The Legitimate Government in Hawaii Series: Untwisting the International Law Version of the Overthrow in 1893 by the U.S.
Review by Amelia Gora (2022)
The international Law Version of the Overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani in 1893 by the U.S.reviewed by Keanu Sai, P.D/ also known as David Keanu Sai details a twisted explanation detailing a supposed legal explanation on the National Education Associations website article.
Facts Checked
Sai erroneously concludes that there was no friendship treaty and follows the writings of Judge Crawford in his book The Creation of States in International Law (2nd ed., 2006).
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The Treaty between the Kingdom of Hawaii/Hawaiian Kingdom and the United States shows who the players are.
Kamehameha III - Kauikeaouli, his heirs and successors and U.S. President Zachary Taylor are parties to the Treaty ratified in 1850.
Treaty of the Kingdom of Hawaii and the United States - A perpetual friendship/peace and amity Treaty ratified by U.S. President Zachary Taylor, U.S. Congress and Kamehameha III - Kauikeaouli in 1850
The Treaty exists but Sais detailed article combining international law documents otherwise:
” Despite the unprecedented prolonged nature of the illegal occupation of the Hawaiian Kingdom by the United States, the Hawaiian State, as a subject of international law, is afforded all the protection that international law provides. “Belligerent occupation,” concludes Judge Crawford in his book The Creation of States in International Law (2nd ed., 2006), “does not affect the continuity of the State, even where there exists no government claiming to represent the occupied State (p. 34).” Without a treaty of peace, the laws of war and neutrality would continue to apply.”
CONCLUSION
Sais failure in showin a treaty of peace leads one to believe that the war and neutrality existed then in 1893 and exists today.
The fact of the matter is that a disregard for the permanent peace/friendship and amity treaty has existed since 1874 because of the claim that Lot Kamehameha/ Kamehameha V was the last of the Kamehameha's by Sanford B. Dole.
Note: The move to extinguish Kamehameha IIIs heirs and successors began in 1874 with Sanford B. Doles article showing “the last of the Kamehameha's”. The purpose? No Kamehameha's means No Treaty players. The Treaty goes away. The people are disrespected, etc.
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Premeditation/plans to annex Hawaii to the United States were made since 1826. See article about John Foster who directed the overthrow in 1893. Foster was the Secretary of State under U.S. President Benjamin Harrison.
The extinguishing of Kamehameha IIIs heirs and successors would mean that there would be no treaty because only Kamehameha IIIs family would be able to continue the Perpetual peace and amity treaty which directly affected the U.S. Constitution of 1787, and the supremacy clause Article 6 - Treaties were the Supreme Law of the Land, and the Judges were bound as well.
Note** - the U.S. became bankrupt in 1865 due to the American Civil War costs and was no longer able to treaty with other nations.
Kamehameha III - Kauikeaouli engaged and agreed to a Protectorate by the United States, Great Britain, and France in 1854.
Kamehameha III - Kauikeaouli also made a Proclamation of Neutrality in 1854 which was also served to the United States in 1854.
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Kamehameha IV, Kamehameha V, King Lunalilo, and King Kalakaua maintained a peaceful, neutral, friendly, non-violent nation.
Queen Liliuokalani maintained a neutral, friendly, non-violent nation as well.
U.S. President Cleveland reminded Americans of the Neutrality Laws and how it would be a military exercise or expedition if it was not respected.
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Kamehameha III - Kauikeaouli informed all that if the Neutrality Laws were not respected, then the issue would be piracy.
Also due to the documented premeditations discovered in research, evidence shows that U.S. President Grover Cleveland did give Hawaii back to Queen Liliuokalani, the blatant disregard by U.S. President William McKinley who formed a government under the United States second nation called the American Empire, the U.S. did engage in illegally annexing a independent, neutral, friendly, non-violent sovereign nation and did a
Note: Due to documented conspiracies, breaches, Fraud, Piracies, then the U.S. must pay rents, remove toxins, etc. and return all that does not belong to them.
Kamehameha III - Kauikeaouli documented that the U.S. and Great Britain could not own lands in the Hawaiian Kingdom /Kingdom of Hawaii.
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Both the timeline and important events are missing in the article - for example:
- U.S. President Cleveland gave Hawaii Back to Queen Liliuokalani in 1893, 1894, and 1897 and he left office in 1897;
- U.S. President Cleveland had the American flag removed in Hawaii then the new U.S. President McKinley ordered the flag to be raised shortly after.
- The newly elected U.S. President McKinley created two (2) governments and created the Territory of the United States under the American Empire
- and McKinley started a War with Spain in 1898.
The timeline is missing in the article and
- fails to show that U.S. President McKinley failed to follow the U.S. Constitution of 1787 and
- failed to obtain the U.S. Congress approval for War with Spain until four (4) days later.
Importantly, piracies were disregarded in the international arena it seems, and lies were allowed.
Research incomplete.
aloha.
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“NEA News
STATUS OF THE HAWAIIAN KINGDOM UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW
In 2001, the Permanent Court of Arbitration’s arbitral tribunal, in Larsen v. Hawaiian Kingdom, declared “in the nineteenth century the Hawaiian Kingdom existed as an independent State recognized as such by the United States of America, the United Kingdom and various other States, including by exchanges of diplomatic or consular representatives and the conclusion of treaties.” The terms State and Country are synonymous.
As an independent State, the Hawaiian Kingdom entered into extensive treaty relations with a variety of States establishing diplomatic relations and trade agreements. The Hawaiian Kingdom entered into three treaties with the United States: 1849 Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation; 1875 Commercial Treaty of Reciprocity; and 1883 Convention Concerning the Exchange of Money Orders. In 1893 there were only 44 independent and sovereign States, which included the Hawaiian Kingdom, as compared to 197 today.
On January 1, 1882, it joined the Universal Postal Union. Founded in 1874, the UPU was a forerunner of the United Nations as an organization of member States. Today the UPU is presently a specialized agency of the United Nations.
By 1893, the Hawaiian Kingdom maintained over ninety Legations and Consulates throughout the world. In the United States of America, the Hawaiian Kingdom manned a diplomatic post called a legation in Washington, D.C., which served in the same function as an embassy today, and consulates in the cities of New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, San Diego, Boston, Portland, Port Townsend and Seattle. The United States manned a legation in Honolulu, and consulates in the cities of Honolulu, Hilo, Kahului and Mahukona.
“Traditional international law was based upon a rigid distinction between the state of peace and the state of war (p. 45),” says Judge Greenwood in his article “Scope of Application of Humanitarian Law” in The Handbook of the International Law of Military Occupations (2nd ed., 2008), “Countries were either in a state of peace or a state of war; there was no intermediate state (Id.).” This is also reflected by the fact that the renowned jurist of international law, Professor Lassa Oppenheim, separated his treatise on International Law into two volumes, Vol. I—Peace, and Vol. II—War and Neutrality.
PRESIDENTIAL INVESTIGATION OF THE OVERTHROW OF THE HAWAIIAN GOVERNMENT
On January 16, 1893, United States troops invaded the Hawaiian Kingdom without just cause, which led to a conditional surrender by the Hawaiian Kingdom’s executive monarch, Her Majesty Queen Lili‘uokalani, the following day. Her conditional surrender read:
“I, Liliuokalani, by the grace of God and under the constitution of the Hawaiian Kingdom, Queen, do hereby solemnly protest against any and all acts done against myself and the constitutional Government of the Hawaiian Kingdom by certain persons claiming to have established a provisional government of and for this Kingdom.
That I yield to the superior force of the United States of America, whose minister plenipotentiary, His Excellency John L. Stevens, has caused United States troops to be landed at Honolulu and declared that he would support the said provisional government.
Now, to avoid any collision of armed forces and perhaps the loss of life, I do, under this protest, and impelled by said force, yield my authority until such time as the Government of the United States shall, upon the facts being presented to it, undo the action of its representatives and reinstate me in the authority which I claim as the constitutional sovereign of the Hawaiian Islands.”
Executive Council of the Provisional Government (The Bishop Museum)
In response to the Queen’s conditional surrender of her authority, President Grover Cleveland initiated an investigation on March 11, 1893, with the appointment of Special Commissioner James Blount whose duty was to “investigate and fully report to the President all the facts [he] can learn respecting the condition of affairs in the Hawaiian Islands, the causes of the revolution by which the Queen’s Government was overthrown, the sentiment of the people toward existing authority, and, in general, all that can fully enlighten the President touching the subjects of [his] mission (p. 1185).” After arriving in the Hawaiian Islands, he began his investigation on April 1, and by July 17, the fact-finding investigation was complete with a final report. Secretary of State Walter Gresham was receiving periodic reports from Special Commissioner Blount and was preparing a final report to the President.
On October 18, 1893, Secretary of State Gresham reported to the President, the “Provisional Government was established by the action of the American minister and the presence of the troops landed from the Boston, and its continued existence is due to the belief of the Hawaiians that if they made an effort to overthrow it, they would encounter the armed forces of the United States.” He further stated that the “Government of Hawaii surrendered its authority under a threat of war, until such time only as the Government of the United States, upon the facts being presented to it, should reinstate the constitutional sovereign, and the Provisional Government was created ‘to exist until terms of union with the United States of America have been negotiated and agreed upon (p. 462).’” Gresham then concluded, “Should not the great wrong done to a feeble but independent State by an abuse of the authority of the United States be undone by restoring the legitimate government? Anything short of that will not, I respectfully submit, satisfy the demands of justice (p. 463).”
INVESTIGATION CONCLUDES UNITED STATES COMMITTED ACTS OF WAR AGAINST THE HAWAIIAN KINGDOM
One month later, on December 18, 1893, the President proclaimed by manifesto, in a message to the United States Congress, the circumstances for committing acts of war against the Hawaiian Kingdom that transformed a state of peace to a state of war on January 16, 1893. Black’s Law Dictionary defines a war manifesto as a “formal declaration, promulgated…by the executive authority of a state or nation, proclaiming its reasons and motives for…war.” And according to Professor Oppenheim in his seminal publication, International Law, vol. 2 (1906), a “war manifesto may…follow…the actual commencement of war through a hostile act of force (p. 104).”
Addressing the unauthorized landing of United States troops in the capital city of the Hawaiian Kingdom, President Cleveland stated, “on the 16th day of January, 1893, between four and five o’clock in the afternoon, a detachment of marines from the United States steamer Boston, with two pieces of artillery, landed at Honolulu. The men, upwards of 160 in all, were supplied with double cartridge belts filled with ammunition and with haversacks and canteens, and were accompanied by a hospital corps with stretchers and medical supplies (p. 451).”
President Cleveland ascertained that this “military demonstration upon the soil of Honolulu was of itself an act of war, unless made either with the consent of the Government of Hawaii or for the bona fide purpose of protecting the imperiled lives and property of citizens of the United States. But there is no pretense of any such consent on the part of the Government of the Queen, which at that time was undisputed and was both the de facto and the de jure government. In point of fact the existing government instead of requesting the presence of an armed force protested against it (p. 451).” He then stated, “a candid and thorough examination of the facts will force the conviction that the provisional government owes its existence to an armed invasion by the United States (p. 454).”
“War begins,” says Professor Wright in his article “Changes in the Conception of War,” American Journal of International Law, vol. 18 (1924), “when any state of the world manifests its intention to make war by some overt act, which may take the form of an act of war (p. 758).” According to Professor Hall in his book International Law (4th ed., 1895), the “date of the commencement of a war can be perfectly defined by the first act of hostility (p. 391).”
The President also determined that when “our Minister recognized the provisional government the only basis upon which it rested was the fact that the Committee of Safety had in the manner above stated declared it to exist. It was neither a government de facto nor de jure (p. 453).” He unequivocally referred to members of the so-called Provisional Government as insurgents, whereby he stated, and “if the Queen could have dealt with the insurgents alone her course would have been plain and the result unmistakable. But the United States had allied itself with her enemies, had recognized them as the true Government of Hawaii, and had put her and her adherents in the position of opposition against lawful authority. She knew that she could not withstand the power of the United States, but she believed that she might safely trust to its justice.” He then concluded that by “an act of war, committed with the participation of a diplomatic representative of the United States and without authority of Congress, the Government of a feeble but friendly and confiding people has been overthrown (p. 453).”
In August 1898, the Hawaiian flag was lowered from Iolani Palace and replaced by the flag of the United States of America.
“Act of hostility unless it be done in the urgency of self-preservation or by way of reprisals,” according to Hall, “is in itself a full declaration of intent [to wage war] (p. 391).” According to Professor Wright in his article “When does War Exist,” American Journal of International Law, vol. 26(2) (1932), “the moment legal war begins…statutes of limitation cease to operate (p. 363).” He also states that war “in the legal sense means a period of time during which the extraordinary laws of war and neutrality have superseded the normal law of peace in the relations of states (Id.).”
Unbeknownst to the President at the time he delivered his message to the Congress, a settlement, through executive mediation, was reached between the Queen and United States Minister Albert Willis in Honolulu. The agreement of restoration, however, was never implemented. Nevertheless, President Cleveland’s manifesto was a political determination under international law of the existence of a state of war, of which there is no treaty of peace. More importantly, the President’s manifesto is paramount and serves as actual notice to all States of the conduct and course of action of the United States. These actions led to the unlawful overthrow of the government of an independent and sovereign State. When the United States commits acts of hostilities, the President, says Associate Justice Sutherland in his book Constitutional Power and World Affairs (1919), “possesses sole authority, and is charged with sole responsibility, and Congress is excluded from any direct interference (p. 75).”
According to Representative Marshall, before later became Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, in his speech in the House of Representatives in 1800, the “president is the sole organ of the nation in its external relations, and its sole representative with foreign nations. Of consequence, the demand of a foreign nation can only be made of him (Annals of Congress, vol. 10, p. 613).” Professor Wright in his book The Control of American Foreign Relations (1922), goes further and explains that foreign States “have accepted the President’s interpretation of the responsibilities [under international law] as the voice of the nation and the United States has acquiesced (p. 25).”
Despite the unprecedented prolonged nature of the illegal occupation of the Hawaiian Kingdom by the United States, the Hawaiian State, as a subject of international law, is afforded all the protection that international law provides. “Belligerent occupation,” concludes Judge Crawford in his book The Creation of States in International Law (2nd ed., 2006), “does not affect the continuity of the State, even where there exists no government claiming to represent the occupied State (p. 34).” Without a treaty of peace, the laws of war and neutrality would continue to apply.”
Timeline from 1800 trou
International Law Discussions
1800 - Representative Marshall:
“According to Representative Marshall, before later became Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, in his speech in the House of Representatives in 1800, the “president is the sole organ of the nation in its external relations, and its sole representative with foreign nations. Of consequence, the demand of a foreign nation can only be made of him (Annals of Congress, vol. 10, p. 613).” ”
1906 - “And according to Professor Oppenheim in his seminal publication, International Law, vol. 2 (1906), a “war manifesto may…follow…the actual commencement of war through a hostile act of force (p. 104).” ”
1919 - Constitutional Power and World Affairs by Associate Justice Sutherland:
“Unbeknownst to the President at the time he delivered his message to the Congress, a settlement, through executive mediation, was reached between the Queen and United States Minister Albert Willis in Honolulu. The agreement of restoration, however, was never implemented. Nevertheless, President Cleveland’s manifesto was a political determination under international law of the existence of a state of war, of which there is no treaty of peace. More importantly, the President’s manifesto is paramount and serves as actual notice to all States of the conduct and course of action of the United States. These actions led to the unlawful overthrow of the government of an independent and sovereign State. When the United States commits acts of hostilities, the President, says Associate Justice Sutherland in his book Constitutional Power and World Affairs (1919), “possesses sole authority, and is charged with sole responsibility, and Congress is excluded from any direct interference (p. 75).”
1922 - The Control of American Foreign Relations by Professor Writ
2006 - “ “Belligerent occupation,” concludes Judge Crawford in his book The Creation of States in International Law (2nd ed., 2006), “does not affect the continuity of the State, even where there exists no government claiming to represent the occupied State (p. 34).” Without a treaty of peace, the laws of war and neutrality would continue to apply. ”
Correction: Our Royal Families - Part 3
OUR ROYAL FAMILIES - Part 3 or Corrected Version: Introducing the Crown Land, etc. Owners: The Royal Families/ Kamehameha's: Some of the Descendants/Heirs Found in Research by Amelia Gora (2015)
Not Annexed - newspaper article
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- Reminding everyone on the eve of American Holiday for Prince Kuhio, a traitor, a conspirator, PIRATE, supported by Americans and their 50% supporters living on the Crown Lands:For the purpose of this article, some of the Paid off Hawaiians/kanaka maoli/treasonous/ conspirators, et. als. follows below:*Prince Kuhio Kalanianaole Kuhio******************************
Prince Kuhio Kalanianaole Treasonous Person introduced Statehood in 1920https://docs.google.com/leaf?id= 0B6Gs4av5Se1wMzY0NzE3ZDUtZGE5M i00Zj... Prince Kuhio Kalanianaole was not allowed to vote in Congress.....he was only allowed to talk:Prince Kuhio Kalanianaole claimed Queen Liliuokalani Insane, entity Hawaii Court rules in favor of Treasonous persons Cleghorn, Smith, and IaukeaPrince Kuhio took an out-of-court settlement to the claim of Queen Liliuokalani's denial that she signed a Trust Deedsee:articles, posts, researches by Amelia Gora and editor of theIOLANI - The Royal Hawk news on the web www.theiolani.blogspot.comyahoogroups.com see hawaiian genealogy society and http://myweb.ecomplanet.com/GORA8037 Note: All the above articles indicate that he was not a supporter of Queen Liliuokalani. Kuhio was also a Mason/Freemason and friends of Charles Reed Bishop and conspirators/pirates of the Hawaiian Kingdom, our Queen, and aboriginal Hawaiians, kanaka maoli, Hawaiian Nationals.Kanaka maoli were under duress, stress, usurpation, and coercion..........Premeditation to assume a neutral, friendly nation is documented..............what does that mean? Ramifications ongoing..... Reference: - **************************
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