07-30-2019, 07:11 AM
The jump from The Committee of Safety organized an internal coup overthrowing the Hawaiian Kingdom to the United States must acquiesce to an International Tribunal is quite the leap in logic. Some would say an impossible one really.
As for the Ku'e Petitions, Native Hawaiians were only about a third of the 109K population in the islands in 1897. So only about 20% of the population signed the Petitions Against Annexation (which made no voting difference in the Senate - same Senators still voted For or Against regardless of the petition). Regardless, why should the wishes of a split minority of the population be given absolute preference then (or now)?
As for the Ku'e Petitions, Native Hawaiians were only about a third of the 109K population in the islands in 1897. So only about 20% of the population signed the Petitions Against Annexation (which made no voting difference in the Senate - same Senators still voted For or Against regardless of the petition). Regardless, why should the wishes of a split minority of the population be given absolute preference then (or now)?