I agree that "Hawaiian" should be considered a nationality of a bygone kingdom which was established by illegal, violent force of vicious warlords who never put anything up to a vote or asked for international recognition.  Furthermore, the original Marquesan settlers of these islands are the Kanaka Maoli (or whatever is Marquesan for original people).  We could keep turning back the clock to various points in time (though OHA and others only want to look at the fancy Iolani Palace days when a revolution led to our becoming the 50th State.  I say let's look forward as Americans who enjoy rights and wealth that neither the original Marquesan settlers nor the later Tahitian conquerors (today's part-Hawaiians) could never have dreamed about.  The only way that OHA or any of these phony baloney "Hawaiian Kingdoms" have any hope of prevailing in subverting our statehood for either of their nutty agenda is by force.  I don't see that happening.  But, FYI, I'll be defending statehood.

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