Queen Lili‘uokalani arrived in Washington, D.C., on the evening of January 24, 1897, and departed on July 10, 1898. Her purpose was to use her stately influence to correct the wrong that occurred when her government of the Hawaiian Kingdom was unlawfully overthrown with the participation of U.S. troops on January 17, 1893. The Queen’s conditional surrender stated:
I, Liliuokalani, by the grace of God and under the constitution of the Hawaiian Kingdom, Queen, do hereby solemnly protest against any and all acts done against myself and the constitutional Government of the Hawaiian Kingdom by certain persons claiming to have established a provisional government of and for this Kingdom.
That I yield to the superior force of the United States of America, whose minister plenipotentiary, His Excellency John L. Stevens, has caused United States troops to be landed at Honolulu and declared that he would support the said provisional government.
Now, to avoid any collision of armed forces and perhaps the loss of life, I do, under this protest, and impelled by said force, yield my authority until such time as the Government of the United States shall, upon the facts being presented to it, undo the action of its representatives and reinstate me in the authority which I claim as the constitutional sovereign of the Hawaiian Islands.
U.S. President Grover Cleveland initiated a presidential investigation on March 11, 1893, by appointing Special Commissioner James Blount to travel to the Hawaiian Islands and provide periodic reports to the U.S. Secretary of State Walter Gresham. Commissioner Blount arrived in the Islands on March 29th after which he “directed the removal of the flag of the United States from the government building and the return of the American troops to their vessels.” His last and final report was dated 17 July 1893, and on 18 October 1893, Secretary of State Gresham reported to the President:
The Provisional Government was established by the action of the American minister and the presence of the troops landed from the Boston, and its continued existence is due to the belief of the Hawaiians that if they made an effort to overthrow it, they would encounter the armed forces of the United States.
The earnest appeals to the American minister for military protection by the officers of that Government, after it had been recognized, show the utter absurdity of the claim that it was established by a successful revolution of the people of the Islands. Those appeals were a confession by the men who made them of their weakness and timidity. Courageous men, conscious of their strength and the justice of their cause, do not thus act. …
The Government of Hawaii surrendered its authority under a threat of war, until such time only as the Government of the United States, upon the facts being presented to it, should reinstate the constitutional sovereign…
Should not the great wrong done to a feeble but independent State by an abuse of the authority of the United States be undone by restoring the legitimate government? Anything short of that will not, I respectfully submit, satisfy the demands of justice.
On December 18, 1893, President Cleveland delivered a message to the Congress on his investigation into the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom Government. The President concluded that the “military occupation of Honolulu by the United States…was wholly without justification, either as an occupation by consent or as an occupation necessitated by dangers threatening American life and property.” He also determined “that the provisional government owes its existence to an armed invasion by the United States.” Finally, the President admitted that by “an act of war…the Government of a feeble but friendly and confiding people has been overthrown.”
Through executive mediation between the Queen and the new U.S. Minister to the Hawaiian Islands, Albert Willis, that lasted from November 13th through December 18th, an agreement of peace was reached. According to the executive agreement, by exchange of notes, the President committed to restoring the Queen as the constitutional sovereign, and the Queen agreed, after being restored, to grant a full pardon to the insurgents. Political wrangling in the Congress, however, blocked President Cleveland from carrying out his obligation of restoration of the Queen.
While she was in Washington, D.C., the Queen received word that the insurgents, calling themselves the Republic of Hawai‘i since July 4, 1894, signed a treaty of cession with President William McKinley on June 16, 1897. The following day, Queen Lili‘uokalani filed the following protest with U.S. State Department:
I, Lili‘uokalani of Hawai‘i, by the will of God named heir apparent on the tenth day of April, A.D. 1877, and by the grace of God Queen of the Hawaiian Islands on the seventeenth day of January, A.D. 1893, do hereby protest against the ratification of a certain treaty, which, so I am informed, has been signed at Washington by Messrs. Hatch, Thurston, and Kinney, purporting to cede those Islands to the territory and dominion of the United States. I declare such a treaty to be an act of wrong toward the native and part-native people of Hawaii, an invasion of the rights of the ruling chiefs, in violation of international rights both toward my people and toward friendly nations with whom they have made treaties, the perpetuation of the fraud whereby the constitutional government was overthrown, and, finally, an act of gross injustice to me.
Because the official protests made by me on the seventeenth day of January, 1893, to the so-called Provisional Government was signed by me, and received by said government with the assurance that the case was referred to the United States of America for arbitration.
Because that protest and my communications to the United States Government immediately thereafter expressly declare that I yielded my authority to the forces of the United States in order to avoid bloodshed, and because I recognized the futility of a conflict with so formidable a power.
Because the President of the United States, the Secretary of State, and an envoy commissioned by them reported in official documents that my government was unlawfully coerced by the forces, diplomatic and naval, of the United States; that I was at the date of their investigations the constitutional ruler of my people.
Because neither the above-named commission nor the government which sends it has ever received any such authority from the registered voters of Hawaii, but derives its assumed powers from the so-called committee of public safety, organized on or about the seventeenth day of January, 1893, said committee being composed largely of persons claiming American citizenship, and not one single Hawaiian was a member thereof, or in any way participated in the demonstration leading to its existence.
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 of Hawaii, and excluding those imported for the demands of labor, about the same proportion of the inhabitants.
Because said treaty ignores, not only the civic rights of my people, but, further, the hereditary property of their chiefs. Of the 4,000,000 acres composing the territory said treaty offers to annex, 1,000,000 or 915,000 acres has in no way been heretofore recognized as other than the private property of the constitutional monarch, subject to a control in no way differing from other items of a private estate.
Because it is proposed by said treaty to confiscate said property, technically called the crown lands, those legally entitled thereto, either now or in succession, receiving no consideration whatever for estates, their title to which has been always undisputed, and which is legitimately in my name at this date.
Because said treaty ignores, not only all professions of perpetual amity and good faith made by the United States in former treaties with the sovereigns representing the Hawaiian people, but all treaties made by those sovereigns with other and friendly powers, and it is thereby in violation of international law.
Because, by treating with the parties claiming at this time the right to cede said territory of Hawaii, the Government of the United States receives such territory from the hands of those whom its own magistrates (legally elected by the people of the United States, and in office in 1893) pronounced fraudulently in power and unconstitutionally ruling Hawaii.
Therefore I, Lili‘uokalani of Hawaii, do hereby call upon the President of that nation, to whom alone I yielded my property and my authority, to withdraw said treaty (ceding said Islands) from further consideration. I ask the honorable Senate of the United States to decline to ratify said treaty, and I implore the people of this great and good nation, from whom my ancestors learned the Christian religion, to sustain their representatives in such acts of justice and equity as may be in accord with the principles of their fathers, and to the Almighty Ruler of the universe, to him who judgeth righteously, I commit my cause.
Done at Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America, this seventeenth day of June, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.
[signed] Lili‘uokalani
[signed] Joseph Heleluhe )
[signed] Wakeki Heleluhe ) Witness to signature
[signed] Julius A. Palmer )
From Washington, the Queen notified two political organizations in Hawai‘i, the Hui Aloha ‘Āina (Hawaiian Patriotic League) and the Hui Kālaiʻāina (Hawaiian Political Association) to gather signature petitions against the treaty by the people. Through the direction of the Queen, representatives of these organizations that arrived in Washington on December 6, 1897, managed to get enough Senators to not ratify the treaty. By March of 1898, the treaty failed.
When the Congress declared war upon Spain the following month on April 25, 1898, the Congress set a course to unilaterally seize the Hawaiian Islands at the height of the Spanish-American War. The war did not end until December 10, 1898. On July 6, 1898, the Congress passed a joint resolution of annexation, and President McKinley signed it into American law the following day.
The congressional records, however, reveal that Congressmen and Senators were fully aware that a joint resolution is not a treaty, and that any American legislation, whether by an Act or a Joint Resolution, is limited in authority to American territory and not foreign territory. One of these Senators was Senator William Allen of Nebraska that stated on the floor of the Senate on July 4, 1898, when the joint resolution of annexing the Hawaiian Islands was being debated. Senator Allen stated:
The Constitution and the statutes are territorial in their operation; that is, they can not have any binding force or operation beyond the territorial limits of the government in which they are promulgated. In other words, the Constitution and statutes can not reach across the territorial boundaries of the United States into the territorial domain of another government and affect that government or persons or property therein.
Two years later, on February 28, 1900, during a debate on senate bill no. 222 that proposed the establishment of the Territory of Hawai‘i, Senator Allen reiterated, “I utterly repudiate the power of Congress to annex the Hawaiian Islands by a joint resolution such as passed the Senate. It is ipso facto null and void.”
In its 1824 decision in The Apollon, the U.S. Supreme Court stated that the “laws of no nation can justly extend beyond its own territories except so far as regards its own citizens. They can have no force to control the sovereignty or rights of any other nation within its own jurisdiction.” The Hawaiian Supreme Court also cited The Apollon in its 1858 decision, In re Francis de Flanchet, where the court stated that the “laws of a nation cannot have force to control the sovereignty or rights of any other nation within its own jurisdiction. And however general and comprehensive the phrases used in the municipal laws may be, they must always be restricted in construction, to places and persons upon whom the Legislature have authority and jurisdiction.” Both the Apollon and Flanchet cases addressed the imposition of French municipal laws within the territories of the United States and the Hawaiian Kingdom. The Hawaiian Kingdom and the United States were fully aware of the limitation of a country’s legislation so it stands to reason that the Queen knew this as well.
In a 1988 legal opinion by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel, the Acting Assistant Attorney General, Douglas Kmiec, agreed. After covering the limitation of congressional authority, which, in effect, confirmed the statements made by Senator Allen, Acting Assistant Attorney General Kmiec concluded that it is “unclear which constitutional power Congress exercised when it acquired Hawaii by joint resolution.” If it was unclear how Congress “acquired Hawaii by joint resolution,” it would be equally unclear how Congress could establish the Territory of Hawai‘i in 1900, and the State of Hawai‘i in 1959.
From 1893 to the writing of her book, Hawai‘i’s Story by Hawai‘i’s Queen, that was published in 1898 after she returned from Washington, Queen Lili‘uokalani relied on justice and the law to preserve the rights of the Hawaiian Kingdom and its people in the face of American racism and its pursuit of becoming a naval power in the world. After exhausting all diplomatic and legal efforts, she could not stop the American theft of a country not theirs. So, she ends her final chapter with the story about Naboth’s vineyard and a stark warning to the American people.
Oh, honest Americans, as Christians, hear me for my down-trodden people! Their form of government is as dear to them as yours is precious to you. Quite as warmly as you love your country, so they love theirs. With all your goodly possessions, covering a territory so immense that there yet remain parts unexplored, possessing islands that, although near at hand, had to be neutral ground in time of war, do not covet the vineyard of Naboth’s so far from your shores, lest the punishment of Ahab fall upon you, if not in your day in that of your children, for ‘be not deceived, God is not mocked.’ The people to whom your fathers told of the living God, and taught to call ‘Father,’ and whom the sons now seek to despoil and destroy, are crying aloud to Him in their time of trouble; and He will keep His promise, and will listen to the voices of His Hawaiian children lamenting for their homes.
It is for them that I would give the last drop of my blood; it is for them that I would spend, nay, am spending, everything belonging to me. Will it be in vain? It is for the American people and their representatives in Congress to answer these questions. As they deal with me and my people, kindly, generously, and justly, so may the Great Ruler of all nations deal with the grand and glorious nation of the United States of America.
The story of Naboth comes from the Old Testament of the Bible. According to 1 Kings 21:1-28:
Some time later there was an incident involving a vineyard belonging to Naboth the Jezreelite. The vineyard was in Jezreel, close to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.
2 Ahab said to Naboth, “Let me have your vineyard to use for a vegetable garden, since it is close to my palace. In exchange I will give you a better vineyard or, if you prefer, I will pay you whatever it is worth.”
3 But Naboth replied, “The Lord forbid that I should give you the inheritance of my ancestors.”
4 So Ahab went home, sullen and angry because Naboth the Jezreelite had said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my ancestors.” He lay on his bed sulking and refused to eat.
5 His wife Jezebel came in and asked him, “Why are you so sullen? Why won’t you eat?”
6 He answered her, “Because I said to Naboth the Jezreelite, ‘Sell me your vineyard; or if you prefer, I will give you another vineyard in its place.’ But he said, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’”
7 Jezebel his wife said, “Is this how you act as king over Israel? Get up and eat! Cheer up. I’ll get you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”
8 So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, placed his seal on them, and sent them to the elders and nobles who lived in Naboth’s city with him.
9 In those letters she wrote: “Proclaim a day of fasting and seat Naboth in a prominent place among the people.
10 But seat two scoundrels opposite him and have them bring charges that he has cursed both God and the king. Then take him out and stone him to death.”
11 So the elders and nobles who lived in Naboth’s city did as Jezebel directed in the letters she had written to them.
12 They proclaimed a fast and seated Naboth in a prominent place among the people.
13 Then two scoundrels came and sat opposite him and brought charges against Naboth before the people, saying, “Naboth has cursed both God and the king.” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death.
14 Then they sent word to Jezebel: “Naboth has been stoned to death.”
15 As soon as Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned to death, she said to Ahab, “Get up and take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite that he refused to sell you. He is no longer alive, but dead.”
16 When Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, he got up and went down to take possession of Naboth’s vineyard.
17 Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite:
18 “Go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who rules in Samaria. He is now in Naboth’s vineyard, where he has gone to take possession of it.
19 Say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: Have you not murdered a man and seized his property?’ Then say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: In the place where dogs licked up Naboth’s blood, dogs will lick up your blood—yes, yours!’”
20 Ahab said to Elijah, “So you have found me, my enemy!” “I have found you,” he answered, “because you have sold yourself to do evil in the eyes of the Lord.
21 He says, ‘I am going to bring disaster on you. I will wipe out your descendants and cut off from Ahab every last male in Israel—slave or free.
22 I will make your house like that of Jeroboam son of Nebat and that of Baasha son of Ahijah, because you have aroused my anger and have caused Israel to sin.’
23 “And also concerning Jezebel the Lord says: ‘Dogs will devour Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.’
24 “Dogs will eat those belonging to Ahab who die in the city, and the birds will feed on those who die in the country.”
25 (There was never anyone like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the eyes of the Lord, urged on by Jezebel his wife.
26 He behaved in the vilest manner by going after idols, like the Amorites the Lord drove out before Israel.)
27 When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and fasted. He lay in sackcloth and went around meekly.
28 Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite:
29 “Have you noticed how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself, I will not bring this disaster in his day, but I will bring it on his house in the days of his son.”
Since 1893, the United States has not treated the Hawaiian people fairly or justly. Their lands have been taken, their rights to free healthcare at Queen’s Hospital has been denied, and they continue to suffer from the high cost of living, which has driven the majority of the Hawaiian people to live in the United States. Native Hawaiians are the majority in the prisons. All of this did not exist before the American occupation began in 1893.
As customary international law concludes that despite the unlawful overthrow of the government of the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1893 and the unilateral seizure of the Hawaiian Islands in 1898, the Hawaiian Kingdom continues to exist as a State under a prolonged occupation. Customary international law also reveals that war crimes have and continue to be committed by officials of the United States and the State of Hawai‘i, which will lead to their prosecutions. And the current state of politics in the United States is so revulsive and hateful, it appears to be literally tearing the United States in half.
Is this the “punishment of Ahab” that the Queen warned of?
OMG! I have been dying to hear some kind of response from the State’s attorney general, Anne Lopez, I can hardly control myself! Will she follow MG Hara and resign from her position to avoid conflict? We are all at the edge of our seats! We are all vigilant! Please stay safe Dr. Sai and all of you! It’s getting dangerous now. Ke Akua keep you all safe.
Mahalo,
Maka’ala 1952
The prophecy of taking what is not yours comes to ahead in this generation. For the greatest stateswoman of modern civilization, Lydia stands above all! Our Queen, has led us to the promise land! We do not follow Moses, because we have Lydia. She, is our guiding star, our motherland. It is her who brought us to term as a nation state! Our duty is to stand and arise as a body of people organized for it’s protection. Thus, honor Lydia for her principled position. Our righteous ruler!
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As I predicted in my 2014 book LIBERATE HAWAI’I! The time for the liberation of Hawai’i will come, as it did for Lithuania vs the USSR, when the empire is no longer sustainable. That time may soon arrive.
Ea Ai ka hope loa
“The Lord forbid that I should give you the inheritance of my ancestors.” … and that’s exactly where we went wrong, by giving outsiders our ancestors lands, giving them the ability to own our ancestors lands, lands that are not theirs to own, nor our right to give them. It’s the root of all of our sorrows… our first occupation “The Paulette Affair” was because of a land dispute with a British subject claiming British subjects in the Hawaiian Kingdom were being denied their legal rights… and our second and current occupation, the US wanted our lands for military purposes AND the US admits “military occupation of Honolulu by the United States…was wholly without justification, either as an occupation by consent or as an occupation necessitated by dangers threatening American life and property.”… by giving foreigners our ancestors lands, we give them a reason to claim occupation can be “necessitated” if it can be perceived that said lands belonging to their people are threatened.
Take their ability to own land away and you take away much of the threat we face from the outside world. It’s the reason so many countries don’t allow foreigners to own land. We never should have allowed it.
Get educated on what went down in 1893. Dr. David Keanu Sai has the answer’s you need. Mahalo.
I’ve been following Dr Sai for years and years, don’t assume you know more than others, dear, because you just make yourself look foolish.
Hey Aloha,
We didn’t…our ancestors did but I hear you and see your point. You must forgive our ancestors though, and then yourself…because although hindsight is 20/20, foresight however is not. We, as our ancestors, come from po. From the darkness and depths of the unknown.
We are all learning. Just as our ancestors looked forward back then, we do today. All generations go as far as they can with what little light they have to see the path in front of them. Our people suffer for lack of knowledge.
Even today, still, we cannot know how effective the remedy of humanitarian law will be or how geopolitical trends and international trade wars will be exacerbated by our uprising? Are we prepared for these things?
You certainly can make a case for debate on this topic which is a domestic policy issue that should be strictly restricted for our domestic parliament and not US public consumption. I do not think discussing these domestic issues publicly now however is necessary although I understand your point of concern. Indeed, the mo’olelo of Kahekili and Kahahana illustrates this traditional customary principle.
Yet, this is a domestic matter. The most pressing issue suffocating us is the foreign occupation of our territory and the fraudulent misrepresentation of our lahui as the State of Hawaii. We must keep our domestic concerns and positions private. It would not be as beneficial to us to have this debate in this US public. We should focus on the US occupation and fraudulent misrepresentation of our lahui which is a public international legal matter. Our private domestic legal matters must remain private for the security and protection of our righteous public cause and movement toward liberation and independence. Public and private do not mix!
Lopaka, you and several others here are speaking nonsense. It’s unfair. lol
What do you need me to make sense for you that you don’t understand? That’s all it is. I don’t understand some stuff you post too but I surely know this blog post is asking us if the Queen was referring to the prosecution of US officials for war crimes and the “repulsive and hateful” nature of American politics “tearing” America apart as the “punishment of Ahab.” Surely, if you think the Queen was referring to the British occupation more than 50 years earlier, then you are the one speaking nonsense.
Not the British occupation our current occupation. And I’m not saying who or what the Queen is referring to. I’m discussing my own thoughts regarding our history. Get it right.
Yeah Aloha P. You need to get educated, we never gave them anything or land’s on top of that! Educate yourself bon Kingdom law’s foreign people could never buy land in the kingdom only thing they could do was lease! God forbid America has brain washed our people for 131 years band counting ugh. Kumu Dr. Sai has all the mana’ our nationals need to learn! We were miss educated now we must be reeducated! E’ala’e💪🏾
You should have a conversation with Dr Sai and Donovan Preza, they BOTH will tell you our ali’i passed laws to make it possible for foreigners to buy land fee simple. On top of that, they could purchase our mahele lands from kānaka maoli, according to Dr Sai and Donovan Preza.
“The Alien Land Ownership Act of 1850 allowed foreigners to own land in Hawaii. The act was written by Chief Justice William Little Lee and passed by the legislature on July 10, 1850. The act was justified by the promise of prosperity from the influx of labor and capital.”
Don’t talk to ME about needing to get educated when you don’t even know our Kingdoms history.
Mahalo for your mana’o e Aloha P.
I have listened to and read through many sources regarding land ownership. I would caution everyone against thinking they know everything about anything. I would caution everyone against thinking any particular book or person knows everything about anything.
This land issue will continue to divide us now and will be debated well into the future. We shouldn’t fight over lottery winnings we haven’t won yet.
What is important right now is to focus on the things we can come into agreement on. The most obvious thing is the lack of any treaty and the positive changes we can make starting today.
Don’t wait for America to do the right thing. Don’t wait for some attorney general to follow her own laws, because there’s a pretty good chance she won’t.
Aloha kekahi i kekahi. Malama kekahi i kekahi. We will always disagree on some things, but we will always be stronger together on the things we can agree on.
💗Better TOGETHER💗
When it comes to treaties, I think we need to be cautious and take our time with it. Treaties are international agreements and cooperation between countries. I don’t see why we need to rush these things some treaties are unfair you know. Some treaties tend to benefit one more than the other. However, one in particular we could talk about is a treaty of peace. And in this treaty of peace, I think we should demand our government to negotiate reparations and transfers of illegal immigrant colonizer citizens out of our country.
I think it is the punishment she referred to. Furthermore, I think that the punishment HRM, our Queen, identified thru the story of Naboth’s vineyard was simply that of the natural laws of the Almighty Ruler of the Universe, the “Great Architect Of The Universe” (GAOTU) as Freemason founders of the united states of America called it, or the ‘Living God’ as Christians believe. Clearly HRM did not mean the Pope as the Living God because HRM was a protestant and the Catholic counter reformation in the islands had already severely impacted the Kamehameha dynasty. She only used the Christian sources as a reference to reach her American Christian audience.
Indeed, the Hawaiian people had already gone from poly to monotheistic, then back to their deistic source by HRM rule. Thus, HRM work on the Kumulipo in her darkest hours. After all else had failed, all those principles held in the Christian belief and practiced by the Christians who proselytized many Hawaiians, and after all those in Kawaiha’o that scorned and detached from her only after she had been dethroned, HRM had returned to our source.
Although HRM didn’t live to see the impacts today, she very well understood that the universe was immaterial and that cause and effect is universal. A pebble dropped in a pond creates a ripple effect across time and space. One cannot stop the ripples, or to put a fine point on it, manufacture a democracy without the consent of the governed and expect high voter turnout. Therefore, if the Provisional Government owes it’s existence to an armed invasion by the US, then the Territory of Hawaii owes it’s existence to a fraudulent misrepresentation of the Hawaiian Islands as a territory of the US.
HRM very well knew the long term consequences such unfair and deceptive acts and unlawful government practices would have on US trade, domestic and foreign policy. Now the US must deal with the blowback of a century of oligarchs and Wall Street stepping on international law for land and gold, then stepping on gold for the dollar to be the world reserve currency in order to place their foot on the neck of every nation around the globe. The king of tariffs is going full protectionist mode with Blackstone backing. The queen of gab is bout business as unusual with Blackrock support so nothing to see here unless she really taxes the top 10% but at least we may be avoiding eating a trade war or economic meltdown. Still, we’ll have to eat her word salads. But that is not to say a meltup is any better, it’s just that the US has got to get control of Wall Street and its oligarchs. The American oligarchs need to be reigned in, and the rest of the elites around the world for that matter.
With the Bank for International Settlements kicking mBridge to the Chinese curb, central banks are closer then ever in settlement directly without commercial banking intermediaries. And bypassing them will save time and money. Meanwhile, HSBC is jumping on board CIPS (Chinese Interpayment System) and Saudi is leaning more onto the BRICS side of the fence. De-dollarization is slowly killing US hegemony and globalization limbers along like a zombie.
And those who side with the US have tremendous risks.
Japan exports are at a loss of over 10% in September due to US pressure on Chinese trade and Ishibas dovish stance. So it looks like Disney Tokyo may be affordable enough to add on the bucketlist for travel. In fact, why not add an extra trip to the hot springs. At the same time, Germany is getting clobbered because energy cost has skyrocketed to the moon, powered by Nordstream. And their policy is to invest in hydrogen rather than take care of their industries. VW is culling their workers in the guise of restructuring so many towns and cities will lose jobs and revenue. Of course, US supremacy is the main dish and is next on the menu.
Aloha from NTPC and the Ha’I Ohana. Wondering about the “Peace Treaty” or “Treaty of Peace”; if it is a “non-concession treaty”? At the EPA Webinar on Environmental and Historical Legacy Issues; we learned about Treaties….and issues of Exit Strategies called “Termination of Jurisdiction” when Lease was pau.
Consession Treaty is what played out for Native American First Nations; they had to make a “Concession of Land” in order to make their Treaty of Peace with USA~but had to give up parcels/large tracks of Land as the concession. I am wondering about it, can Hawaiian Kingdom make a Treaty of Peace without concession of any Lands?
Hey Shelley,
We do have a treaty of peace. The treaty of peace is our Queens trust agreement of restoration stemming from her reservation of rights when she yielded her authority under protest. We are not now however standing on it and neither are we petitioning a demand to Congress to comply with our Queens sacred trust.
We have placed our trust in the Hawaiian Homelands, Social Security, and Admissions (Statehood) Act of the US Congress because we are completely but only temporarily Americanized. Thus, we have abandoned our national identity for the privileges and benefits of Federal citizenship within the Federal trust constructed by Congress over our ancestors dead bodies in our own homelands. Understanding therefore how all law is commercial and is simultaneously shaping the Federal legal landscape is essential to navigating between your sovereignty, individual rights, and commercial obligations.
Depends on the terms that they demand and depends on if we refuse or accept those demands. I wonder what we would agree and disagree on I actually don’t know. Maybe we can share some ideas with each other. And to answer your question yes, we can make a treaty without concession of lands.
I see Keanu’s Naboth Vineyard post as a reminder to KEEP THE FAITH & that DIVINE JUSTICE will be eventually served, just as the Queen’s letter detailed.
I’ve only learned recently about the dark cloak of control (cabal) that has infiltrated ALL countries from a long time ago. Luckily, Liliu’o was clearly well educated & smart ,evidenced in her writings. She NEVER conceded to the cabal US/Freemasons, and chose the LEAST harmful path for her people while planting seeds for a better future. We just needed our modern day ‘David’ to “wake up” to the mistruths and be willing to battle — and we got him — mahalo “David” Keanu Sai!
Keanu went from using his hands ‘as weapons’ in a boxing ring, to military service using armaments, then after seeing correlations of Hawaii’s unlawful occupation in the Middle East, he got educated & began battling with his pen! Yet the success of a battle still depends on the strength of one’s army — an informed population. That’s our job too, now that WE are ‘awakened to the truths’.
I sense that the acting Hawaiian Kingdom was waiting for DJT and/or the white hats VICTORY to kickstart Hawaii’s transformation. Since covert military operations have been going on for years, most likely now they can ‘come out of the closet’ here soon! 😎
Lastly, here’s an interesting parallel between the Queen’s times and our own: President Cleveland was serving his 2nd NON-consecutive term— just like DJT will ‘officially’ do. There are no others. Cleveland was also the only president to get married in the White House & have a child born there — his daughter, Esther, the name of a biblical Queen (Old Testament, Book 17) WHO SAVED HER PEOPLE. Just like Liliuokalani did — by PRESERVING our rights.
Let’s believe that divine intervention will soon bless the people of Hawaii with FREEDOM from our occupiers — it’s time!
Yes, pray for devine intervention for it is in God who we must trust; not just use it as a mask. Nothing can happen unless our Heavelnly Father allows it. For through Jesus, anything is possible with faith.
Hey Erin,
You should read ‘Ka Wai a Polani’ by HRM Queen Lili’uokalani. My kupuna taught me that she left us this as instructions along with the keys for us to go back home. The house key is HRM Agreement of Restoration.
“Is this the “punishment of Ahab” that the Queen warned of?” In regard to what exactly? The overthrow? It is a probability, yet it remains to be seen. However, I think the punishment of Ahab had been already done by what has transpired from the Charlton land claim. It eventually led up to the occupation of our kingdom. I think we could agree this is the punishment of Ahab as well.
Put yourself in the Queens perspective and see that she was appealing to honest American Christians needing them to do the right thing by her in her days less their children, or future generations, suffer the Living God’s punishment of Ahab.