August 11, 2023
Aloha Lāhainā, Aloha ʻĀina Words cannot express the shock, horror, dismay and grief over the catastophic destruction of the ancient, historic town of Lāhainā on the Island of Maui. Our aloha and prayers go out to all who are being impacted by this great tragedy. People all over the islands are showing their aloha by mobilizing to send aid and comfort to those devastated by the fires on Maui. Yesterday, I was at Hui Mahiʻai ʻĀina, the houseless camp at Aunty Blanche Kahalewai McMillanʻs place in Waimanalo, where the residents were sorting and stacking onto pallates piles of donations from a steady stream of cars dropping off supplies to kōkua the thousands of suddenly houseless people of Maui. By mid-day, there was already enough to fill two forty-foot shipping containers! They will be at the docks today ready to ship to Maui. Aunty Blanche says the drive will continue for as long as it takes... And this is just one small community. The spontaneous outpouring of aloha is coming from many other individuals, groups, businesses, organizations and communities throughout Hawaiʻi nei, adding their kōkua to the dedicated aid organizations like the Salvation Army and the Red Cross... and the mobilization of government emergency agencies by Maui County, the State of Hawaii and the U.S. Aloha Lives! I am also receiving many expressions of concern and solidarity from friends in the international community — Europe, Africa, Asia, the Americas, Oceania… Their hearts ache with ours. Tomorrow, I leave for two months of back-to-back conferences and meetings in Asia, the South Pacific, Europe and America. I will share that the restoration of Lāhainā and the restoration of the Hawaiian Kingdom, will be driven by the same resilientt spirit of the people of Hawaiʻi, rooted in Aloha. Whether facing and responding to the devastation of tsunami, hurricanes, floods, wildfires, or the 130-year-long foreign usurpation, subjugation and abuse of our nation, we will prevail by being the people who embrace Aloha... Aloha ke Aukua (love of God) — Kapu Aloha (sacred love) — Aloha kekahi i kekahi (love for one another) — and Aloha ʻĀina (love for our land, our country). “Love of country is deep-seated in the breast of every Hawaiian, whatever his station.” — Queen Liliʻuokalani ---------- Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono. The sovereignty of the land is perpetuated in righteousness. ------ For the latest news and developments about our progress at the United Nations in both New York and Geneva, tune in to Free Hawaii News at 6 PM, the first Friday of each month on ʻŌlelo Television, Channel 53. – And remember, for the latest updates and information about the Hawaiian Kingdom check out the twice a month Ke Aupuni Updates published online on Facebook and other social media. ------- PLEASE KŌKUA… Your kōkua, large or small, is vital to this effort... To contribute, go to: • GoFundMe – CAMPAIGN TO FREE HAWAII • PayPal – Go to PayPal and send $ to: [email protected] • Other – To contribute in other ways (airline miles, travel vouchers, volunteer services, etc...) email us at: [email protected] ------- Get Free Hawaii T Shirts and other Merch! http://www.robkajiwara.com/store/c28/Hawaii All proceeds are used to help advance the cause. MAHALO! Malama Pono, Leon Siu Hawaiian National
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July 29, 2023
180 Years – Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea July 31st marks the 180th Anniversary of Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea - Sovereignty Restoration Day! On this day in 1843, King Kamehameha III was restored to his rightful position as the ruling King of the Hawaiian Islands by Admiral Richard Thomas of the British Royal Navy, ending “the Paulet Affair”, a four-month-long unlawful occupation of the Hawaiian Islands instigated by British naval officer Lord George Paulet. Upon being restored, King Kamehameha III declared Lā Hoʻihoʻi a national holiday and all over the realm, there was a massive celebration of sovereignty that lasted for 10 days. Four months later, on November 28, 1843, the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of France issued a Joint Proclamation officially recognizing the Hawaiian Kingdom as an equal, sovereign state and Lā Kuʻokoʻa – Independence Day also was declared a national holiday. Other countries jumped on board, confirming Hawaii’s sovereignty and entering into treaties, agreements and diplomatic exchanges with the Hawaiian Kingdom. By the end of the 19th Century, Hawaii had 46 treaties with other countries and 137 diplomatic posts (embassies and consulates) all over the world. Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea, the trigger for Hawaiian sovereignty was a testament to the brilliance and foresight of Kau'ikeaouli, Kamehameha III. A year before the Paulet Affair, and unbeknownst to Paulet, Kamehameha III had sent diplomatic envoys from Hawaii — Timoteo Ha’alilio, William Richards and Sir George Simpson — to Europe to negotiate with the governments of Britain and France for formal recognition of the Hawaiian Kingdom as a sovereign nation. The diplomatic team was already in London when word arrived that Paulet had seized Hawaii for the British Crown. In fact, by that time, British officials had already decided to recognize Hawaii’s sovereignty, but had not yet prepared the formal proclamation. Thus, the dispatching of Admiral Thomas to return control of the Hawaiian Islands to the Hawaiian Crown, was an ideal opportunity to demonstrate the British Crown’s recognition of the sovereignty of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Thomas Square was dedicated commemorating Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea. Even through times when the holiday was forgotten, the place has been living, physical evidence and testament to the fact that the Hawaiian Kingdom is a sovereign state in continuity. Then, on July 31, 2018, the City and County of Honolulu unveiled the statue of King Kamehameha III at Thomas Square, honoring our great king and his great accomplishments. Then last year, the State of Hawaii Legislators passed a resolution acknowledging Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea as a national holiday of the Hawaiian Kingdom. At the ceremony for the legislation, Imai Winchester, one of the organizers of the annual celebration at Thomas Square said: "I offer the challenge for the people of Hawaiʻi to learn and to understand our deep and nuanced history, to challenge the state to continue to seek to do what is right on behalf of the Hawaiian people of all ethnicities. "So on behalf of Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea, who celebrates not just here in Honolulu but celebrates around ko Hawaiʻi pae ʻāina and around the world and all the communities who rise in solidarity for peace and for justice, we accept this as a noble step forward in our path towards liberation." The celebrations of Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea and Lā Kuʻokoʻa and other holidays of the kingdom are not only reminders of events past, they serve as proof and affirmations that, standing on those firm foundations, the Hawaiian Kingdom still lives today. “Love of country is deep-seated in the breast of every Hawaiian, whatever his station.” — Queen Liliʻuokalani ---------- Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono. The sovereignty of the land is perpetuated in righteousness. ------ For the latest news and developments about our progress at the United Nations in both New York and Geneva, tune in to Free Hawaii News at 6 PM, the first Friday of each month on ʻŌlelo Television, Channel 53. – And remember, for the latest updates and information about the Hawaiian Kingdom check out the twice a month Ke Aupuni Updates published online on Facebook and other social media. ------- PLEASE KŌKUA… Your kōkua, large or small, is vital to this effort... To contribute, go to: • GoFundMe – CAMPAIGN TO FREE HAWAII • PayPal – Go to PayPal and send $ to: [email protected] • Other – To contribute in other ways (airline miles, travel vouchers, volunteer services, etc...) email us at: [email protected] ------- Get Free Hawaii T Shirts and other Merch! http://www.robkajiwara.com/store/c28/Hawaii All proceeds are used to help advance the cause. MAHALO! Malama Pono, Leon Siu Hawaiian National July 15, 2023
Kalākaua’s Protest of 1883 Last month, at the Federal Archives of the Swiss Confederation in Bern, Switzerland, I came across a letter of protest, written by Walter M. Gibson the Foreign Minister of the Hawaiian Kingdom on behalf of King Kalākaua and the Hawaiian people. It addresses our European treaty partners, protesting their colonial activities in Polynesia, beginning with the following eerily prophetic sentence: “Whereas His Hawaiian Majesty’s Government being informed that certain Sovereign and Colonial States propose to annex various Island and Archipelagoes of Polynesia does hereby solemnly protest against such proposals of annexation as unjust for a simple and ignorant [uninformed] people and subversive in their case of those conditions for favorable national development, which have been so happily accorded to the Hawaiian Nation.” It is a beautifully written protest by which King Kalākaua exercised his prerogative as the King of a Sovereign Nation to stand in support of the sovereignty of the Polynesian nations who were being forcibly subjected to colonial takeover by European powers. Although Kalākaua’s Protest was ignored by the colonial powers, it was a sincere, noble and righteous act. Little did he know, that ten years later, his country would be forcibly hijacked by the United States. If one were to do even a cursory search, Kalākaua’s Protest and other documents of Hawaii’s active engagement in international discourse (such as neutrality during the Crimean War, the immediate emancipation of slaves who touched Hawaii’s shores, etc.) can be found in the archives of many, if not all of our treaty partners in Europe, Asia and the Americas. The irony is, today in 2023, the picture is flipped. Most of the Pacific nations are independent or autonomous nations, but Hawaii is being held captive as the fake U.S. “State of Hawaii”, a situation to which the UN was manipulated into being an unwitting accomplice. Fortunately, today the United Nations and the international community in general, are inclined to take questions about sovereignty more seriously. Thus, we have been speaking to our Pacific Family of Nations to ask them to assist in bringing the UN’s attention to the situation of the hijacking and usurpation of the Hawaiian Islands. The beauty is, these nations would not have to jeopardize themselves by directly confronting the United States or the ʻmissing-in-action’ European treaty partners who abandoned us at every step since 1893. All it would take is for a few UN members from our Pacific Family to submit a resolution to the United Nations General Assembly requesting for the UN to conduct a procedural review of its Resolution 1469 of December 12, 1959. This is the resolution that erroneously endorsed the fake narrative and deceitful illusion that the Hawaiian Islands is an integral part of the United States. If the members of our Pacific Family were to shine a light on the statehood illusion by calling for a review of Resolution 1469, the U.S. claim of dominion over Hawaii would quickly be exposed and rejected, and the Hawaiian Kingdom would be peacefully reinstated. “Love of country is deep-seated in the breast of every Hawaiian, whatever his station.” — Queen Liliʻuokalani --------- Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono. The sovereignty (life) of the land is perpetuated in righteousness. ------ For the latest news about our progress at the United Nations and other international venues, tune in to Free Hawaii News at 6 PM, the first Friday of each month on ʻŌlelo Television, Channel 53. ----- – And remember, for the latest updates and information about the Hawaiian Kingdom check out the twice a month Ke Aupuni Updates published online on Facebook and other social media. ------- PLEASE KŌKUA… Your kōkua, large or small, is vital to this effort... To contribute, go to: • GoFundMe – CAMPAIGN TO FREE HAWAII • PayPal – Go to PayPal and send $ to: [email protected] • Other – To contribute in other ways (airline miles, travel vouchers, volunteer services, etc...) email us at: [email protected] ------- Get Free Hawaii T Shirts and other Merch! http://www.robkajiwara.com/store/c28/Hawaii All proceeds are used to help advance the cause. MAHALO! Malama Pono, Leon Siu Hawaiian National June 24, 2023
For the past week I have been in Switzerland, first in Zürich to speak at an event, then Bern, to visit the Swiss Federal Archives and now in Geneva to attend the 53rd Session of the UN Human Rights Council. The United Nations has several headquarters: the main one in New York wih which most people are familiar; the much larger one is in Geneva, the location of the Human Rights mechanisms as well as the World Trade Organization, the World Health Organization, the World Intellectual Properties Organization, the International Labor Organization and numerous others. Then there are headquarters in Vienna and in Nairobi. I found out something interesting. This year, Switzerland is celebrating the 175th anniversary of its 1848 Constitution, which is the official start of the current, modern-day Swiss Confederation. That means the Hawaiian Kingdom became a constitutional government eight years before Switzerland did, and the Hawaiian Kingdom was officially recognized as a modern sovereign state by the Anglo-Franco Proclamation of 1843, five years before Switzerland. In talking about the Hawaiian Kingdom as a recognized sovereign state, we often refer to the treaties that our Kingdom had with the principal nations of the world, particularly those of Europe. The reason I went to the city of Bern, which is the seat of the Swiss government, was to view the documents pertaining to the Swiss-Hawaiian Kingdom Treaty of 1864. It’s one thing to cite that we have a treaty and to show an image of the treaty. It is quite another thing to see the thick file of original, hand-written documents pertaining to the drafting, correspondence, discussions and ratification of the treaty. The huge files of supporting materials leading up to the treaty from the Swiss side are all there. It is profoundly validating to know there are real documents from real people from a real country who made a real treaty with the real Hawaiian Kingdom. And that there are corresponding treaty-documents like these in the archives of other European capitals. Not only that, if one were to dig further, one would find trade records and diplomatic communications from the 137 Hawaiian Kingdom embassies and consulates from all over the world. But, what is not in the Swiss Confederation file on the Hawaiian Kingdom Treaty is a document of notification terminating the treaty. And it would be safe to say, no such terminating document exists in the possession of any of our other treaty partners’ archives. When we say the Hawaiian Kingdom Treaties were never terminated, abrogated, repealed, revoked, rescinded, retracted, annulled, abolished… it’s really true. The Hawaiian Kingdom actually exists in the indelible records of its treaties. And the one treaty upon which the United States stakes it claim to Hawaii… does not exist! The so-called, “Treaty of Annexation”. “Love of country is deep-seated in the breast of every Hawaiian, whatever his station.” — Queen Liliʻuokalani --------- Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono. The sovereignty (life) of the land is perpetuated in righteousness. ------ For the latest news about our progress at the United Nations and other international venues, tune in to Free Hawaii News at 6 PM, the first Friday of each month on ʻŌlelo Television, Channel 53. ----- – And remember, for the latest updates and information about the Hawaiian Kingdom check out the twice a month Ke Aupuni Updates published online on Facebook and other social media. ------- PLEASE KŌKUA… Your kōkua, large or small, is vital to this effort... To contribute, go to: • GoFundMe – CAMPAIGN TO FREE HAWAII • PayPal – Go to PayPal and send $ to: [email protected] • Other – To contribute in other ways (airline miles, travel vouchers, volunteer services, etc...) email us at: [email protected] ------- Get Free Hawaii T Shirts and other Merch! http://www.robkajiwara.com/store/c28/Hawaii All proceeds are used to help advance the cause. MAHALO! Malama Pono, Leon Siu Hawaiian National June 9 2023
June Celebrations in the Hawaiian Kingdom One way to assert the Hawaiian Kingdom still lives is to remember and celebrate important days in our history. Here are three significant days to remember in the month of June. June 11 – Kamehameha Day On December 22, 1871, King Kamehameha V proclaimed a national holiday to honor and celebrate his grandfather, King Kamehameha the Great, the founder of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Originally, Hawaiian subjects wanted to mark the legacy of Lot Kapūaiwa (Kamehameha V) on his birthday, December 11. But in humility he opted to honor his grandfather instead, choosing a date as far away from his (Lot’s) birthday as possible, hence the date of June 11. Since 1872 the June 11 King Kamehameha Day celebration has steadfastly endured. Even through the upheavals of insurgency, usurpation, regime changes, occupation, “annexation” and “statehood”, the one constant has been Kamehameha Day. And rightly so. Through his life, Kamehameha Ekolu transitioned from fierce warrior to conqueror to unifier and founding father to peace maker to human rights advocate (The Law of the splintered paddle) to statesman. June 7, 1839 The Hawaiian Kingdom Declaration of Rights Issued by Kamehameha III, the king’s Declaration of Rights profoundly improved on the American Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights from which it was fashioned. The Hawaiian Kingdom Declaration of Rights is written from a distinctly Hawaiian perspective. For instance, the American declaration famously says, “We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal...” (but “equal” was not meant to include blacks, native Americans, Asians, etc.). In contrast, the Declaration of Kamehameha III says, "God hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on the earth, in unity and blessedness.” Wow! The Hawaiian Declaration says we not only have equal rights, but that we are all related by blood! We are all family, meant to dwell in unity and blessedness... Our declaration says we must treat each other not just “equally” as defined in legal terms, but with aloha, as we would treat our relatives. From the highest to the lowliest, we are all ʻOhana. June 17, 1897 The Kūʻē Petition is delivered to the U.S. Senate Queen Liliʻuokalani went to Washington, DC to lobby against the ratification of the McKinley Treaty of Annexation. To show their support for their Queen and country, Hawaiian patriots conducted massive petition drives throughout the Islands. One of them, with 21,000 signatures, was hand-delivered to the U.S. Senate by James Kaulia (president of Hui Aloha ʻĀina), David Kalauokalani (president of Hui Kālaiʻāina), William Auld, and John Richardson. Their mission succeeded in defeating ratification of the treaty. Because of this, still today, there is no treaty annexing the Hawaiian Islands to the United States. “Love of country is deep-seated in the breast of every Hawaiian, whatever his station.” — Queen Liliʻuokalani Correction: In the May 27, 2023 issue of Ke Aupuni Update I stated that hearing the case of Larsen vs. Hawaiian Kingdom at the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague in 2000, constituted recognition by the court of the Hawaiian Kingdom as a State (sovereign country). It did not. The case was accepted by the PCA under rules that did not require one party to be a recognized State. Mahalo to renown international lawyer, Curtis F. Doebbler for that clarification. --------- Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono. The sovereignty (life) of the land is perpetuated in righteousness. ------ For the latest news about our progress at the United Nations and other international venues, tune in to Free Hawaii News at 6 PM, the first Friday of each month on ʻŌlelo Television, Channel 53. ----- – And remember, for the latest updates and information about the Hawaiian Kingdom check out the twice a month Ke Aupuni Updates published online on Facebook and other social media. ------- PLEASE KŌKUA… Your kōkua, large or small, is vital to this effort... To contribute, go to: • GoFundMe – CAMPAIGN TO FREE HAWAII • PayPal – Go to PayPal and send $ to: [email protected] • Other – To contribute in other ways (airline miles, travel vouchers, volunteer services, etc...) email us at: [email protected] ------- Get Free Hawaii T Shirts and other Merch! http://www.robkajiwara.com/store/c28/Hawaii All proceeds are used to help advance the cause. MAHALO! Malama Pono, Leon Siu Hawaiian National Copyright © 2021 Hawaiian Kingdom, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Hawaiian Kingdom PO Box 23055 Makiki Station • Makiki Oahu • Kingdom of the Hawaiian Islands H.I. May 27 2023
Does the Hawaiian Kingdom still exist? YES! The truth is, despite outward appearances, according to established international standards, the lawful, sovereign entity -- the Hawaiian Kingdom — still exists! Over the centuries, certain criteria developed regarding the nature and character of a nation-state*, so that once a nation-state has been lawfully established, it is extremely difficult to extinguish. There are only two ways an established nation-state can be extinguished: 1) by Conquest: involving the military defeat and subjugation of its people, along with the physical seizure of its territory and assets by the victor; or 2) by Consent: the un-coerced, free-will choice of its people to merge their country’s sovereignty to another’s. Even the unconditional surrender of Japan and Germany after World War II, did not extinguish their sovereignty. They became occupied states but still retained their national identity. They were still Japan and Germany and the occupying forces administered and enforced the laws of Japan and Germany respectively (though Germany was partitioned for 45 years). Even the absorption of the Eastern European states by the Soviet Union after World War II did not extinguish their sovereignty. Despite decades of complete domination by the USSR during the “Cold War,” when the Soviet Union collapsed in the early 1990s states like Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, and so forth, reemerged as sovereign and independent countries in continuity. In the case of Hawaii, after the illegal seizure and fake annexation, the political status of the Hawaiian people (referring to nationals, not aboriginals) remained intact and inviolate. Neither a vote nor plebiscite was ever conducted to gain the consent of the Hawaiian nationals to dissolve their country, the Hawaiian Kingdom. At no time did the Hawaiian Kingdom or Hawaiian nationals surrender sovereignty or consent to a merger with the United States. On the contrary, there was ardent and vociferous opposition to the 1893 seizure and to both U.S. efforts at annexation (1893 and 1897), as evidenced by the Kūʻē petitions, protests and resistance by Hawaiians. The hearing of the case of Lance Larsen vs. the Hawaiian Kingdom at the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague, Netherlands in 2000, positively confirmed the continued existence of the Hawaiian Kingdom. The acceptance of this case by this body of the World Court was based on the court’s determination that the Hawaiian Kingdom still exists and that both the Hawaiian Kingdom and the Hawaiian Kingdom national (Larsen), had standing in the World Court. The fact-finding recommended after the proceedings at the Permanent Court of Arbitration, produced a study by professor of international law, Dr. Matthew Craven titled, The Continuity of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Craven confirmed that, according to the standards of international law, the Hawaiian Kingdom continues to exist. It did not expire. It survives even having been buried alive under the layers of U.S. deception and fraud. This has been confirmed numerous times by experts and institutions of international law. --------- “Love of country is deep-seated in the breast of every Hawaiian, whatever his station.” — Queen Liliʻuokalani * The word “state” in international legal terminology, refers to a nation-state, a recognized nation, a country. --------- Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono. The sovereignty (life) of the land is perpetuated in righteousness. ------ For the latest news and developments about our progress at the United Nations in both New York and Geneva, tune in to Free Hawaii News at 6 PM, the first Friday of each month on ʻŌlelo Television, Channel 53. ----- – And remember, for the latest updates and information about the Hawaiian Kingdom check out the twice a month Ke Aupuni Updates published online on Facebook and other social media. ------- PLEASE KŌKUA… Your kōkua, large or small, is vital to this effort... To contribute, go to: • GoFundMe – CAMPAIGN TO FREE HAWAII • PayPal – Go to PayPal and send $ to: [email protected] • Other – To contribute in other ways (airline miles, travel vouchers, volunteer services, etc...) email us at: [email protected] "FREE HAWAII" T-SHIRTS - etc. Check out the great FREE HAWAII products you can purchase at... http://www.robkajiwara.com/store/c28/Hawaii All proceeds are used to help advance the cause. MAHALO! Malama Pono, Leon Siu Hawaiian National May 13 2023
The Issue Is Kuleana Back in 1998 I was in Rapid City which is at the edge of Paha Sapa, the famous Black Hills of South Dakota. I was visiting with my friend, Richard Twiss,* a descendant of the Lakota, the inhabitants and stewards of that land for numerous generations. In effect Richard said: When my people came to this area we saw Paha Sapa and immediately knew it was an awesome work of beauty by the Creator, a sacred place that should be protected and preserved just the way the Creator made it. Many years later, the white invaders came and saw the same magnificent mountains and said. “What a great place to carve giant faces of our great white leaders, and leave our mark on it forever!” This perfectly illustrates the fundamental difference in how we view the world. It is at the heart of what original nations and indigenous peoples face living with a colonial system that has overrun and extended its greedy hold over most of the planet. How can we properly care for our part of the world when greedy foreigners come and forcibly take over, disregard our ways, carve up, desecrate and pollute the land? Flatly put, the colonial world view is, that land and resources are there for the colonizers to generate and increase wealth and power for themselves. And that native inhabitants can either help, get trampled or get pushed out of the way. We can tell by the actions and legacies of nā Mōʻī (our Kings and our Queen) that they all had a firm understanding of their kuleana (responibility, duty) to care for the people and the land. Queen Liliʻuokalani, in her 1893 letter appealing to “honest Americans” likened Americaʻs taking of Hawaii to the Biblical account of evil King Ahabʻs treacherous taking of Nabothʻs little vineyard.** Besides the obvious parallel, Queen Liliʻuokalani is referring to Naboth telling Ahab his vineyard is not just a piece of property to be bought and sold, but it is his inheritance, along with the responsibility to care for it — his kuleana — that he got from his father and is meant to be passed on to his descendants. The Queen is making the point that Hawaii is not just some piece of property to be bought and sold (or stolen). We do not own Hawaii. Hawaii is our inheritance — our sacred kuleana — to be handed on to the next generations... What’s at stake in our efforts to free Hawaii is not simply superficial political or legal shifts or addressing grievances, it is changing the fundamental way we operate as a people and a nation. It requires returning to ola the life-giving kuleana as embodied in our core principles and Hawaiian Kingdom laws, and rejecting hewa, the oppressive, life-draining colonial system of America, and puppet State of Hawaii. “Love of country is deep-seated in the breast of every Hawaiian, whatever his station.” — Queen Liliʻuokalani ---------- * It has been 10 years now, since Richard Twiss walked on with his ancestors. A hui hou aku... ** 1 Kings 21:1-16 --------- Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono. The sovereignty (life) of the land is perpetuated in righteousness. ------ For the latest news and developments about our progress at the United Nations in both New York and Geneva, tune in to Free Hawaii News at 6 PM, the first Friday of each month on ʻŌlelo Television, Channel 53. ----- – And remember, for the latest updates and information about the Hawaiian Kingdom check out the twice a month Ke Aupuni Updates published online on Facebook and other social media. ------- PLEASE KŌKUA… Your kōkua, large or small, is vital to this effort... To contribute, go to: • GoFundMe – CAMPAIGN TO FREE HAWAII • PayPal – Go to PayPal and send $ to: [email protected] • Other – To contribute in other ways (airline miles, travel vouchers, volunteer services, etc...) email us at: [email protected] "FREE HAWAII" T-SHIRTS - etc. Check out the great FREE HAWAII products you can purchase at... http://www.robkajiwara.com/store/c28/Hawaii All proceeds are used to help advance the cause. MAHALO! Malama Pono, Leon Siu Hawaiian National April 29 2023
The Issue of Nationality As soon as the fake annexation was executed in 1898, the traitors who sold out the Hawaiian Kingdom to the U.S., launched a rigorous denationalization campaign to erase any vestige of Hawaiian nationality and identity with the Hawaiian Kingdom. After three generations of relentless indoctrination, virtually all Hawaiians believed Hawaii was a “state” of America and that they (we) were all Americans. It wasn’t until the 1970s that some began to see the United States’ claim to the Hawaiian Islands was fraudulent and began to challenge U.S. citizenship. Why is this important? When Hawaii is restored as a sovereign independent nation, Who will be its people? Who gets to make decisions and operate the nation? And for what purposes and for whose benefit? As an independent country, Hawaii needs its own people—its nationals—to be in charge. What is a “Hawaiian National”? A Hawaiian National (a.k.a. Hawaiian subject) is a person who considers the Kingdom of the Hawaiian Islands to be his or her home country. It is based not on ethnicity, but on one’s aloha ʻāina, love and loyalty to Hawaiʻi. What’s the down side? • The United States and the “Fake State” refuse to accept the Hawaiian Kingdom still exists, so treat Hawaiian Nationals in the Hawaiian Islands as illegal aliens... and often worse. • This makes it difficult and even risky for Hawaiian Nationals to carry on many everyday activities such as driving cars, using banking services, obtaining employment, obtaining housing, traveling by air, paying taxes, etc. • Until “the huli” (the flip) comes, Hawaiian nationals run the risk of discrimination, harassment, intimidation, coercion, prosecution, and jail by the U.S. and the “Fake State”. What’s the up side? • The U.S. occupation will end soon. Although the U.S. suppression of Hawaiian Nationals has been going on for over a hundred years, the injustices and abuses are being exposed and vigorously challenged. • The more people claim and transition to their identity as Hawaiian Nationals, the more visible and tangible our nation becomes to our people and the world, the quicker the occupation will end. Why should one become a Hawaiian National? • To ‘come home’ and place your allegiance with the country to which you belong; • To make the Hawaiian Kingdom visible as a nation with actual people; • To participate in the reactivation and restoration of the Hawaiian Kingdom; • To participate in re-building our nation. Start asking yourself these questions: What is your nationality? Is it Hawaiian or American? To which country do you wish to belong? Start setting your sights and ordering your lives accordingly, so when the opportunity arrives, youʻll be ready to make the move to come home. “Love of country is deep-seated in the breast of every Hawaiian, whatever his station.” — Queen Liliʻuokalani --------- Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono. The sovereignty (life) of the land is perpetuated in righteousness. ------ For the latest news and developments about our progress at the United Nations in both New York and Geneva, tune in to Free Hawaii News at 6 PM, the first Friday of each month on ʻŌlelo Television, Channel 53. ----- – And remember, for the latest updates and information about the Hawaiian Kingdom check out the twice a month Ke Aupuni Updates published online on Facebook and other social media. ------- PLEASE KŌKUA… Your kōkua, large or small, is vital to this effort... To contribute, go to: • GoFundMe – CAMPAIGN TO FREE HAWAII • PayPal – Go to PayPal and send $ to: [email protected] • Other – To contribute in other ways (airline miles, travel vouchers, volunteer services, etc...) email us at: [email protected] "FREE HAWAII" T-SHIRTS - etc. Check out the great FREE HAWAII products you can purchase at... http://www.robkajiwara.com/store/c28/Hawaii All proceeds are used to help advance the cause. MAHALO! Malama Pono, Leon Siu Hawaiian National April 14, 2023
Pope Francis Repudiates Colonialism On March 30, Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church issued a stunning statement repudiating the “Doctrine of Discovery”. This is the doctrine that emerged from the “Papal Bulls”, edicts issued over 500 years ago by various Popes, that gave license (blessings) to European countries to colonize and plunder the lands of peoples who were not Christians. The Doctrine of Discovery is the very basis for the vestiges of colonialism which are still embedded in today’s dominant global culture and economic system. In the 1800s while the rest of the Pacific nations (and much of the rest of the world) became colonies of European powers, because the Hawaiian Kingdom was a Christian profoundly nation, the major colonial countries of the day recognized the Hawaiian Kingdom as a sovereign state. Which is what 50 years later, made the U.S. hand in overthrowing and annexing the Hawaiian Kingdom even more egregious. The US could not apply the ʻDoctrine of Discoveryʻ to take Hawaii. So what they resorted to was... out-and-out piracy. In order to “annex” Hawaii, the US pretended Hawaii was not a sovereign state. They used fake news to depict Hawaiians as a bunch of ignorant, incompetent heathens, whose leaders begged the US to rescue Hawaii from its heathen ways. At the time, Americans (and Europeans) were steeped in racial prejudices (white supremacy), and the campaign of Manifest Destiny (a ‘mission from God’ to spread Americanism overseas), so they justified taking the Hawaiian Islands as a gracious and noble thing to do. But what about those countries with Hawaiian Kingdom treaties? They looked the other way! For they too were engaged in grabbing Pacific Islands and huge tracts of lands throughout the world. They couldn’t tell the US to back down from Hawaii when they themselves were doing not only the same thing, but worse! Besides, they saw us Hawaiians as dark like the other people they were colonizing. The colonial system dictated non-whites should be ruled by Whites. So when the US “annexed” Hawaii, no one blinked. Although Hawaii was not a colony, the US proceeded to treat Hawaii as a colony, just like all the other colonizers treated their colonies. As Dr. Alfred deZayas states in his memorandum, “Hawaii is under a strange form of occupation.” He could have just as easily said “Hawaii is under a strange form of colonization”. The Pope’s statement repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery is good, but it does not change policy. In discussing the issue with a Vatican theologian a while back (like 10 years ago) he said, “What is there to rescind? There hasn’t been colonization for years.” To some degree he is right. In 1946, the 51 founding members of the United Nations agreed that one of the primary goals of the UN would be to decolonize the rest (75%) of the world. It was a huge success. The UN has added 142 countries to its original membership; about 80 came through the UN’s decolonization process and the rest through wars of liberation and the breakup of larger countries like the Soviet Union. There are still 17 territories left on the UNʻs decolonization list. But there are many more, perhaps 50-100 that should be considered. Hawaii and Alaska fall into the category of territories that have already been decolonized. That happened through devious manipulation of the decolonization process by the fake plebiscites in Alaska (1958) and Hawaii (1959) that were used to manufacture consent to statehood. This is why our path to Free Hawaii is to initiate a call for the General Assembly to conduct a review of its role in validating the statehood of Alaska and Hawaii. The review will cause the General Assembly to uncover the US fraud that caused the GA to erroneously adopt Resolution 1469. In finding the error, the GA would be obligated to rescind Resolution 1469, nullifying the US claim to Hawaii and releasing, by default, the Hawaiian Kingdom to resume governance over the Hawaiian Islands. Getting the UN to rescind 1469 is a much more direct and immediate way to Free Hawaii than rescinding the Papal Bulls and the Doctrine of Discovery. --------- Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono. The sovereignty (life) of the land is perpetuated in righteousness. ------ For the latest news and developments about our progress at the United Nations in both New York and Geneva, tune in to Free Hawaii News at 6 PM, the first Friday of each month on ʻŌlelo Television, Channel 53. ----- SIGN THIS PETITION! Rename McKinley High School and remove the McKinley statue! McKinley was the president who turned Hawaii from a peaceful, neutral country into a major cog in America’s war machine. Sign this online petition NOW! Tell everyone you know to sign it too! – And remember, for the latest updates and information about the Hawaiian Kingdom check out the twice a month Ke Aupuni Updates published online on Facebook and other social media. ------- PLEASE KŌKUA… Your kōkua, large or small, is vital to this effort... To contribute, go to: • GoFundMe – CAMPAIGN TO FREE HAWAII • PayPal – Go to PayPal and send $ to: [email protected] • Other – To contribute in other ways (airline miles, travel vouchers, volunteer services, etc...) email us at: [email protected] "FREE HAWAII" T-SHIRTS - etc. Check out the great FREE HAWAII products you can purchase at... http://www.robkajiwara.com/store/c28/Hawaii All proceeds are used to help advance the cause. MAHALO! Malama Pono, Leon Siu Hawaiian National March 27, 2023
Legacy of Colonialism A couple of years ago, Alaska and Hawaii held a virtual press conference at the Geneva Press Club to point out the UN's double standard regarding colonialism and the right to self-determination. It stirred up some spirited discussion and resulted a few months later with the Human Rights Council (HRC) passing Resolution HRC 48/7 titled: Negative impact of the legacies of colonialism on the enjoyment of human rights. The resolution calls on all UN bodies and UN member states to bring an end to the remaining vestiges of colonialism. The questions are: Is there the political will to do so? And if so, How to go about ending those vestiges of colonialism? In the open debate about implementation of Resolution 48/7 this past September, about 80% of the Council members made strong statements decrying colonialism. But not a single suggestion was made on how to end colonialism. They all said it will be a difficult, monumental task, thus rationalizing inaction, when actually, decolonization does not have to be complicated at all. From 2014–2016 the Decolonization Alliance a group that I chaired in New York, held a series of dialogs to jumpstart the United Nationsʻ decolonization process. Some of those talks were sponsored by the United Methodist Church asking what they could do to initiate acts of repentance to make amends for the damage they caused by their involvement in colonialism. The Methodist Church is a prominent denomination in Palau so a few days after one of those dialogs, I had a conversation with Ambassador Caleb Otto from Palau and asked him what he would recommend the church could do as an act of repentance for its role in colonialism. Without hesitation, he said, “breastfeeding”. I was taken aback and asked, “what do you mean, breastfeeding”? Ambassador Otto said that as an act of repentance, the Methodist Churches in Palau could start by encouraging young mothers and mothers-to-be, to breastfeed their babies. He said that the incessant decades-long campaign by milk-producing corporations (from colonizing countries) convinced Palauan mothers that baby formula was much better than breast-feeding. This has ruined the health of generations of formula-fed babies, and consequently ruined the health of his nation. If the church as an act of repentance was to promote breastfeeding it would immediately improve the health of children of Palau, and eliminate many later-in-life diseases, thus strengthening the nation. More importantly, it would serve to repudiate other insipid, manipulative colonial lies that were used to intimidate and subjugate people by denigrating their indigenous ways and introducing foreign ways that assert, “our way is much better than your way” and “we have come to free you ignorant savages from your miserable lives”... What are those lies they propagated? We are lazy. We are stupid. We are inferior. We are incompetent. Our language, culture and traditional ways are antiquated and irrelevant. Over time, this denigration developed into a deep and pervasive lack of confidence in one's very existence, which in turn developed into the “Stockholm Syndrome” where people lose their own identity, values, lifestyle, culture and take on the identity and attributes of their tormentors. Itʻs not complicated. As we approach the restoration of the Hawaiian Islands as a sovereign state, we need to huli (flip) the American colonial mindset and habits and restore our people's identity, dignity and confidence as Hawaiians in a Hawaiian nation... --------- Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono. The sovereignty (life) of the land is perpetuated in righteousness. ------ For the latest news and developments about our progress at the United Nations in both New York and Geneva, tune in to Free Hawaii News at 6 PM, the first Friday of each month on ʻŌlelo Television, Channel 53. ----- SIGN THIS PETITION! Rename McKinley High School and remove the McKinley statue! McKinley was the president who turned Hawaii from a peaceful, neutral country into a major cog in America’s war machine. Sign this online petition NOW! Tell everyone you know to sign it too! – And remember, for the latest updates and information about the Hawaiian Kingdom check out the twice a month Ke Aupuni Updates published online on Facebook and other social media. ------- PLEASE KŌKUA… Your kōkua, large or small, is vital to this effort... To contribute, go to: • GoFundMe – CAMPAIGN TO FREE HAWAII • PayPal – Go to PayPal and send $ to: [email protected] • Other – To contribute in other ways (airline miles, travel vouchers, volunteer services, etc...) email us at: [email protected] "FREE HAWAII" T-SHIRTS - etc. Check out the great FREE HAWAII products you can purchase at... http://www.robkajiwara.com/store/c28/Hawaii All proceeds are used to help advance the cause. MAHALO! Malama Pono, Leon Siu Hawaiian National |
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