Honolulu Weekly

The close of Honolulu Advertiser should not go by without a serious note on the roll of the newspaper in the history of Hawaiian occupation and the intriguing story of incestuous corruption and mass propaganda that has lead to the making of an unaccountable global superpower.

Lorrin A. Thurston acquired the Advertiser in 1895. He knew well the power of the press being influenced by John L. Stevens and other founding members of the U.S. Republican Party who published the Kennebec Journal in Maine.

Thurston was of missionary origins and the master conspirator with Sanford Dole in ousting Queen Lilioukalani in 1897. They persistently pressed Washington DC to take Hawaii which included the prize of Pualoa, Pearl River Lagoon. In 1897 during the presidency of William McKinley Hawaii was reported to the locals through the Advertiser as a new “Territory” of the USA. The U.S. main dailies, racist and also seeking a Spanish American war in the Pacific, understood and expanded the Thurston line.

The U.S. Government acted lawlessly in contempt of International Law and U.S. Domestic Law. They ignored an absolute “Kue Petition” of protest by Hawaiians and the irrefutable position of Queen Liliuokalani who left no stone unturned, no ‘t’ uncrossed, in delivering her nation then, and now, with the means by which to restore a cherished, and now, most urgently needed nation on Earth; a multicultural model of abundance, beauty and aloha. Thurston, Dole and the U.S. stole that foundation and potential as they did the Hawaiian national motto: Ua mau ke ea o ka ‘aina i ka pono.

This began the dark decades of occupation and suppression in Hawaii where “history” was connived through a mass distributed daily newspaper by an entity that also controlled education, curriculum and government.

Thurston’s son, Lorrin P. Thurston inherited the Advertiser and this fulfilled statehood, just as his father had fulfilled annexation. “P” Thurston was also appointed Statehood Commissioner. On June 23, 1959 “P” published a 300-page pro-statehood section four days before the vote.

Hawaii has suffered immensely through the lies and mind control of Honolulu Advertiser publishers for more than a century. The Kingdom of Hawaii deserves reinstatement, Hawaiians deserve cultural integrity.

I wish the close of the Advertiser was a relief, but since corporate ownership of Honolulu’s remaining daily, the Star-Advertiser, aligns itself with the same military occupation of Hawaii and its state administrators, it will take a revolution of many people to avoid what happens when the life of the land is projected into mockery and un-righteousness–and business corrupt is cultivated as being “too big too fail.” Shall I spell out the relationship between unlimited corporate greed, imperialism, capitalism and environmental/economic collapse?

Michael Daly
Honolulu