KE AUPUNI UPDATE - JANUARY 2026
Asking the Right Questions
The United Nations was founded in 1945 right after the horrible devastation of World War II. All the nations were bent on keeping that kind of mass destruction from ever happening again.
The United States was the primary driver and sponsor of the United Nations, whose main purpose is to settle international disputes through peaceful means.
But wars didn’t end. Conflicts broke out, like the Korean War, euphemistically called a “police action”, the Vietnam War and many others, that involved multiple combatants. But they were not on the scale of a World War. So, in essence, the UN was successful in avoiding major conflagration like a World War, but the UN was not successful in avoiding all wars. Smaller “regional” conflicts have never stopped in the 80-year history of the UN.
What does that mean to us in Hawaii? What about all the work we have been doing over the past decades to inform the world about our situation? And what about the progress we’ve been making at the UN in promoting independence for Hawaii?
It seems like all recent US actions, like the intrusion in Venezuela, and the proposal to annex Greenland run contrary to the prospects for a Free Hawaii.
However, the strategies we are using at the international level should work as they are non-confrontative and call for negotiations to settle a long-time dispute in which Hawaii was totally innocent, and the US was totally at fault.
The key is, and has always been… ‘how do we find a graceful way for the US to withdraw in a peaceful, orderly way?’ Will we be able to convince the US that settling the long-standing occupation would be in their best interests? As well as in ours… And the rest of the world’s.
A wise man once said, “If they can get you to ask the wrong question, they don’t have to worry about giving the right answer.”
When we started, prospect for Hawaii’s independence looked very bleak. Yes, we knew about all the illegal acts that led to our captivity and Hawaiian scholars added volumes more evidence proving those illegal acts many times over. Our understanding began to improve but still we weren’t asking the right questions. Therefore… no answers.
We are now asking the right questions at the right venues: “Occupation” instead of “Colonization”; “Political Question” instead of “Legal Question”; “Personal Injury” instead of “Legal Principles”; “the UN’s obligation to the Hawaiian people” instead of the United States obligation to the Hawaiian people”; other countries’ obligation to the Hawaiian people, etc.
These approaches of asking the right questions are gaining traction, and are moving inexorably toward getting us the answers, and soon, the international political will, to Free Hawaii.
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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Leon Siu
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