2007-11-14 OHA Fact Check - Revision history

Jere Krischel: /* Competing narratives */

2007-11-15T21:23:16Z

‎Competing narratives

Jere Krischel: /* Competing narratives */

2007-11-15T21:22:34Z

‎Competing narratives

Jere Krischel: /* Competing narratives */

2007-11-15T21:21:42Z

‎Competing narratives

Jere Krischel: /* Competing narratives */

2007-11-15T21:21:25Z

‎Competing narratives

Jere Krischel: /* Correcting OHA's Deceptive "Correcting the Record" */

2007-11-15T21:17:10Z

‎Correcting OHA's Deceptive "Correcting the Record"

Jere Krischel: /* Disenfranchised by race? */

2007-11-15T17:34:07Z

‎Disenfranchised by race?

Jere Krischel: /* What happened to Dr. Blaisdell's testimony? */

2007-11-15T17:10:46Z

‎What happened to Dr. Blaisdell's testimony?

Jere Krischel: /* What happened to Dr. Blaisdell's testimony? */

2007-11-15T17:10:14Z

‎What happened to Dr. Blaisdell's testimony?

Jere Krischel: /* What happened to Dr. Blaisdell's testimony? */

2007-11-15T17:07:01Z

‎What happened to Dr. Blaisdell's testimony?

Jere Krischel: /* OHA's attack on both the national and local civil rights committees */

2007-11-15T17:06:09Z

‎OHA's attack on both the national and local civil rights committees

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 apology resolution and in the Akaka bill itself,
 including links to the full text of the reports,
-please see:
+please see [http://www.angelfire.com/hi5/bigfiles3/USOwesNatHawns.html "What Does the United States Owe to Native Hawaiians? Two reports commissioned by Congress (Morgan 1894 and NHSC 1983) contain the answers, which are directly applicable to the Akaka bill"]
 Fortunately it is not necessary to reinvent the

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 archives.  But now all documents are available
 easily to anyone who cares to read them.  For a
-summary of how the Morgan report and Native
+summary of how the [http://morganreport.org Morgan Report] and [[Native Hawaiians Study Commission Report]] directly apply
 to refute the historical narrative found in the
 apology resolution and in the Akaka bill itself,

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 before a U.S. Senate committee in 1894, and by
 historians commissioned by Congress in the 1980s
-to do a thorough multi-year inquiry?  [http://morganreport.org The Morgan
+to do a thorough multi-year inquiry?  [http://morganreport.org The Morgan Report] and the [[Native Hawaiians Study Commission Report|Native Hawaiians Study Commission majority report]] are now finally available on the
 internet.

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 before a U.S. Senate committee in 1894, and by
 historians commissioned by Congress in the 1980s
-to do a thorough multi-year inquiry?  The Morgan
+to do a thorough multi-year inquiry?  [http://morganreport.org The Morgan
-Report and the Native Hawaiians Study Commission
+Report] and the [[Native Hawaiians Study Commission Report|Native Hawaiians Study Commission
-majority report are now finally available on the
+majority report]] are now finally available on the
 internet.

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	The OHA report repeatedly stresses that how history is reported and interpreted has a huge impact on public perception of what fairness and justice require society to do today. Thus OHA describes its own motive for the 67-page propaganda document, which tries to twist history in whatever ways might elicit public support for a race-based government. That's why it's important to correct OHA's deceptive "Correcting the Record."		The OHA report repeatedly stresses that how history is reported and interpreted has a huge impact on public perception of what fairness and justice require society to do today. Thus OHA describes its own motive for the 67-page propaganda document, which tries to twist history in whatever ways might elicit public support for a race-based government. That's why it's important to correct OHA's deceptive "Correcting the Record."
		+
		+	==Competing narratives==
		+	As the OHA document points out, there are
		+	competing historical narratives; and which one is
		+	believed by our people will determine their
		+	attitude toward the Akaka bill. Should we
		+	believe the story as told by OHA and the powerful
		+	institutions dependent on passing the Akaka bill
		+	to protect their selfish interests? Or should we
		+	believe the story as told by eyewitnesses
		+	testifying under oath and cross-examination
		+	before a U.S. Senate committee in 1894, and by
		+	historians commissioned by Congress in the 1980s
		+	to do a thorough multi-year inquiry? The Morgan
		+	Report and the Native Hawaiians Study Commission
		+	majority report are now finally available on the
		+	internet.
		+
		+	For many years sovereignty zealots made available
		+	only their own narrative by a political hack
		+	(James Blount) assigned by Grover Cleveland to
		+	destabilize the revolutionary government and put
		+	his friend the ex-queen back on the throne - a
		+	narrative disproved and repudiated by the U.S.
		+	Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs during two
		+	months of hearings in 1894 with eyewitnesses
		+	under oath and cross-examination. In recent
		+	times the sovereignty zealots made available only
		+	their own self-interested minority report of the
		+	Native Hawaiians Study Commission, leaving the
		+	majority report to gather dust in library
		+	archives. But now all documents are available
		+	easily to anyone who cares to read them. For a
		+	summary of how the Morgan report and Native
		+	Hawaiians Study Commission report directly apply
		+	to refute the historical narrative found in the
		+	apology resolution and in the Akaka bill itself,
		+	including links to the full text of the reports,
		+	please see:
		+
		+	"What Does the United States Owe to Native
		+	Hawaiians? Two reports commissioned by Congress
		+	(Morgan 1894 and NHSC 1983) contain the answers,
		+	which are directly applicable to the Akaka bill"
		+	at
		+	http://www.angelfire.com/hi5/bigfiles3/USOwesNatHawns.html
		+
		+	Fortunately it is not necessary to reinvent the
		+	wheel in every generation even though OHA and its
		+	paid hacks try to do so. We stand on the
		+	shoulders of our predecessors who did the hard
		+	work already. Kamehameha the Great unified all
		+	Hawaii under one government not two.
		+	Kauikeaouli Kamehameha III proclaimed that all
		+	men are of one blood and created the rule of law
		+	and the right to private property. President
		+	Sanford B. Dole was head of government for the
		+	ten most turbulent years of the transition from
		+	Kingdom through Provisional Government, Republic,
		+	and Territory, protecting the life of his friend
		+	Liliuokalani and pardoning her even after she
		+	conspired in a violent counter-revolution against
		+	the government he headed. The Morgan Report
		+	refuted the Blount Report and persuaded President
		+	Grover Cleveland to stop intervening to restore
		+	the monarchy, and to grant full diplomatic
		+	recognition to the Republic of Hawaii. The
		+	Native Hawaiians Study Commission report of 1983
		+	confirmed the historical narrative of the Morgan
		+	Report and recommended that whatever economic and
		+	social difficulties today's ethnic Hawaiians
		+	might face, those difficulties should be
		+	addressed through welfare programs available to
		+	people of all races and not through racially
		+	exclusionary entitlements or a racial separatist
		+	government. Finally, today, there are civil
		+	rights activists working through the political
		+	process, the courts, and even the civil rights
		+	committee; seeking to ensure for all Hawaii's
		+	people a future of unity, equality, and aloha for
		+	all. It seems that every generation must rise
		+	anew to defend those fundamental principles.
		+	Here we stand; we cannot do otherwise.

	==OHA's attack on both the national and local civil rights committees==		==OHA's attack on both the national and local civil rights committees==

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 OHA tries to downplay the history expounded upon by Jere Krischel regarding the 1887 Constitution of the Kingdom of Hawaii, which represented the only outright racial discrimination of suffrage in the history of the Hawaiian islands - against Asians.  Citing the distorted and one-sided "Reconciliation at a Crossroads" put forth by the previous, imbalanced HISAC, OHA states:
-<blockquote>''In response to King Kalakaua's refusal to turn over exclusive use of Pearl Harbor, American and European sugar planters and business intersts - supported by an all-white 500-man militia - forced him to accept major changes in the govermental structure of the kingdom, effectively transferring key aspects of the monarch's political power.''</blockquote>
+<blockquote>''In response to King Kalakaua's refusal to turn over exclusive use of Pearl Harbor, American and European sugar planters and business interests - supported by an all-white 500-man militia - forced him to accept major changes in the governmental structure of the kingdom, effectively transferring key aspects of the monarch's political power.''</blockquote>
 Of course this makes Kalakaua seem principled, even heroic - except it's not true.  The 1887 Constitution was imposed upon the corrupt Kalakaua on July 7, 1887.  The Reform Party, on October 26, 1887, well after the new constitution was promulgated, advised in favor of extending the existing Reciprocity Treaty with the United States and including the lease of Pearl Harbor.  Kalakaua's ministers encouraged him to accept, and he did on November 29, 1887.  To somehow cast about the historical record, ignoring the actual ORDER of events, and portraying a corrupt monarch as some sort of hero is more than disingenuous.

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 States.
-<blockquote>''"... international resolution would necessarily involve secession, a drastic endeavor over which
+<blockquote>''"... international resolution would necessarily involve secession, a drastic endeavor over which this nation purportedly fought a civil war ... The principle of self-determination necessarily contemplates the potential choice of forms of governance that may not be authorized by existing domestic law.[420] Whether such a structure is politically or legally possible under the law is secondary, however, to the expression of one's desire for self-determination. ..." ''</blockquote>
 <blockquote>''"1. The federal government should accelerate efforts to formalize the political relationship between Native Hawaiians and the United States. This recommendation can be accomplished through the formal and direct recognition by Congress of the United States' responsibilities toward Native Hawaiians, by virtue of the unique political history between the United States and the former Kingdom of Hawaii....[T]he Advisory Committee requests that the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights urge Congress to pass legislation formally recognizing the political status of Native Hawaiians." ... ''</blockquote>

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 The old Hawaii Advisory Committee did indeed
-actually support secession -- a fact that is most
+actually support secession - a fact that is most
 embarrassing to OHA.  Its report "Reconciliation
 at a Crossroads: The Implications of the Apology

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 Blaisdell's testimony provides strong arguments
 in favor of the complete independence of Hawaii
--- a topic which Akaka bill supporters in general
+- a topic which Akaka bill supporters in general
 and OHA in particular find very embarrassing.
 Ripping the 50th star off the flag is a hidden
-agenda of the Akaka bill -- a secret desire deep
+agenda of the Akaka bill - a secret desire deep
 in the hearts of most Akaka bill supporters but
 publicly professed by only the boldest among