Here's his version of it.
In an act of consciousness and political action Kenneth Nichols (former US Marine and Gulf War veteran) renounced his US citizenship in March 2001while denouncing US policies of global domination and environmental destruction. Nichols has attracted international attention for his acts of political dissent which include his 1 hour and forty five minute documentary entitled The United States of Hypocrisy Hawaii, the Tibet of the Pacific. In the film he charges the USA with conspiracy to commit fraud and genocide against the Hawaiian people. As a result of his activities in support of the Hawaiian Nation and condemnation of the US, Nichols found himself with Bench Warrants unlawfully issued for his arrest and ultimately he left the US in November 2001, He is now officially seeking political asylum in Holland. Since then he has burned his US passport (which was returned to him twice by US officials) and is publicly charging the US with crimes against humanity for its use of depleted uranium in Iraq (on his website www.uksociety.org). The US strangely continues to claim that Nichols is still a US citizen.I would vote to let the Marxist flag-burner die with Saddam. Good riddance.