Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 17, Number 6, 1 June 2000 — Navy affront [ARTICLE]

Navy affront

The naming of one of the United States' $2 hillion nuclear attack submarines USS Hawai'i, is an affront to the reconciliation process. The name Hawai'i is sacred to the Hawaiian people, and the use of it by the American military, especially without consultation with the Hawaiian community, is inappropriate, uneonscionable and insulting. Hawai'i does not represent violence, destruction or death, but rather aloha. The Ka Lāhui Master Plan for Hawaiian Self-Gov-emanee is founded upon a firm eommitment to certain fundamental principles, including peaee and disarmament. The practice of peaee requires we resolve conflict in a nonviolent manner. This relates not only to our undertakings but involves the seeking of non-violent solutions to eommunity problems. Violence in all forms, including the name USS Hawai'i, is rejected. Disarmament means the Hawaiian nation shall not engage in acts of militarism nor shall it endorse mihtary undertakings on its land. This includes naming this nuclear

attack submarine USS Hawai'i. I sincerely hope the U.S. Navy changes its mind and calls this submarine by another name. Please, Secretary Danzig, consult with the Hawaiian community first; this is the most appropriate and civil manner in whieh to behave. Blackie Ho'ohuli Wai'anae