KE AUPUNI UPDATE - JANUARY 2025
With the Stroke of a Pen!
In the previous issue of Ke Aupuni Update I wrote how in 1893, US President Grover Cleveland, immediately after taking office, stopped his predecessor’s “Treaty of Annexation of the Hawaiian Islands” from being ratified by the U.S. Senate. A few days later, Cleveland met with and assured Princess Kaʻiulani that a formal investigation would be conducted.
Following that investigation, Cleveland repudiated the wrongful acts of Americans who participated in overturning the government of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Cleveland negotiated an agreement with Queen Liliʻuokalani to reinstate her as the proper governing authority for the Hawaiian Kingdom.
But the U.S. never followed through. Instead, American annexationists proceeded to seize control of Hawaiʻi, subjugate the people and take their lands, thus impoverishing Hawaiians while enriching American immigrants and other foreigners.
Today, the responsibility and authority to honor and execute the Cleveland-Liliʻuokalani Executive Agreement lies in the hands of the current President of the United States — President Donald J. Trump. Even though Cleveland and 22 presidents since him failed to execute the agreement, it is now incumbent upon the sitting president to follow through. All President Trump has to do is sign an executive order and ‘with the stroke of a pen’ he can actually FREE HAWAII!
It's a little more complicated than that… but that’s the gist of what could happen if President Trump and decent Americans were suddenly motivated and found the courage to do the right thing.
It is hoped that fair-minded Americans and people from around the world come to realize the grave injustices occurring in Hawaii that they will urge President Trump to act honorably and release Hawaii from the hundred-thirty-two years of occupation and plundering.
The restoration of the Hawaiian Kingdom would bring vindication to the memory of those Hawaiian patriots who fervently prayed and fought for the return of their Kingdom. It would bring healing to the land. It would bring relief and absolution to the downtrodden and the persecuted. It would mean living as free people in charge of our own nation and our own future with all its challenges, responsibilities as well as rewards.
In addition, freedom for Hawaiʻi would also extend grace to the United States — freeing America from the burden of guilt, shame and karma of having committed such injustices against the Hawaiian people and their nation; and having unduly benefitted from the prolonged illegal occupation and pillaging of the Kingdom of the Hawaiian Islands.
Aloha ʻĀina —
“Love of country is deep-seated in the breast of every Hawaiian, whatever his station.” — Queen Liliʻuokalani
Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono.
The sovereignty of the land is perpetuated in righteousness.
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Malama Pono,
Leon Siu
Hawaiian National
