05-22-2014, 06:45 AM
The Hawaiian people need to examine the people that are dividing them.
The term "Akaka tribe" is a Republican-Tea Party concocted phrase. The Akaka bill says nothing about forming a tribe, it is primarily an official roll call, an independent census, as a first step to nation building. The big question is if it is a totally sovereign nation independent of the United States or a nation within a nation like the native Americans. The Akaka bill is proposing a nation within a nation, and some of those same people that seek division among the Hawaiian people, say the government is trying to make Hawaiians into an Indian tribe.
One thing the Hawaiian people need to stop doing is claim the overthrow was illegal. The overthrow was an act of war, totally legal within the laws of the United States. The United States declared war on the Kingdom of Hawaii, a pre-emptive, unprovoked war approved by the US Congress and the President. Totally legal, as far as US law goes. The second fact is Queen Liliuokalani never surrendered, she capitulated. So, the war never ended, it ended with "the savage in defeat" as George Armstron Custer used to say.
"This island Hawaii on this island Earth"
The term "Akaka tribe" is a Republican-Tea Party concocted phrase. The Akaka bill says nothing about forming a tribe, it is primarily an official roll call, an independent census, as a first step to nation building. The big question is if it is a totally sovereign nation independent of the United States or a nation within a nation like the native Americans. The Akaka bill is proposing a nation within a nation, and some of those same people that seek division among the Hawaiian people, say the government is trying to make Hawaiians into an Indian tribe.
One thing the Hawaiian people need to stop doing is claim the overthrow was illegal. The overthrow was an act of war, totally legal within the laws of the United States. The United States declared war on the Kingdom of Hawaii, a pre-emptive, unprovoked war approved by the US Congress and the President. Totally legal, as far as US law goes. The second fact is Queen Liliuokalani never surrendered, she capitulated. So, the war never ended, it ended with "the savage in defeat" as George Armstron Custer used to say.
"This island Hawaii on this island Earth"
*Japanese tourist on bus through Pahoa, "Is this still America?*