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The Hartmann Report

Did the United States Illegitimately Seize Hawaii? - Free Podcast

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Thom Hartmann

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🗓️ 5 April 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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0:00.0

Here's my favorite ramp for the day excerpted from our podcast which you can find over at

0:04.0

Tom Harbin.com.

0:05.0

Welcome back.

0:09.0

Tom Harbin here live in Hawaii from our affiliate,

0:12.0

our Honolulu, haphilli K-W-A-I, AM-1080.

0:15.4

And in the studio with us, Hawaiian rights activist Poco-Lanui,

0:19.0

attorney, one of the leading voices for Hawaiian independence,

0:21.8

radio host attorney, convener of the Hawaiian National

0:24.2

National Transition Authority,

0:26.0

and an international advocate for indigenous peoples

0:28.6

recognized for his work by the United Nations.

0:31.6

POCA, if we could just wrap up or bring to present moment the history of Hawaii.

0:37.0

Okay, well anyway, Cleveland gets out of office, McKinley comes into office, he tries to get the treaty of annexation adopted by the

0:45.3

Senate can't do it so out of the House of Representative they submit a joint

0:51.1

resolution of Congress arguing that well two houses better than one

0:54.8

although it doesn't need the constitutional requirement and so they circumvent

0:59.0

the Constitution they adopt a treaty claimed that Hawaii is now theirs, and then they convert Hawaii into the territory.

1:06.1

We did that, were that two-thirds of this?

1:07.4

Yes.

1:08.4

That's amazing. And so Hawaii became a territory, that would be like, sort of, like Guam right now?

1:12.4

Sort of, but it's an incorporated territory. that would be like sort of

1:13.0

but it's an incorporated territory with and they make a

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