{"id":7365,"date":"2024-08-26T12:34:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T22:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/?p=7365"},"modified":"2024-09-03T06:32:01","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T16:32:01","slug":"lieutenant-colonel-fredrick-j-werner-war-criminal-lieutenant-colonel-tuisamatatele-jr-to-establish-a-military-government-of-hawaii-in-one-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/lieutenant-colonel-fredrick-j-werner-war-criminal-lieutenant-colonel-tuisamatatele-jr-to-establish-a-military-government-of-hawaii-in-one-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Lieutenant Colonel Fredrick J. Werner War Criminal \u2013 Lieutenant Colonel Tuisamatatele, Jr. to Establish a Military Government of Hawai\u2018i in One Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today, August 26, 2024, Dr. Keanu Sai, as Head of the\u00a0Royal Commission of Inquiry<\/a><\/strong>, sent a letter to Lieutenant Colonel Tuisamatatele, Jr. regarding the publishing of\u00a0War Criminal Report no. 24-0004<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0on Lieutenant Colonel Fredrick J. Werner\u2019s war crime by omission. The RCI also informed him that he has until 12 noon on August 26, 2024, to perform his military duty of establishing a military government of Hawai\u2018i. Here is a link to the\u00a0letter<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Today, August 26, 2024, the Royal Commission of Inquiry (\u201cRCI\u201d) published its War Criminal Report no. 24-0004<\/a><\/strong> finding Lieutenant Colonel Fredrick J. Werner guilty of the war crime by omission. LTC Werner willfully disobeyed an Army regulation and was willfully derelict in his duty to establish a military government. Therefore, his conduct, by omission, constitutes a war crime. LTC Werner, in his official capacity as a senior member of the State of Hawai\u2018i Department of Defense, has met the requisite elements for the war crime by omission, by willfully disobeying an Army regulation and by willful dereliction in his duty to establish a military government, and is, therefore, guilty of the war crime by omission. These offenses do not have the requisite element of mens rea<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The term \u201cguilty,\u201d as used in the RCI war criminal reports, is defined as \u201c[h]aving committed a crime or other breach of conduct; justly chargeable offense; responsible for a crime or tort or other offense or fault.\u201d It is distinguished from a criminal prosecution where \u201cguilty\u201d is used by \u201can accused in pleading or otherwise answering to an indictment when he confesses to have committed the crime of which he is charged, and by the jury in convicting a person on trial for a particular crime.\u201d According U.S. military law, Colonel Kawakami is accountable by court-martial or nonjudicial punishment under Article 15, UCMJ. Under international criminal law, LTC Werner is subject to prosecution, by a competent court or tribunal, for the war crime by omission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consequently, as the Commander of the 1st Battalion, 487th Field Artillery Regiment, you are now the theater commander. You should assume the chain of command, as the theater commander of the occupied State of Hawaiian Kingdom and perform your duty of establishing a military government by 12 noon on September 2, 2024. In my letter to LTC Werner, dated August 19, 2024, I recommended that he submit a formal request to Major General Hara, as head of the Department of Defense, to request that the Attorney General, Anne Lopez, according to Hawai\u2018i Revised Statutes \u00a728-3, provide a legal opinion that refutes the legal opinions of Profession William Schabas and Professor Federico Lenzerini that the Hawaiian Kingdom continues to exist as a State under international law. It is a request as to a question of law, which the Attorney General is bound to answer, but a request from the head of the Department of Defense is required under \u00a728-3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would appear that LTC Werner did not do so, which led to the publishing of War Criminal Report no. 24-0004. For you to not perform this military duty of establishing a military government of Hawai\u2018i, you will need a legal opinion from the Attorney General concluding that the State of Hawai\u2018i exists within the territory of the United States, and not within the territory of the Hawaiian Kingdom. I am attaching a sample letter from you to Major General Hara requesting of the Attorney General for a legal opinion according to \u00a728-3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you make this request to MG Hara prior to 12 noon on September 2, 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

If you are derelict in the performance of your duty to establish a military government, then you would be the subject of an RCI war criminal report for the war crime by omission. From the date of the publication of your war criminal report on the RCI\u2019s website, Lieutenant Colonel Joshua A. Jacobs, Commander of 29th Brigade Support Battalion, will assume command of the Army National Guard and will have one week to transform the State of Hawai\u2018i into a military government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If LTC Jacobs is derelict in the performance of his duties to establish a military government, then he would be the subject of an RCI war criminal report for the war crime by omission. From the date of the publication of LTC Jacobs\u2019s war criminal report on the RCI\u2019s website, Lieutenant Colonel Dale R. Balsis, Commander of 227th Brigade Engineer Battalion, will assume command of the Army National Guard and will have one week to transform the State of Hawai\u2018i into a military government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Should LTC Balsis be derelict in the performance of his duties to establish a military government and be the subject of a war criminal report for the war crime by omission, that will be published on the RCI\u2019s website; then the sequence of events will loop to the Executive Officers. First, with the 29th Infantry Brigade, second, with the 1st Squadron, 299th Cavalry Regiment, third, with the 1st Battalion, 487th Field Artillery Regiment, fourth with the 29th Brigade Support Battalion, and fifth with the 227th Brigade Engineer Battalion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This looping, within the 29th Infantry Brigade\u2019s component commands, will cover all commissioned officers to include Majors, Captains, First Lieutenants and Second Lieutenants. After the commissioned officers have been exhausted in the 29th Infantry Brigade, the chain of command of commissioned officers of the 103rd Troop Command and its component commands will begin, followed by the chain of command of commissioned officers of the 298th Regiment, Regional Training Institute, and its component commands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As you are aware, U.S. military officers are held to the highest personal and professional standards. When those standards are not met, officers may be administratively punished or criminally prosecuted. For you not to demand from the Attorney General for a legal opinion that the Hawaiian Kingdom no longer exists under international law, is to place the men and women, under your command, into harm\u2019s way with criminal culpability under both military law and international criminal law. To ignore this will have dire consequences for the Hawai\u2018i Army National Guard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today, August 26, 2024, Dr. Keanu Sai, as Head of the\u00a0Royal Commission of Inquiry, sent a letter to Lieutenant Colonel Tuisamatatele, Jr. regarding the publishing of\u00a0War Criminal Report no. 24-0004\u00a0on Lieutenant Colonel Fredrick J. Werner\u2019s war crime by omission. The … Continue reading →<\/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":[8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-law","category-war-crimes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31YBQ-1UN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7365","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=7365"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7389,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7365\/revisions\/7389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}