LETTER TO NEIL ABERCROMBIE - Remember Pearl Harbor
HONOLULU December 07, 2009
Michael Daly
575 Cooke Street –A-2910
Honolulu Hawai`i 96813
alohamichaeldaly@gmail.com
www.killstatehood.com
Representative Neil Abercrombie
US House of Representatives
Prince Kuhio Federal Building
300 Ala Moana Boulevard, Room 4-104
Honolulu Hawai`i 96850
Neil.Abercrombie@mail.house.gov
December 07, 2009
To Mr Abercrombie
(fake Representative in occupied Hawai`i):
With regard to the tragedy of Pearl River Harbour (Pearl Harbor) 1941 and its anniversary today you say: Philosopher George Santayana said, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
I can hardly believe, that with all the evidence and outcry surrounding US involvement in making unnecessary war that you beat the Pearl Harbor drum today.
Santayana may have some validity, at least until we humans evolve so far past habitual inappropriate behaviour that future generations need not remember, nor carry in any way, our ferocious estate. In any case, for you to apply this quote for your political purpose needs addressing.
I have taken the time to write to you on the matter. My considered assessment is that the USA empire is crumbing fast and will fall soon. You have no standing and we all need to prepare for the coming changes. I ask you to leave Hawai`i.
As a means of bringing US war atrocities to the forefront of people’s minds and in the advancement of peace, justice and succeeding generations I will begin a hunger strike on this day in Waikiki. I am also unemployed and homeless.
In the case of Pearl Harbor, as with so much collusion within the USA, rather than remembering the past as projected by US school history lessons and world media, it may profit everyone to first investigate the past with more care, intelligence and objectivity.
Firstly, a short study of Pearl Harbor shows that the USA, having foundational aspirations of imperialism, stole Pearl River Harbour and the Kingdom of Hawai`i through the unlawful and illegal Annexation of Hawai`i in 1898.
You sir, as an unwelcome US representative and enemy of Hawai`i nei have yet to produce a legitimate Treaty of Annexation between the United States and the Kingdom of Hawai`i. Until such time as you do, the USA remains a belligerent and violent rogue state at war with Hawai`i, a menace to justice and a terroristic threat to all nations, the environment and our global ecology.
The way of US imperialism, its policy of greed, theft and worldwide bullying has created a dangerous all-consuming and dirty superpower over the past century. Unfortunately this “success of progress” is a model for your allies and other nations. The unlawful capture of Hawai`i is a fundamental event in the development of today’s dangerous and unjust global insecurity. The ramifications of the USA in Hawai`i have blown out to the extraordinary degree whereby the risk of a human-induced oil-related ice age is imminent.
By now humans must understand that despite the USA’s massive power, wealth and influence the government has no authority and that perpetuating such authority is the problem, not the solution.
With such long-time massive resource and responsibility available to the USA it can only be concluded that the individuals and entities behind the USA government are the accountable party/parties to global destruction and human peril as the planet stands at this time.
As I learned, Lieutenant General John Schofield in 1873 was commissioned by the US Sectary of War to spy on Pearl River Harbour. From this point, Schofield initiated the US desire to take this prize Pacific and pacific location like ripe fruit.
Wai Momi meaning "pearl water", a place once teaming with pearl producing oysters in the land of aloha has now been denigrated, by the USA, converted to a foreign military base; a target and a rotten bed memorialized in death, shame and leaking pollution.
It is a tourist show, a slap in the face of Hawaiian culture and the kingdom robbed.
The attack on Pearl Harbor was convenient for the USA in having the magic bullet to enter WWII. The government had and still has, no interest in this harbour or Hawaii in general, as a place of sustainable living culture, integrity and life giving love.
The US men and women who died and suffered in World War II, and there descendants, deserve to know the truth about this war and filth of the USA in purposely manufacturing these events.
And Japanese people need to know!
The Kanaka Maoli need to know! The descendants of the rightful Kingdom of Hawai`i need to know! The German youth need to know! The world’s generations now need to know!
As you are aware the Japanese living in occupied Hawai`i (and continental USA) when WWII began, were brutalized by yanks and forced into internment camps by the US government. When their US allegiance was finally recognized, Japanese men were lead into this venue of slaughter as servicemen and some acclaimed as heroes.
By 1941, Japanese living in Hawai`i had no idea that the USA was not a territory of the USA - that in fact Hawai`i remained an impaired and occupied sovereign nation.
The US has unlawfully controlled Hawai`i since 1898. As you know Lorrin A. Thurston and Sanford B. Dole ousted Queen Lili`uokalani in 1893. They were the leaders of a white supremacist annexationist group in Hawai`i; business men of special interest. They are also known as the Missionary Sons, nothing but unconscionable racists and rebels. They conspired with the USA to occupy Hawai`i permanently. Such serious crimes could have resulted in punishment by death. These were desperate men. Their crimes necessitated mass oppression, cultural genocide and a total black out of the true history over multiple generations. Yet their actions against the Queen to this day are condoned by your government.
In fact you are complicit with the unresolved crimes that you have inherited and willfully perpetuate.
The Japanese soldiers signed up and died for a US fox not knowing whom they were fighting for.
Nobody argues that war and war making is a messy bloody business. At this point in history today, and in the wake of the anti-war movement around the US atrocities in Viet Nam and the nineteen sixty’s fleeting awakening by baby boomers about the futility of war and the contrasted need for peace and love yes, Pearl Harbor is worth remembering.
At this point in history today, and in the glaring darkness of convolution produced by George W. Bush and Obama regarding false wars on terror in Iraq and Afghanistan, yes sir, Pearl Harbor is worth remembering.
It is worth remembering as it fits into your agenda and position in promoting the useless culture of violence. As I understand, you, Senator Daniel Akaka and Senator Daniel Inouye are, to varying degree, responsible for the excessive and disgraceful military appropriation continuously flowing into these islands from Washington DC and which remains evidence of a fascist military state and a forced lockdown into an economy of deadly destruction, of violence, fear and waste. And this, at the direct expense of social services, education, health care, justice, security and sustainability.
I am a pacifist. I hear the song ringing: “War, what’s it good for? Absolutely nothin”. In the USA the very flag that service men and women die for is just another one of their enemies. It’s a hard lump of realization for anyone taking on such sacrifice to swallow.
Yes, and it is worth remembering how Viet Nam can so easily be repeated in our own day by a forgotten love generation. Our hippie generation has been steeped in inheritance and power and is about to pass it on. What was all that for?
In the manifestation of a new young US President we witness nothing but a political spin-master and a puppet expanding the war in Afghanistan. Is this the product of sacrifice as offered by young war protesters of the sixties?
Remember today that World War II is being repeated. Let it hit home today how deceit and how the-enemy-within routinely manipulate the populace, and manufacture torture, genocide and murder.
War is messy, yet wisdom, hope, intelligence, courage and action is still alive. And the work of the sixties generation can be restored. We can and must unravel the story behind Pearl Harbor for the sake of youth right now. Without peace every veteran of war is absolutely a victim of war.
For me V Day for Victory Day or Veterans Day is more significantly recalled as Victim’s Day.
Who said it so well? When you realize the government doesn’t care for its own people a lot makes sense.
It is well accepted and outlined in President Clinton’s Apology Resolution that the USA has abused Native Hawaiian since the Overthrow, 1893 and through Annexation and Statehood. But the wide brush of the US war machine and the deceit produces victims indiscriminately. Japanese living in Hawai`i have been fatally cheated also in the occupation. I assert that if the Japanese in Hawai`i had been properly educated about the Overthrow and the unlawful annexation that their allegiance would have resided with the Kingdom of Hawai`i and that the USA would have been identified as dishonourable. If it can be proved otherwise, then the Japanese in Hawai`i at that time are complicit in the occupation of Hawai`i.
The soldiers of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team made up of Asian Americans were cheated and influenced by the Annexationist in power and US propaganda. If the Japanese in Hawai`i knew the truth about the rightful jurisdiction of Hawai`i and choose to ignore it then the case that they were part of the conspiracy against the Kingdom exists. Either way the ignorance is apparent.
The Japanese in Hawai`i today, the descendants of brought-in plantation workers, are not so ignorant since the shameful history of Hawai`i has been resurrected through Hawaii’s Renaissance period of the seventies and the Apology Resolution of 1993.
Nevertheless, the ignorance and denial is still evident on the part of Japanese in Hawai`i. The Japanese in Hawai`i are astute and have become opportunistic around their wartime plights. They continue to shamelessly disregard Kanaka Maoli and their need for international justice pertaining to the Kingdom of Hawai`i.
Japanese Americans have been awarded and honoured as US war heroes while the native Hawaiians and Kingdom descendants remain an identifiable and denigrated group in their own land.
I also wonder if Japanese in Hawai`i won spin-off benefits as a result of some unofficial and twisted US reparations for the horrendous A-bomb atrocities.
If the full brunt behind the horror of US nuclear savagery in World War II hit home to anyone it would have hit hardest and deepest to the Japanese families in Hawai`i and especially those in the vicinity of the 442nd. It is not possible for this segment to remain at all satisfied after the A-bombs. They had some reverberating first-hand feeling of Hawaiian history. Further, to witness their own innocent blood incinerated in Hiroshima and Nagasaki without questioning their allegiance to the USA is highly unlikely.
Here, it would take the most hardened and callous of Japanese character to ignore the voice: “Oh my God, what have we done?” Yet that is what they did.
That question remains ignored by Japanese living in Hawai`i today. The United States of America and the United Church of Christ are not the only entities that need to apologise or explain to the descendants of Queen Lili`uokalani and the Kingdom of Hawai`i. The Japanese aided the USA in a profound way in strangling native Hawaiians and the Kingdom. To my knowledge their has been no discussion or resolve on this.
Questions and voices have been internalized and ignored. The Japanese in Hawai`i choose rather to make out on Hawaiian soil with the USA.
Since the war, Japanese have won the highest representation in US federal government; they hold a power base in state government with an emphasis in the departments of justice and education. The Japanese hold disproportionate resort, real estate and corporate assets in Hawai`i. The rightful descendants of the Kingdom of Hawai`i experience the region’s worst statistics with regard to health, income, incarceration, homelessness, power, wealth and are divided or bought out by US forces. The Japanese in Hawai`i are extraordinarily comfortable.
Deals have been made and the Hawaiians are left in the cold.
These are classic outcomes of a corrupted and occupied state; the banana republic Hawai`i has become. Confusion, oppression and division are necessary directives in resisting Hawaiian development and reinstatement.
The Kanaka Maoli and the descendants of the Kingdom of Hawai`i deserve explanation of Pearl Harbor and WWII. It is there resources, including the `aina that have been abused and are being used for the perpetuation of war and violence. Once again, a clear violation of International Law.
Every stakeholder on Earth deserves war investigations and prosecutions against the USA because this continued cowboy culture and desire of violence are obstacles to the organic development of true globalization based on balance, aloha, community fair trade and peace. Here, reconciliation and restoration in Hawai`i is critical.
I said in my opening that the attack on Pearl Harbor was convenient for the USA to enter WWII. The naval base became an open target - apparently an invitation for attack from the Japanese, giving President Roosevelt and US media barons the headline they needed to enter and develop
World War II.
This is plausible and now easily understood by the global population in the light of the unabashed and parallel spectacular of 911; an event compared to and seemingly modeled on the "success" of the Pearl Harbor disaster. These are fast being seen as deadly false-flag shows staged to advance war, profits and control for private special interest. Other non-violent and contained ways for dispute
resolution exist.
President Cleveland may well be the last of decent US Chiefs. He supported the reinstatement of Queen Lili`uokalani in 1893. In his message to the Senate and House he refers to the letter written by US diplomatic minister in Hawai`i addressed to the US State Department and dated February 1, 1893. The ambassador writes: "The Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe and this is the golden hour for the United States to pluck it."
One should not mistake these historic events as being done in some distant cave-man jungle era. In 1893, the Overthrow and desire for Pearl Harbor was a gross violation of International Law.
Yet, the USA carries out actions of what it condemns the Japanese, the Russians, the British of possibly doing one day, namely unlawful invasion and occupation of the Kingdom of Hawai`i.
This is the same excuse for the 2003 invasion of Iraq: "may-have", "one-day" "may-be". Our global forefathers, of multi-national and multi-cultural interests, to there credit, agreed to outlaw pre-emptive strike and clearly stipulated that in International Law; it was for good reason and is unchanged.
Global citizens and planet nations await evidence that the Japanese ever had aspirations to invade and occupy the Kingdom of Hawai`i.
Let's look at it. On December 07, 1941 Imperial Japan bombed the USA at Pearl Harbor. Note that it was a non-civilian target that constitutes the over-reach of imperial USA.
They had issue with military USA not Hawai`i. The USA presence on Hawaiian soil put Hawaiians in harms way. Note also that the Japanese did not bomb downtown Honolulu and Lihue and contrast that with the fact that the USA choose to ignite the legitimate Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki four years later on legitimate Japanese soil.
It is apparent from Russian intelligence that the USA knew of the imminent fall and surrender of Japan prior to the A-bomb attacks and prior to the US decision to drop. In fact the evidence may indicate that the intelligence rushed those behind the nuclear attack to act while the window of opportunity existed.
The two US leaders of the secret Manhattan Project, J. Robert Oppenheimer (Scientific Director) and Henry L. Stimson (Secretary of War) knew Japan had no choice but to surrender and surrender soon. There was no reason to drop “Little Boy” and “Fat Man” except for the urgent need of their pathetic namesakes (that says so much about the USA) and the benefit of global terror befitting a gross superpower.
Why should our Japanese brothers and sisters today carry guilt where reparations and justice on the part of the USA is needed?
Why should Japanese students and Japanese young people feel obliged in adopting a foul and stinking USA culture of consumerism out of some feeling of guilt and shame, a need to assimilate and comply with their victor?
These bombs were great forces unknown - man-made and man-ordered destruction never imagined let alone executed. It is the apparent victorious (those behind the USA) who have written world history the way they want and developed globalization: the cultures of over-consumption and starvation. Mass shock and fear, like that produced by the twin atomic bombs of 08-1945, and the twin towers of 9-11-2001 are designed to show “no accident”, that the action can and will be repeated.
In an environment of ignorance, closed door deals and mass misperception concerning the event of World War II I ask: have the Japanese people (and the same applies to German people following the fall of the Nazi regime) really been given a choice in the way of atonement, the choice of making things right in a way that truly mends, prevents and makes the world a better place?
The twin A-bombs constituted a planetary shock lasting multiple generations. But the mushroom cloud is shifting for a new generation. Unsurprisingly, these nuclear crimes have not been dealt with and so with such disregard and contempt for life on Earth, is it any wonder the USA and others cannot take sustainability seriously and would rather choose to live with the risk of a climate catastrophe.
Until the crimes against humanity done in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 are brought to trial the prospects of non-proliferation and the way to avoid weapons of mass destruction coming into reckless hands remain all but impossible.
The twin terror attacks in Japan remain a model in the manufacture of world fear. The Pearl Harbor military base spectacular of 1941 may have been set-up as Japanese bait by Roosevelt and the hand of Uncle Sam, but in any case the burning of hundreds of thousands of Japanese, Koreans and other city people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, left unaddressed, leaves the practice of revenge and retaliation as an example of somehow making things right.
In your world of US lead globalization I believe this is not where human populations of Earth need to go Mr Abercrombie. It is necessary and possible to bring war crimes to trial to avoid repeating trouble, and bring justice to the fore to facilitate the development of peace and nonviolence.
There is a need for young Japanese to place their national history in perspective. The lessons they learn may also be useful for young Germans.
When Obama admits wrongs and atrocities of his country but then abandons correction in favour of ‘lets just move forward’ policies, the lessons are not learned, not remembered and bad habits repeat and become a hopeless and invasive national constitution of influence. Far from moving forward, the absence of transparency, investigation and atonement is rather entrenchment and a recipe for disaster.
Mr Abercrombie:
Just how long is your government going to occupy Iraq and Afghanistan?
How can your government be supporting the present coup d'état in Honduras?
How is it that your country is immune to War Tribunals?
How is it that Dr. Henry A. Kissinger has a list of war crime allegations related to Chile, Cambodia and Viet Nam yet faces no Nuremburg style arbitration? Kissinger was Nixon's Secretary of State and more recently and unbelievably, appointed by Bush as Commissioner for the investigation of the 911 attacks. How can this be?
The occupation of Hawai`i is rooted in hate based on race, oppression and national theft. It is unresolved and for the most part unknown, let alone unforgotten. And for this let us recall philosopher George Santayana who said, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
It is time to ask: How can your government withdraw from Hawai`i?
You have had a long and special position in this region and in the US Congress. You have access to history, information and perspective apparently not included in the state’s education curriculum or general media publications. And you choose to perpetuate a dishonourable position with devastating cost to human and other life: the fallen Kanaka Maoli, the fallen in Iraq and Afghanistan, the fallen Hawaiian environment so gravely reduced, retarded and at risk. Concurrently, you manager the expansion of military economies and its negative impacts with enthusiasm.
You are unable or unwilling to take those around you into a sustainable and secure future.
It seems you cannot help.
In the interest of my children and there global community I ask you and your US national patriots to just leave Hawai`i.
In truth,
Michael Daly
Artist, Founder of The Lovelink Project
From: imahi01@mail.house.gov
Subject: Remember Pearl Harbor
Date: December 4, 2009 12:19:40 PM HST
To: alohamichaeldaly@gmail.com
Remember Pearl Harbor
Dear Friends:
The symbols of Pearl Harbor have a significance and value far beyond the photo flashes and craned necks of visitors to Oahu. They hold vivid memories for some who are still with us and a distant memory of many who are long gone. They're emblems of another time, yet they constantly remind us of the destructive power of dreams of conquest and the redemptive power of human courage and sacrifice.
I am always struck by the perfect symmetry of the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial and the U.S.S. Missouri moored directly aft; the torn hulk that marks America's entry into World War II, and the majestic vessel on which that horror ended. And now beside them are the U.S.S. Oklahoma Memorial and the continued development of the Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor on Ford Island.
Echoes of Pearl Harbor still carry important lessons for us 68 years later; lessons about national security and military preparedness; about the need to respect differences and resolve conflict peacefully; about the need for nations to work together toward their common interests. Every generation has an obligation to preserve its history; to leave behind an accurate accounting of the events and ideas that have shaped our land and our people
.
Philosopher George Santayana said, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." No sane person wants to repeat the page from our past enshrined at Pearl Harbor. That's why I've felt compelled to do everything I could in Congress to help preserve these historic treasures and the lessons they hold for future generations.
Sincerely,
Neil Abercrombie
Member of Congress