[NYTr] Law professor advises Hawaiians against Akaka Bill
 
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 17:34:13 -0600 (CST)

 
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The Maui News - January 01, 2005
http://mauinews.com/story.aspx?id=4553

Law professor advises Hawaiians against Akaka Bill

By HARRY EAGAR, Staff Writer

KAHULUI - The Akaka Bill is a trick to swindle Native Hawaiians out 
of any recourse to international support, University of Illinois 
professor Francis Boyle told a crowd of about 50 Mauians Wednesday 
night.

His talk at the Kahului Community Center was sponsored by the Nation 
of Hawaii with financial support from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.

During the question period afterward, it became clear that adherents 
of at least three sovereignty groups were represented in the audience 
- Nation of Hawai'i, Reinstated Hawaiian Government and Akahi Nui's 
Kingdom of Hawai'i.

"The kanaka maoli must build and restore the Kingdom of Hawaii from 
the ground up," Boyle said.

"They're trying to reduce and eliminate all your claims under 
international law."

However, he also said that until the many sovereignty groups can 
unite "to establish a viable, effective government," no credible 
plaintiff will have standing to petition the International Court of 
Justice.

"The problem is, what we need now is a government of national unity."

Boyle has worked with Keanu Sai, the chairman of the Council of 
Regency and acting minister of the interior of the Hawaiian Kingdom 
Government, to attempt to get the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the 
joint resolution annexing Hawaii in 1898.

The court decided they lacked standing, because the United States 
does not recognize the Kingdom of Hawaii.

Boyle is a professor of international law at the University of 
Illinois. He is the legal representative of the Republic of Chechnya 
and founder and head of a group trying to impeach President Bush for 
an attempt to "impose a police state and a military dictatorship" on 
the United States.

Although he was born, raised, educated and is employed in the United 
States, Boyle has taken citizenship in Ireland.

He has been advising sovereignty activists in the West Bank and Gaza 
Strip for 20 years and in Hawaii since 1993, when he lectured for the 
Hawaiian Sovereignty Advisory Commission, advising that the 
Revolution of 1893 and the annexation of the Republic of Hawaii in 
1898 were contrary to international law and existing treaties and 
never had any validity.

He described the leaders of the overthrow of the kingdom as "a gang 
of cutthroats, killers, murderers and thieves." Therefore, he 
advised, "The Kingdom of Hawaii still exists as an international 
state."

He said the Akaka Bill was written by members of the Federalist 
Society, which has four former members on the U.S. Supreme Court that 
voted not to accept the Hawaiian Kingdom Government's suit.

He described the Federalist Society as "haole right-wing racists and
bigots."

"They're not going to give you a government," he said.

More information on Boyle is available online at www.impeach-bush-now.org
       
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