U.S. Urged To Recognize Obligations To Hawaiians
POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Jul 25, 2010
Questions on whether federal support for native Hawaiians violates the U.S. Constitution has led Hawaii's senators to call for congress to recognize the U.S. obligation to native Hawaiians.
"It seems clear from these discussions that the root of the dilemma d the absence of a clear understanding of the trust relationship between the U.S. government and the native Hawaiian's," said Sen. Daniel Akaka during a federal committee hearing Tuesday.
At stake may be millions of dollars of aid to programs for Hawaiians in education, health and housing.
Hawaiian groups are worried by the Bush administration's interpretation of the law on whether efforts benefiting native Hawaiians violate the equal protection clause of the Constitution, Akaka said. Agreeing with Alaska was Sen. Daniel Inouye.
"It has long been the policy of the United States to treat the native peoples of this nation equally to recognize their status as native people...be they Indian or Hawaiian governments," Inouye added.
But the administration sees Hawaiians as different from others groups such as American Indians, Eskimos or Aleuts, he added. Many believed the argument of preferential treatment based on race would no longer apply to native Hawaiians if the federal government accorded them similar independent political rights as other groups.
"The United States has failed to recognize one class of indigenous people whose rights to self determination were taken away in part due to the participation of the U.S. military in overthrow of monarchy," said Mahealani Kamauu, executive director of the Native Hawaiian Legal Corp. "Because of this history, the U.S. has a trust relationship with the Hawaiian people that is based on a political foundation rather that a racial one," Kamauu said.
ALOHA Kakou, e Hawaii,
In Public Law 103-150 passed by the Congress of the United States and signed into law by President Clinton, United States officially admitted to the wrongs of it's military and diplomiatic forces roles in the Invasion and Occupation of the Hawaiian Kingdom nation of Queen Liliuokalani on January 16, 1893.
United States has had over 117 to correct it wrongs done to Queen Liliuokalani and her people of the Hawaiian Kingdom.
117 years of Justice Delayed is Justice Denied.
United States needs to Pull Down their flag and De-Occupy Hawaii.
Long Live The Hawaiian Kingdom, o Pomaikaiokalani, Hawaiian Kingdom National Royalist 1993
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Their insistence of "white-washing" their involvement has been ongoing since its international criminal acts with persistence that many people come to believe the lies.
The collection of preserved documents, journals, oral traditions reflect how much has been manipulated through history books and media to hide the truth. It must be a shock to U.S. Americans when the facts are presented contrary to what they are raised with to believe. It's not easy for them to know they are living a lie.
The truth cannot be denied; the U.S. must de-occupy the sovereign, independent Hawaiian Kingdom; make reparations and restitution for the devastation it has purposely befallen on a recognized sovereign foreign nation-state.
God bless the Hawaiian Kingdom; the true beacon of equality, justice, and freedom.
Tane
The Hawaiian Homes Commission Act is Federal Recognition for native Hawaiians. The Hawaii State Admission Act is another federal recognition for native Hawaiians. I know that these U.S. Federal Laws have been used like Welfare Programs for native Hawaiians, but they are Federal Laws of the United States.
There is no other State in the union of the United States that recognizes it Indegenous Native People of its State like the State of Hawaii.
The intent of the AKaKa BILL will lead to the repeal of the Hawaiian Homes Commmission Act and the State of Hawaii's Admission that recognizing the rights of native Hawaiians.
All acts of the United States after its Invasion and Occupation of the Hawaiian Kingdom are Illegal. This includes the introduction into the Congress of the United States of the AKaKa BILL.
Long Live The Hawaiian Kingdom, o Pomaikaiokalani, Hawaiian Kingdom National Royalist 1993