U.S. has no legal basis for Makua training


Poka Laenui has a commentary in today's Advertiser, including this:
The U.S. military has no right to train for combat on Hawaiian soil. Following U.S. aggression against Hawai'i in 1893, any "right" the U.S. holds in Hawai'i is nothing more than rhetoric masking for reality. See General Assembly resolution 3314 (XXIX) of Dec. 14, 1974: Definition of aggression:

"Article 1 — Aggression is the use of armed force by a state against the sovereignty, territorial integrity or political independence of another state. ...

"Article 5 — (1) No consideration of whatever nature, whether political, economic, military or otherwise, may serve as a justification for aggression. (2) A war of aggression is a crime against international peace. Aggression gives rise to international responsibility. (3) No territorial acquisition or special advantage resulting from aggression is or shall be recognized as lawful."

It follows, therefore, that Makua's "legal" lease to the U.S. government is nothing more than manipulation between the feds and the state.

I'm against U.S. military training, not only because such activity despoils the cultural, religious and environmental nature of the land. I'm against it because of the grand lies now being perpetrated in Hawai'i about the U.S. commitment to peace and its war against terrorism.
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The United States of America can no longer take the path of exceptionalism, but must accept that it, too, is bound by the rules of fair play, justice and humanity.

Meantime, leave Hawaiian lands alone.


Posted: Tue - April 11, 2006 at 10:37 AM    
   
 
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