09-19-2018, 07:01 AM
"The US Senate voting to make Hawai'i a state is the same as the US Senate voting to make Canada a state. It doesn't work that way."
Not a sound comparison at all; Canada is a nation. Has been so for a long time.
The Hawaiians were no more a nation than the many Native American tribes that some revisionists today claim were 500 nations.
Hawaiians' concept of a nation probably arose when the Europeans gave the idea to Kamehameha I, who after taking over the Big Island, attacked the other islands with great violence around 1800.
Hawaii might have a stronger case to independence than some Indian tribes, but very old history here. Comparing what might have been 100-200 years ago to today? Quite the pipe dream.
Not a sound comparison at all; Canada is a nation. Has been so for a long time.
The Hawaiians were no more a nation than the many Native American tribes that some revisionists today claim were 500 nations.
Hawaiians' concept of a nation probably arose when the Europeans gave the idea to Kamehameha I, who after taking over the Big Island, attacked the other islands with great violence around 1800.
Hawaii might have a stronger case to independence than some Indian tribes, but very old history here. Comparing what might have been 100-200 years ago to today? Quite the pipe dream.