Free Hawaii Now! Stop the Chicago Olympics!

Now let me get this straight. Tibetans protesting for independence from China, who attacked Chinese police and non-Tibetan Chinese, torched businesses and otherwise rioted are heroes who should be praised and commended for their resistance to Chinese occupation of their homeland.

But Hawaiians, who peacefully tried to occupy the old Iolani Palace in protest of the overthrow and imprisonment of Queen Liliuokalani and eventual annexation of the archipelago by the US in 1898, are to be condemned and treated “very seriously.” Hawaii Governor Lingle said, "People in this case have to be shown it is not going to be acceptable," and the 23 people arrested Friday face charges of criminal trespassing and burglary, although according to executive director Kippen de Alba Chu of the Iolani Palace Museum the Hawaiian sovereignty group did not damage any of the palace artifacts.

So Tibetan protesters are heroic freedom fighters while Hawaiian protesters are criminals.

I expect Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch to protest this denial of autonomy to the Hawaiian people who had their lands confiscated and sovereignty abrogated by mainlanders who pushed the Hawaiian people aside, irreversibly changing the demographics of the Island Kingdom so that its rightful inhabitants became marginalized in their own land.

I expect all honest people to oppose the potential holding of the Olympics in Chicago in 2016 in protest of the government of the United States of America’s illegal occupation of Hawaii, it's naked aggression in Iraq and Afghanistan and its support of the genocide of one million Iraqi civilians by ethnic cleansing.

I expect all honest people to oppose the holding of the 31st Olympiad in Chicago in protest of the American Gulag that imprisons over 2 million Americans for chemical dependencies that require medical intervention, rather than brutal incarceration. I expect all honest people to oppose the candidacy of Chicago to hold the 2016 Olympics because of the racial and religious profiling that is rampant throughout the US, because of the pervasive use of watch lists, tapping of phones, suspension of Habeas Corpus, and torture of prisoners in its custody. If Chicago is awarded the 2016 games I expect protesters to excoriate the bearers of the Olympic torch during its worldwide relay.

For all those who protested the Beijing Olympics, if this is not your response you are hypocrites plain and simple.