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The coat of arms of the Kingdom of Hawai'i hangs on the gates of 'Iolani Palace.- Photo: Blaine Fergerstrom |
Tyranny and iwi exposed
How Hawai'i will save America
By Alika Poe Silva
Aloha no, 'ohana. Remember what our kupuna visualized, practiced and taught us about pono kaulike (equality and justice for all). It will help America recover its vision and values and direct it toward its realization, if it wills to survive. Addressing the injustice that America has done to and in Hawai'i can bring it back to its foundations. The foundation that emphasized equality and justice for all! Not a social order that protects the privileged and few.
How, the ideals that the Thirteen Colonies started out with , can be used to save itself. By saving Hawaii from injustice, kaulike 'ole (unjust, unreasonable and unfair), bringing to end the desecration of the heiau (religious temples), our iwi (human remains), the sacred springs and our more than five treaties with the U.S. Hawaii is still illegally occupied--only true justice (pono kaulike) can save America!
Therefore, we detail again that the Joint Resolution of the U.S. Congress (1898) has no legal power beyond U.S. limits, simply because it is an attempt to illegally take the sovereign territory of another nation (the sovereign Kingdom of Hawai'i). (Article 43 of the Hague Convention), the occupying power [the U.S.] does not acquire the power of eminent domain or power of quiet title. History reveals from the (U.S. Senate Congressional Record--Senate 1898): Senator Steward from Nevada championed the Republican administration's Manifest Destiny doctrines. When questioned in the Senate, he admitted that it was not in the U.S. Constitution. Senator Mallory stated that there were only two ways that annexation could occur: one by treaty and other by war. Steward defended the Manifest Destiny doctrine for the annexation of the territory he called the Sandwich Islands under the war-making power of the United States. The Hawaiian Nationals adamantly refused to give their sovereignty or territory to the U.S. The 1897-98 Ku'e Petition by Hawaiian Nationals rejected annexation by the U.S. The facts reveal that the U.S. attempted to annex Hawaii and failed because their claim to annexation is, in fact, an act of aggression and war.
The Hawaiian Nation and other nations all over the world See every episode of this imperialism and militaristic acts of war and continuing presences as a crime -- against the Hawaiian Nation, humanity and international law!
Additionally, will American legislative acts, like the Akaka Bill, give us justice? The truth is N-O, no! It is conceived by those with the same philosophy of Manifest Destiny, that believe in the "just order" that the American government bestowed on all natives that it adversely affected, while ignoring the Hawaiian Nationals, and avoiding treaty violations and international law.
The Akaka Bill shows that there is a vague awareness and lack of application and obligation to international law, i.e., Article 15 of the Hague Convention, "Everyone has a right to their national identity."
The Akaka Bill should not be based on race. It should be based on treaties and national rights. Lacking it only adds more wrong to be committed in the illegal military occupation of the Hawaiian Sovereign Territory. The Akaka Bill continues to facilitate deception, discrimination, terrorism and violence done to Hawaiian Nationals and our sovereign resources. The bill is a repeat of Manifest Destiny, carefully designed to deliberately give sovereign immunity to the U.S. military and its cohort, the State of Hawaii.
Each of these acts are premeditated aggressions and terrorism by the United States and its cohort, meets international legal standards for cultural genocide! Yet, the Akaka Bill claims to bring the "just order," whether it is apartheid (Hawaiian Homes Act for fifty percenters), slavery (taxpayers), or U.S. Statehood, it demands obedience, loyalty, benevolence and charity toward the privileged.
The narrative of the American "Manifest Destiny" or "just order" praises the quick, the clever, even the deceitful (Those who cheat the Hawaiian Nationals).
The paradigm of the 1898 Joint Resolution of the U.S. Congress is the same as today's Akaka Bill. The cohort uses threats of subtle aggression and favors those who serve them with good deeds, and they are rewarded with grants, programs and wealth.
This is the justification for injustice, a small level of violence to maintain a "just system" that provides law and order. Especially for those who have taken more than they need, and silent in the desecration of our sacred treaties, while others suffer from cultural genocide and do without. This is the narrative of a "just order," it is a concept of justice used by those who wish to deny equality, equal rights and justice for all.
The concept of Manifest Destiny and justice is found in the U.S. law and order doctrines of 1898 Joint Resolution, in the Bush administration and the Akaka Bill, today. How Hawaii will save the United States of America from its need for violence is by Hawaiian ideals of Pono Kaulike -- equality and justice for all. If america is to survive it has to lie up to its ideals given to them by their forrefathers.
Finally, remember, 'ohana, our kupuna taught us about their vision and about the Ku'e Petition for our mo'opuna and those yet to come. It saved our rock canoe (our spirit and planet). 'Ohana, think of tutu Lili'uokalani, (Ke Wai Apo Lani) and other mele, that the Kane religion teaches us that anyone with breath, ha, is a child of Kane, and therefore is endowed with Pono Kaulike -- equal rights and justice.
One owes another human being respect and fair play, tutu said, aloha. Aloha is the standard of justice, simply because each of us is a child of Kane and justice is a natural right of every human being. 'Ohana, tutu taught us, "A hiki mai ke aloha (Come with love), a e pono mai ana (come with righteousness), ke kahekakai kapu a Kane (sacred is Kane), a me 'onipa'a, kakou (seek justice, my people, and be loytal to our kupuna and mo'opuna of the Hawaiian Kingdom)."
Ike maka 'ohana. See more information at www.hawaiiankingdom.org and learn more about hte sovereign and continually existing Hawaiian Nation. And keep up the good work Hawaiian Nationals for our mo'opuna, and 'onipa'a, kakou.
Aloha no, i 'o lako 'ohana. Ua mau ke ea o ka 'aina i ka pono.
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