United States of America owe restitution to the Kingdom of Hawaii

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I met with a member of the Royal Order of Kamehameha named Paul Neves, and he shared with me his feelings of Queen Liliuokalani: “Queen Liliuokalani wanted was real justice and the justice which identifying the crime that the United States of America has committed. She testifies “America came into my County. American landed their troops. America supported a revolution of treason by the people of my country. America stationed your military troops in Hawaii and forced me to abdicate my throne and forced our flag to fall before yours by force. Five years after that incident, our people themselves signed a petition. 80-90% of our people said and signed a petition they did not want to be a part of The United States of America. But because of greed and corruption America hides that information from the world. They forced us into their government against our will. So, what we want is our freedom.

What a woman Queen Liliuokalani was! You talk about a warrior...a woman with her strength alone... her courage and dignity. And then after all those injustice and insults and taking for her whole country-- not a little part, not a couple of acres, a whole country-- by the great military power, the United States of America.”

In 1993, on the 100th anniversary of the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii, President Bill Clinton signed an apology resolution into law acknowledging the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom by the United States of America. Paul commented, “Too bad our Queen Liliuokalani didn't live for 193 years so that she can hear that apology. And I think if she heard that apology, she would say, ‘You're one hundred years too late. And where's the restitution of my government and the dignity of my people, her iwi, still waiting for restitution?” When I spoke with Paul his words of wisdom of international law came from a deep understanding the issues Hawaiians have suffered. He mentioned to me how important it is to get our Hawaiian Kingdom back from the United States of America. Paul says “We must talk about what has happened to our kingdom. Because a lot of people keep telling us that we are something else and we're not. We're living people. We are not museum pieces and our iwi (bones) should never be a museum piece ever.