Quite warmly as you love your country, so they love theirs


For us Americans here in Hawaii, a good reminder while we're appreciating how much we love our country today...
Oh, honest Americans, as Christians hear me for my downtrodden people! Their form of government is as dear to them as yours is as precious to you. Quite warmly as you love your country, so they love theirs.

—Queen Lili'uokalani, Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen, 1898

Oh and BTW, this is also the day in 1894 when the traitorous "Provisional Government" oligarchy proclaimed themselves to be a "Republic." Haha. According to President Cleveland less than six months earlier: "Indeed, the representatives of that government assert that the people of Hawaii are unfit for popular government and frankly avow that they can be best ruled by arbitrary or despotic power." The antithesis of the American ideal. It's actually a notorious day in Hawaii's history. Important to recognize, no matter how much this day means to us, it does not mean the same thing to everyone here.


Posted: Fri - July 4, 2008 at 08:01 PM    
   
 
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