115 years ago, in 1898, in an act of perfidy, the Kingdom of Hawaii was unjustly overthrown.
We are witnesses to history this week: the 2nd overthrow of Hawaii. The leadership of the Hawaii Democratic Party have plotted this overthrow and allied themselves with a tiny minority to engineer a societal upheaval of major magnitude.
Those leading the overthrow are allied with mainland forces who neither understand nor appreciate Hawaii’s unique history and culture. A cursory scan of the gallery during the hearings quickly reveals that this is primarily a clash between people with deep roots and genealogical ties to this aina and those who came more recently hoping to change things. It isn’t pretty. Cultural clashes and political battles seldom are.
For the uninitiated, Hawaii is not like any other place in the United States. People who live and work here are not “Hawaiians” the way people who live and work in Alabama are “Alabamians.” Hawaiians are a unique people group, the Polynesian descendants of the original inhabitants of these islands. It has been overwhelmingly apparent that the very large, very vocal opposition to legalizing same-sex marriage in Hawaii has been led by kanaka maoli, the stewards of the land. The utter disrespect shown them by the State Senate — especially by the half-Hawaiian Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Clayton Hee — is shameful. That the Senate dominated by Obama Democrats have put party ahead of their people is a disgrace.
America marks December 7 annually as “a day that will live in infamy” remembering the attack on Pearl Harbor, and September 11 as a day to remember the cowardly attack on the World Trade Center in New York. Hawaii marks January 17 as a day to remember the first overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom, and will soon have another sad day to mark in remembrance… the day the party they have voted into power for decades sold them out to foreign ideas and mainland interests as they were locked outside screaming “LET THE PEOPLE VOTE.”
The 2nd overthrow is as sad, and as treacherous as the first.