<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Fri, Dec 4, 2015  Michael Butler </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:butler.two.one@gmail.com" target="_blank">butler.two.one@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote: </span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><p> </p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>who had, or acquired, title to the land in question, and how they got it?<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ ​</div>Me, I seem to recall a story that a plutocrat named Dole had gunboats brought in over the objections of the US Secretary of State. During the Pacific Adventurism phase of American foreign policy. <p></p></blockquote><div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">​</font><font size="4">So more than a century ago Dole stole some land from American taxpayers who stole it from Britain who stole it from a native Hawaiian tribe who stole it from a different native Hawaiian tribe. And everybody involved in that history is now long dead.      </font></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><p></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>Why would you EVER let an indigenous people win anything [back]?<br><p></p></blockquote><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">​<font size="4">If the relatives of the ​<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">indigenous people are also <b>ASTRONOMICALLY</b> ignorant people then I hope they never win anything back.</span></font></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></span></div><div> </div><div><br></div></div></div></div>