The Kingdom of EnenKio…

As I mentioned last month, the tropical paradise of Wake Atoll is claimed both by the United States and the Marshall Islands, and has also been decreed as an independent sovereignty first conceived in 1987 in the name of the Kingdom of EnenKio. This article relates to the claims put forth by the people representing the Kingdom of EnenKio.

The biggest question comes down to who owned the island during the last few decades. According to the 1971 Fourth Quarter edition of the Micronesian Reporter, “the island is still considered [by the Marshallese] to be a part of the Marshalls. It is one of the northern islands of the Eastern Chain, which include Aur, Maloelap, Wotje, Ailuk, and Uterik, and it is claimed by the Iroij, the chiefs of these islands… Enen-Kio is the same as [other islands in the chain which] were never divided up among the people with a lot of small land claims, as is true of the inhabited islands of the Marshalls. Instead, they are reserved for turtles and sea birds… They belong to the chief, meaning that they belong to all of the people.” The official “government” website of Enenkio also agrees in certain documents that the Marshall Island chains included the Wake Atoll, but confusingly asserts the contrary in others.

For centuries the islands were owned by Spain after being conquered in the 16th and 17th centuries. Then, after the Spanish-American war ended in 1885, Germany purchased the Marshalls, administered them directly from Berlin, and established phosphate mining on the island of Nauru. Japan acquired the Marshall Islands, with the exception of Nauru, during World War I. While the United States had been in control of Wake Island since 1898, they acquired the rest of the islands as a result of Japan’s defeat at the end of World War II. As a result of the post World War II rearrangement of the former Mandates of the League of Nations, Micronesia, and with it the Marshall Islands, became a Trust Territory administered by the USA on behalf of the United Nations. This specifically excluded Wake Island. All of the islands, including Wake Island, were once owned by Spain through conquest. Whether or not Wake was acquired by the United States directly from the spoils of war waged with Spain, or through the chain of purchase and acquisition through Germany and Japan, the Marshalls were all owned at one time by the United States, which then choose not to relinquish its hold on Wake Island specifically during the Trust Territory Period or through the Compact of Free Association which granted the rest of the Marshalls independence.

When welcomed to the “official” EnenKio website, visitors are presented with the statement that “an aboriginal people now strive to rise above a mire of dependency, neglect and outright physical assaults from foreign invaders bearing atomic weapons, foreign ideologies and leaving broken trusts and hearts in their wake.” First and foremost, the three-island atoll that consists of Peale Island, Wake Island, and Wilkes Island has never been populated, settled or developed until March of 1935, when Pan American World Airways began the building of a trans-Pacific airbase, corroborated by PanAm’s official records and even the EnenKio “government” website. There are no indigenous inhabitants of the island, thus there are no “aboriginal people”, let alone ones experiencing “neglect and outright physical assaults” or “broken trusts and hearts”. Visits to the island trio by Marshallese seamen occurred once a year or even less frequently, and were made in order to collect feathers and plumes of seabirds, wing bones of albatross, and the rare kio flower, the atoll’s namesake. The “government” website bases its claim of pre-European settlement on a statement that today’s absence of resources including potable water, arable land, and natural food sources “does not mean that such resources never existed.” Leaping from the assumption that resources vital to human survival may have existed directly to the concept of aboriginal settlements is logically flawed.

“The people of EnenKio Atoll, now living in exile, having declared the causes which impel them to unite and requiring no justification from any external origin, are determined to displace the invaders… Like it or not, this is the newest nation in the Pacific Region.” So says Kermit, Chief Secretary of EnenKio. Exile is defined as the forced removal from one’s native country. Unless, Kermit, you are an albatross or a Polynesian rat, you and your “people” have not been forcibly removed from Wake Island. There are no records of native frogs either, Kermit.

All of the assertions by the fledgling “government” are based on the fact that the Wake Atoll was originally a part of the Marshall Islands and were once “owned” by a Marshallese chieftain who granted the cessation of the atoll in the late 1980’s, yet, in a document stating the legal opinion that the government is justified in issuing passports because it says it can within its self-written Constitution, it is asserted as a factual assumption that the “EnenKio Atoll is not and has never been a part of the Republic of Marshall Islands”, and because the RMI has not a sovereign entity in 1899 when the United States took possession of the Wake Atoll, the RMI’s claim to ownership is invalid. The same can be said for the Kingdom of EnenKio’s claim on the islands as EneKio did not declare its own sovereignty until 1994. Whether or not the atoll was part of the Marshalls is irrelevant to the Kingdom of EnenKio, because either way it reports evidence contrary to its own assertions, all of which point to ownership by the United States. Also the Certificates of Ownership supposedly confirming the ownership of 10 atolls in the Marshall Island chains by the same “King” Murjel Hermios conspicuously leaves out any mention of Wake, Enen-Kio, Eneen-Kio or any other name by which the Wake Atoll has previously been known.

Blah, blah, blah… OK, enough already! I could spend days shooting holes into EnenKio rhetoric, false claims, and self-contradictions. Oh, and speaking of aforementioned passports, this is where the tale of the atoll gets even more interesting:

According to the Citizen Fidelity and Investment section of the EnenKio’s planned Economic Development, “individuals wishing to further the causes and development programs of the Kingdom by affiliation or involvement may make application for citizenship and travel documents or for consular representative assignment”, and specifically targets people who are experiencing “political instability in [their] country”, whose “assets are vulnerable to loss, attachment or litigation”, who are “overburdened by taxation”, and whose “basic human right to travel is restricted.” — all perfectly tailored to every terrorist, drug dealer, or tax cheat! So, how does one become a citizen, you ask? To be considered a Qualified Citizen, an applicant must be born unto a parent who is, prior to birth, a citizen; or born within any jurisdiction of the Kingdom; or a citizen or resident of the Marshall Islands; or a person of Marshallese ancestry; or married to a citizen, or one qualified as a citizen. To be considered a Naturalized Citizen, an applicant must have attained an age of five years; and submitted a completed application; and successfully passed security and proof of identity checks; and enclose four color photographs; and have proffered allegiance to the Kingdom by signed oath; and have been accepted as a member of Kio Royale.

Since when does a government require prospective citizens to become members of “private independent service-oriented advocacy groups”, let alone ones that charge one-time fees between $500 and $10,000 with annual dues of $50 or $100? Once you’ve become a member of the EnenKio private club, an “official” EnenKio passport is only $100 away, a driver’s license just $25. The applicant understands “that EnenKio Atoll government cannot be held liable for my possession or use of any document(s) issued hereunder.” Why? Because Robert Moore, the man behind the fake government knows that what he and the other “governmental officials” is doing is illegal. He tries to cover himself with statements on his website that state that “the government does not sell passports and does not supply them to people who are not citizens of the Kingdom of EnenKio” and “processing fees listed above cover design and production costs only. Payment of fees does not constitute a purchase. Kio Royale is a non-profit non-governmental advocacy agency.” If membership in a private group is required for national citizenship, that group cannot be considered non-governmental.

Since the entire EnenKio government is a scam, manufactured as a tax haven, viewed as fraudulent by the Marshall Islands and the United States governments, many individuals have spent the standard required fees to become naturalized citizens and paid a little extra to obtain “diplomatic documents”. Of course, these fake credentials have been abused and EnenKio’s official response to the reports of abuse was not to conduct additional background checks on applicants or to require specific duties to be performed by the countries “representatives”, but instead to increase the fees charged. All you need is an “interest in international politics”, “good knowledge of the country where you live”, to be over the age of 21, and have access to a telephone, a fax machine, and a computer linked to the internet, and to be an “effective communicator”. Strong qualifications, indeed!

Oh, and Robert Moore and his cohorts laughably claims $105,200,000 in back rent commencing on January 17, 1899 (which Robert celebrates as a national holiday, Invasion Day!) through 1994, with an additional $5 million rent per month thereafter. As of August 2002, the monthly invoice Robert mails to the United States Department of the Interior reached $2,006,082,482 through the rents and accrued interest at 18% per year, compounded monthly.

Robert, you’ll have as much luck collecting your false claims of rent from the United States as you would cashing a check issued from a “licensed” bank under the jurisdiction of your fellow illegal sister nation of the Dominion of Melchizedek

If you want, you can read more than you ever thought to learn about Wake Island.

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One Response to “The Kingdom of EnenKio…”

  1. Response #1
    robertmoore (IP) on May 18th, 2006 at 2:43 pm

    STOP LIES FRAUD DISINFORMATION AS A PAID AGENT OF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA YOU ARE BUSH ASSKISSER SPOOK- WITH JAY ADKISSON YOUR SPOOK MASTER… BOBERT MOORE MP

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