INTERNATIONAL LAW ON THE SIDE OF FREE HAWAI`I
Hawai`i is an occupied country and the lands in question are stolen lands.
Sovereignty activists appear to have international law on their side.
Here's why - for its part, the United States government has already admitted to the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian Nation, by issuing a formal apology by joint resolution of Congress in November of 1993 in acknowledgment of the 100th anniversary of the coup that dethroned Queen Lili`uokalani.
Although the United States was the first nation to formally recognize the sovereignty of the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1842, it was the U.S. Navy that provided the force that enabled American business interests to dethrone the Queen in January of 1893.
In recent years, experts in international law have called into question the legitimacy of "statehood" and American military occupation of Hawaiian lands by pointing out that there is no known record of the Hawaiian Kingdom ever relinquishing its sovereignty.
