A respect for the right of a nation's ability for Self-determination is a something that has kept nations in check for centuries. And during those centuries, this friendly agreement to agree has
also been disregarded when it suits the interests of powerful states.
Examples:
- European Colonization/Imperialism and cultural genocide in the Philippines
- Colonization and genocide of Native Americans, 1st Nations People, and IPs of Mexico
- Ethnic cleansing and displacement of Palestinians from Jerusalem by the Israeli gov't.
- Colonization and Apartheid in South Africa
-
Indonesian brutality in occupied West Papua
- Iraqi invasion of Kuwait
- US invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan
- Russian occupation and annexation of Crimea, Ukraine
- Philippine Gov't and the displacement and oppression of Filipino IPs
Understanding the situation of the Hawaiin people and how it will play out is of great importance, as it will undoubtedly set some precedence for many fronts.
According to the information derived from these videos,
Hawaiin sovereignty movements are based on an assumption that Hawaii is not a sovereign entity. However, based on the fact that the constitutional monarch had never participated in an annexation but instead was a government overthrown; the Kingdom of Hawaii exists as an occupied nation state today.
Dr. David Keanu Sai Phd, Acting Minister of the Interior of the Hawaiin Kingdom, presents evidence for the legal basis of The Hawaiin Kingdom's continuity of sovereignty. One of his beginning arguments is that under international Law, a sovereign nation whose government is overthrown by a foreign nation does not equate to that nation's existence ending as a sovereign state. The occupying state must set up a temporary military government to enforce the laws
of the state they occupy.
What this all amounts to is this: The Kingdom of Hawaii as a sovereign nation has never ceased to exist, as it was their government that was overthrown. And because annexation of the nation-state was done illegally by a Congressional Act, after two attempts to annex by false treaty had failed, the Kingdom of Hawaii has been in actuality a foreign country occupied -later absorbed as a U.S. state made possible by propaganda and erasure of memory over generations.
The Hawaiin people are calling on their right for self-determination.
Consider the gravity of the following impressions:
A Native Hawaiin population (
kānaka maoli) existing in the U.S state of Hawaii are calling for sovereignty and independence
vs.
The subjects of The Sovereign Kingdom of Hawaii are calling on their right to function as an independent government and for an end to 100 years of occupation.
It is powerfully different.
Making this distinction between these movements is of great importance to the framing of perspective.
