I would like to thank Mr. Thomas E. Stuart for his letter of Nov. 22, "U.S. a scapegoat in overthrow." His narrow-minded, delusional remarks only strengthen our resolve to persevere toward sovereignty.

Disgusting and deplorable comments about our queen and kupuna will never alter the historical facts that the U.S. military and its colonizing cohorts instituted events that affected the future of our nation. Continuing to deny or refusing to accept these facts will make him and others with such mindsets prime thumb-sucking complaining crybaby candidates running for cover and consoling under the skirts of his U.S. Constitution.

Historical fact refuters only fool themselves. Go on, keep living in a fantasy dream world, for someday the sovereignty movement will emerge as a strong new nation making things pono! By then it'll be too late for Johnny-come-lately wannabes like Stuart to admit that Hawaiians were wronged. Feeling sorry for himself, or worse, unwilling to grasp the politics of it all, will overwhelmingly cause lousy judgment and a lack of preparedness on his part to cope with it all.

We are here! We are the facts! We are the evidence! We will prevail!

Gary K. Nihipali
Hau'ula