Admission


Hawaii's fraudulent statehood process concluded 45 years ago tomorrow, August 21, 1959. Since it occurs this year on a Saturday, today is officially commemorated as Statehood Day, aka Admissions Day. But as a friend of mine likes to say, Admissions Day is actually "the day we admit to the crime."

A little background reading on statehood that I put together years ago, and another perspective from Poka Laenui, which both provide details about why the plebiscite and statehood process was fraudulent and invalid.

In his brief on the "Continuity of the Hawaiian Kingdom" Dr. Matthew Craven from the University of London says, "there are strong arguments to suggest that the US cannot rely upon the fact of the plebiscite alone for purposes of perfecting its title to the territory of Hawai’i."

And Prof. Francis A. Boyle from Univ. of Ill. College of Law said regarding the statehood vote, in his analysis of the Apology Bill passed in 1993, "Congress is effectively conceding now that the so-called vote is meaningless, as a matter of international law and United States domestic law."

Happy Admissions Day!


Posted: Fri - August 20, 2004 at 02:29 PM    
   
 
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