Inquiring minds asked . . .

After returning to live on Maui in June 2004, I attempted to live
and seek work in Wailuku, where I was born and raised. I had just
established a formal complaint process with the SF Hate Crimes
Office for a pattern of harassment in neighborhoods where I had
lived between 2002-2004 and had letters from both Congressman
Honda from San Jose and Congresswoman Pelosi from SF.

As per my entries on congress.org, in the Summer of 2004, I met
Congressman Case at one of his "talk story" community meetings at
Baldwin High School. I told him about a serious situation that may
carry safety risks. His case worker Jackie Conant was also at the
meeting and we agreed to schedule a meeting in Honolulu.

As all of my officials meetings, i taped my statements with Jackie
when I signed affidavits for Case to contact the SF Hate Crimes
Office if necessary. My statement included that I had already made
a detailed complaint in 2002 with then US Attorney Ed Kubo. This
complaint, over 20 pages, were formally stored at the SF Human
Rights Commission, along with my hand-written statements. Since
my hand-written statements were found to be stolen from their
office in August 2003, there is reason to believe my original
complaint of over 20 pages was also copied.

This complaint to US AG Kubo was made after I was falsely linked
to Native Hawaiian sovereignty in the Honolulu Advertiser letters
to the editor on August 4, 2001. Then State legislator, Brian Schatz,
saw me in Sure Shot Cafe on this day and inquired about this
error, saying that he had not known that I was linked to Native
Hawaiian issues.

This complaint included the suspicious "serious money" offer that
came from a semi-retired investor from the Bishop Estate a week after
my complaint to the Advertiser's ombudsman about the risk to my safety
with this false link to sovereignty.

Since I had spent the past 2 years developing and marketing my
own training programs for Diversity-related Workplace Productivity,
it was my concern that my intention for addressing and dismantling
internalized power issues in the workplace could be misinterpreted
as a form of activism for Native Hawaiian sovereignty.

This was the beginning of my privacy problems. Thinking back
on this incident, it may have been drug-related stakeholders
who had considered my activities provocative.

Coincidentally, on this same day August 4, 2001, I attended
a community meeting at the Honolulu Convention Center. During
the break, I met and spoke with a number of City officials,
met newly appointed UH President Dobelle, then had a friendly,
but public argument with then Mayor Jeremy Harris.

Mayor Harris had already established his intent to run for
Governor, so this event carried high political symbolism and
tension for everyone. Since then, Mayor Harris and I spoke
only briefly about my experience in Honolulu between 2000-02.

This brief synopsis was on the Honolulu Advertiser blog in
early 2010 before it disappeared with my other 2 entries sub-
mitted under Karen Yukie Yamada.

Questions about why I haven't been in the public sphere more
frequently are asked. In 2004, while living in Wailuku, I did
start a simple, static format website with documents from a
few officials. The person who created this partial website
is someone who become suspect almost within months of our
contact about creating this public venue.

This web designer was a former personal contact named Matt
Lorin from NYC. He moved to Honolulu during the early 2000's.
My choice to distance myself from him at this time was because
he was so fiercely Democrat in his selective outrage about
corruption. I think it was mutually agreeable that we remain
friendly, but not friends.

The contents of our extensive emails are available. I have a
few verifiable concerns about whether or not he had received
contact from money laundering drug partisan groups about my
situation. This was my concern for most of my former personal
contacts who are committed to illegal drug use. They like to
blame non-drug users, and for some reason they are all progress-
ive or liberal Democrats.

Exerting my right to personal choice was to tell the truth for
the correct reasons at the correct time for the plight of the
oppressed majority. They may find that insulting, but well, it
is a question of priorities and character.