This plain and simple a property dispute - everything else is a reflection of other issues. The situation is being manipulated by the same folks who pull the property strings routinely as part of the divergent way native property ended up in the condition it is found in today, a deviation of the federal standard. TMT is listening to crooked advisors instead of relying on objective property rights facts. The history of land in Hawaii is one of the most twisted and obscure there is in all of America. The native got the shaft and the royalist colonial folks got the gold.