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Prof. Chang press conference on war crimes

11 comments to Prof. Chang press conference on war crimes

  • J. Tory

    Professor Chang -sad to say – misguided at best.

  • J Tory

    Professor Chang – is so misguided at best.

  • Christopher Sorrell

    J Tory’s comment is misguided in that she/he gives no evidence for the opinion. Further, disregards the 30+ years of academic prowess of the Professor. Too, I have heard first hand the Professor speak and he is not the type of person to do things lightly, as the dismissive comment of J Tory above. I, for one, applaud the Professor’s achievement and actions in this regard. Ah, J Tory spoken like a true follower of Empire…

  • Christopher Sorrell

    One further addition to the comment above. As John Bunyan wrote…if you throw a stone in the midst of a pack of dogs the hit one yelps!

  • Luana

    I agree with Christopher Sorrell. Please don’t spare a minute more in sadness, J. Tory. Please help him out by enlightening him with facts that might help him get on the right track if you think him so misguided.

    In fact, I think that’s the proposition he’s made all along: “#showmethetitle” was his specific challenge or invitation.

  • Christopher Sorrell

    Mahalo Luana for further clarifying the discussion. And, you are kinder than I am as well. I would like to see J. Tory work with the issue, not just an apparent verbal hit and run; and as Dr. Sai stated in the video…show the Treaty of Annexation and with it the Title then we can move on with the discussion, or not, as the point will have been made that the US indeed does not occupy the Kingdom of Hawai’i. This last statement of the occupation has been stated repeatedly by Professor Chang. I am thinking too that in the video the turning over of the microphone to Dr. Sai may have contributed to the impression that the Professor was being led, however, as having seen the Professor in presentations my assessment is that he is spearheading the “argument” with used support, again, as stated in the beginning of the video. All in all bravo!

  • 4myohana

    Mahalo 4 sharing…

    2 weeks…

    Put up or shut up…

    “Show me the title”

    Aloha

  • Christopher Sorrell

    It just gets “curiouser and curiouser” just announced on the TV, that the US AG is stepping down and no new US AG is in the works and could take months for…..is it too much to think that this issue may be pertinent to the resignation? Will it affect the reply process?

  • Is there a group on Maui that I can lend my time and energy to for this cause? If not is there some type of service I can perform from Maui for this cause?
    Mahalo

  • Christopher Sorrell

    I see there has been no recent comments in regards to the video above, and that is just fine and well it will come when necessary. However, in looking back I do wish I had known this possibility of War Crimes as I was called to Jury Duty awhile back, and wouldn’t you know it, the process for jury selection was wrapping up; we just came back from lunch, and the person before me, as it were, was excused. So, they spun the “Bingo” basket and I was selected. I had a few choice things to say about the Police: condescending, parental, dismissive, and rude, but if I had known or realized about the possibility of War Crimes (the defendants were 2 Kanakas) I would have said something like, “Your honour (I toyed with the idea of calling the Judge “Your Lordship” a British slip of the tongue)I have misgivings as it is now known that the Hawaiian Kingdom is occupied by the U.S. and there is no Treaty of Annexation, and further, I am not sure the defendants will be tried under Hawaiian Kingdom Law, it puts me in an awkward position as I may be an accomplice in a War Crime against the 2 defendants….wonder how that would have gone over….needless to say after my diatribe over the Police I was summarily excused. Exciting times!

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