WHAT DO HAWAIIANS WANT ?
HERE IS WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT THEMSELVES, THEIR COUNTRYMEN AND THE UNITED STATES -
The most common sense thing is for total independence.
We were a progressive modern nation of our time and recognized as a friendly, neutral nation within the Family of Nations, the predecessor of the League of Nations and the United Nations.
We had a democratic form of government, a constitutional monarchy with a bicameral legislative assembly. The works and legacies of our monarchs are legendary and noteworthy. Today under the American system, they are tearing away at them. We are concerned about our lands, culture, people and lifestyle which has been under attack for over a hundred years. This gets us angry and more Hawaiians are desiring total independence as a result.
Some Hawaiians are conditioned in the American WASP society that they lack the confidence of the Kingdom to survive in this day and age and have been convinced that the only way to preserve their rights are to be tribal Indians under the plenary authority of the US Congress within the DOI and subject to the abuse and dictates under the BIA.
The US involvement to destabilize the Hawaiian government began to form an oligarchy pretty much as the US is today. Being aware of this tactic and how detrimental it is to our society, we are capable to deflect such control here in the islands; as it stands, we are a voiceless group in these islands and those in control call the shots despite our protests.
The Kingdom of Hawaii is not only Native Hawaiians but subjects of non-Hawaiian blood who were legitimate subjects of the Kingdom. This racial argument is an American thing and not a Hawaiian thing. So our concerns are well within our scope to protect all our subjects of the Kingdom. We do expect reparations and restitution from the US for the injurious damages to
our nation, land and people. The US government is well aware of this and is trying to offer a piecemeal to settle this.
Other options are still on the table and we are beginning to take a stand on which option is the right thing to do. If the tables were turned around; which would you do? I'm sure it wouldn't be a hard decision.
Remember, the Hawaiians never hated Americans; but only those that did harm to us and the US government for its complicity and deceit. We were never afraid that another country would take us over; we had over twenty-four treaties with various countries but the US is the only country that broke their treaties with us. That should tell you something.
