OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS HYPOCRISY
OHA seems willing to compromise its integrity, morality and lack of historical memory, by complicitly joining the Republic of Hawai`i in continuing dealings involving the illegal conversion of stolen Hawaiian Kingdom National lands (the so-called "ceded" lands) in settlement of a dispute with the State over moneys owed.
While, on its face, the settlement appears to return "Hawaiian" lands to "Hawaiians," the political reality (by international law) is that it doesn't.
It all reduces to the illegal "taking" (acquired without consent or compensation) of the lands of National Hawaiians (descendants and heirs of subjects of the Hawaiian Kingdom, the holder of absolute title) by the Republic of Hawai`i (with no title) in the illegal overthrow of 1893 which were allegedly "ceded" to the United States by the so-called Annexation that never took place (resolutions cannot annex foreign lands) and using them to pay the financial debts of the State of Hawai`i to American-Hawaiians.
OHA's willingness to accept the "stolen" lands in settlement is about as far from being PONO (righteous) as possible.
This is a HEWA (an abomination)!
Clarence Ku Ching
OHA Trustee ('86 - '90)
