Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 16, Number 9, 1 September 1999 — Sovereignty [ARTICLE]
Sovereignty
Please clear this up for those of us who are on the outside looking in. We have been watching the sovereignty movement unfold for about 12 years and we have listened to all the suggested models of government and new ideas. All pailieipants have been educated with the same materials. Many of you feel you are and have been sovereigns, beholden to no one even to the point of ignoring the disclaimer attached to the apology bill. Ihen there is the disclaimer of the Hā Convention that seems a large stumbling block. If you are beholden to no one, why is it so feared by the overwhelming majority? Have the 91 percent become their own worst enemy? Has the state proven it holds title over everything? Aie we, the outsiders, missing anything? We pray this is food for thought and a luau for understanding. Wayne A. Brown Kāne'ohe