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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
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title=tanstl@hotmail.com href="mailto:tanstl@hotmail.com">David Sladky</A>
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, April 09, 2014 9:18 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> One Nation the U.S. Actually Should Liberate</DIV></DIV>
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<TD vAlign=top width="84%"><SPAN class=wwscontent><B>OpEdNews Op Eds <TIME
pubdate="" datetime="2014-04-08T12:33:03">4/8/2014 at
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<H1 style="MARGIN: 0px 0px -3px" class=articletitle>One Nation the U.S.
Actually Should Liberate</H1><SPAN class=wwscontent><I>By <A
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<TD width="40%"><SPAN class=wwsranking>Headlined to H3
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title="Liberate Hawai'i">Liberate Hawai'i<BR>(image by <A
href="http://warisacrime.org" rel=nofollow
target=_blank>http://warisacrime.org</A>)</CITE><BR></DIV><BR><EM>"Secretary
Kerry? It's Ukraine on the phone asking about liberation again. Have you been
able to get them a reference letter yet from Libya or Iraq or Afghanistan? How
about Vietnam? Panama? Grenada? Kosovo maybe? Ukraine says Syria says you have a
reference letter in the works from Kosovo. No? Huh. They said they'd accept one
from Korea or the Dominican Republic or Iran. No? Guatemala? The Philippines?
Cuba? Congo? How about Haiti? They say you promised them a glowing reference
from Haiti. Oh. They </EM>did <EM>? No, I am not laughing, Sir. What about East
Timor? Oh? Oh! Sir, you're going to liberate the </EM>what <EM>out of them? Yes
sir, I think you'd better tell them yourself."</EM> Some nations the United
States should probably not liberate -- except perhaps the 175 nations which
could be liberated from the presence of U.S. soldiers. But one nation I
would make an exception for, and that is the nation of Hawai'i.<BR>Jon Olsen's
new book, <EM>Liberate Hawai'i: Renouncing and Defying the Continuing Fraudulent
U.S. Claim to the sovereignty of Hawai'i,</EM> makes a compelling case -- a
legal case as well as a moral one. <BR>Olsen's case, in very condensed
summary, looks like this: Hawai'i was an independent nation, recognized as such
by the United States and numerous other nations, with treaties in effect between
Hawai'i and other nations, including the United States, that have never been
terminated. In 1893 U.S. profiteers and U.S. Marines, in a criminal act,
overthrew Hawai'i's government and queen, setting up a new government that
lacked any legal standing. President Grover Cleveland investigated what
had been done, admitted to the facts, and declared the new government
illegitimate, insisting that the Queen retain the rule she had never
abdicated. But the fraudulent foreign government remained, and in 1898
once William McKinley was U.S. president, handed over Hawaii (thought it had no
legal power to do so) to the United States, as the United States also picked up
the Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico, and Cuba in a bit of a global shopping
spree. By 1959, these events were growing lost in the mists of time, and
the demographics of Hawai'i were radically altered, as Hawai'i was offered a
vote between two bad choices: statehood or continued status as a colony or
"territory" (liberation wasn't on the ballot). Thus did Hawai'i seem to become a
state without legally becoming any such thing. In 1993, the U.S. Congress
passed and President Clinton signed U.S. Public Law 103-150, admitted to and
apologizing for this history, without of course doing the one thing legally and
morally required -- liberating Hawai'i.<BR>The primary purpose of the U.S. grab
for Hawai'i, even more than economic exploitation, was military expansion, as
Olsen shows. The U.S. military wanted, and took, Pearl Harbor. Then
it took a lot more land, occupied it, bombed it, poisoned it. Now the U.S.
military holds 22% of O'ahu, 68% of Kaula, and chunks of all the major islands,
with more planned, archaeological sites threatened, species threatened, air
quality for telescopes threatened, and heightened tensions around the Pacific
not just threatened but those heightened tensions being the actual purpose of
this massive and disastrous investment by the foreign occupying nation claiming
Hawai'i by force and fraud.<BR>What can be done? And of, by, and for whom
exactly? Who is a Hawaiian and who is not? Olsen does not advocate a
Hawaii for the ethnically native Hawaiians alone. He recognizes that the
term "Hawaiian" is used to refer to an ethnic group, and proposes the invention
of the term "Hawaiian national" to refer to anyone who considers Hawaii home and
supports its liberation. I think Olsen is on the right path but slipping
slightly off it. Nationalism has not proved a wholly beneficial
concept. Hawaii needs to be liberated from U.S. nationalism, but Hawaiians
and the rest of us need to begin thinking of ourselves as citizens of the world,
not of one nation over others. Nor do two wrongs, of whatever disparity,
make a right (just ask Palestine). I'd like to see "Hawaiian" evolve to
encompass all who consider Hawaii their home, without the addition of
"national." Of course this unsolicited advice from me to Hawaiians may be
unappreciated. But then, they are free to ignore it; I'm not using the
Marine Corps as a delivery service, and my advice to the Marine Corps
(unsolicited as well) is to disband and liberate the world from its
existence.<BR>
<DIV class=adsplat></DIV>There's an important point that I think Olsen's
argument supports, although he does not develop it in his book, and it is this:
If in 1941 Hawaii was not yet even purporting to be a U.S. state, but was rather
an illegally and illegitimately seized territory, Pearl Harbor having been
stolen from the Hawaiian people, then whatever else you might think of the
<EM>second</EM> major crime committed at Pearl Harbor, the Japanese did not
attack the United States. The Japanese attacked an imperial outpost in the
middle of the Pacific that they viewed as a threat -- and what else was it if
not that?<BR>Were Hawaii to liberate itself from the United States (for the
United States is not actually going to liberate it voluntarily), would the point
be moot as the practices of the United States and China and other nations drive
the world's islands underwater? Actually, <A
href="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/09/rising-seas/if-ice-melted-map">projections</A>
show Hawaii surviving the flood. The question for Hawaiians may be this:
Who do you want managing the influx of millions of Floridians looking for a new
paradise to pave, your own manageable self-governed society or the tender
mercies of the United States Congress?<BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>