If you have been watching the news lately then you will notice that it is becoming increasingly obvious that there is mounting confusion on what the Akaka Bill is and what it is not and what it might do for the Hawaiian people and/or how it might inhibit or cause further injury to the Hawaiian people in the sense of genocide.

I have always taken the position of total independence and I do not support the Akaka Bill. In my opinion, It has never been a threat to the Independence Movement, and will never be unless we individually give it up. However, any form of attention or recognition of the Akaka Bill gives it Life, whereas it is simply an alternative to Independence. What the Independence movement really needs to do is to provide services for the Hawaiian people, the "no and low" income communities throughout Hawai'i (for starters). These services will be the "Unifying factor" to strengthen the Independence movement.

Please return to this website often as the information is continually being updated with ever greater clarification of the facts and history of the issues involved in this controversial exercise of our Human Rights.

DECLARATION REJECTING AND CONDEMNING THE NATIVE HAWAIIAN GOVERNMENT REORGANIZATION ACT

To His Excellency GEORGE W. BUSH, President, and the Congress of the United States of America.

Greetings:--

WHEREAS, there has been submitted to the Congress of the United States of America a Bill S.147, further referred to as the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act (NHGRA), also known as the Akaka Bill, for imminent consideration, therefore, let it be known that: We, the undersigned, he poe makaainana (native Hawaiian citizens) and poe noho oiwi Hawaii (residents) who are mamo (descendants) of the members of the Hawaiian Patriotic League of the Hawaiian Islands 1897-1898, and others today, who are in sympathy with the said League members and their mamo (descendants), categorically and adamantly reject and condemn S.147, NHGRA, a.k.a. the Akaka Bill in any shape or form, as it purports to legislate the political status of our people who have never yielded our sovereignty over our National lands to the United States.

Here is an excerpt from Francis Boyle, International Lawyer, offering his expert opinion regarding the Akaka Bill:

"Whereas, the long-range economic and social changes in Hawai'i over the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have been devastating to the population and to the health and well-being of the Hawaiian people."

Well that's an understatement. The Hawaiian people have been subjected to the international crime of genocide, as determined and defined by the 1948 Genocide Convention, and the 1987 Genocide Convention Implementation Act, the Proxmire Resolution. That is clear. That was one of the findings of the San Francisco Tribunal. That was one of the key findings of the tribunal held here this summer concerning Hawai'i [Ka Ho'okolokolonui Kanaka Maoli]. And I submit, having argued genocide myself to the International Court of Justice, and having convinced them that genocide is going on in Bosnia-Herzegovina, I personally would have no difficulty at all in convincing the World Court that genocide has been practiced by the United States government against native Hawaiians. Now, that's bad enough, but where does that lead you? I submit where it leads you is back to the creation of a State. One of the few and only protections a people have from being exterminated by means of genocide, is their own state and ultimately United Nations membership.

This is what happened to the Jews - right? - from 1939 to 1945. They did not have a state. They did not have membership in the League of Nations. So everyone looked the other way and they were exterminated and wiped out. Today the situation is being replayed in respect to the Bosnians. The Bosnians do have a state and they do have U.N. membership and it is the one thing they have that is keeping them from going the same way as the Jews. And the Palestinians recognize this, too. That they had to proclaim a state, in order to protect themselves from being annihilated. So a state, an independent sovereign nation state is one way a people who are threatened with extermination by means of genocide can attempt to protect themselves. And according to the statistics that Kekuni Blaisdell presented to the San Francisco Tribunal that native Hawaiian people are threatened with extinction by the year 2030. So this is something that has to be given very serious consideration. What is the best way to protect the existence of your people, as a people? Is it to accept the same status as Native Americans, which I guess Secretary Babbitt is considering graciously giving you? Or is it to proclaim your own state, and then ultimately seek international recognition and finally U.N. membership? Again, this is for you to decide. You have to consider the alternatives because ultimately it's your future and that of your children and your children's children that is at stake.

[Click here for the full transcript of Boyle's speech.]