[toeslist] Fw: Hawaiian Kingdom Come ::: Blessed Nation Rising
Brian Hill
From: "Heavenly Kingdom Communication" <plan...@wildmail.com>
To: "Brian" <bh...@igc.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 2:17 AM
Subject: Hawaiian Kingdom Come ::: Blessed Nation Rising
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"A piratus et latronibus capta dominum non mutant."
Capture by pirates and robbers does not change title.
Bynk. bk. 1, c. 17; 1, Kent, Comm. 108, 184.
No right to booty vests in piratical captors;
no right can be derived from them by recaptors to the prejudice of
the original owners.
2 Wood. Lect. 428. Black's Law Dictionary, Fourth Edition, page 6.
Native Hawaiians::: This is What Occupation Looks Like
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THE LAWFUL GOVERNMENT OF HAWAI'I HAS RETURNED FROM EXILE.
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Hawai'i was an independent nation that had diplomatic and commercial ties
with countries around the world prior to its unlawful coup d'etat in 1893
and subsequent annexation by the United States in 1898.
Hawai'i will be an independent nation again. Very soon.
The lawful government of the Kingdom of Hawai'i was never destroyed. It was
never formally dissolved in an official act of law. Queen Lili'uokalani --
the constitutional monarch of Hawai'i at the time of the overthrow -- never
consented to the occupation of the United States. Her subjects never
consented to foreign rule.
The lawful Hawaiian Government remained in a state of exile. Until March 13,
1999, when a government pro tem was established in accordance with public
internaional law and Hawaiian Kingdom Domestic Law. This re-established
government fulfilled the position of obligation taken by the United States
of America in U.S. Public Law 103-150. This temporary government had one
purpose: REINSTATE THE LAWFUL GOVERNMENT OF HAWAI'I.
Notices were sent to several countries proclaiming Hawai'i's intent to
reinstate its government de jure. A citizenship drive was conducted in 1999
to identify a distinct population. The eligible voters elected a legislature
on November 6, 1999. In March of 2000, this legislature amended the Hawaiian
Kingdom Constitution that was left in suspension for the last 107 years. The
citizens ratified this amended constitution on April 29th. Applications for
candidacy to the Office of the Prime Minister were actively solicited.
The reinstatement process is nearly complete. Zero hour approaches.
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What was the Hawaiian Kingdom, prior to January 17, 1893?
1. A "Constitutional Monarchy", meaning the Constitution was controlling
over the Executive Branch(King or Queen) and the Legislative Branch (Privy
Council, Legislature, House of Nobles) of the Hawaiian Government.
2. The people of the Hawaiian Islands developed a extensive system of
written Laws and infastructure to govern our nation, starting in the
1820's.
Laws of the Hawaiian Islands prior to 1/17/1893:
("..established by Hawaiian National usage.)
From the beginning of time:
The Laws of the Kingdom of Hawai`i
1846: The Statute Laws of the Hawaiian Islands
1859: The Civil Codes of the Hawaiian Islands
1869 The Penal Codes of the Hawaiian Islands
1883: The Compiled Laws of the Hawaiian Islands
International Status Prior to 1/17/1893:
An equal with all governments of the world. Internationally recognized as
a "neutral country" (like Sweden), the Hawaiian Islands have more than 29
International Treaties and Conventions with many of the major "civilized"
nations, including "most favored" diplomatic and trade status with the
United States.
Citizenship
The people who devoted their allegiance, no matter what racial
background, to the laws of the Hawaiian Islands, were Hawaiians (Citizens),
if you were born in Hawai`i, you were a Native Hawaiian.
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KAULANA NA PUA
Kaulana na pua a'o Hawai'i
(Famous are the children of Hawai'i)
Kupa'a mahope o ka aina
(Ever loyal to the land.)
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'A'ole makou a'e minamina (We do not value)
I ka pu'u ka-la o ke 'aupu-ni (The government's
sum of money)
'Ua lawa makou i ka pohaku (We are satisfied with
the stones)
I ka 'ai kamaha'o o ka 'aina. (astonishing food
of the land).
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Mahope makou 'o Lili'u-lani (We back
Lili'u-lani)
'A loa'a 'e ka pono 'o ka 'aina (Who has won
rights of the land)
Hai'na 'ia mai ana ka pua-na (Tell the story)
Ka po'e i aloha 'o ka 'aina. (of the
people who love their land)
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Na Mele O Hawai'i Nei.
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Why Does the 100-Year Cover-Up Continue?
U.S. PRESIDENT DECLARES "REPUBLIC OF HAWAII" FRAUDULENT!!!
What Happened to the Hawaiian Kingdom?
The following are the official comments by the President of the United
States of America to the Congress and people, detailing the formation of
the provisional government, which became the Republic of Hawaii, then the
Territory of Hawaii and then the State of Hawaii (These facts were
established 100 years before Public Law 103-150)
1893 official comments of President Grover Cleveland and findings of fact:
"I suppose that right and justice should determine the path to be
followed in treating this subject. If national honesty is to be
disregarded and a desire for territorial extension, or dissatisfaction
with a form of government not our own, ought to regulate our conduct..."
"Thus it appears that Hawaii was taken possession of by the United States
forces without the consent or wish of the government of the islands, or
anybody else so far as shown, except the United States Minister" (nor by
Executive order nor by order of Commander- in-Chief)
"The United States forces...on the scene and favorably stationed...
Tuesday the 17th... one of the controlling factors in the whole affair
was unquestionably the United States Marines, while, drawn up under arms
and artillery... dominated the situation..." (without order or directive)
"When our Minister recognized the provisional government... It was
neither a government de facto nor de jure..."
"Our conduct was in danger of occupying the position of having actually
set up a temporary government on foreign soil for... acquiring...
territory which we had wrongfully put in its possession..."
"The lawful government of Hawaii was overthrown..."
"But for the notorious predilections of the United States Minister for
annexation, the Committee of Safety... would have never existed..."
(THEREFORE, THE "REPUBLIC" OF HAWAII WAS FRAUDULENT AND SO IS THE "STATE" OF
HAWAII, FROM WHICH IT DESCENDS; NOW YOU SEE WHY SUCH A MASSIVE 100-YEAR
"COVERUP" AND MILITARY OCCUPATION IS ONGOING!!! ---BZB)
President Grover Cleveland
"But for the landing of the United States forces upon false pretexts...
the committee would have never exposed themselves to the pains and
penalties of treason by undertaking the subversion of the Queens
Government..."
"The law of nations is founded upon reason and justice, and the rules of
conduct governing individual relations between citizens or subjects of a
civilized state are equally applicable... the United States in aiming to
maintain itself as one of the most enlightened nations would do its
citizens gross injustice if it applied to its international relations any
other high standard of honor and morality... On that ground it can not
allow itself to refuse to redress an injury inflicted through an abuse of
power by officers clothed with its authority... the United States... if
a... friendly state is in danger of being robbed of its independence and
its sovereignty by a misuse of the name and power of the United States,
the United States can not fail to vindicate its honor and its sense of
justice... to make all possible reparation..."
"These principles apply to...the Queen's surrender or her
sovereignty...She surrendered not to the provisional government, but to
the United States. She surrendered not absolutely and permanently, but
temporally and conditionally until such time as the facts could be
considered... Furthermore, the provisional government acquiesced in her
surrender in that manner and on those terms, not only by tacit consent,
but through the positive acts... of that government..."
(All quotes taken from U.S. Senate Report 103-126 and the U.S. President
Grover Cleveland Message Relating to the Hawaiian Islands December 18,
1893, to the United States Senate and House of Representatives)
U.S. CONGRESS ADMITS TO OVERTHROW AND OCCUPATION IN APOLOGY BILL SIGNED BY
CLINTON!!!
1993 official comments and "findings of fact:" On or about November 23,
1993 the United States President, Senate and Congress enacted Public Law
103-150. The following are now Congressional findings of fact:
"Whereas, on January 14,1893... the "United States Minister" assigned to
the sovereign and independent Kingdom of Hawaii conspired... to overthrow
the lawful government of Hawaii..." 5th "Whereas"
"Whereas, in pursuance of that conspiracy to overthrow the Government of
Hawaii, the United States Minister caused armed naval forces... to invade
the sovereign Hawaiian Nation..." 6th "Whereas"
"Whereas, the United States Minister thereupon extended diplomatic
recognition to the provisional government that was formed by the
conspirators without the consent of the... Hawaiian people or the lawful;
government of Hawaii and in violation of treaties between the two nations
and of international law." 8th "Whereas"
"Whereas, without the active support and intervention by the United
States... the insurrection against the Government of Queen Liliuokalani
would have failed for lack of popular support and insufficient arms.."
10th "Whereas"
"Whereas, the report of a Presidentially established investigation...
concluded that the United States diplomatic and military representatives
had abused their authority and were responsible for the change in
government." 12th "Whereas"
"Whereas, on January 24, 1895, while imprisoned in Iolani Palace, Queen
Liliuokalani was forced by representatives of the Republic of Hawaii to
officially abdicate her throne." 21st "Whereas"
The people of the Hawaiian Islands never wanted or voted to become part
of America!
"on January 14, 1893, John L. Stevens (United States
Minister)...conspired with a small group of non-Hawaiian residents of the
Kingdom ...including citizens of the United States [Citizens Committee of
Safety], to overthrow the...lawful Government of Hawai'i... without the
consent of the Hawaiian people or their government... [United States of
America, P.L.103-150, fifth "Whereas""];
QUEEN LILI'UOKALANI'S FORMAL DECLARATION OF CONSTITUTIONAL PRESERVATION!
Listen to the words of our Kupuna:
The official Protest to the treaty of Annexation,
presented by Lili`uokalani in Washington D.C., states in-part
to wit:
June 17, 1897:
"I, Lili`uokalani of Hawaii...Queen of the
Hawaiian Islands...do hereby protest against the
ratification of a certain treaty...purporting to
cede these islands to the territory and dominion
of the United States... an invasion of the rights
of the ruling chiefs, in violation of
international rights... the perpetuation of the
fraud whereby the constitutional government was
overthrown, and, finally, an act of gross
injustice to me"
"Because my people, about forty thousand in
number, have in no way been consulted by those
three thousand in number, who claim the right to
destroy the independence of Hawaii. My people
constitute four-fifths of the legally qualified
voters in Hawaii..."
"Because said treaty ignores, not only the civic
rights of my people, but further, the hereditary
property of their chiefs..."
"Therefore I, Liliuokalani of Hawaii, do hereby
call upon the President of that nation,(the U.S.)
to whom alone I yielded my property and my
authority, to withdraw said treaty(ceding said
islands) from further consideration..."
PETITIONS SIGNED BY ALL HAWAIIAN-BORN HAWAIIANS TO NEGATE ANNEXATION!!!
A petition was then drawn up by the citizens of the
Kingdom who were of Hawaiian descent to protest and overturn
the secession of Hawaiian Kingdom to the United States.
The petition was investigated by the United States
Congress...A large portion of the 27,000 names on the list
remained,...they represented the vast majority of the 31,000
"native Hawaiians" living on the islands..."[83 Hwn Study,
p.306-309,.Rep.No.681,55th Con.2d.Sess, p.43, 1893; 1896 Census);]
The Laws of the Hawaiian Islands are still in-effect in
1998, but some have been changed by a people and a
government, foreign to the Hawaiian Islands!
U.S. STATE VIOLATES ITS OWN CONSTITUTION AND INTERNATIONAL LAW!!!
The current "State of Hawaii", a State of the United States,
is in continuous violation of numerous Laws that are the
fundamental basis of their self-admitted, pirated authority!
The United States Constitution, Article VI, clause 2, which
states in-part to wit:
"This Constitution, and the Laws of the United
States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof;
and all Treaties made...shall be the supreme Law
of the land; and the Judges in every state shall
be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or
Laws of any State to the Contrary
notwithstanding."
The Founders of America and the American people to this day clearly
indicate that Treaties are the "Supreme Law".
"Whereas, the United States Minister thereupon extended diplomatic
recognition to the provisional government that was formed by the
conspirators without the consent of the... Hawaiian people or the lawful;
government of Hawaii and in violation of treaties between the two nations
and of international law." 8th"Whereas"(U.S. Public Law 103- 150).
"The United States recognizes responsibilities imposed upon individual
nations by force of International customs and treats the law of nations
as the law of the land...(U.S. v. Enger, D.C.N.J., 472 F. Supp 490")
The Law of Nations indicates:
'When a treaty of peace has been violated by one
of the contracting parties, [United States of America] the
other has the right either to declare the treaty dissolved,
or to allow it to continue in force. For the latter can not
be bound by a contract, when the former does not respect
it... But if the injured party [Kingdom of Hawaii] prefer
not to annul it, the treaty remains valid and binding. It
would be absurd for a party [United States] who has violated
the treaty to claim that it has been annulled by his own
breach of faith...' ['The Law of Nations, Book IV, Chapter IV, The
Observance and Breach of the Treaty of Peace, subsection 54,]
THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS AND ITS LAWFUL GOVERNMENT NEVER
ENTERED INTO A TREATY OR CONTRACT TO ALLOW THE UNITED STATES
OR ANY OF IT POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS (State of Hawaii) TO
ADMINISTER OR AMEND THE LAWS OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS
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Board of Trustees
Office of Hawaiian Affairs
FAX 594-1865
ALOHA Kakou,
Presently there are over 550 federally recognized Native American
Tribes. The population of these tribes is just less than two million. About
twenty percent of the total American Indian and Alaska Native population
occupies and resides on 314reservations on Indian Lands and in Alaska
Villages. Approximately 56,000,000 acres makes up the trust lands of the
American Indian and Alaska Natives. Much of those lands, approximately
44,000,000 acres are Alaska Native Trust Lands.
Between 1789 and 1871 the President negotiated settlements with Indian
Tribes and the United States Senate ratified the treaties. 372 treaties
were recognized by Congress during this period and most are still recognized
by Congress till this day. Most of the treaties ratified during this period
was with the tribe's agreement to cede its aboriginal title to some or all
of the lands its people used and occupied. Sadly and understandingly, many
of the trieaties at that time only protected the right of the tribe's people
to hunting and fishing on those trust lands.
In 1871, Congress ordered the President to stop negotiating treaties
with Indian Tribes. Allowing Congress to conferred tribal recognitons
through Congressional acts. From 1871 to the present day, many amendments to
the federal recogtniton process have been set in place. I will not go into
the processes at this time, because of limitation of time.
There are 150 Native American groups that have not received federal
recognition as Indian Tribes. Some Native American groups have presented
documents that stand seven feet tall and still have not received federal
recogniton.
All Native American groups seeking federal recogniton must have
documented proof of their membership being descendants of a tribal nation.
They must also have documented proof that their ancestor's tribal nation had
a treaty with the United States. They must provide documented proof of their
continued lifestyles as tribal people till this day.
Most important, they must have documented proof their their tribal
ancestors occupied the lands that they are claiming as their lands base. The
only doucmented proof that Native Hawaiians have of treaties are treaties
between the Hawaiian Kingdom and the Unied States. The United States did not
have any treaties with any Native Hawaian entity other then the Hawaiian
Kingdom. The only treaty that the United States violated was with the
Hawaiian Kingdom.
Which simply means, that Congress can not recognize Native Hawaiians as
Tribal Nations similar to Native Americans! Congress can only recognize
Native Hawaiians as the Hawaiian Kingdom.
Free Sovereign and Independent with equal standings to the United States.
I know that they are Trustees on this board and people in this room who
may not be aware of these important fasts. This is why, I decided to
present these facts to this board at this time.
"KULIAIKANUU"
Richard Pomaikaiolani Kinney, SOVEREIGN
731 McCully Street #3, Honolulu, Hawaii, 96826
(United Kingdoms of Hawaii)
PHONE & FAX: (808) 941-1539
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
We can practice the Hawaiian culture right now. Why do we need this
government if we can already live our culture? As a state of the American
union, there are no guarantees to preserve Hawaiian culture forthcoming from
Washington, D.C. If Hawaiian culture were to disappear in the Hawaiian
Islands because its practitioners were moving to more affordable places to
live or because they were dying off, it wouldn't bother the United States
one bit. At least the true and rightful government of Hawai'i has a vested
interest in its own culture and would be in a position to do something about
it
What are the official languages of this nation? At present, Hawaiian and
English are acknowledged as the onl official languages of this nation.
English retains an importance in this nation as it is a recognized
international language of diplomacy and commerce. No other languages are
currently considered in this regard.
How should I refer to your nation? Try this: Hawai'i. The formal name given
to this nation is The Kingdom of Hawai'i. We informally refer to our
country's government as the Hawaiian Government. To emphasize what we have
accomplished, we call it the Reinstated Hawaiian Government. Unlike the
U.S.A., our government is not federal in nature. It is unitary, meaning all
provincial governments (Kaua'i County, Maui County, City & County of
Honolulu, Etc.) are created by the central government. Bear in mind that a
government is one of four elements which make up a nation. The other
components of a nation include its citizenry, its territory and its
sovereignty.
Why reinstate this goverment? Do the right thing. Two principles are served
by our actions: upholding the law and honoring those who conceived and built
the rightful government of Hawai'i. There are 270 million people in the U.S.
who are living testimony to the social covenant made by Washington,
Jefferson, Adams, Madison et al; those of us in this government want the
world to know that our ancestors created a sister democracy to those
established in North America, South America, Europe and elsewhere. We do so
by manifesting the rightful government and abiding by its code of laws. By
reviving Hawai'i's rightful political authority, the major decisions that
affect everybody in the island chain will be made here, instead of on
Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
So the Reinstated Hawaiian Government is an elected body. However, a small
portion of the population of the Hawaiian archipelago are citizens who
participated in that election.
The Reinstated Hawaiian Government is not an elected body. It is THE elected
body. Those who participated in its election were the persons willing to
abandon their U.S. citizenship. Those who couldn't make that commitment
still have their government. It's in Washington, D.C. And we offered them
the chance to participate. We have conducted public notice on every island
with roadside signwaving campaigns and educational booths since May of 1999.
Isn't the 1959 vote for statehood an expression of the people's will?
Those people were U.S. nationals. Today, we have manifested the will of
Hawaiian citizens and act upon their will with the rightful government of
Hawai'i. Furthermore, when the U.S. Congress authorized the Apology
Resolution and President Clinton signed it, they created a law document
which effectively repudiated the legal standing of the 1959 statehood act.
That is the hidden signifigance of U.S. Public Law 103-150.
Won't independence from the United States damage Hawai'i's economy? No. It
will be liberated. Kamehameha the Third -- not Uncle Sam -- initiated the
process that moved Hawai'i from a subsistence-based society to a free market
economy. The local economy kept on going after its lawful government was
overthrown and will continue after its government returns. Imagine a Hawai'i
unfettered by restrictive U.S. federal regulations that exercises its own
national trade policy.
Is this effort sponsored with U.S. federal grants or State of Hawai'i
funding? Absolutely not! This initiative has been funded with donations from
private citizens. It receives no financial assistance from any organization.
Every officer in this government pays for their own travel and lodging
expenses upon the occasion of legislative conventions. This process is not
influenced by federal, state or county funding.
Why do I have to give up my United States citizenship to participate in this
government? A U.S. citizen cannot vote in the governmental elections of
Japan. It is a foreign nation to the United States. The reinstated Hawaiian
Government is no different. Every Hawai'i-born resident has a choice to
make: continue your allegiance to the U.S. or apply for naturalization to
this nation. If you want to participate in this government, you have to
renounce your current citizenship. The Hawaiian government does not tolerate
dual citizenship. Choose a country and be loyal to it.
This is apartheid! Wrong. Apartheid occurs when one group of citizens of a
country actively oppresses another group of citizens of the same country on
the basis of race. The residents of Hawai'i who CHOOSE to retain their U.S.
citizenship cannot make that claim against those who are citizens of the
reinstated Hawaiian Government. There isn't a nation on the planet that
places the interests of its non-citizens over the interests of its citizens.
By what authority can you do this? The same authority that Washington,
Jefferson, Adams, Franklin and Hamilton used in founding the United States
of America: the law of nations. The U.S. Constitution states its' observance
of these laws in Article I, Section 8, Clause 10. Since it also abides by
the law of nations, the Hawaiian Constitution extols the same virtues as the
United States.
So what about the State of Hawai'i government?
The state government is what is known as a government de facto (government
in fact). This type of government presides legitimately over a territory and
its population in the absence of the government de jure. A government de
facto has less authority than the government de jure. When the lawful
government returns from exile, the government de facto no longer has legal
authority.
So this is secession?! No. Only the legislature of the State of Hawai'i can
initiate secession from the United States. A reinstated and independent
Hawai'i does not require consent from the United States to exercise its
authority. We won't be submitting a Bill of Secession to the U.S.
government. We don't need to. And the U.S. knows it.
Reinstated Hawaiian Government
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A 1000 Cuts to Genocide ::: The Naked Truth
A Thousand Little Cuts to Genocide ***************************
By Alani Apio
Me, I'm a Hawaiian. I'm an artist and a playwright. I'm not a politician,
lawyer, or historian. So, I'm gonna tell you here how I feel from my na'au -
my guts.
My opinion: The things many of you say and do amount to 1,000 little cuts
against us. And these cuts represent a subversive, long-standing cultural
genocide against the Hawaiian people. Cultural genocide against the Hawaiian
people.
Nobody executes us. No one lynches us. No government enslaves our children
or rapes our women. No citizenry chains us up and drags us from the backs of
pickup trucks. No homicidal maniac gassing us. Just 1,000 little cuts to our
self-esteem, self-identity, cultural pride - to our souls.
Rather than obliterating the people, like so many Hitlers have tried, simply
obliterate the glue that binds them: culture. Just enough slices to leave
blood on the scene, but no actual bodies.
Nobody will come out publicly and say, "Screw Hawaiians" - that's not
"Politically Correct." But you and I know many feel this way.
It's cultural genocide in 1,000 little back-yard, back-handed, unofficial
cuts. A slow bleeding to death through 1,000 tiny cuts that no one knows how
to stop and nobody will admit to doing.
So, here's my take on what many of you honestly think and feel, but dare not
say in public. Here are the cuts:
Concerning the two new federal lawsuits continuing the attack on Hawaiian
assets, rights and entitlements, Barrett v. Cayetano and Carroll v. Nakatan
(If they prevail, the Hawaiian Homes Commission, Office of Hawaiian Affairs,
and native Hawaiian gathering rights will be found unconstitutional), I hear
this:
"Blah, blah, blah. Yada, yada, yada. So what. Damn Office of Hawaiian
Affairs has been a sorry mess since it began anyway. Hawaiians didn't
suddenly die off in great numbers when everyone voted and a non-Hawaiian got
in! Hell, Hawaiians didn't even raise a fuss. And why should one ethnic
group get monies from a pot of land that's supposed to be everyone's! Bunch
of dysfunctional Hawaiians - take it down!"
That's what you think, isn't it? An easy, juicy, seemingly well-deserved cut
to Hawaiian self-governance.
How about Hawaiian Home Lands? I hear:
"Give us a break! What a sorry legacy that's been. Remember Kapono's song,
"Sonny's been waiting." Well, thousands are still waiting, people still
dying on the lists - but the earth doesn't stop turning and plenty of people
are homeless! Why should Hawaiians get singled out? Why should one ethnic
group get land practically free, and cheap loans to build their houses,
while the rest of us Hawai'i-loving, tax-paying citizens gotta work for
ours?
What's up with that? And you know those lazy, stupid Hawaiians are using the
extra money they save on their mortgages on Hawaiian Homes to do drugs, get
drunk, rip each other off, and kick the crap out of their wives and kids!
That's why they stay on the bottom of all those damn social indicators.
Hawaiian Home Lands are Hawaiian ghettos, for crissakes! Cut it DOWN!"
This is what you feel, isn't it? Cut the closest thing we've got to a
nation, and our self- and social-esteem all in one blow. Excellent cut.
Gathering rights? You grumble:
"Why is everything connected to Hawaiians about taking? Taking state money,
taking state land, taking state resources! Why should they have a right to
go on private property and take, take, take? Isn't private property as
sacred and American as democracy itself? Isn't this right to own our own
land free and clear what our veterans fought and died for? Cut that one
down!"
Come on, admit it, that's what you say to each other at your kitchen tables
and out at the country clubs. Cut off access to maile, heiau, koa, and
p/haku so we can't define ourselves as different, continue to force us to
assimilate under the guise of "equal rights for all." Make it illegal to
gather the things we need to define ourselves as different, and then argue
that we voluntarily gave up our cultural practices. Brilliant, "Catch 22"
cut.
1,000 tiny slashes that make us unable to be who our kupuna told us we are.
By the way, my grand-aunt had to wear a sign around her neck in elementary
school that said, "Do Not Speak Hawaiian to Me."
So the outright murder of Hawaiians doesn't happen - that would be racist
genocide and so un-American. The murder of Hawaiian culture, though, happens
every day, slowly: tens of millions of state dollars go every year to the
Hawai'i Visitors and Convention Bureau, which sells us, Hawaiians, as the
"Host Culture" to market the state, but there's never been a
state-recognized, state-funded hula halau.
The state will pay a highly respected Japanese artist from Maui more than
$300,000 to do a bronze sculpture of a scantily clad, mythic Hawaiian man
offering water to all the tourists at the convention center, but there was
not one native Hawaiian artist commissioned in the original artwork plan.
The Advertiser stated in a recent editorial:
"... the task for Hawaiians ... for self-determination now is to set aside
the past and work toward a unified future. This means ... less dwelling on
the far-distant past - the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom - and more
attention to the future. What happened happened. It was an unhappy moment
for many, but more than a century has gone by."
More than 600 years had passed before we "remembered" our trans-oceanic
voyaging and launched the Hokule'a. Hula was banned in public in the 1800s.
Use of our native language was effectually destroyed by the provisional
government in public and private schools in 1896 and in government in 1900
by the territorial government.
If we can forget the overthrow because it happened in the "far-distant
past," then let's forget Hokule'a, hula, and 'olelo Hawai'i. Wouldn't like
that, would you? So how come it's okay to "remember" all the things that
make money through tourism and marketing, how come we get to "renew" all the
happy, fun stuff: hula, paddling, voyaging, etc., but are shut down
consistently when we remember the stuff that's going to cost something or
make someone uncomfortable?
Well-intentioned, educated, sympathetic, influential cuts that mask a
greedy, hypocritical, arrogant, decidedly American ideology. American
ideology is to forget the past because America was largely built on land
stolen through government-sponsored genocide against native Americans and
wealth garnered from slavery. While this generation benefits, it doesn't
want any moral responsibility for those atrocities. And, in Hawai'i, many
flat-out deny any connection between the past and present: Hawaiians aren't
suffering now because even if wrongs were committed, "... they were done to
your ancestors, and you've benefited greatly by being American."
In other words, "No dead bodies, so shut up!"
The genocide of Hawaiian culture may not be complete for another 20, another
50 years, but it will happen - unless we re-establish our sovereign nation.
People with Hawaiian blood will still be here, but my culture - distinct and
unique from everyone else - will have bled to death.
So, are you, the citizenry of the Aloha State, arrogant enough to think that
without Hawaiian culture this place will still be the same, that there will
still be aloha? I know many of you believe that.
I hear many local people, people who have been here for generations, people
like Uncle Ben who've pulled themselves up outta Kalihi by their own
bootstraps and into Washington Place, people who "feel" Hawaiian, believe
they've got this "aloha" thing down and that we've become moot: Hawaiians
and Hawaiian culture aren't necessary for this multicultural society. That,
to me, is a big gamble. If you're wrong, and we are necessary, then the
residents of Hawai'i will have truly destroyed paradise - both the land and
the spirit.
But you are willing to gamble that, aren't you? Because if we're not needed
then that saves a helluva lot of land and power. Land and Power. This is all
about Land and Power, baby.
So, of course you've got to take down Hawaiian Homes, OHA and gathering
rights. And then you'll take Kamehameha Schools, Queen Emma's Trust, and
Queen Lili'uokalani's Trust too, because that's an obscene amount of land
and power. And why wouldn't you want Hawaiians to have land and power?
"Because if those Hawaiians ever do manage to unite their sorry asses
together, those assets and ali'i trusts will provide them the financial and
political clout to sue us for some 1.8 million acres - with back rent, plus
interest - from 1959, when the Territory made a deal with the U.S. called
the "Statehood Act." Hell, with that kind of land and power consolidation,
they could successfully sue the U.S. for reparations and completely
overthrow the islands' power structure!"
Now you know why there's never been a complete inventory of the ceded lands.
If this isn't what many of you think, then why are we where we are? Why
didn't you speak out against Rice? Why aren't you speaking out against
Barrett, Goemans, Carroll, Burgess, Twigg-Smith, Conklin, et. al?
Responsibility belongs to everyone who lives here, and being passive does
not release you from responsibility.
So, now this educated, moderate, peaceful kanaka is taking the P.C. gloves
off and cutting back. Paper cuts only, mind you. But I gotta let you guys
know, I'm feeling like so much has been, and is being, ripped from my na'au
that I've got nothing to lose.
You wanna "feel" Hawaiian? Come, feel 1,000 tiny cuts. We were once warriors
too, you know - and I hope for all our sakes we aren't forced to using more
than pens because of everyone's passivity or denial of responsibility and
reality.
Alani Apio
Honolulu, Hawai'i
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The Brown Man's Burden
by Henry Labouch're
Truth (London); reprinted in Literary Digest 18 (Feb. 25, 1899).
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Pile on the brown man's burden
To gratify your greed;
Go, clear away the "niggers"
Who progress would impede;
Be very stern, for truly
'Tis useless to be mild
With new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child.
Pile on the brown man's burden;
And, if ye rouse his hate,
Meet his old-fashioned reasons
With Maxims up to date.
With shells and dumdum bullets
A hundred times made plain
The brown man's loss must ever
Imply the white man's gain.
Pile on the brown man's burden,
compel him to be free;
Let all your manifestoes
Reek with philanthropy.
And if with heathen folly
He dares your will dispute,
Then, in the name of freedom,
Don't hesitate to shoot.
Pile on the brown man's burden,
And if his cry be sore,
That surely need not irk you--
Ye've driven slaves before.
Seize on his ports and pastures,
The fields his people tread;
Go make from them your living,
And mark them with his dead.
Pile on the brown man's burden,
Nor do not deem it hard
If you should earn the rancor
Of those ye yearn to guard.
The screaming of your Eagle
Will drown the victim's sob--
Go on through fire and slaughter.
There's dollars in the job.
Pile on the brown man's burden,
And through the world proclaim
That ye are Freedom's agent--
There's no more paying game!
And, should your own past history
Straight in your teeth be thrown,
Retort that independence
Is good for whites alone.
Pile on the brown man's burden,
With equity have done;
Weak, antiquated scruples
Their squeamish course have run,
And, though 'tis freedom's banner
You're waving in the van,
Reserve for home consumption
The sacred "rights of man"!
And if by chance ye falter,
Or lag along the course,
If, as the blood flows freely,
Ye feel some slight remorse,
Hie ye to Rudyard Kipling,
Imperialism's prop,
And bid him, for your comfort,
Turn on his jingo stop.
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This poem was usually attributed to Labouch're, who edited Truth,
the magazine in which it first appeared. When it printed the poem
on February 23, City and State noted that "it is understood" that
the author was John Hollingshead, a prominent English theater
manager and contributor to Punch and other magazines.
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Preferred citation: Labouch're, Henry. "The Brown Man's
Burden."Literary Digest 18 (Feb. 25, 1899). In Jim Zwick, ed.,
Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898-1935.
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Are both with thee, wherever I abide;
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These present-absent with swift motion slide.
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