KE AUPUNI UPDATE - AUGUST 2026
State Ignores Its Biggest Holiday
As the Hawaiian Kingdom’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, I constantly get announcements, pictures and videos from countries celebrating their Independence Day. It is usually the country’s most important holiday. Since 1843 the Hawaiian Kingdom has celebrated its Independence on two days, Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea (July 31) and Lā Kūʻokoʻa (November 28). But the State of Hawaii is different.
On August 21, 1959 when the Hawaiian Islands purportedly became the “50th State of the United States”, Hawaii erupted with dancing in the streets, parties, news coverage, speeches and fireworks at Iolani Palace.
But today, 67 years later, other than state and county workers having the day off, and token ‘Statehood Sales’ by a few stores, there is no wide-spread celebration or even acknowledgement of what should be the State’s most important holiday — Statehood Day.
The last real celebration was in 2009. It was the “50th Anniversary of statehood”. Fearing counter demonstrations by Hawaiian sovereignty activists, the state-appointed commission to coordinate the jubilee celebration, downplayed the event reducing it to… a closed-door joint session of the legislature; a few TV and radio public-service announcements; a few lack-luster speeches and proclamations; and a by-invitation-only conference at the convention center to “envision the next 50 years”.
Meanwhile, advocates for Hawaiʻi’s independence conducted numerous, highly public, media-grabbing events exposing the “State of Hawaii” for the fake that it is, hijacking the State’s sorry events and generating news stories about the State’s strangely reluctant celebration in over 130 mentions in papers wire services and broadcasts around the world (including the New York Times, USA Today, Reuters, AP, and so forth).
The 2009 50th Anniversary Celebration was such a debacle that the State never mounted another official celebration.
It’s the same with another major event that is ignored by the State of Hawaii: August 12, the so-called Annexation Day. That is the day in 1893 that the Republic of Hawaii (a fake entity) supposedly became a Territory of the United States (another fake entity).
Why are State of Hawaii leaders so reluctant to make a big deal about celebrating “statehood” (or “annexation”)? It is because the truth about the illegitimacy of Hawaiʻi’s statehood has come home to roost. The state knows its days are numbered.
A basic principle of law, ex injura jus non oritur means, unjust acts cannot create lawful ones. This applies especially to our situation. Since the initial seizure of the Hawaiian Islands in 1893 was categorically unlawful, each successive government in the Hawaiian Islands, the “Republic of Hawaiʻi,” the “Territory of Hawaiʻi” and the current U.S. “State of Hawaiʻi,” were, and still are, categorically unlawful. This explains the non-celebration Statehood.
The people of Hawaii, those in America, and globally, have become keenly aware that Hawaii wasn’t adopted into the U.S. family… that Hawaii was kidnapped and forced to live with an abusive, greedy abductor pretending to be a caring and loving parent.
The way things are going, the United States’ criminal enterprise, the fake State of Hawaii, is headed for a day of reckoning. And the genuine, sovereign, independent nation, the Hawaiian Kingdom, is about to step out of captivity.
No wonder the State is nervous.
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
Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Hawaiian Kingdom (since 2001)












