Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 18, Number 3, 1 Malaki 2001 — Nation to nation [ARTICLE]

Nation to nation

Keanu Sai's recent audience at the Hague is quite an accomplishment by any Hawaiian for independence - individual or group. Yet, how it is possible for this honorable international venue whose jurisdiction deals with

disagreements between nations and not individuals to stand in review of justice? How is it that a self-appointed Hawaiian government official gains recognition in this international arena while the sovereign monarch of an independent nation in good standing in the International Family of Nations since 1848 was ignored in her cause to restore the lawful constitutional nation that was illegally overthrown by America? Was not the Hawaiian Constitutional Monarchy in good standing of international sanctions or does an individual have more political clout than a sovereign nation? And why since the overthrow the silence of England and France who sponsored th£ kingdom nation of King Kauikeaouli, Kamehameha III, into "their Family of Nations" in 1848? The International Family did not act because they knew that the flag of the Hawaiian Constitutional Monarchy since 1816 are the "colors" of a British colony, guised to be an independent sovereign nation. Secondly, the action of the U.S. was ignored because they too are a British colony, and the matter of the suppressing of an independent

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