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Hawaiian Sovereignty (cont'd)
Now Hawaii was opened in a free-for-all, "grab whatever you can get" attitude. New economic interests poured into Hawaii to play the American financial game. land became the toy. Selling, trading, leasing, mortgaging and subdividing became the craze. Construction industries changed much of Hawaii from a lush green to a cancerous white concrete jungle lashed together by roadways of concrete and asphalt.
But saddest of all was the continuing recycling of our people, a process so complete that I too had volunteered to serve in that very military that occupied Hawaii. I only recently had discovered the facts of Hawaii's predicament.
I then considered what alternatives America's system offered to break this American suffocation of our liberties. I considered the possibilities of new social, economic or educational programs which the U.S. Congress might approve. But even if such programs were legislated, already we had many of those programs which were really used as a vehicle for greater propaganda and recycling of our people.
I considered the judicial system but was quickly convinced that even that branch was dedicated more to the preservation of the status quo rather than searching for and bringing about the justice belonging to us.
I was constantly returned to the fact that we never gave up our nation, we never chose to become Americans, and we never conceded absolute surrender to the United States. We were enslaved in a form different from the Africans but in essence the same. Our liberties as a free people were no longer practiced. Our harbors were blocked. Immigration and trade policies were determined by a foreign congress. Twenty-five percent of our lands were occupied by American military.
I eventually concluded that the United States' equation for justice was merely an economic and military one containing no consideration for the survival of the Hawaiian race and culture. The sooner they could eradicate the Hawaiian people and rewrite Hawaii's story, the safer these occupiers would be. Since then, I have been trying to rip this American mask branded upon me through these years of brainwashing.