King Dayne Gonsalves's Story May Convince You That Hawaii Belongs To The Hawaiians

The circumstances by which Hawaii was annexed by the U.S. are so sketchy that Congress felt obliged to issue an apology in 1993. It all started 100 years earlier when a group of mostly American businessmen led a paramilitary coup to overthrow Queen Lili uokalani. They were passively supported by U.S. Marines who were deployed "to protect American lives and property." The coup resulted in a new Hawaiian government under the presidency of Sanford Dole, whose cousin would soon start the Hawaiian Pi...