Still no response from the National Park Service:
-Jon Jarvis
-Christine Lehnertz
-Cindy Orlando
Dear Ms. Sousa, Mr. Jarvis, Ms. Orlando, and Ms. Lehnertz,
Ms. Sousa says that this is why no one has responded to my
previous email for months…because none of you could “see” it. . This is odd
since obviously the correspondence below, for example originally sent to Ms.
Cindy Orlando, was in email form and she also was sent the photograph. In case
Ms. Orlando could not “see” the photograph, all she would have to do is look at
the giant oversized park bulletin that was outside the visitor center where she
has her offices.
I also have all of the original email correspondence and
this has been forwarded to more than one individual. I have yet to receive a
response in regard to the civil rights violations by Hawaii Volcanos
National Park by any Park administrator. There is detailed information both
about our very serious concerns of anti- European bias towards both our
religion and race and and about the facts of this case below. There are also
other letters that express this concern. Please acknowledge receipt of this and
the other emails sent.
________________________________________________
Update to Previous Entry Below:
Here is and example of just how much respect the government has for European religion and our right to practice our native religion and here are the people involved.
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 10:38 AM
Cc: LeBrun, Richard Mr. CIV USA IMCOM-AFRC Hale Koa
Hotel; Reilly, Lawrence L Jr CIV (US); Randy Hart; Deatrick, Craig L CIV (US);
Fleming, Gregory R CIV USARMY IMCOM PACIFIC (US); Mueller, Peter L COL USARMY
(US); Folger, Walter J CIV USARMY IMCOM PACIFIC (US); McDonough, Alison W NAF
(US); Otoole, Roleen F NAF (US); Falls, David Mr. CIV USA IMCOM-AFRC Hale Koa
Hotel; Bruce Taylor; cindy_orlando@nps.gov
Subject: Correspondence with the U.S. Army (UNCLASSIFIED)
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE
Dear Ms. Fenner,
Your concerns about the former chapel at the Kilauea
Military Camp have been brought to my attention. Please direct any future correspondence
concerning
the former chapel to this office only.
I will appreciate your cooperation with this request.
Sincerely,
Susan Bomier
Susan E. Bomier
Region Counsel
IMCOM Pacific Region
Fort Shafter, Hawaii
Dear Ms. Bomier,
On what basis do you make such a request? With only a couple exceptions, the correspondence I have received, when I have received any, has been condescending and evasive and lacking in even the most basic common courtesy.
In what way have you dealt with this issue? None of you have any right to engage in or cooperate with institutionalized anti-European racism and discrimination against native European religion. You and your colleagues are answerable to the public and not the other way around.
I would like a timely response that is relevant to the concerns I have raised. It is time for substantive action. Serious violations of regulations have occurred. If you have no comment to make, you are welcome to say that too. Be aware that this will be published. Thank you.
Seana Fenner von Fenneberg
__________________________________________
Original Entry:
Here is a copy of an email I just sent regarding the issue of anti European hatred and discrimination in government facilites against those of the European religion and race.
Dear Ms. Orlando and Mr. Hart and Colonel Mueller ,
If you will remember, I received the following almost
unbelievably biased email from KMC Management. Please note the sections
outlined in red:
From: Denise Miller [mailto:millerd@kmc-volcano.com] On
Behalf Of Groups
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 7:30 AM
To: Seana Fenner
Cc: Groups
Subject: Scandinavian Services
Aloha,
We are
delighted to let you use our facilities
for your services. Here are a few things
you need to do---
1. Since we book 1
year out and KMC is a self supporting entity if someone wants to use our chapel
and pay for its use, you will not be able to use it that day. We would like you to
check with us every 2 weeks and we can let you know if the chapel will be
available. Please e-mail to this
e-mail address.
2. Currently the only
date that is not available is May 19th as we have a church retreat here that
has it reserved. And of course December
24th for Volcano Chorus.
3. Chapel must be
left as it is found. If the chapel is
dirty we will charge a $25.00 cleaning fee
4. Since you are not
a 501c and because we are a government entity, you may
not charge for your services
5. If it is known you are charging for services the use of the
chapel will be terminated.
If you
have any issues with these rules, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Mahalo, denise
Denise Miller
Director of Groups
808-967-8333
808-967-8343 Faxwww.kmc-volcano.com
1) I would like to know how it is even remotely
possible that Christian services were allowed to continue after it was
officially discovered by you, and your colleague, that Catholic and Protestant
clergy were taking donations from visitors against army policy? It is clear
also that KMC Management was aware of this and has been for many years and yet
they still sent the email above. We
never took a single donation and were threatened and insulted, while Semitic
religion services have been allowed to collect donations openly, and even have envelopes
printed up for that purpose and
appointed treasurers, and offering dishes of
various kinds are openly displayed. One has to wonder why they were
allowed to do so openly, against regulations, and to continue to have services
after this violation was discovered. As the US Army Chaplain, do you have an
answer for me, Colonel Mueller?
Denise Millar of KMC Management sent us racially and
religiously biased emails repeatedly, intruded upon our services under false
pretenses with the collusion of two fake congregants, and has now openly
promoted a plan of “getting rid” of the Odinist services after the chapel is
decommissioned by the expedient of requiring insurance, which she thinks the
Protestants and Catholics can come up with but which the “skinhead psychopaths”
(by this she actually meant us) could not. Denise Miller also informed callers
that there were no services on Memorial Day when they asked, when in fact there
was an Odinist Memorial Service that day, something she was well aware of
because she did the scheduling. She went out of her way to mention there were
Christian and Protestant services the following Sunday of course. Her supervisor, Marc Swanson was aware of her
actions as well and so have you been Mr. Hart for quite some time.
2)
Have you any explanation, Mr. Hart, for why, in
the face of such seriously racial and religiously biased behavior as this,
these two people, Marc Swanson and Denise Miller, have been allowed to continue
unchecked in waging this war on European people and our religion? Why are they
even still employed?
3)
It also begs the question of why in light of the
extremely racist and religiously biased behavior and willful and knowing
defiance of army regulations and federal
law exhibited by KMC management, the lease holders are allowed to continue to
lease this property from the US Army?
This is for Colonel Mueller and his superior officer Antonio J. McElroy,
who has not had the courtesy to reply to me yet about whether the public is to
have some way to protest or have any input in the idea of suddenly getting the
chapel “off the books” of the US Army and giving it over to the people above to
manage it. Such a action would, on the face of it, appear to be a highly
inappropriate decision in light of their behavior. After all, this facility which costs
virtually nothing to maintain and has volunteers giving services, does belong
to the public, not to those who are caretakers of the property for them. The
highest, best use of a religious building is religious services.
KMC Management omitted mention of our European Odinist
services while at the same time promoting Middle Eastern religious
services. Despite having promised to
advertise our Memorial Day Odinist service, as was done automatically with all
the Christian Memorial Day services in the past without question, this was not
done. In regard to the advertising issue, we still have received no explanation
for this outrageous act of anti European bias and not even an apology. Now
there has been advertisement of KMC
religious services, Christian ones ONLY, in the National Park itself as
well, despite the park superintendent,
Cindy Orlando’s, express statement that
this was NEVER done, in capital letters.
From: Seana Fenner [mailto:oxford-society@hawaii.rr.com]
Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2012 12:35 PM
To: Peter.l.mueller.mil@mail.mil
Subject: FW: [Retrieved]RE: [Retrieved]RE the Odinist
Services available at KMC
Dear Chaplain Colonel Mueller,
I want to thank you again for your message. I have been
hoping that the man you thought could help, Mr. Hart, would contact me, or that
the situation would improve, but I am quite distressed at the turn things have
taken. The pattern of discrimination and actual harassment has become even worse since we last
communicated several months ago. Mr. Hart has never gotten in touch with me, so
I am writing you again in hopes that something can be done.
In the email below, as you can see, our Memorial Day
services were not advertised, as every Christian Memorial Day service has been,
and as KMC management agreed to do. This last week, I have been asked, yet
again, to re-schedule or “cancel” (!) the same service for a Christian event
that is not even a religious service when my regular Odinist religious service
had previously been scheduled at that time. As a gesture of good will I had
complied once with rescheduling this service despite it being very
inconvenient. . I was even told at one point
to check every couple weeks to see if I could have my services or not,
and I have explained to KMC a number of times how disruptive this is to both me
and my congregants, and yet I have continued to receive these requests on a
frequent basis.
I also have received a number of telephone calls from both
Mr. Swanson and Denise Miller despite my expressly and repeatedly stating,
politely, that I prefer to communicate by email. Christians have never been asked to
reschedule their services, or to “check in” to find out if they can have their
services or not. There also have been several incidents of disrespectful
disruptions during services by HVNP and KMC employees who obviously were sent
purposely by management to do so. One woman, wearing a KMC uniform under her
jacket, actually conducted an inspection in which she looked behind my altar.
Afterwards, a man who identified himself as a park employee, came in during my
Rede (sermon), and demanded to know what Odinism was, what my credentials were,
and what the symbolism of the rune on a slide was in a manner that can only be
described as highly disrespectful.
At this point, I have no other option but to take this very
seriously and I appreciate any help or advice you can give.
Thank you.
With best regards and aloha,
Seana Fenner von Fenneberg
From: Seana Fenner [mailto:oxford-society@hawaii.rr.com]
Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2012 11:41 AM
To: 'Arlene Bali'; swansonm@kmc-volcano.com
Subject: RE: [Retrieved]RE: [Retrieved]RE the Odinist
Services available at KMC
Dear Ms. Bali and Mr. Swanson,
Why has our Odinist Memorial Day Service not been advertised
in conjunction with the other Memorial Day events on your flyer as promised?
(please see email just below). As I pointed out previously, every single
Christian Memorial Day Service has been advertised as part of the Memorial Day
events on your flyer, and you agreed to do the same with our Memorial Day
service, yet our service is not even listed on the calendar.
The intent would actually seem to be to denigrate and
exclude our religion and this seems especially odd since the honoring of those
fallen in battle is arguably considered far more important for us than for
Christians. Are you aware that this is not equal treatment?
This situation has become very serious. There have been a
number of other such incidents, such as openly disrespectful, impolite or
insulting emails from KMC employees. For example, Rick Frasier, your web
technician, actually ridiculed our religion and the faith of fallen Odinist
servicemen, which you are aware of, Mr. Swanson, since this email was copied to
you by him. Most recently, I have been asked to reschedule an upcoming service
TWICE, or to cancel it, while Christian
ministers have, to my certain knowledge, never once in the entire history of
their use of the chapel been asked to do so.
A great deal of time in which our services could have been
advertised has been lost already since the month of May is already half over.
Is anything going to be done to redress this situation? Thank you.
Yours,
Seana Fenner von Fenneberg
From: Arlene Bali [mailto:balia@kmc-volcano.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 11:51 AM
To: Seana Fenner
Cc: Marc Swanson; Elene Rizzo-Kuhn; Harriet Knox
Subject: RE: [Retrieved]RE: [Retrieved]RE the Odinist
Services available at KMC
Aloha Ms. Fenner,
Thank you. Yes, we will do the same.
Arlene
________________________________________
From: Seana Fenner [mailto:oxford-society@hawaii.rr.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 11:37 AM
To: Arlene Bali
Cc: Marc Swanson
Subject: [Retrieved]RE: [Retrieved]RE the Odinist Services
available at KMC
Dear Ms. Bali,
That sounds like a good idea. Thank you.
One other thing, which I think I mentioned below. Will you
be listing and featuring our Memorial Day service as part of your activities,
and any other services that fall on holidays, as you always have done with the
Christian ones? We would appreciate it.
Thank you again.
With best regards and aloha,
Seana Fenner
___________________________________________________________
I sent the email below with a CC to you Ms. Orlando, and
below this I am including your reply. This was about the, yet again, anti-
European and disrespectful and discriminatory behavior of the staff and your
reply assured me that there was no discrimination despite the fact that there
is, and that you only advertised events that were “sponsored” by the park,
which is not the case. I noticed that after this the online park schedule
actually went down. It’s rather strange how that happens isn’t it? When one
asks for equal advertising, equal treatment and equal access, suddenly online
calendars disappear and buildings are closed down.
_____________________________________________________
-----Original Message-----
From: Seana Fenner [mailto:oxford-society@hawaii.rr.com]
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 3:29 PM
To: 'Kay_Molhoek@nps.gov'
Subject: RE: FW: Cultural Event for addition to HVNP
Calender
Dear Kay Molhoek,
You do advertise cultural events that are held at KMC which
are Hawaiian, such as the Hawaiian Cultural Festival and there is no
difference, apart from the culture in question being European.
Some of the events you advertise involve chanting on the
edge of the crater to Pele and you even have a poster in which a Hawaiian
Kapuna talks about the religious sacredness of the Park site, all paid for with
governmental funds. Our event is one which includes the opportunity for the
public to be handfasted and is free and open to the public and would be of
benefit to the public who, after all, owns the park. There is no legal basis or
moral justification for the park to embrace and promote one culture and
religion and exclude another. It is a federal entity. To do so would be overt
anti-European racism.
Presumably Mr. Geiger would have known all the rules for
listing events and yet he never indicated that there would be any problem with
listing the event on the 30th January 2012, and never replied to my email. I
doubt that a Hawaiian religious leader's efforts to share a cultural event
would be treated in such and offhand and disrespectful manner.
If anyone wishes to discuss this further you are welcome to
telephone me. I hope the park will reconsider this stance. Thank you for your
assistance.
Thank you.
With best regards,
Seana Fenner
From: Cindy_Orlando@nps.gov [mailto:Cindy_Orlando@nps.gov]
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 4:42 PM
To: Seana Fenner
Subject: Re: FW: FW: Cultural Event for addition to HVNP
Calender
Aloha Seana,
You appear to have a number of misconceptions about what our
web site is for.
First let me tell you that we do not advertise any events in
the park that are not NPS sponsered events.
We do provide links to partner sites in which they may have events
listed.
Second, our cultural events are NPS programs and not
government funded but funded by grants, including the cultural festival at KMC.
Third, a cultural practicioner is NEVER advertised.
Therefore your event appears to be advertised by KMC.
Wishing you success.
cindy
Cindy Orlando
Superintendent
Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park
PO Box 52
Hawaii National Park, Hawaii
96718
(808) 985-6025
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It would seem that I am not, after all, mistaken about the
Park’s “policy” towards advertising religious events, or at least your
violation of federal regulations concerning them. Please see attached picture
showing a close-up of the official extra large Park event poster prominently
displayed outside the front of the HVNP Visitor Center at the present time. You
will note that it advertises religious services at KMC not cultural and
religious services, not park “sponsored” events, not cultural and religious
events, but solely religious Semitic religious services, ONLY the Christian ones, both Protestant and
Catholic are listed, but, yet again, NOT the Odinist services which are
conspicuously left out. It even says that the Christian services are available until October 1st 2012.
You are very well aware of our services, and in fact have
been made aware that we wished to have cultural religious events advertised in
the past, that is to say events which were not solely religious but which had a
cultural component too as can be seen in pasted information from the email above. I never asked that my solely religious
services themselves be advertised, only one particular European cultural and
religious festival in which hand-fastings were offered to the public by
pre-arrangement free of charge. I merely
requested that this event be included on
your online calendar. I was not replied to on numerous occasions and when I was, I was treated rudely and then
lied to. Now there is open flaunting of unconstitutional discrimination
against those of the European race and
faith.
4) What is your explanation for the above, Ms.
Orlando? I, the other Odinists and Europeans and the entire community would
like to know.
Wassail,
Seana Fenner von Fenneberg
Tel. (808) 985-7211
Email: Oxford-Society@hawaii.rr.com
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