Following the signing of United States Public Law 103-150 by Bill Clinton, which acknowledged that the Hawaiian people never surrendered their sovereignty during the illegal annexation, many entities have tried to do business relying on the old Kingdom land titles, on the theory that the land titles granted by the illegal occupying government are invalid.
Now, while there may actually be a moral and ultimately legal validity to the claims made by these groups, the hard reality is that the court systems are paid for by the present-day governments, which invariably side with the holders of post-annexation titles. The "we stole it fair and square" attitude preserves the status quo and heads off what would be a nightmare of litigation between the current landholders and the descendants of the people from whom the land was illegally confiscated.
Yes, there are a lot of con-artists out there preying on people who are in financial trouble, and I am concerned that the legitimate Hawaiian sovereignty movement is getting tangled up in this mess.
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