FACTS SHOW ILLEGALITY OF OVERTHROW
Maui News - February 18, 2009
Those of you who talk like you were there when they overthrew the queen and the Hawaiian kingdom should go to hawaiiankingdom.org and get your facts straight, especially you Mainland people who talk about Hawai`i being a state and not knowing that long before that, Hawai`i was a kingdom.
Hawai`i was not a part of America - that's why our flag resembles the English flag. On Jan. 16, 1893, a small group of individuals conspired with the United States diplomat and military to overthrow the islands' constitutional monarchy and tried for annexation on Feb. 15, 1893, under a treaty submitted to the United States of America.
President Grover Cleveland, having received notice that the overthrow was a illegal intervention, withdrew the treaty of annexation and appointed James H. Blount as a special commissioner to investigate the terms of the so-called revolution and to report his findings.
The Executive Documents of the United States House of Representatives, 53rd Congress, 1894-95, Appendix II, Foreign Relations, 1894, Affairs in Hawai`i, vol. 1 and 2 explains it all.
There should be no doubt in anyone's mind about what happened on Jan. 16, 1893, and why the Hawaiian people believe that all lands should not be sold but be returned to the Kingdom of Hawai`i.
I could go on but I want you to go to the mentioned Internet site and educate yourself.
Allen Vierra
Pukulani, Maui
