Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 22, Number 10, 1 October 2005 — Rejecting $.147 [ARTICLE]

Rejecting $.147

Hawai'i and EnenKio nation kingdoms are not subject to

United States law. The Akaka Bill violates international law. We kū'ē (reject) the Akaka Bill pending in the U.S. Senate. Whereas, the United Nations, in U.N. General Assembly Resolution 66(1) on Dec. 14, 1946, placed our homeland, Ka Pae 'Āina 'o Hawai'i, on the U.N. list of non-self-governing territories eligible for decolonization. Whereas, we, descendants of the nationals of the Hawaiian Kingdom independent state founded in 1810, who thrived in Ka Pae 'Āina prior to the unlawful United States military invasion of 1893, and U.S. military occupation and purported annexation in 1898, in violation of treaties and international law, have not been afforded the opportunity, unlike the peoples of other territories named on the said U.N. list, to exercise our full right of self-determination under international law, including the option of full independence. Whereas, the United States itself formally recognized, in

U.S. Congress Ioint Apology Resolution (PL 103-150) signed by U.S. President William I. Clinton on Nov. 23, 1993, that we Kanaka Maoli people, who constituted the overwhelming majority of the nationals of the Hawaiian Kingdom in 18931898, have never directly relinquished our inherent sovereignty nor our national lands to the United States. Therefore, we hereby respectfully request his excellency the secretary-general of the United Nations, Mr. Kofi Annan, and eall upon her excellency the secretary of state of the United States, Ms. Condoleezza Rice, to inform U.S. Senate President Richard Cheney that the U.S. Senate's consideration of the Akaka Bill (Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2005), whieh purports to determine our political status, whieh we alone may determine, is a serious breach of international law, such that the U.S. Senate must immediately cease and desist from considering

said hill any further. Robert Moore Via the lnternet

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