In response to the letter of Jan. 12, your belief in total independence for the Hawaiian Islands with affiliation (membership) in the United Nations is wrong, for your ideology is not based on United States law or true Hawaiian history.
In response to the letter of Jan. 12, your belief in total independence for the Hawaiian Islands with affiliation (membership) in the United Nations is wrong, for your ideology is not based on United States law or true Hawaiian history.
The legal and historical documents of the Hawaiian government, with standing, are based on its Constitution from the Kingdom (1810–1893), the Provisional government (1893–1894), the Republic of Hawaii (1894–1898), the Territory of Hawaii (1898–1959), and the State of Hawaii (1959–present), all validated and confirmed at the time by its citizens.
The Hawaiian Islands, with the 1840, 1852, 1864, and 1887 Kingdom Constitutions, the 1840 Great Mahele book, the 1894 Republic of Hawaii’s Constitution, the 1898 Newlands Joint Resolution of Annexation, 1900 Organic Act, the 1959 Admissions Act, and the August 21, 1959 State of Hawaii Constitution, all exist in a chain of custody that was never broken.
It is nice to fantasize from stories not based on law or the true verified Hawaiian Islands history in order to create a new independent nation, when none existed after Jan. 17, 1893.
For example, the reality of the Hawaiian Islands becoming independent after rejecting 90 percent of the adult citizens of the State of Hawaii, as has Na‘i Aupuni, in the discussion and process of Hawaii Independence will result in failure of the goal for independence.
In 1893, the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, with Senate approval, held a hearing on the activities that occurred in the Hawaiian Islands.
The committee completed its hearing after 24 sworn individual statements (including Ambassador Blount’s) were heard and receiving 21 notarized statements.
The committee presented their Report No. 227 on the floor of Congress on February 26, 1894, with the report being accepted for the record on March 7, 1894.
The report, also known as the Morgan Report, cleared the United States Military, by a 9 to 0 vote, of any complicity in the overthrow. Also, the committee by a 5 to 4 vote cleared Ambassadors Stevens and Blount of interference in a foreign government.
There was never any, or has there ever been, an “occupation” of the Kingdom of Hawaii by the United States.
The entire Senate debated the actions of Ambassador James Blount and his confidential report to President Cleveland. The Blount Report was excoriated and debunked by the senators.
Many of the “whereas” clauses in the 1993 Apology Resolution (1993 PL 103-150) were based on the Blount Report.
Also, President Cleveland’s actions against the Provisional Government of Hawaii, ended with the unanimous Congressional approval of the Turpie Resolution on May 31, 1894.
The debate is preserved in the Congressional Record and held in every State Library, including the Hawaii State Library, for all to read, study, and understand the truth of Hawaiian Islands history.
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James I. Kuroiwa, Jr. is a resident of Kaneohe.
