DOES AMERICA HAVE A MONOPOLY ON LOVE OF COUNTRY ?
The Maui News - Friday, July 08, 2005
...The United States of America has admitted in Public Law 1993, 103-150 that it violated its own Constitution, its treaties, international law and, by implication, all of the Christian teachings by perpetrating an outrageous armed theft of the Kingdom of Hawai`i and the forced American citizenship of Hawaiian national citizens.
America recognized in 1894, and again in 1993, that the Kingdom of Hawai`i has a right to exist.
The Hawaiian Nation has a right and obligation to enact and dictate land laws which prevent the selling of its lands to foreign speculators at prices which deny native nationals from living on their own home islands at an affordable price.
The Hawaiian nation has a right and obligation to protect and defend the quality of life, land, water, ocean and air.
The Hawaiian nation has a right and obligation to its citizens to provide the best in education, health care and housing.
The Akaka Bill, as well as many other individuals, would divide us ethnically, which is not the issue.
Patriotism and a love for nation is what this fight is about.
Naliko Kahoali'i Markel
Kahului, Maui
