But arresting a native Hawaiian surfer for wanting to live off the land?
Former professional surfer, Alekai Kinimaka, brother of Kauai legend Titus Kinimaka, was arrested by Hawaii DLNR this past Thursday for illegally landing his jetski at Kalalau Beach, on Kauai’s Napali Coast.
In addition to Kinimaka’s arrest, DLNR cited nearly seventy people for illegal camping in one of the periodic sweeps which seeks to rid of the area of its homeless hippy scourge.
Kinimaka is, reportedly, a longtime illegal resident of the area, and faces potentially severe consequences due to state’s ability to pursue both criminal charges and the DLNR’s ability to pursue civil administrative proceedings. Essentially, the state puts him in jail, the DLNR takes his money.
Morally, it’s a complicated matter. While I absolutely detest the scumbag haole mooch sacks who fly out and endeavor to spend their days raping aloha, Kinimaka is full on Hawaiian. If he wants to live in the bushes on the land stolen from his ancestors, hell, who am I to throw stones?
Morally, it’s a complicated matter. While I absolutely detest the scumbag haole mooch sacks who fly out and endeavor to spend their days raping aloha, Kinimaka is full on Hawaiian. If he wants to live in the bushes on the land stolen from his ancestors, hell, who am I to throw stones?
Though, speaking of throwing stones, I sure wish I’d had a handful to wing at the pack of dread locked crackers who set up at Kealia a few days ago. The shit heads had strung hammocks through the trees like the trash birds they are, and set a bonfire burning mid-day in the center of a path to the beach, the smoldering remains of which were still there the following day.
If I had my way I’d make possession of bongo drums illegal, the penalty for which would be a public caning followed by forced return to whichever mainland suburb from which they sprang.
Kalalau Ops Media Clips 2-5-16 from Hawaii DLNR on Vimeo.
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Napoleon was pretty ruthless too no one gives a fuck about those poor white cunts
what about an expose on the surf industry in australia /world on how some of the finest craftsman 25year +shapers like stuart darcy and others are having to get other jobs asking on facebook????
I hope DLNR at least took Kinimaka for a ride to Jurassic Falls to get a selfie.
From the powered raft ride I went on to Napli last year you could smell the dreadlocks
i know what you’re saying and understand the historical reasons for the way things are today. i don’t really care one way or the other because at the end of the day it’s meaningless. but i’ve observed that minorities tend to pick and choose when their traditions benefit them and then exploit/utilise that. different rules for different people doesn’t seem like a sound foundation for a society to me, but i’m a fucking idiot.
Fuck hippies!!!!
you just did.
Excellent synopsis, Seas nail. Would love to see a long-form investigative piece on the Kauai DLNR aka Westside mafia.
Bums, all of ’em. Too lazy to get a job and participate in society.
Sounds like Alekai was trying to work…
The DLNR is a joke. Alikai and other locals clean up kalalau Valley after every summer is over. Worried about natural resources? How about checking the contamination golf fields produce over reef ecosystems for decades? Humm.. Can’t investigate your white skin bosses huh….
The Trustafarians are a continuing problem here (more in the north, none in the south really). I never pick them up hitchhiking, though local kids will always get rides from me to the beach. I actually went to high school with one of those Kalalau squatters and have seen how they roll: get a ride to town, bathe locally at someone’s house, load up on a bunch of stuff at Costco, get a ride back and…leave the trash of course. He called it “fleeing Babylon”. Dude, we’re 50. You’re fleeing reality. And he gets a bunch of likes on Facebook from people on the mainland for his “lifestyle” who have no idea he’s mooching on free land. As for Kinimaka, Rory, I think part of the issue is that he was possibly charging for rides in and out. I don’t think he was arrested for just driving the ski up on the beach. Can you follow up and/or verify?
I heard that too. But, if someone bites off more than they can chew with the hike, better he taxes them than search and rescue has to mobilize.
He only got popped for landing on the beach, which is illegal. Reports of him giving rides don’t really matter, since he didn’t get caught doing it.
Do you believe there is a contradiction between living in the bushes and owning a jet ski? I ask this because in my own country the native people are allowed to hunt turtles in the traditional way (the traditional way now typically involves motorboats). I don’t think they had motorboats back in the day but everyone’s too afraid to tell them…..
It doesn’t bother me, but I hear that argument a lot, especially as it pertains to hunting.
But, man, it’s the 21st century. If you want to hunt pigs, use a compound bow. You can be gnarly and use a spear if that’s your thing, but I don’t think that staying in touch with your heritage necessitates living some 100% throwback lifestyle.
And of course there are assholes who take advantage and ruin it for everyone. That stuff sucks and has to be dealt with case by case.
I’m just pissed off because I can’t use dynamite in the dams anymore. It was good wholesome family fun.
As FahKingHaole said, Kinimaka has zero rights because Hawaii (like Palestine) is a European (haole) colony. Kinimaka is only allowed what the haole allow him.
I didn’t say he had “zero rights” because that’s not the way it works here. I asked Rory to clarify why he was arrested, based on what the local papers were reporting.
Free Ale Kai you bastards.
you don’t have to throw stones. Sounds like they’d just bounce off his cell walls anyway. Waves look fun in the background.
Any chance we could see Hawaiians taking over a public building/reserve?
my sympathies are definitely with Kinimaka. That kind of heavy handed law enforcement must drive the locals wild.
Sovereignty folks takeover Iolani Palace occasionally. But as peaceful protesters, rather than heavily armed Mormon lunatics.
Sounds like something you could base a political career out of if you wanted a Hunter S style detour from surf writing.