Jewish ancestry, but is NOT a Rabbi
6. It was highly sacriligious to use such sacred items in such a way

So, to Mr. Vargas, I would like you to know that I will make sure people know about you, and your blasphemous group, and how you blasphemed the Jewish religion and faith by your actions. Shame and HEWA.

Of course, I realized after watching the video again how funny it was, if your idea had actually worked, the people were all crowded into the rotunda, thousands would have died, if the building had indeed fallen, and the city of Honolulu, had you been right and the horns would have destroyed the city, hundreds of thousands of people would have died, and a similar tragic situation would have been seen around the world.

And you, MR VARGAS would have been RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT!

I invite you to post here, Mr. Vargas and explain your heinous act of TERRORISM!!