Inside USA - The Other Hawaii - Sept 26 - Part 2

This week Avi Lewis visits the people behind the native movement for self-determination in Hawaii. Well over 200 years old the movement has recently been gaining on strength.
Archive footage courtesy of www.namaka.com

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[commandershadeisback]

Hawaiians should be free plain and simple. Who cares if we'll be at 49 states, the USA is a BS country that only works to advance the interests of white people.

[mokehaole]

EA!!!!!

[UniteHawaii]

@Skullking489. Okay. Little bit of a misunderstanding. The overthorw was done by armed intervention of the U.S military, who was ordered by the U.S. ambassador in Hawaii, who also conspired with the group of Hawaiian citizens, who commited treason, to overthrow the Hawaiian Government. "Hawaiian" is define as a nationality. And its also common sense. Hawaii is a nation like any other nation. And those key people who were part of the overthorw, were themselfs Hawaiians because they were born here

[Skullking489]

@UniteHawaiiThe overthrow was done by non Hawaiian locals who were afraid of an uprising. the only time people died was during the the four day revolution of 1895. Hardly anyone died and if they went to prison it was only for a short time. They then wanted to be annexed into the US. I don't know where you get the idea that the US government was killing people. Also, it is not what the Japanese "might" have done, it's what they did. The US never beheaded, starved, or worked anyone to death.

[UniteHawaii]

@Skullking489. So? And America is not different from them in general? For example, if anyone was loyal to the monarchy or threaten the authority of the so-called "American government's" presence in Hawaii, they were sent to prison or excuted! Even though thats not bad compare to what Japan "might" have done, in general its still bad! If a person does something bad regardless of its magnitude, its still bad in general! And what American Government has and is still doing is bad. And they know it!

[Skullking489]

@UniteHawaii I don't think you quite understand, when the Imperial Japanese invaded a country they didn't just kill those who stood against them, they begin ethnic cleansing. They were the Nazi's of the Pacific; believing themselves to be superior to all races and invincible in battle.There would have been hardly any survivors of a Japanese occupation.I don't think America is absolutely perfect, but America did save Hawaii from slaughter.Just visit the Japanese War Crimes page in Wikipedia.

[Skullking489]

@kiele21 that happened to many Japanese Americans because the American officials believed they may still be loyal to Japan. It was wrong and America paid reparations. But I don't understand how this can be even compared to Japans war crimes. America had internment camps, japan had death camps. It is actually known as the Asian holocaust. Visit the Wikipedia page on Japanese War Crimes, and then compare it to American Internment camps. If you still find them to be related then you are blind.

[UniteHawaii]

@Skullking489. What difference would it make if Japan did take over Hawaii? It does not make America any better! America was and still is just as vile. Futhermore, what purpose would Japan have with us? Hawaii and Japan had strong diplomatic and personal relations with each other! Futhermore, they were one of the people who protested the American intervention of 1893.

[kiele21]

@Skullking489 Oh please dont lecture me on WWII. I had family who fought on both sides of the war. You wanna talk about war crimes? Even after My grand uncles joined th american side they still decided to lock us up in internment camps. How can you be so ignorant??? They dont like us, they never have. If YOU OPENED up a history book you would know America has a long disgusting history of ethnic genocide, Imperialism, and Empire building that continues today. You've been brainwashed

[Skullking489]

@kiele21 If you read a history book on WWII you would know the Japanese wanted total domination of the Pacific. Hawaii is actually the most strategic military location in all of the Pacific. It would have been the Japanese's first target had it not been for the oil supply from America. They only attacked when we cut it off for their brutal war crimes. Also don't insult me for being proud of the thousands of American soldiers who fought in the Pacific. Which includes members of my family.

[kiele21]

@Skullking489 Yes that is true enough, but where would you be if had not your grandparents been able to immigrat in the first place. Answer that??? You poor stupid American loveing Idiot. How selfish and naive you are... The USA was at fault for having had put us in harms way to begin with, had they not taken over and militarized the place.