Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 18, Number 1, 1 January 2001 — Paramount issue ignored [ARTICLE]

Paramount issue ignored

ĪHE FAILURE of the Akaka Bill to pass the U.S. Senate is now allowing Hawaiians to focus on what is happening internationally. The challenge at the World Court's Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague, Netherlands, by a Hawaiian subject of the Kingdom of Hawai'i on Dec. 7, 2000, will determine whether the United States is illegally occupying the Hawaiian Islands, whieh many sovereignists elaim still an independent and sovereign nation state under International Law. Should the decision of the World Court be favorable to the Hawaiian nation, a "Pandora's Box" of politieal chaos will result that will make the Rice, Akaka and Department of the Interior's efforts seem like "patty-cakes." The truth about the illegal oeeupahon of the Kingdom of Hawai'i by the United States in 1893 is now being played on the international stage for all the world to see. Should the Hague decision establish the U.S. is in violation of International Law, a reconciliation process between Hawaiians and the U.S. would be moot and a process by whieh recognition of the Hawaiian Kingdom as an independent nation state would have to be made by the United States. Should this set of dynamics materialize, any admission of wrongdoing by the United States would be an unprecedented one. It is interesting to me that an issue so paramount to the future of this state, and to the question of whether the State of Hawai'i is itself a legal entity under International Law has been totally ignored by the media. The Hawaiian sovereignty issue has never been about race. It has always been about an independent nation's rights under International Law. Rod Ferreira Kamuela

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