The Hawaiian King's Letter of July 13, 2015 to Obama

His Majesty Edmund K. Silva, Jr.
Nou Ke Akua Ke Aupuni O Hawai’i
Ka Pu’uhonua O Na Wahi Pana O Hawai’i Nei
kingdomofhawaii.info
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bilateral_treaties_signed_by_the_Ki...
The United Nations Charter provides the rest of the authority to do it.” (An autonomous independent sovereign nation-state contemplated
under Article 1 of the 1933 Montevideo Convention on Rights and Duties of States requiring the state as a person of international law
possessing the four qualifications of (a) a permanent population, (b) a defined territory, c) government;
and (d) capacity to enter into relations with the other states.)
July 13, 2015
To: Pelekikena Barack H. Obama
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20500
Info: Office of the Governor
The Honorable David Y. Ige
Governor, State of Hawai’i
Executive Chambers, State Capitol
Honolulu, Hawai’i 96813
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs
711 Kapi`olani Blvd., Ste. 500
Honolulu, Hawai`i 96813
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
United Nations Headquarters
First Avenue at 46th Street
New York, NY 10017
Mayor Billy Kenoi
Hawai'i County Building 25 Aupuni St.
Hilo, Hawai'i 96720
cohmayor@co.hawaii.hi.us
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Ka Pu’uhonua O Na Wahi Pana O Hawai’i Nei
Nou Ke Akua Ke Aupuni O Hawai’i
kingdomofhawaii.info
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bilateral_treaties_signed_by_the_Ki...
The United Nations Charter provides the rest of the authority to do it.” An autonomous independent sovereign nation-state contemplated under
Article 1 of the 1933 Montevideo Convention on Rights and Duties of States requiring the state as a person of international law possessing the
four qualifications of (a) a permanent population, (b) a defined territory, c) government; and (d) capacity to enter into relations with the other
states.
President David Lassner
Office of the President
University of Hawai`i 2444 Dole Street Bachman 202 Honolulu, Hawai`i 96822
david.lassner@hawaii.edu
Chief of Police Harry S. Kubojiri
349 Kapi‘olani Street
Hilo Hawai’i 96720
hcpdone@hawaiicounty.gov
Interim Chairperson Carty Chang, P.E.
Department of Land and Resources
DLNR Main Office Kalanimoku Building 1151 Punchbowl St. Honolulu, Hawai`i 96813
dlnr@hawaii.gov
Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch United States Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20530-0001
Subject: Acknowledging the Kingdom of Hawai’i.
Ku i ka mana Hawai’i Nei
The mana of all Hawai’i is rising.
There shall be perpetual peace and amity between the United States and the King of the Hawaiian Islands, his heirs, and his successors. – Treaty with the
Hawaiian Islands, December 20, 1849.
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Ka Pu’uhonua O Na Wahi Pana O Hawai’i Nei
Nou Ke Akua Ke Aupuni O Hawai’i
kingdomofhawaii.info
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bilateral_treaties_signed_by_the_Ki...
The United Nations Charter provides the rest of the authority to do it.” An autonomous independent sovereign nation-state contemplated under
Article 1 of the 1933 Montevideo Convention on Rights and Duties of States requiring the state as a person of international law possessing the
four qualifications of (a) a permanent population, (b) a defined territory, c) government; and (d) capacity to enter into relations with the other
states.
Aloha kaua Pelekikena Obama,
The media tells us that the Indonesian military from US-trained Detachment 88 is killing innocent civilians in West Papua. In the past 50 years, more than 500,000 civilians have been killed, thousands more have been raped, tortured, imprisoned or ‘disappeared’ after being detained. Basic human rights such as freedom of speech are denied and Papuans live in a constant state of fear and intimidation.
A paper prepared by the Yale Law School for the Indonesian Human Rights Campaign in 2004 found “in the available evidence a strong indication that the Indonesian government has committed genocide against the West Papuans”.
You lived in Indonesia with your mother and step-dad. Some years later you returned to Hawai`i to live with your grandparents, and attended Punahou School, an elite private school in Honolulu, beginning at grade five. After finishing high school you attended Occidental College (Los Angeles) for two years.
Then you went to Columbia University in New York and finished your Bachelor's degree in 1983, in Political Science. Five years later you went to Harvard Law School, Cambridge MA, where you earned a JD (law degree) in 1991. You were a community organizer in Chicago before earning your law degree. You worked as a civil rights attorney and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004.
You have led an impressive life. The history would seem to indicate a man dedicated to justice. Yet today, as President of one of the most powerful nations in the world, there is no indication that you’ve stepped in to help end the brutality of the Indonesian Military. Why? Isn’t Indonesia a place that was once your home?
You later moved to Hawai’i and attended one of the most prestigious elite private schools in the world that was partly funded by Charles Reed Bishop, husband to my cousin Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop. Charles Bishop created the Pauahi Hall, Charles Reed Bishop Hall, and the Bishop Hall of Science. His wife, my cousin, was a woman of high intelligence, compassion and foresight who understood that her kuleana as a Hawaiian Ali‘i was to serve her people.
Pauahi Pākī was born on December 19, 1831 in Honolulu, Hawai‘i to high chiefs Abner Pākī and Laura Kōnia Pākī. She was the great-granddaughter of Kamehameha I, the warrior chief who united the Hawaiian Islands under his rule in 1810.
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Ka Pu’uhonua O Na Wahi Pana O Hawai’i Nei
Nou Ke Akua Ke Aupuni O Hawai’i
kingdomofhawaii.info
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bilateral_treaties_signed_by_the_Ki...
The United Nations Charter provides the rest of the authority to do it.” An autonomous independent sovereign nation-state contemplated under
Article 1 of the 1933 Montevideo Convention on Rights and Duties of States requiring the state as a person of international law possessing the
four qualifications of (a) a permanent population, (b) a defined territory, c) government; and (d) capacity to enter into relations with the other
states.
Like Indonesia, where you have turned a deaf ear to the plights of the Indigenous Papuans, it is apparent you’ve turned a deaf ear to the indigenous people – ‘Kanaka Maoli’ – of Hawai’i that you call home. While living here in Hawai’i, you’ve seen the struggles of my people and 120 years later that struggle continues for an independent restoration of our Kingdom; A Kingdom stolen by the United States of America.
In the world of politics, we can never know when a particular event will be the catalyst for a major change. Rosa Parks’ decision to sit in the front of the bus is one example of a simple act that changed the trajectory of history. There is just such an event now taking place on the Island of Hawai’i.
Today, the Kanaka Maoli, descendants of a Kingdom stolen, have risen up against the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) on the sacred Mountain Mauna a Wākea. To many, the construction of the telescope would be further desecration of a sacred site that has already seen numerous other telescopes built despite strong objections from the public.
Even before the project began, a study commissioned by one funder said that there was a long history of opposition to such telescopes on the Mountain and that the TMT would face political, regulatory, and judicial obstacles. While the report did not predict the huge outpouring of opposition, all the warning signs were apparent before the commitment was made.
Now people are being arrested basically for being Hawaiian. The traditional faith of the Hawaiian people is being actively suppressed, as it has been for generations. State agencies are using their regulatory powers in an attempt to crush the revolt.
On June 24, a group of approximately 750 people created a moving blockade on the only road ascending Mauna a Wākea. Their purpose was to prevent TMT workers from reaching their building site. In the early stages of the blockade, the County of Hawai’i Police maintained a calm and peaceful process of moving slowly up the Mountain. One person decided to get arrested and was led away without incident.
When the jurisdiction changed at the 10,000 foot level to the State Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR), the law enforcement response became more aggressive. The number of arrests was increasing. Tension was building up as the DLNR officers attempted to break down the blockade.
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Ka Pu’uhonua O Na Wahi Pana O Hawai’i Nei
Nou Ke Akua Ke Aupuni O Hawai’i
kingdomofhawaii.info
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bilateral_treaties_signed_by_the_Ki...
The United Nations Charter provides the rest of the authority to do it.” An autonomous independent sovereign nation-state contemplated under
Article 1 of the 1933 Montevideo Convention on Rights and Duties of States requiring the state as a person of international law possessing the
four qualifications of (a) a permanent population, (b) a defined territory, c) government; and (d) capacity to enter into relations with the other
states.
In response to the building tension, the Protectors of the Mountain placed rocks in the road higher up. When the convoy reached the rocks and realized the road ahead was impassable, they gave up and turned around. By letting the rocks substitute for the Protectors, the tactic of the rocks removed the source of tension.
Now numerous State agencies, including the Governor’s Office and the Attorney General, are trying to use regulatory powers to drive the Protectors off the Mountain and suppress the effort to protect the sacred site. The State attack on the Protectors includes specific restrictions aimed at religious practice.
As a trained constitutional lawyer, surely you can see the constitutional problem with a State agency telling a faith practitioner the following: (1) You can ascend the Mountain for religious practice only at 1:00 p.m. (2) You can stay at your sacred site for no more than one hour. (3) If you are late for the appointed time, you cannot go up the Mountain that day. (4) You can ascend with only ten people or fewer. (5) You can only ascend accompanied by a State Ranger.
Yet imposing such restrictions is exactly what the Office of Mauna Kea Management is doing.
Meanwhile, the State agency allows astronomers, water trucks, nitrogen trucks, and people with other non-religious purposes to go up and down the Mountain with no restrictions.
The Rangers enforcing these rules have refused to produce a copy of the rules or to identify who issued the rules. Ironically, those same Rangers actually have no police power. The Rangers have now been joined by Hawai’i County Sheriffs to enforce the regulations on spiritual practice.
Do you see the picture of armed Sheriffs blocking the road up the Mountain to prevent spiritual practitioners from exercising their right to practice, other than at the time allowed by the State? Is that what the United States has degenerated to constitutionally?
The State Department of Land and Natural Resources declared an “emergency” to allow them to adopt rules that would shut down the Protectors 24 hour vigil that has been in place for more than 100 days. The fake “emergency” allowed them to bypass the statutory process requirements for adoption of such rules.
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Ka Pu’uhonua O Na Wahi Pana O Hawai’i Nei
Nou Ke Akua Ke Aupuni O Hawai’i
kingdomofhawaii.info
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bilateral_treaties_signed_by_the_Ki...
The United Nations Charter provides the rest of the authority to do it.” An autonomous independent sovereign nation-state contemplated under
Article 1 of the 1933 Montevideo Convention on Rights and Duties of States requiring the state as a person of international law possessing the
four qualifications of (a) a permanent population, (b) a defined territory, c) government; and (d) capacity to enter into relations with the other
states.
The Board of the Department of Land and Natural Resources adopted rules that create an exclusionary zone for one mile on either side of the road that provides access to the Mountain between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 4:00 a.m. Another rule prevents anyone from camping on the
Mountain. http://dlnr.hawaii.gov/blog/2015/07/10/dlnr-news-alert-blnr-decision-on-...
As revealed by some released emails, these agencies, in collusion with the Attorney General, were trying to craft general regulatory actions that would result in suppressing the Protectors, while not obviously targeting them. http://westhawaiitoday.com/news/local-news/emails-offer-insight-state-s-...
The regulatory agencies knew that using their regulatory powers to suppress political dissent would violate constitutional protections, so they attempted hide their true motivations. Ultimately, the agencies proceeded to do whatever they could to suppress the vigil and the political dissent, apparently counting on the State Attorney General to protect them legally.
So now we have these subordinate agencies of the United States Government openly violating the First Amendment right to practice religion, assemble, and petition for redress of grievances, the Fifth Amendment right to due process, and the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee of equal protection of the laws.
I am losing patience with this entire charade by the State officials. I suggest you send someone from your Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department to help State officials with some remedial constitutional training. Your representatives can also serve as observers when the TMT decides to create the next confrontation by announcing the resumption of efforts to construct the telescope.
I am evaluating my own options. I do not intend to leave my people defenseless against some heavy handed, illegal, unconstitutional State effort to deny them their identity and their rights. As King, I have a kuleana to protect the traditional faith of my people and to protect all my people from abuse.
Governor Ige does not have to deploy dogs, fire hoses, and clubs to be a Bull Conner. Rules and regulations can be just as abusive. Again, people are being arrested basically for being Hawaiian. People are being denied their basic rights to worship because their religion is not respected. People are being denied their rights to object to governmental abuse because all the government agencies, including the chief law enforcement officer, are part of a plan to suppress dissent.
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Ka Pu’uhonua O Na Wahi Pana O Hawai’i Nei
Nou Ke Akua Ke Aupuni O Hawai’i
kingdomofhawaii.info
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bilateral_treaties_signed_by_the_Ki...
The United Nations Charter provides the rest of the authority to do it.” An autonomous independent sovereign nation-state contemplated under
Article 1 of the 1933 Montevideo Convention on Rights and Duties of States requiring the state as a person of international law possessing the
four qualifications of (a) a permanent population, (b) a defined territory, c) government; and (d) capacity to enter into relations with the other
states.
I trust you understand that my people’s commitment to protect the sacred Mountain (Mauna a Wākea) is unshakeable, inflexible and strong. There is No compromise – Onipa`a. We celebrate sacredness and reject desecration. We are prepared to protect ourselves, our Kingdom, our government, our lands, our culture, and our way of life. As King, I stand with the people and so does the rest of the world.
Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope... and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current that can sweep down
the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. ~Robert F. Kennedy
`Õlelo No`Eau
Hewa Kumu waiho i keiki.
Faults of the source are left to the children.
Children suffer the consequences of
the wrongs committed by their parents.
Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ʻAina i ka Pono,
Edmund K. Silva, Jr.
Ali’i Nui Mō’i
cc: Na Kupuna Council O Hawai’i Nei ame Moku
Ali’i Mana’o Nui Lanny Sinkin Minister of Foreign Affairs
Minister of Defense