trask was a devoted native hawaiian community advocate and a longtime opponent of the united states'n of hawaii who denounced the destructive impacts the military and tourism industries had on their sacred land. this is trask speaking in 1993 in front of a crowd at the palace on the 100th anniversary of the illegal overthrow of the hawaiian kingdom. >> we are not americans. we will die as hawaiians. we will never be americans. they took our land. they imprisoned our queen. they banned our language. they forcibly made us a colony of the united states. america always that their democratic. lies. that is a lie. amy: and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman in new york, joined by my co-host juan gonzÁlez in new brunswick, new jersey. hi, juan. juan: hi, amy. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. amy: we begin in honduras where a former u.s. trained honduran military officer and businessman has been found guilty of helping to plan the 2016 assassination of be

and oh, by the way, special agent trask who was running these informants has now been arrested for spousal abuse for abusing his wife after they came back from a swingers party. so amazing people, the f b i has working for them these days. and i understand the importance or informants in this group, but to have 12, almost one, inform it for every person in the group that was arrested. that's a pretty high, a big amount of pressure involved in their, you know, should there actually be an investigation. more importantly, a disclosure exactly. what was the role these f b i informant were playing in the group? no, absolutely. i think we have to have an overall investigation into what the f b i is doing these days. i. i am of the opinion. it's become heavily politicize heavily weaponized against anybody that they think might have any opposing thoughts or ideas. and it's an attempt, i think, in this case, but another case is to frame people as suppose it extremis. so that we can actually, so they can actually have justification for actually targeting people as extreme us who might simply have di