{"id":44207,"date":"2014-07-07T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=44207"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:33:42","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:33:42","slug":"the-world-is-not-a-u-s-colony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/07\/the-world-is-not-a-u-s-colony\/","title":{"rendered":"The World is NOT a U.S. Colony!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Hawai`i, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) is moving throughout the islands conducting hearings on so called \u201cFederal Recognition\u201d of Native Hawaiians and how the U.S. DOI can \u201chelp\u201d?<\/p>\n

At the same time, the U.S. is sending more troops to Iraq and considering further bombing after decades of U.S. war and sanctions that have decimated the country’s infrastructure and created millions of casualties, refugees, and instability throughout the region. In short, the U.S. created the current mess and further U.S. military action will only make matters worse, not better.<\/p>\n

In both Iraq and Hawai`i, and a host of other countries around the world, the U.S. portrays itself as \u201cthe good guy,\u201d instead of the problem. It’s a classic colonial attitude of intervening in the internal affairs of other nations.<\/p>\n

The bottom line is this: The U.S. must stop intervening in the internal and domestic affairs of independent nations all over the world, including the U.S. occupied Kingdom of Hawai`i. Such interference is a blatant violation of international law.<\/p>\n

The DOI’s current efforts at \u201cFederal recognition\u201d and the considering of measures to establish a government to government relationship with Native Hawaiians is a fraud. It is simply trying to do through executive action what the Akaka bill tried to do through Congressional action \u2013that is subvert what justice demands.<\/p>\n

Federal recognition as a trap. It divides Hawaiian against Hawaiian, and others in Hawai`i. It causes confusion, and provides a cover to complete the theft of Hawaiian Kingdom lands.<\/p>\n

Justice demands the deoccupation of Hawaii. Justice demands the restoration of the multi-ethnic independent nation state of Hawai`i that existed prior to 1893 and the Bayonet constitution of 1887. Nothing less.<\/p>\n

Free Hawai`i! Free Iraq & the world from U.S. domination! <\/strong>Ground the Drones!\u00a0 Say No to War!<\/strong><\/p>\n