China threatens to arm Hawaii separatists who want kingdom
The Moonie Times picked up this gem from some fringe RW site called the Free Beacon. 
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/feb/10/china-threatens-arm-hawaii-separatists-who-want-ki/
Chinese threats to back several groups of Hawaiian independence activists who want to restore the islands’ constitutional monarchy, ousted in a U.S.-backed coup more than a century ago, have raised concerns that military facilities on the strategic central Pacific archipelago are threatened at a time when the Obama administration is engaged in a major shift toward Asia as part of its military and diplomatic rebalance.
Michael Pillsbury, a Pentagon consultant and author of the book “The Hundred-Year Marathon,” said Chinese military hawks, known as “ying pai,” told him they are ready to provide arms to Hawaiian independence activists in retaliation for U.S. arms sales to Taiwan....
“A favorite comparison the ying pai has made to me is ‘How would the Pentagon like it if we provide arms to our friends in Hawaiian independence movement?’” he said. “I was incredulous because I had never heard of such a movement in Hawaii, but after checking, I met a few of them.”
Queen Lili'uokalani abdicated rather than see violence erupt between Hawaiian partisans and what amounted to an occupation force of U.S. Marines.
Original here: http://freebeacon.com/national-security/hawaiian-independence-movement-attracts-chinese-interest/
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Apparently, it was determined that the standard-issue US-military issued sidearm of the time didn't have sufficient killing power.
Another development was the use of waterboarding ("water cure"
to force information out of Huk detainees by US occupation forces - photo below, Philippines, 1901.
Not saying that China has any more rightful claim on these Central Pacific islands.
a kotonk is a mainland Japanese-American whose ancestors emigrated directly to the mainland from Japan, without a generation or two in Hawai'i. There aren't a whole lot of them. 
edit: The term may be in wider use in Hawai'i than on the mainland.
so they're off the hook.
edit: And in Hawai'i, many such words, including haole, can be derogatory or merely descriptive depending on context.
Democratic Japanese Gov, David Ig! 
I am sure glad we do, here in California as well! 
where there are many large military bases chock-full of arms to steal.
Sheesh.
American Indians?
This could get very interesting...
The horror! 
... and I stick out very awkwardly at some family gatherings.
It's also how my genes ended up in the U.S.A Wild West. A few of my ancestors jumped ship in San Francisco, swimming and running. I also have an ancestor who was a mail order bride to Salt Lake City, but she didn't like sharing a husband, so she ran away too.
My great aunt "survived" the Great Earthquake in San Francisco, but since she was out of town that day, she never felt comfortable counting herself among the "survivors." Still, we have her post-earthquake stories, and my great grandfather's photographs.
My great grandfather was sort of lucky, the earthquake destroyed some of his competitors' businesses, but not his. Unfortunately that made him cocky and he overleveraged himself investing in things like airplanes and Hollywood a little too soon. Then he died, just before the U.S. economy crashed in 1929. He saw the future but his timing was off.
Among the fighting age young people in my family, they could receive some serious military bling if the Chinese decided to send them that.
I even have friendly Hawaii connections.
I trust they'd all look after me.
Great grandfather owned a bunch of it at one time, but I got nuthin
One prominent sovereignty group is the Nation of Hawai'i.
http://hawaii-nation.org/
I attended a couple of Ka Lahui Hawai'i events back in the day. I prefer their "nation within a nation" approach, which would work much like the 550 or so tribal nations on the mainland. But I can't seem to find a website for them. 
