As I was going to post this it suddenly occurred to me that I could wish you a happy Pearl Harbor Day, and still be on topic.
EX-Army Officer Makes Reversing The Illegal Occupation Of Hawaii Into His Life Mission|
Thirteen or so generations ago, America was just another ragged pile of colonized lands.
Then the Americans had a Revolution, and it was good.
But alas, at some point back halfway between then and now, they started to become colonizers themselves.
Early into that process, Hawaii stands out, as not only a victim of colonization, but as a victim of fascism, which as you recall is the merger of the corporation and the state.
After the overthrow of the monarchy, Sanford B. Dole served as the provisional president of the Republic of Hawaii while the US was in the process of invading and illegally annexing it.
You might recognize the Dole name from pineapples or bananas, or involvement in later projects of fascist colonialism and massacres in places like Colombia and Guatemala.
This is how Success works, within an Empire. Corporately.
But that’s not what the video is about.
It’s about an unusually promising effort to right that habitual wrong, out there in the Kingdom of the Hawaiian Island Chain, as it existed in great-grandfather’s day.
And the former US Army Field Artillery captain who is spearheading that effort.