Trump – Most Dangerous President Ever!

We need justice, peace, personal, national and global healing,

not more racist division, death & destruction!

It is our duty to vote someone extremely dangerous out of office!

      As a longtime activist for peace, justice and the earth I normally say voting is the least important thing I do every 2 or 4 years. But not this year, especially if you live in one of the election swing states. Donald J. Trump poses the greatest danger I have seen in my lifetime. He needs to be defeated as President of the U.S.  Well respected Professor Noam Chomsky says Trump is “the worst malignancy ever to appear in our political system. He is extremely dangerous.”

      The way to defeat Donald Trump is to vote for the Democratic ticket — Joe Biden/Kamala Harris. This is not to say I like Biden. Far from it. Biden is a machine politician, a warmonger, and has catered to the banks and corporations and not the best interests of working people. But not to vote, or to vote for a fringe candidate, instead of the Biden/Harris ticket, is to assist in Trump’s reelection.

      In the face of Climate Catastrophe and a Global Pandemic, Trump clearly puts personal and corporate financial gain as his top priority, ahead of people’s lives and the future of this planet. The stock market is his climate barometer and health care thermometer.

      Bernie Sanders, AOC, Cornel West, Elizabeth Warren, and a very long list of additional notables all say, VOTE FOR JOE BIDEN (Hold your nose if necessary, but vote for the Biden/Harris ticket.) Otherwise, if Trump is reelected, Attorney General William Barr, and Trump’s militias may be trying to lead us all to the detention camps.

      Make no mistake. Education and organizing are part of the day-to-day important work year-in and year-out to avoid the situation we are in today. The system of corporate power and domination needs fundamental changing toward a genuine democracy. We need a new system where money is driven out of politics and people’s hopes and dreams, the common good, and what’s best for the earth comes first. We also need to abolish the “Electoral College” system of electing the president which was established to maintain slavery. The popular vote should rule.

Be Prepared for Trump Desperate October Surprises, Post Election Challenges & Trump’s Refusal to Leave Office. Anything is Possible!

(Jim Albertini opinion piece)

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4. Oppose all discrimination, anti-Islamic, anti-Semitic, anti-Hawaiian, etc.
5. Seek peace through peaceful means and work for justice in Hawai`i and around the world.

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Oct. 23, 2020 Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet – week 995 – Fridays 3:30-5PM downtown Post Office

On 10/19/2020 2:42 AM, Poka Laenui wrote:

PEARL HARBOR NAVAL SHIPYARD
DRY DOCK AND WATERFRONT PRODUCTION FACILITY ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT PUBLIC COMMENT ON SCOPING PHASE

Naval Facilities Engineering Command Pacific

PHNSY DD/WPF EIS Project Manager

Attention: Andréa M. Von Burg Hall  

 andrea.vonburg-hall@navy.mil

258 Makalapa Drive, Suite 100

Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, HI 96860-3134

The EIS should address the following matters:

1. The historical perspective to the use of Pearl Harbor initially as limited for a ten year time period which was to expire by 1893 and for the limited use of an exclusive coaling and refueling station for the United States.  From this initial allowance for the U.S. use of this property, the U.S. has proceeded to subsequently invade the independent nation of Hawaii, landing a hundred sixty two blue jackets, armed with the Gatling Guns and Howitzer cannons, and proceeded to overthrow the independent nation of Hawaii, subsequently establishing a puppet regime which later became the Republic of Hawaii.  That Republic of Hawaii government subsequently and as originally planned with the U.S. Minister Plenipotentiary before the U.S. invasion, proceeded to cede Hawaii to the United States of America in a treaty of annexation.  That treaty, however, was never ratified in accordance with the U.S. Constitutional provision for treaty ratification, instead circumventing that constitutional requirement under Article 2, Section 2 and was adopted by a joint resolution of Congress.

This historical background raises a number of legal questions from the perspective of U.S. domestic law, treaty law and international law.  From U.S. domestic law, the question is what is the legitimacy of actions assumed by the U.S. government based on an occupation of territory of an independent nation of Hawaii when that occupation is founded on an unconstitutional act?

As regards treaty law, the annexation treaty signed between the Republic of Hawaii and the United States of America was done so under the terms that the treaty would be ratified in accordance with the U.S. Constitutional process which was ratification by the U.S. Senate and not by a joint resolution of Congress.  The U.S. has failed to ratify the treaty as provided for by the Constitution.  What are the implications for this historical error to the claimants of the Hawaiian nation, including not only the native Hawaiian people but the many others who can legitimately claim heirship to their inherent nationality to the Hawaiian nation?

The United States, having brought about the demise of the Hawaiian Constitutional Monarchy by its initial invasion and subsequent transfer of powers to the Provisional Government, Republic of Hawaii, Territory of Hawaii and State of Hawaii, what is the U.S. government’s obligation to bring about the restoration of the Hawaiian national government in order to give effect to an organized voice of the Hawaiian nation prior to any further continuance of any action which proceeds along this line of illegal assumption of Hawaiian territory?

As regards international law, what is the obligation of the United States to abide by its international commitments to abide by customary and treaty laws regarding Hawaii, the United States of America, and the international community including obligations under the United Nations Charter?  The United Nations have previously adopted the General Assembly Resolution on the Definition of Aggression whereby any claim of property which is the direct product of an act of aggression is an illegal act.  It is nothing less than a confession that the U.S. aggressed against the Hawaiian nation which brought about the eventual possession of these Hawaiian islands under the claim of the United States (see Public Law 103-150 as well as the Presidential Address to the Joint Houses of Congress, Dec. 18, 1893 by President Grover Cleveland).  While the current state of international law does not have an enforcement arm to bring the U.S. to abide by this definition of aggression, violation of this resolution still constitutes an illegal act which calls upon the honor and integrity of all to abide by the law, perhaps even more forcefully due to its moral command.  What is the appropriate response and liability of citizens of the United States of America who in the end must be held responsible for the actions of its government?  What is the individual liability of the members of the U.S. military forces who act in violation of international law?  (Remember the principles of the Nuremburg Trial made part of international law as well as of the Uniform Code of Military Justice)

The United States is a signor and the U.S. Congress has ratified the Charter of the United Nations, making the charter obligatory under Article 6 of the U.S. Constitution.  Under Article 73 of the U.N. Charter, the U.S. is obligated to bring all its territories which are regarded as non-self-governing territories to self-governance.  The United States submitted among other territories, the Hawaiian Islands as a non-self governing territory.  Among the obligation to be met by the United States is the obtaining of the free and informed choices of independence, free association or integration into the administering authority, i.e., the United States of America.  These choices were never afforded the people of Hawaii who were non-self governing.  The movement for U.S. Statehood of Hawaii was a violation of that free choice process because it was the U.S. citizens and not the non-self governing people of Hawaii who were permitted to vote in that “Statehood Vote” plebiscite in 1959.  Furthermore, the “choices” given in that plebiscite was only to become a State of the U.S. or remain a territory of the United States.  There were no choices for independence or for free association.  Thus, the sacred trust obligation assumed by the United States to bring about self-determination of the non-self governing people has not yet been met.  What are the obligations of the United States to first meet such obligations before continuing with its colonization of Hawaii?  What are the liabilities for its citizens who are eventually responsible for the acts of its nation, especially for those citizens who now know of the continuing illegality of its governmental actions?

2. The alternative of investing in a process of peace by peaceful means, i.e., a movement away from the unrelenting buildup of military weaponry and equipment to carry such war efforts forward, and address instead, a broad process of identifying the real issues of national security and how to achieve such security.  This generalized search for peace by peaceful means should clearly define the national security interest including protection against hunger, homelessness, health care for its people, proper education, eradication of disease and poverty, safety from weather changes including storms, temperature rise, volcanic eruptions and tidal waves, and these issues measured against the military aggression by others against the shores of the United States (not including how the U.S. has instead placed itself in harms way by its participation in wars and conflicts beyond its borders).

This process of peace by peaceful means should look into involving domestic as well as international organizations that are not associated with or under contract to the U.S. government such as the East West Center.  There are many other organizations for peace by peaceful means which can be contacted and should be for coming up with viable plans for national security through peace by peaceful means.

3. The EIS should address the specific concerns of the Native Hawaiian people, their cultural, subsistence and spiritual interest in Pu`uloa (Pearl Harbor), and the need for appropriate protocol within the native culture for proceeding with any further building on these ancient and sacred `aina. 

I submit these areas of concern which should be part of the EIS in this matter.

Sincerely,

/s/ Poka Laenui

Poka Laenui,

Plaenui@hawaiianpersepctives.org

Photos from Oct. 16, 2020 Hilo Peace Vigil.  Mahalo to all!

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