Secret Squirrel has pondered the rightly improper annexation of Hawaii, and discovers that the annexation having been improper and illegal, so too then was the absorption in to statehood of America. But how, then to correct things for the Hawaiian islanders,and can it be done? Looking at the history of Hawaii, Squirrel believes all things can be done,you'll see for yourself a pattern at work,a pattern which can be put to good use. Now,according to the Wikipedia..........
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Hawaii........
here examplefied where necessary, we see the basic history of Hawaii, a history of overthrow and modification of the governments of Hawaii in whatever form to suit whomever invaded at any specific time.Let's start at the beginning.
The human history of Hawaii includes phases of early Polynesian settlement,the earliest settlements in the Hawaiian Islands were made by Polynesians who traveled to Hawaii using large double-hulled canoes. They brought with them pigs, dogs, chickens, taro, sweet potatoes, coconut, banana, and sugarcane.They lived happily.They were happy in their incestious relationships, brothers,sisters,fathers,mothers,sons and daughters,cousins et all,happy in
their orgyastic fornicational relationships some even yet in marriges,all the while still having as many mistresses(concubines) and lovers as each and either pleased(you recall this type of thing is mentionably of biblical proportions and runs throughout the Old Testament chronical that the Bible is,which didn't seem to disturb anybody except for later era priests and missionaries etc who thought they knew better,the so called Reformationists,those who opposed Orthodoxy in religion and life.In short the people were happily enjoying themselves in and after the exact same fashion of the entire group of civilized European monarchies. The
people lived,in their own right,as island paradise kings and queens,their own,each and everyone as an individual, and on their own.Then there was the British arrival,in 1778,and things would never be the same,things were just too good it seems.These visitors introduced diseases to the once-isolated islands and the Hawaiian population plunged precipitously because native Hawaiians had no resistance to influenza, smallpox, and measles, among others.
For example,during the 1850s, measles killed a fifth of Hawaii's people.The there came the unification,the islands were united under a single ruler, Kamehameha I, for the first time in 1810 with the help of foreign weapons and advisors. The monarchy then adopted a flag similar to the one used today by the State of Hawaii present flag, with the Union Flag in the canton (top quarter next to the flagpole) and eight horizontal stripes (alternating white, red, blue, from the top), representing the eight major islands of Hawaii.
In 1815 the Russian empire affected the islands when Georg Anton Schäffer, agent of the Russian-American Company, came to retrieve goods seized by Kaumualii, chief of Kauai island. Kaumualii signed a treaty making Tsar Alexander I protectorate over Kauai. From 1817 to 1853 Fort Elizabeth, near the Waimea River, was one of three Russian forts on the island. In the early kingdom, Protestant ministers convinced Hawaiian rulers to make Catholicism illegal, deport French priests, and imprison Native Hawaiian Catholic converts.
In 1839 Captain Laplace of the French frigate Artémise sailed to Hawaii. Under the threat of war, King Kamehameha III signed the Edict of Toleration on July 17, 1839 and paid $20,000 in compensation for the deportation of the priests and the incarceration and torture of converts, agreeing to Laplace's demands. The kingdom proclaimed:
That the Catholic worship be declared free, throughout all the dominions subject to the king of the Sandwich Islands; the members of this religious faith shall enjoy in them the privileges granted to Protestants.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu returned and Kamehameha III donated land for them to build a church as reparation.In August 1849, French admiral Louis Tromelin arrived in Honolulu Harbor with La Poursuivante and Gassendi. De Tromelin made ten demands to King Kamehameha III on August 22, mainly that full religious rights be given to Catholics, (the ban on Catholicism had been lifted, but Catholics still enjoyed only partial religious rights). On August 25 the demands had not been met. After a second warning was made to the civilians, French troops overwhelmed the skeleton force and captured Honolulu Fort, spiked the coastal guns and destroyed all other weapons they found (mainly muskets and ammunition). They raided government buildings and general property in Honolulu, causing $100,000 in damages. After the raids the invasion force withdrew to the fort. De Tromelin eventually recalled his men and left Hawaii on September 5.There then came Euro-American and Asian immigrators.And,finally, the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy by means of American invasion.Gerrit P. Judd, a missionary who had become the Minister of Finance, secretly sent envoys to the United States, France and Britain, to protest Paulet's actions.[5] The protest was forwarded to Rear Admiral Richard
Darton Thomas, Paulet's commanding officer, who arrived at Honolulu harbor on July 26, 1843 on HMS Dublin. Thomas repudiated Paulet's actions, and on July 31, 1843, restored the Hawaiian government. In his restoration speech, Kamehameha declared that "Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono", the motto of the future State of Hawaii translated as "The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness.Dynastic rule by the Kamehameha family ended in 1872 with the death of Kamehameha V. After the short reign of Lunalilo, the House of Kalākaua came to the throne. These transitions were by election of candidates of noble birth,an interesting
developemnt of elected regal royal rule,an interesting royal democracy.
The Reciprocity Treaty of 1875 between the Kingdom of Hawaii and the United States allowed for duty-free importation of Hawaiian sugar (from sugarcane) into the United States beginning in 1876. This promoted sugar plantation agriculture. In exchange, Hawai'i ceded Pearl Harbor, including Ford Island (in Hawaiian, Moku'ume'ume), together with its shore for four or five miles back, free of cost to the U.S. The U. S. demanded this area based on an 1873 report commissioned by the U. S. Secretary of War. This treaty explicitly acknowledged Hawai'i as a sovereign nation.In 1887, a group of cabinet officials and advisors to King David Kalākaua and an armed militia forced the king to promulgate what is known as the Bayonet Constitution. The impetus given for the new constitution was the frustration of the Reform Party (also known as the Missionary Party) with growing debts, spending habits of the King, and general governance.
It was specifically triggered by a failed attempt by Kalākaua to create a Polynesian Federation, and accusations of an opium bribery scandal. The 1887 constitution stripped the monarchy of much of its authority, imposed significant income and property requirements for voting, and completely disenfranchised all Asians from voting.So in some sense the Hawaiians had some form of increased democratic dictortorship.
When Kalākaua died in 1891 during a visit to San Francisco,(rather suspiciously), his sister Liliuokalani assumed the throne.Native Hawaiians felt the 1887 constitution was imposed by a minority of the foreign population because of the king's refusal to renew the Reciprocity Treaty, which now included an amendment that would have allowed the US Navy to have a permanent naval base at Pearl Harbor in Oʻahu, and the king's foreign policy. According to bills submitted by the King to the Hawaiian parliament, the King's foreign policy included an alliance with Japan and supported other countries suffering from colonialism. Many Native
Hawaiians opposed US military presence in their country.A plot by Princess Liliuokalani was exposed to overthrow King David Kalākaua in a military coup in 1888. In 1889, a rebellion of Native Hawaiians led by Colonel Robert Wilcox attempted to replace the unpopular Bayonet Constitution and stormed Iolani Palace. The rebellion was crushed.According to Queen Liliuokalani, immediately upon ascending the throne, she received petitions from two-thirds of her subjects and the major Native Hawaiian political party in parliament, Hui Kalaiaina, asking her to proclaim a new constitution. Liliuokalani drafted a new constitution that would
restore the monarchy's authority and the suffrage requirements of the 1887 constitution.
In response to Liliuokalani's suspected actions, a group of European and American residents formed a Committee of Safety on January 14, 1893. After a meeting of supporters, the Committee committed itself to removing the Queen and annexation to the United States.United States Government Minister John L. Stevens summoned a company of uniformed US Marines from the USS Boston and two companies of US sailors to land and take up positions at the US Legation, Consulate, and Arion Hall on the afternoon of January 16, 1893. The Committee of Safety had claimed an "imminent threat to American lives and property".The Provisional Government of Hawaii was established to manage the Hawaiian islands between the overthrow and expected
annexation, supported by the Honolulu Rifles, a militia group which had defended the kingdom against the Wilcox rebellion in 1889.
Under this pressure, Liliuokalani abdicated her throne. The Queen's statement yielding authority, on January 17, 1893, also pleaded for justice,the rare thing that it seems successive Hawaiian governments, whatever the type, never really had.
An immediate investigation into the events of the overthrow commissioned by President Cleveland was conducted by former Congressman James Henderson Blount. The Blount Report was completed on July 17, 1893 and concluded that "United States diplomatic and military representatives had abused their authority and were responsible for the change in government." Not really news, everybody was doing it, on and off.However,Cleveland decided to leave things as they were, and didn't restore the government,nor Queen.There were rebellions, two ,but they were put down.In March 1897, William McKinley succeeded Grover Cleveland as president. He agreed to a treaty of annexation but it failed in the Senate because petitions from the islands indicated lack of popular support.The Newlands Resolution by both houses of Congress annexed the Republic to the United States,in 1898.President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Hawaii Admission Act on March 18, 1959 which
allowed for Hawaiian statehood.
Well now, all changes of government worked for everybody by invasion,and worked for whoever invaded next. What I propose we do,is first we encourage the islanders,stating we support the return of the islanders to their happy previous happy way of life.Which, as they all know,were happy in their incestious relationships,with brothers,sisters,fathers,mothers,cousins et all,happy in their orgyastic fornicational relationships, some even yet in marriages,the same and yet still et all whilst having as many mistresses and lovers as they pleased,which, is the way things were in the happy biblical times as well as we all can read.We can make them an offer they can't refuse.This will please most of the people most of the time, except for the priests and missionaries who have turned their back on The Bible and disapprove of those who righteously follow the dictates of the lifestyle of the Old Testament, and happily commit incest with brothers,sisters,fathers,mothers,sons, daughters, and have at the same time countless concubine mistresses and lovers. as they please,married to whomever or whatever have you or they as please also,if it does so.First we try a vote,recalling the Americans do thing and did things with respect to Hawaii in like and such fashion,we vote, and then We then simply happily invade,change the government, annex Hawaii and then incorporate it in to Britain until as such a time comes, when somebody else invades, and we must follow the rules and regulations for such invasions in Hawaii and give it up to the next invader when that occurs, according to the dictates of the day and the right and proper way of things.We shall succeed, the Americans too must follow the rules for Hawaii and give it up. There's just one thing,though, what with the unavailability of any aircraft carriers, we couldn't mount an invasion of any small island.Aye, there's the rub.
Secret Squirrel,
MRL,(MP,Dunny On The Wold),
Minister For Re-Deranged Re-Engineering.
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