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"“It’s time for the Department of Defense and Congress to revisit Base Realignment and Closure in Hawaii,” Jabola-Carolus said, referring to the congressionally authorized process the Defense Department has used to reorganize its base structure."
This is completely delirious. This article starts by examining a serious issue then goes off the rails by talking about something from fantasy land. Congress is not going to close strategically vital bases because of prostitution/trafficking. There is no doubt the native community has suffered, but stuff like this is stupid and alienating. I don't see a single other community in the 330+ million people talking about solving a prostitution/trafficking in this way.
Thirty-eight percent of people arrested through the operation and accused of soliciting sex online from a 13-year-old were military personnel, the report said. >

Was stationed in Hawaii for 3 years.
I'm not even the least bit surprised by this. >

people on the mainland have no idea and/or don't care that hawaii is basically 1/2 starving abused native people and 1/2 ~~pineapple~~ plantation, with a thin veneer of rich people's houses and resorts to keep visitors from noticing it. they are barely a part of the usa, those people have few to no rights, and if you ask me it's basically as much of a US colony as puerto rico or guam are. they simply stick a different label on these places as a superficial fix, so i am also not the least bit surprised that the military personnel deployed there are horrible to the natives. >

This reads like someone told you some anecdotes about living in Hawaii and you just regurgitated them.
Describing Hawaii as "barely part of the USA" is the most ignorant description of Hawaii, regardless of what island you may or may not have visited. >

That person has never been, I can tell you that much. >

and you are from michigan, so im going to assume your only visit was as a tourist, i.e. you went to exactly the staged and manicured tourist areas that i described. there are mass shootings there all the time, usually on the part of the police, and there is a massive meth and opioid issue there among a homeless population that comes there expecting to live the easy life on the beach and ends up in tent cities. the cops want nothing more than to keep the poor natives and the homeless away from the tourist areas, and they will use extreme violence to enforce that especially when they know they aren't being observed, as is the case when they raid the encampments.
my friend was shot and killed in one such raid, so i'm fairly sure you are the one that has not seen the actual state of the place. >

Which island do you live on? >

i've already answered this twice, but for the sake of anyone else reading who can't view the entire thread: i am from hilo, i left shortly after my friend was killed.   
Edit: this was in the news, he was a schizophrenic who had wandered into a vacation property and was shot multiple times by a swat team. >

The article says 38% of the alleged offenders in a sting operation were military personnel. That's despicable. 
I attended a military school on the base in the area. Some of my best memories are of learning indigenous history at school. Several times a month, Hawai'i Native women would come to our classroom to teach us words and phrases from the Hawaiian language and do arts and crafts with us and teach us about Kamehameha and Queen Liliuokalani. I remember they were very gentle and kind women and I looked forward to their lessons; it was really a bright spot for us. 
No one deserves to be mistreated like that. >

The military treats its own members that way and kills plenty of them on top of that but support the troops. >

Unfortunately this is a problem with Native Americans in every State. Look at the disappearing girls on various Reservations and how zero investigation occurs! >

it is true that it also affects many of the Native American/Alaskan Native women across the States. there is a systemic disparity >

Not just the states, it’s arguably even a bigger issue in Canada and the cover up is crazy >

it's way worse in canada. sex offenders flock to quebec because of laws there designed specifically to protect them. they are allowed to live with children and continue using the internet in many cases and do not have to regularly report or notify any of their neighbors. they've all but decriminalized child molestation there, and the same goes for rapists who went for people of age.   
also, due to how easy it is to cross the us/canada border, and how rural it becomes up there once you hit canada, it's a big hotspot for kidnapping and trafficking even if the end destination is nowhere near canada, since they can catch a small plane or get on a boat from there to anywhere in many cases. >



Native Hawaiian women and girls experience disproportionate levels of violence, inequities that have long been insufficiently addressed, new research shows.


In particular, sexual exploitation remains a serious issue, with 43% of sex trafficking cases involving Native Hawaiian girls trafficked in Waikīkī, O‘ahu, according to a report from the Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women, a statewide government agency. 


A law enforcement operation targeting child sex trafficking showed that 38% of people arrested through the effort and accused of soliciting sex online from a 13-year-old were military personnel.


“We have over two dozen arrests out of just a handful of operations of active-duty military personnel. … What that also indicates to me is that the predation that involves soldiers preying on children appears to be widespread,” said Khara Jabola-Carolus, a co-chair of the Missing and Murdered Native Hawaiian Women and Girls Task Force, which released the report. “That should be shocking and alarming and cause for urgency.”


researchers compiled and examined data about a number of issues across state and community agencies in Hawaii, including domestic and sexual violence and exploitation. It found that the average profile of a missing child report processed through the state’s Missing Child Center Hawaii is 15 years old, female, Native Hawaiian and missing from O‘ahu. In the past two years, Native Hawaiians made up 84% of the 37 cases publicly reported through missing children’s center.


In looking at other inequities, the report found that more than one-third of adults who experience physical violence by intimate partners in Hawaii are Indigenous, according to 2013 statistics. And 16.5% of all high school students in the state who reported having been sexually abused by anyone in the last 12 months were Native Hawaiian females, higher than among females of any other racial group, the report said, citing 2019 data. 


Jabola-Carolus said many in the Indigenous community have long called for the armed forces to leave the islands. Research has shown the negative impact military presence in the area has had on Indigenous communities, from health to economics.  


“It’s time for the Department of Defense and Congress to revisit Base Realignment and Closure in Hawaii,” Jabola-Carolus said.


Inequities for Native women and girls are also intertwined with the failures of those with legislative power to recognize such Native Hawaiian issues, the report said. The Violence Against Women Act increased funding for domestic violence and sexual assault services, but services allocated to specifically help Native Hawaiian survivors of gender-based violence were inadvertently excluded from the funding. Legislation introduced by Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, last month would rectify that. 


data continues to be limited, researchers wrote. And to comprehend the full scale and severity of the violence against Native Hawaiian women and girls, better data collection that centers on “key experts” — including survivors with lived experience, social workers and therapists — is needed, the report said. >

This is a very disjointed report. 
Trying to repatriate land back from the federal government under the guise of military service members commiting acts of sexual violence is a strange tactic. Especially considering that this report just inundates you with unrelated sexual violence facts. The only fact that they repeat is the specific operation that targeted online predation of children in Hawaii of which over 30% was active duty military. All of the other facts they provide are not in the context of military service members commiting these acts. They also misstated the percentage of Native Hawaiians in their report using the same data I linked earlier.
I agree that violence against women should be stopped, but I don't agree with using that violence and presenting it in a disingenuous manner to push a political agenda. 
This really just seems like a Hoale hate fest in report form. If you have in your official report phrases like "white men riot" then I'm just going to write off that this isn't an unbiased report stating facts. >

If you can’t even spell haole right… >

Does that invalidate my statement? A spelling error?? >

Timesuck Podcast did an episode on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women around a month ago. Not sure they covered Hawaii.
Edit: autocorrect >

“Trafficked” means solicited online? >

I think you can drop “Hawiian”. This happens to native women everywhere. It’s fucked.