{"id":3954,"date":"2017-02-26T20:25:13","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T20:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/?p=3954"},"modified":"2017-02-26T20:25:13","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T20:25:13","slug":"big-island-video-news-trump-inherits-hawaiian-kingdom-war-crimes-scholar-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/big-island-video-news-trump-inherits-hawaiian-kingdom-war-crimes-scholar-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Island Video News: Trump Inherits Hawaiian Kingdom War Crimes, Scholar Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigislandvideonews.com\/2017\/02\/25\/video-trump-inherits-hawaiian-kingdom-war-crimes-scholar-says\/\" target=\"_blank\">HAWAII (BIVN) &#8211; &#8220;Violations of international law of unimaginable proportions,\u201d Dr. Keanu Sai says, adding Donald Trump &#8220;is responsible &#8211; as the president &#8211; for how the military operates here.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gg-uBsWejs4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>This is part 3 of our story trilogy presenting a recent video interview with the fascinating \u2013 and controversial \u2013 political scientist, Dr. David Keanu Sai.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>HAWAII<\/strong> \u2013 President Donald Trump\u2019s first weeks in office have been a whirlwind of executive action and controversy. From the Oval Office, Trump\u2019s social media tweets \u2013 once seen as inconsequential entertainment \u2013 can now carry international ramifications. How the new president handles it all remains to be seen. But he hasn\u2019t minced words about the situation his administration is dealing with.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be honest, I inherited a mess,\u201d President Trump said during a recent press conference. \u201cIt\u2019s a mess, at home and abroad. A mess.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Keanu Sai agrees with him, to some extent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve inherited war crimes,\u201d Sai said during a recent interview with Big Island Video News. \u201cHe did. He inherited it. And he is the successor of presidents since 1893 who have inherited war crimes committed in Hawai\u02bbi. Violations of international law of unimaginable proportions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sai earned his Ph.D. from the University of Hawaii for his work on proving the continued existence of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Following the illegal overthrow of Queen Lili\u02bbuokalani in 1893, there was never a legal treaty of annexation, Sai says. According to the political scientist, Hawaii is under a prolonged and illegal occupation, under international humanitarian law. Since the U.S. has not upheld the laws of the occupied state, the issue of war crimes under the Geneva Conventions comes into play.<\/p>\n<p>Sai understands why many people don\u2019t see it that way.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The fact that people in Hawai\u02bbi are clueless as to what Hawai\u02bbi was in the 19th century is the evidence of the crime. My great-grandparents were born in the Kingdom in 1880. I know nothing about the Kingdom. That wasn\u2019t because I just didn\u2019t know it. It\u2019s because no one taught me. People did not teach anything because everything had to be Americanized. So, we\u2019re the evidence of the crime. For Donald Trump and his administration, he really has nothing to do with Hawai\u02bbi. Nothing. Because he\u2019s a president in America. The entities that have everything to do with our situation is the United States Pacific Command and the military here, boots on the ground. Because we\u2019re in a sovereign country. We\u2019re a separate country. Donald Trump is in another separate country. But he is responsible \u2013 as the president \u2013 for how the military operates here. But he also inherited all the liability of the previous presidents.\u201d<\/p>\n<footer>\u2013 Dr. Keanu Sai, Feb. 2017 BIVN interview<\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sai and Trump once shared similar, highly controversial positions on another presidential topic, although they arrived at their conclusions for different reasons. At the same time Donald Trump was trying to prove his predecessor in the White House was not born in the United States, Dr. Sai was lecturing on his own version of the \u201cbirther\u201d movement.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Donald Trump, he was the birther man, right? I smiled when he first came out with \u2018Barack Obama was not born in the United States\u2019. I actually gave a presentation at NYU \u2013 also at Harvard \u2013 and it was titled \u2018Why the birthers are right for all the wrong reasons.\u2019 Barack Obama was born in Hawai\u02bbi. He was born at Kapiolani Hospital just about three years before I was born there. I was born in 1964. I believe he was born in 1961. He was not born in the United States, period. But I\u2019m not saying he\u2019s not an American. His mom was an American, so he\u2019s an American citizen. There\u2019s no doubt there. But he\u2019s not natural born. Now, not being natural-born affects your status as a president, because under Article 2 of the United States Constitution the president and vice president have to be natural-born citizens. He wasn\u2019t natural born. If he wasn\u2019t natural-born, then he wasn\u2019t president. If he wasn\u2019t president, what was his administration for eight years? But see, that\u2019s not my problem. That\u2019s the United States\u2019 problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<footer>\u2013 Dr. Keanu Sai, Feb. 2017 BIVN interview<\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Does Sai believe President Trump has been fully apprised of the political situation in Hawai\u02bbi? He can only guess.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I would think (Trump\u2019s administration) might want to keep this from (Trump), because he might use that to say he was correct against Barack Obama. The intelligence agencies fully apprised, I know, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. No doubt. Because there were international proceedings were taking place. Now, whether or not the intelligence group is advising Donald Trump about this? I don\u2019t know. I would think they wouldn\u2019t want to tell them because he\u2019s going to take it out of context. Because, you\u2019re talking about a powder keg here that can blow; economically, politically and criminally.\u201d<\/p>\n<footer>\u2013 Dr. Keanu Sai, Feb. 2017 BIVN interview<\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sai has been trying to educate the public on this subject for years, chronicling his work on the <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/\">Hawaiian Kingdom blog<\/a>. His has traveled the world, lecturing on this topic at the University of Cambridge, filing complaints and entering into proceedings at The Hague. He has recently initiated fact finding Commission of Inquiry as provided for by the Permanent Court of Arbitration, which arose out of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigislandvideonews.com\/2017\/02\/22\/video-larsen-v-hawaiian-kingdom-case-explained\/\">Larsen v Hawaiian Kingdom<\/a> case.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My job is to fix this problem. There is no doubt that the (U.S.) State of Hawaii \u2013 although they\u2019re illegal \u2013 they\u2019re in control. To use a metaphor: I\u2019m not about to have this plane called \u201cHawaiian\u201d airlines, who\u2019s flying high in the sky, disguised as if it\u2019s \u201cAmerican\u201d airlines, painted red white and blue. That paint is chipping off \u2026 This is Hawaiian airlines. We are still not in control of our plane but it is our plane. The Kingdom\u2019s still exists. We\u2019re not in control of it. I have to be careful that this plane doesn\u2019t take a nosedive \u2013 economically, legally and politically \u2013 by people who are incompetent. So, I take every step very seriously to address this problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<footer>\u2013 Dr. Keanu Sai, Feb. 2017 BIVN interview<\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sai\u2019s attempt to avoid a \u201cnosedive\u201d was recently thrust into the media spotlight. With the spending practises of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs under scrutiny, Sai\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigislandvideonews.com\/2017\/02\/20\/video-keanu-sai-responds-to-oha-contract-report\/\">contract to produce a manuscript<\/a> on land tenure in Hawaii has become a controversy. The manuscript was never submitted for publication, although Sai was still paid $70,000 by OHA.<\/p>\n<p>Sai even called one of the news stories on the controversial contract \u201cfake news\u201d. Something else he has in common with the Donald.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That goes to the heart as to why I refused \u2013 at this stage \u2013 to submit this manuscript that implicates all these people for war crimes, until I take the necessary steps to ensure that this plane doesn\u2019t crash. That\u2019s what\u2019s important to me. Whether people believe it or not, it doesn\u2019t matter. Can you falsify it? I\u2019m not asking you to agree. And that\u2019s my background. This is my approach as to how I do things. I take a very practical approach. I\u2019m a retired (military captain). I still am an officer. These are some very hard issues and not everybody can grasp it. But there is no doubt that i know it and I\u2019m responsible for it, because I know it. And that that\u2019s what\u2019s important.\u201d<\/p>\n<footer>\u2013 Dr. Keanu Sai, Feb. 2017 BIVN interview<\/footer>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAWAII (BIVN) &#8211; &#8220;Violations of international law of unimaginable proportions,\u201d Dr. Keanu Sai says, adding Donald Trump &#8220;is responsible &#8211; as the president &#8211; for how the military operates here.&#8221; This is part 3 of our story trilogy presenting a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/big-island-video-news-trump-inherits-hawaiian-kingdom-war-crimes-scholar-says\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-law","category-national","category-war-crimes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31YBQ-11M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3954"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3959,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954\/revisions\/3959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}