{"id":7355,"date":"2024-08-15T17:49:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T03:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/?p=7355"},"modified":"2024-08-15T17:49:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T03:49:55","slug":"colonel-kawakami-should-request-a-legal-opinion-from-state-of-hawaii-attorney-general-prior-to-12-noon-on-august-19-2024-or-be-derelict-in-his-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/colonel-kawakami-should-request-a-legal-opinion-from-state-of-hawaii-attorney-general-prior-to-12-noon-on-august-19-2024-or-be-derelict-in-his-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Colonel Kawakami Should Request a Legal Opinion from State of Hawai\u2018i Attorney General prior to 12 noon on August 19, 2024, or be Derelict in his Duty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today, August 15, 2024, Dr. Keanu Sai, as Head of the\u00a0Royal Commission of Inquiry<\/a><\/strong>, sent a letter to Colonel Wesley Kawakami advising him to request for a legal opinion from Attorney General Anne E. Lopez explaining that the Hawaiian Kingdom ceases to exist as a State under international law so that this claim can be rendered frivolous. The RCI also informed him that he has until 12 noon on August 19, 2024, to perform his military duty of establishing a military government of Hawai\u2018i unless makes the request for the legal opinion through Major General Kenneth Hara.. Here is a link to the\u00a0letter<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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As Title 32 troops, the Army National Guard can serve under the Governor as their Commander in Chief, or, when activated for deployment to a foreign country, the President as their Commander in Chief. There is never a situation where there are two Commander in Chiefs that the Army National Guard reports to. In other words, unless activated by the President, if the Army National Guard is within the United States, then it reports to the Governor of the State they reside. If the Army National Guard is within the territory of an Occupied State, then the Commander in Chief is the President.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my letter to Brigadier General Stephen Logan dated August 11, 2024, I brought to his attention Hawai\u2018i Revised Statutes \u00a728-3, \u201cThe attorney general shall, when requested, give opinions upon questions of law submitted by the governor, the legislature, or its members, or the head of any department.\u201d A legal opinion is \u201ca statement of advice by an expert on a professional matter.\u201d While you are not the head of the Department of Defense, you are implicated by the conduct of its head, Major General Kenneth Hara, in the performance of a military duty in an Occupied State. Enclosed is a legal opinion dated March 17, 2014, that was requested by the head of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my letter to BG Logan, I brought to his attention that the legal existence of the Hawaiian Kingdom, as a State, has become a precedence in Hawai\u2018i judicial proceedings since 1994. This precedence places the burden on defendants, who were arguing the Hawaiian Kingdom continues to exist, that they must, according to the Hawai\u2018i Supreme Court, in State of Hawai\u2018i v. Armitage<\/em>, \u201cdemonstrate a factual or legal basis that the Kingdom of Hawai\u2018i \u2018exists as a state in accordance with recognized attributes of a state\u2019s sovereign nature.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus, since I provided two legal opinions that \u2018demonstrate a factual or legal basis\u2019 to conclude that the Hawaiian Kingdom does exist \u2018as a state in accordance with recognized attributes of a state\u2019s sovereign nature,\u2019 the State of Hawai\u2018i Attorney General Anne E. Lopez must provide a legal opinion that refutes these legal opinions. If the Attorney General is confident that the State of Hawai\u2018i is a lawful entity and the Hawaiian Kingdom ceases to exist, then she should have no problem providing a legal opinion that explains it. This legal opinion would determine whether your Commander in Chief is the Governor or the President.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to \u00a728-3, only the head of the Department of Defense can request a legal opinion, but since you have been implicated by the inaction of MG Hara to make that initial request, you can make a formal request, as the Commander of the 29th<\/sup> Infantry Brigade, of MG Hara, to make that initial request. If you make this request to MG Hara prior to 12 noon on August 19, 2024, then you will not be derelict in your military duty, because the Royal Commission of Inquiry will then give time for MG Hara to make a formal request for a legal opinion from the Attorney General and give time for the legal opinion to be completed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, should you fail to make the request of MG Hara for a legal opinion from the Attorney General by 12 noon on August 19th<\/sup>, you will be derelict in your duty and be the subject of a war criminal report by the RCI for the war crime by omission. For your consideration, I have enclosed a sample letter to provide to MG Hara.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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