Pacific Islands Report - December 27, 2010
Hawaiians advocating the restoration of independence for the Hawaiian Islands celebrated the demise of the infamous "Akaka Bill" in the US Congress.
Without funding or political standing, Hawaii patriots fought an 11-year-long battle to stop the bill by facing down overwhelming odds of tens of millions of US lobbying dollars, the most powerful of the powerbrokers from Hawai`i to Washington DC, and a hostile press.
The defeat of the Akaka Bill is a true underdog/David-Goliath story, a testament to the power of the sheer tenacity of Hawai`i’s people armed with the truth. It is a convincing victory for the Hawaiian independence movement....
...With the Akaka Bill diversion out of the way, attention can be focused on the real issue of restoring the independent nation of Hawai`i.
