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What about all the people who live here now? What about all our kuleana lands? What about a military, who is going to protect us? How we going to vote? Who’s going to be the leader? What about he businesses already here? What about the people that were born here but are not kanaka maoli? Who gets to vote on issues and leaders? How do we get started? When do we start? What about our Kanaka living away from home? Do we have to register?
So you see the questions can go on and on.... but who’s going to provide the answers to them? Don’t you think it should be the kanaka maoli?
And that question leads to which kanaka maoli…..all kanaka maoli should be provided an opportunity to provide input and share…don’t you think so?
So you see the questions can go on and on.... but who’s going to provide the answers to them? Don’t you think it should be the kanaka maoli?
And that question leads to which kanaka maoli…..all kanaka maoli should be provided an opportunity to provide input and share…don’t you think so?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89BlFxuyqYQ Yo Ho Ho And A Bottle of Rum
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Kanaka Maoli, American Indians, Alaskan Eskimoes ---Check this out:
Section 1983 http://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3551&a... looks like something to discuss....and all i looked for was the parity clause........
Hi Folks..........How can OBAMA validate his birth (even though he was born in KENYA) when the Kamehameha families are in existence....are the operants of the Hawaiian Kingdom.......surely this fact gives Power to the Americans in their move towards Impeachment..........https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtvlBS4PMF0 just putting out the Truth....
Let's think about it ...... Bank of Hawaii = 3rd largest in the U.S. ----OBAMA's grandmother, a Booth was a CEO ----- OBAMA, a beneficiary, a banker who USES Our Families Monies, Trusts of Queen Liliuokalani, invests in GOLDMAN-SACHS along with the criminal Kamehameha Schools Bishop Estates and SUPPORT WARS Against Innocent Nations......Monies of a neutral, friendly, non-violent nation....... CORRUPTION, PIRACY(IES), PRIVATEERING, RACKETEERING, PARASITIC OPERATIONS is what this is all about.............Wicked ... please send this Anti-War Message, personal message from one of the long time researchers, one of the descendants of Kamehameha, Kamehameha III, et. als. - Kanaka Maoli Media Info ---- to your families, friends....... aloha. p.s. not all of our family(ies) are on the same page, some actually work for OHA/Office of Hawaiian Affairs/ Office of Hawaiian AIRHEADS! personal comments posted by Amelia Gora fyi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWf-eARnf6U
IS OBAMA NOT AN ILLEGAL ALIEN NOW?
commentary by Amelia Gora (2014)
Let's think about it ...... Bank of Hawaii = 3rd largest in the U.S. ----OBAMA's grandmother, a Booth was a CEO ----- OBAMA, a beneficiary, a banker who USES Our Families Monies, Trusts of Queen Liliuokalani, invests in GOLDMAN-SACHS along with the criminal Kamehameha Schools Bishop Estates and SUPPORT WARS Against Innocent Nations......Monies of a neutral, friendly, non-violent nation....... CORRUPTION, PIRACY(IES), PRIVATEERING, RACKETEERING, PARASITIC OPERATIONS is what this is all about.............Wicked ... please send this Anti-War Message, personal message from one of the long time researchers, one of the descendants of Kamehameha, Kamehameha III, et. als. - Kanaka Maoli Media Info ---- to your families, friends....... aloha. p.s. not all of our family(ies) are on the same page, some actually work for OHA/Office of Hawaiian Affairs/ Office of Hawaiian AIRHEADS! personal comments posted by Amelia Gora fyi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWf-eARnf6U
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Well, Well, Well everyone............the United States didn't agree to elimination of Privateering Until 1898! "
Privateering came into general use, but was first renounced and outlawed by the Peace of Westphalia (1648) for signatories to those treaties. Two centuries later, privateering was abolished on the international level by the Declaration Respecting Maritime Law (Paris, 16 April 1856), but the Declaration was not supported by the United States, Spain, Mexico and Venezuela. During the American Civil War, Congress authorized the President to commission privateering in 1863, but this power was not exercised. The Confederacy, however, engaged several times in privateering. Finally, privateering was officially renounced by the United States during the Spanish-American War of 1898. "
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Pirates, Buccaneers and Privateers : Concepts of International Law
Nowadays, it seems impossible to believe that in our world of ultramodern computer and satellite guided supertankers and container ships, steered only by a handful of crewman, a historic anachronism as piracy has all but vanished from the world’s seas. Modern-day pirates in bare, wooden boats, often primitively armed, from the Puntland region of Somalia or from the shores of the Strait of Malacca have come to hunt their prize, making high-profile seizures and wresting multimillion dollar ransoms from global corporations. This resurgence of modern piracy captured the world’s headlines and attracted the attention of the international community. Foreign powers initiated anti-piracy efforts by deploying warships into the international waters of the Gulf of Aden. Regional coordinating hubs, such as MARLO, MSC-HOA and other international monitoring agencies were set up. With the expansion of many national jurisdictions into adjacent territorial waters and a continuing irresolution over piracy trials internationally, the matter still hasn’t been resolved. Any study of piracy inevitably raises the issue of (legal) definition. In international law, the definition of piracy is relevant because any confusion in terminology invariably leads to debates between State sovereignty and universal jurisdiction over crimes committed at sea. In the following, we will discuss some of the current definitions of piracy in international law, but first a short historical perspective on piracy in general.
Historical Perspective on Piracy
Piracy is of ancient origin. What is today remembered as the Golden Age of Piracy of the late 17th and 18th centuries had grown out of a period of maritime expansion. The Spanish Empire’s desire to monopolize its discovery of the Americas soon had been contested by other West European nations and seafaring adventurers of mainly English, Dutch or French origin. Daring fighters and seamen as the Englishmen Sir Francis Drake, Sir Richard Hawkins, and the Dutchman Piet Hein received official government commissions or authorizations (so called letters of marque) to commence naval warfare on Spanish ships, in the Caribbean and off the coasts of North America. Inspired by the successes and obtained wealth of these privateers, groups of wandering pirates, often called freebooters or buccaneers, began to harass the Spanish colonies in the New World, particularly during the second half of the 17th century. Buccaneers are usually distinguished from privateers, because they rarely had valid commissions. They are also distinguished from pirates who attacked ships of all nations. This lawless form of piracy was outlawed and at last checked during the early 18th century, when general peace was restored. Pirates were hunted down by the English Royal Navy or by licensed bounty-hunters. Piracy waned in the latter part of the 18th and early 19th centuries, but never really disappeared completely.
Piracy in International Law
As mentioned above, piracy should be distinguished from privateering. “Privateer” in international law, is the term applied to a privately owned armed vessel whose owners are commissioned by a hostile nation to carry naval warfare. The practice of privateering preceded the creation of national navies. European States having few or no warships hired merchant vessels for hostile purposes. By issuing naval commissions or authorizations to shipowners or procurers, these States created therefore a legitimate form of war-like activity by non-State actors. By way of compensation, privateers were allowed to share any booty captured. Privateering came into general use, but was first renounced and outlawed by the Peace of Westphalia (1648) for signatories to those treaties. Two centuries later, privateering was abolished on the international level by the Declaration Respecting Maritime Law (Paris, 16 April 1856), but the Declaration was not supported by the United States, Spain, Mexico and Venezuela. During the American Civil War, Congress authorized the President to commission privateering in 1863, but this power was not exercised. The Confederacy, however, engaged several times in privateering. Finally, privateering was officially renounced by the United States during the Spanish-American War of 1898.
Article 15 / Article 101
Definition of piracy
Piracy consists of any of the following acts:
(a) any illegal acts of violence or detention, or any act of depredation, committed for private ends by the crew or the passengers of a private ship or a private aircraft, and directed—
(i) on the high seas, against another ship or aircraft, or against persons or property on board such ship or aircraft;
(ii) against a ship, aircraft, persons or property in a place outside the jurisdiction of any State;
(b) any act of voluntary participation in the operation of a ship or of an aircraft with knowledge of facts making it a pirate ship or aircraft;
(c) any act of inciting or of intentionally facilitating an act described in subparagraph (a) or (b).
These articles are generally recognised as providing the definition of piracy in international law, but proved insufficient. Piracy was still a relatively minor issue during the first United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS I) in 1956. More concerned with economic interests such as ownership of offshore resources and fishing grounds, even Western nations had not been unduly concerned by the sparse instances of piracy occuring that time. Historically, piracy had been dismissed as a crime which fell under what was then known as “universal jurisdiction”. Any such outlaws could be summarily tried by any government that captured them. And those were scarce as only a handful of Western sea powers had been in a position to do so. But how was the issue of universal jurisdiction to be understood? It is clear that the definition of piracy was not updated to take into account the development of the modern regime of maritime zones and remained trapped in a period where the high seas were only three miles from shore. Could piracy only be committed on the high seas, or could piratical acts also be perpetrated in territorial waters or in ports? Given the fact that the majority of piracy acts reported today take place in waters within the jurisdiction of newly emerged States, claiming their own expanding territorial waters, this problem is growing more complicated. Another problem is the limitation of piracy to private motivations, such as personal gain, thus exempting politically driven actions. Even such an abbreviated definition of piracy as “any armed violence at sea which is not a lawful act of war” could easily be questioned by insurgents or revolutionary fighters pointing out that personal gain was not their objective, rather a national (liberation) cause. Finally, the conventions require member States to cooperate in prosecuting piracy, but there is no mechanism to enforce this. Rather, member States must incorporate provisions into domestic law before they can prosecute acts of piracy. Yet, few States have taken this essential step.
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Hint: Kanaka Maoli are like "Unicorns"....and hard to come by....which means solutions from the Kanaka Maoli are also "hard to come by" ;).....think Ahupuaa as Aunty Nani Rogers always says.. ;)
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