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