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On 31 July 2011, we celebrated La Ho'iho'i Ea (Restoration Day) and had between 300 to 400 people attend throughout the day.  It was highly successful with great entertainment, displays and cultural booths, a discussion tent, childrens' play area, food booth, booths of Hawaiian awareness issues, etc.   It was a beautiful day for such an event.   Parking was somewhat of a problem but people were able to find parking nearby and others used The Bus.

The original celebration was back in 1843 and a ten-day holiday was declared.  It was then that Kamehameha III coined the national motto: Ua mau ke ea o ka 'aina i ka pono; meaning: the sovereignty of the land (nation) is perserved in righteousness. 

An errant subject of Great Britain, Adm. Paulette, ignored the Treaty of comity and navigation which recognized the sovereign independence of the Kingdom of Hawaii.  King Kamehameha III commissioned Minister Judd to go to England and protest the unlawful, belligerent occupation of Hawaii.  Admiral Thomas meanwhile hearing of this transgression immediately went to Hawaii to rectify the violation committed by one of its agent and removed him and his men from Hawaii and reaffirmed the recognition of independence and goodwill of Great Britain with the Kingdom of Hawaii.

Such an irascible and unlawful act was repeated by the U.S.A. on January 17, 1893; but instead of the U.S.A. doing the right thing, it decided to support the criminal acts of its agents and prolong its unlawful belligerrent occupation of Hawaii for national self- interest and its economic expansion.

Needless to say, it's a reminder of what is done right and what is done criminally wrong.  This pre-emptive invasion of U.S. troops on a friendly, neutral nation without cause is unjustifiable and internationally a war crime upheld by the United States of America.  It mocks justice, freedom, democracy, and morality.

On 31 May 1994, the U.S. sent out the Turpie Joint Resolution declaring that any other nation that intervenes on the Hawaii issue would be an unfriendly act against the U.S.A.  No nation wanted war with the U.S.; so they backed off and allowed the U.S. to continue its unlawful, belligerent occupation with its U.S. Puppet Provisional Government and ipso facto Republic of Hawaii.

Two attempts to ratify a Treaty of Annexation failed in the U.S. which couldn't muster the required 2/3rds majority vote; the U.S. employed the unlawful Newlands Resolution which is only legal within the U.S. and not in any foreign country. 

The Hawaiian subjects' Ku'e Petitions signed by an overwhelming number of its citizens in 1897 spoke for the people against the illegal annexation to the U.S.A. which in the end was ignored.  Today the U.S. has the longest record of a belligerent occupation of another country; that being the Kingdom of Hawai'i.  It's high-time the U.S. does what is right and de-occupy Hawaii and honor its treaties with Hawaii.  

The law of occupation and neutrality still apply for Hawaii.  It's time the U.S. pays the piper and put its money where its mouth is.   "Yankee go home!"  is a befitting remark as is NO ALOHA FOR THE  U.S.A.!