Declaration of Principles Governing the Reestablishment of the Government of the Sovereign Kingdom of Hawai'i.

By 1893, the Kingdom of Hawaii had been a Constitutional Monarchy (A form of democracy) and a member of the international community of nations for over 50 years.

Many nations, including the major European countries, Japan, the United States and others had extended diplomatic recognition to our Nation. The United States and other countries had exchanged ambassadors with the Kingdom of Hawai'i and had entered into various treaties with our country.

Christianity had been introduced to the Hawaiian archipelago over 70 years previously and was thriving throughout our islands as was our growing economy. The Kingdom of Hawai'i enjoyed growing international trade and participation in the international community of nations. We were a free, democratic and prosperous nation, at peace with all other nations.

In 1853 Our Kingdom declared itself to be a "neutral state" under international law.The 1890 official census of the Kingdom of Hawaii showed 48,00 "citizens" of which 41,000 were Native Hawaiians, and 46,000 foreign nationals of which 1900 were U. S. citizens. On January 16, 1893 the United States invaded our Kingdom by military force pursuant the U.S. government's preapproved plan to invade our islands, a plan created by the U.S. Minister to Hawaii (ambassador) together with four U.S. nationals living in the Kingdom. The United States promptly imprisoned our Queen, disbanded our Legislature and established its own "Provisional Government", later to be renamed the Republic of Hawaii.

In December of 1893 U. S. President Grover Cleveland entered into an agreement with our reigning Queen (our Head of State) to return governance of the Kingdom to our Monarch and Legislature and the Queen in return agreed to pardon the four conspiring U. S. nationals. This was then and is now a binding agreement between our countries. This was not a treaty, but rather an agreement recognized under U.S. law as not requiring the approval of the United States Senate which must approve treaties. See U. S. Supreme Court decision in United States v. Belmont, 301 United States Supreme Court Reports, pages 324,326,

In 1894 the Republic of Hawaii, with then but 1200 registered voters who were mostly U. S. nationals, signed a agreement allowing the United States to annex Hawaii. 50,000 of our citizens and residents signed petitions objecting to the proposed annexation and delivered the petitions to the U. S. Senate. Twice thereafter the then U. S.

President, William McKinley, proposed the agreement of annexation to the U.S. Senate for its necessary approval as a treaty and twice the U. S. Senate refused to approve the annexation of the lands of our Kingdom.

In May of 1898, during the war between the United States and Spain, the U.S. Congress by Joint Resolution of the Senate and House of Representatives declared the annexation of our Kingdom's lands by the United States. In the Joint Resolution there is no mention of any agreement with the Kingdom of Hawaii nor with the puppet government the Republic of Hawaii. Neither the Kingdom of Hawaii nor any other group claiming governance over Kingdom's island has ever entered into an agreement of annexation approved by the United States Senate as required for treaty status by the United States Constitution.

The United States' unilateral annexation of Hawaii in 1898 is not recognized as a lawful annexation under international law. Countries cannot annex one another by one country declaring annexation, annexation requires an agreement of treaty status between to governments authorised to do so. The Kingdom of Hawaii will not unilaterally act without a proper treaty to annex the lands of Great Britain , but that is exactly what the United States did to our Kingdom.

Under international law the United States was beginning January 16, 1893 and has been continuously to the current date the "military occupier" of the Kingdom of Hawaii. Military occupier status creates duties and limitations on the occupier under the Hague Convention IV, the Geneva Convention and the Nuremberg Laws. The United States is a party to these treaties as each was approved by the United States Senate. The United States has continuously ignored its duties and limitations in its military occupation of our Kingdom.

The United States took our Nation's name, our flag, our lands and our government. Native Hawaiians who objected were killed or imprisoned. Lands long titled to Native Hawaiians were confiscated and given to those non-Hawaiians who had planned and supported the invasion of our country. Native Hawaiians became and remain the poor of Hawai'i.

As the decades passed our social and cultural traditions were suppressed and often forbidden. Our political, social, cultural and economic rights were and are today effectively non-existent. Tens of thousands of native Hawaiian children were taken and given in adoption to non-Hawaiian families, a practice long recognized under international law as an act of genocide; many of these "forgotten ones" are unaware of their Hawaiian ancestry. Slowly but surely we Native Hawaiians became a minority in our own country.

In 1993 the United States Congress, by Resolution signed into law by the U.S. President, recognized the fact of the unlawful invasion and overthrow of our government, the suppression of our people and the genocidal acts committed by the United States against the native Hawaiian people. That Resolution contained an apology to the Native Hawaiian people.

We ask the American citizens and their government to join with the Kingdom of Hawai'i and the Native Hawaiian people to reestablish the government of the Kingdom of Hawai'i so that we may, in accordance with international law and Judeo Christian principles, once again exercise sovereignty and governance over our homeland in peace and harmony with all nations.

Today, approximately 200,000 Native Hawaiians live in the islands of the Hawaiian Archipelago. Between 5,000 and 10,000 are homeless. Another 100,000 or more lack adequate housing and are living two, three or even four families per house. Over 33,000 Native Hawaiian families are on the State of Hawai'i's list of Native Hawaiian families awaiting housing.

The State of Hawai'i took 30% of the land in the Hawaiian islands as its own, without regard to existing Native Hawaiian use or title to these lands. It says the lands are held in trust for Native Hawaiians and, to fulfill its trusteeship, sells and leases the lands to non Hawaiians and has raised hundred's of millions of dollars in this way. The State of Hawai'i claims it will use the monies in part to build homes for Native Hawaiian families on the "list" and will then sell the homes to them. The State has advised, however, that few homes will in fact be built because very few Native Hawaiian families on the list have sufficient income to qualify for the State's required mortgage financing.

DECLARATION:

As we, the Native Hawaiian people, proceed step by step to reestablish the government of our Nation and regain the sovereignty of our Nation and ancestral lands, let our words, deeds and actions always be governed by these Principles..

1. The United States, by its unlawful invasion of our country, gained no rights or entitlements under international law, none, and gained no entitlements to pass on to others. Through the Spirit of Aloha we shall abstain from threat, intimidation and violence as we reestablish our national identity and our sovereign government.
2. The Kingdom of Hawai'i exists as a sovereign nation. It lacks a legitimate government which we shall provide by establishing a revised Constitution, legislature and elected officials. We accept no formula of percentage of blood quantum as a way to determine the ethnicity of Native Hawaiians. We embrace ALL persons of Hawaiian ancestry. We will not rest until all of the forgotten ones taken from our families are found and reunited with their Hawaiian families and culture.
3. We shall never by policy, action, agreement or otherwise, permit Native Hawaiians to become a political minority in our own country. It is, however, our responsibility to understand the needs and rights of non-Hawaiians who live in our Nation so that to the maximum extent possible they may enjoy full participation in the political, economic, social and cultural life of our Nation.
4. The security and economic future of our Nation is irrevocably linked to the United States. On matters of national and international peace and security we must work hand in hand with the leadership of the United States. We must be firm that all private and public commercial relationships be fair, just and mutual.
5. We cannot and will not forget the brutal political, economic and cultural suppression of the Native Hawaiian people by the various groups, organizations and commercial interests supported by the United States. This is our history with all who live in our Islands. Our hope is that working with them we will together eradicate the injustices which continue to suppress the Native Hawaiian people.
6. The greatest challenge facing the Native Hawaiian people is to overcome our poverty and inadequate wages, to provide homes and better jobs and opportunities and to improve the quality of life of Native Hawaiians. Our new legislature must urgently address these needs. Only if all residents of our islands prosper will a real and permanent prosperity be possible for our people.
7. Land and business ownership obtained in good faith by non Hawaiian persons and business must be respected, while at the same time honoring prior ownership by Native Hawaiians, especially as relates to land ownership. A national policy of reconciliation and resolution must be quickly adopted and implemented by our new legislature to address the current land tenure system.
8. We look to the United States not for reparations but for financial assistance as our renewed sovereignty and governance proceeds and over 100 years of manifest injustice is undone.
9. Our relationships with the United States will be determined by government to government negotiations. Any special future political relationship with the United States will require the vote and approval of the Native Hawaiian people. We will not negotiate with the State of Hawai'i as it is but an illegal subordinate political part of the United States and has been and continues to be the primary agent of our suppression. It will take a year or more for our government to assume the responsibilities now undertaken by departments, offices and courts of the State of Hawai'i. Governmental services to all persons and businesses in Hawai'i must continue uninterrupted by the transition of governments.
10. We shall not fail. We commit ourselves, placing our trust in God, the wisdom of our Elders and with the assistance of all nations and persons of goodwill, to the restoration of our sovereign Nation and to the freedom and prosperity of our people and all inhabitants of our Nation.

Richard Kamahele Figueroa
President and CEO
FullOn Holdings, Inc.

May 2008