2007-11-14 OHA Fact Check

Following a series of devastating public hearings held by the Hawaii Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, which exposed the fraudulent nature of both the basis and promise of the Akaka Bill, OHA produced a "corrections" report disputing the facts and arguments put forward by various experts in their testimony. Please enjoy these corrections to their "corrections".

1840 Constitution

OHA tries to whitewash the explicit assertion of the 1840 Hawaiian Kingdom Constitution statement that all people are "of one blood" by criticizing the Kingdom as being a mere pawn to Western interests.

At the time of the 1840 constitution, foreign interests put intense pressure on the monarchy to produce a Western-style constitution in order to secure their land holdings. - OHA's "Correcting the Record" 2007

The ideas of land reform and a Western-style constitution were important goals for all Hawaiians, regardless of their ancestry or heritage. The alternative, of maintaining a despotic monarchy with no land rights for anyone cannot be romanticized in any reasonable way.