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| | Was the 1893 overthrow of the monarchy illegal? Was it a theft of a nation owned by kanaka maoli and stolen by ... |
 | | Sanford Ballard Dole -- Elected Legislator and Appointed Supreme Court Justice of the Kingdom of Hawai'i; President of the Provisional Government and of the Republic of Hawai'i; Governor of the Territory of Hawai'i, and Presiding Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Territory of Hawai'i | | | The overthrow of the monarchy, and annexation of Hawai'i to the United States, continue to be controversial topics in Hawai'i today. | | | The 1993 apology resolution states that: "In pursuance of the conspiracy to overthrow the Government of Hawai'i, the United States Minister and the naval representatives of the United States caused armed naval forces of the United States to invade the sovereign Hawaiian nation... |
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| | Impact of Change: Overthrow and Annexation Bibliography |
| | President Grover Cleveland's message stating that the overthrow of Lili'uokalani and the takeover of the islands was illegal and without the authority of Congress. | | | Includes the famous Blount Report, President Cleveland's message of Dec. 18, 1893: "This military demonstration upon the soil of Honolulu was of itself an act of war..." (v.1, p. | | | The report by James H. Blount is in v.2, p. |
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| | the act of overthrowing or the state of being overthrown. | | | After overthrowing the monarchy, they made a new constitution. |
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| | US-CIA Overthrow of Iranian Democracy in 1953 |
| | I should have said, of America's first overthrow of a democratically elected government. | | | What happened was this: Kermit Roosevelt, who as you said was Teddy Roosevelt's grandson, was the Near East director for the C.I.A. He slipped clandestinely into Iran just around the end of July 1953. | | | But Kermit Roosevelt, on his own, decided that he would stay. |
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| | Overthrow the Government of the United States |
| | This undermines the Constitution of Missouri and the Constitution of the United States and is the kind of government behavior that leads people towards overthrowing the government. | | | Specifically, I want you to investigate the Missouri Supreme Court to determine if the judges there are signing orders as they are required to by law. | | | There is no law when judges are allowed to break the law. |
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| | Unconfirmedsources.com |
| | Overthrow the Judicial Branch- Cracking the nut of the Judicial Branch will be tough and will require the help of your Secret Ally and an intense media campaign. | | | With the power of the internet and a few brave organizers the people of a country can sweep out the old and usher in a saner form of government. | | | When Your alley amasses enough power he will insulate himself from attack and then join you in your assault on the Judicial Branch. |
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| | Search Results for overthrow - Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | , Iraqi statesman who was the last survivor of the signatories to the UN Charter, was prime minister of Iraq twice, and--following the overthrow of the monarchy in 1958--was sentenced to be hanged;... | | | In 1709 Mir Vays Khan, a leader of the Hotaki Ghilzay tribe, led a successful rising against Gorgin Khan, the Persian governor of Kandahar. | | | Argentinian soldier and statesman who helped overthrow Juan Manuel de... |
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| | The Corporate Overthrow of The U.S.& Armageddon Culture |
| | Perhaps nowhere is this Constitutional hemorrhage of accountability more clear than in the case of the overthrow of the Sovereign Hawaiian Kingdom by a small "Committee" of elitist conspirators, an American ambassador acting covertly, and the War Department. | | | Incoming President Grover Cleveland, upon dispatching his own minister to investigate the matter, was shocked and sickened by the bogus "insurrection" and withdrew the annexation treaty issued by the racist "Republic." | | | When news of the new "Republic" reached Congress, with a treaty of "annexation," President Harrison denied any American involvement in the overthrow. |
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| | Skolnick - The Overthrow Of The American Republic - Part 9 |
| | The American monopoly press is not bashful to discuss that. | | | Such actions would place the United States at odds with its fellow members of the Organization of American States, whose charter condemns the overthrow of democratically elected governments." | | | This helped Clinton divert attention >from the defeat in 1994, with Congress getting a GOP majority in the Election. |
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| | VHeadline.com - USA needed its standard lie used to justify the Venezuelan overthrow |
| | The "some" in the term "some disgruntled senior officers" suggests either that some senior officers were not disgruntled or that some disgruntled senior officers were not stepping up efforts to organize the overthrow of Venezuelan government. | | | This implies that not only Chavez, but also the 10 other senior officials were under intimate physical surveillance from at least April 6 to the overthrow on April 11. | | | So, it's no coincidence that Ari Fleischer (the former US White House press secretary) and Philip Reeker (the US State Department spokesperson) in their April 12 responses to the overthrow of the Venezuelan government, stated that Chavez "provoked" his own overthrow. |
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| | The Overthrow of the Monarchy |
| | The constitutional controversy proved to be the spark that ignited the overthrow of the monarchy. | | | Organizer and fire brand of the league was Lorrin A. Thurston, a lawyer and missionary grandson, who would later be a leader in the overthrow of the monarchy, with many of the same men. | | | A 13-member Committee of Safety was chosen to plan the overthrow of the queen and the establishment of a provisional government. |
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| | HAITI UNDER SIEGE: DEMOCRACY NOW! SPECIAL COVERAGE |
| | Ira Kurzban, the Miami-based attorney who has served as General Counsel to the Haitian government since 1991, said that the paramilitaries fighting to overthrow Aristide are being backed by Washington. | | | The US lawyer representing the government of Haiti charged today that the US government is directly involved in a military coup attempt against the country's democratically elected President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. |
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| | Nu'uanu, O'ahu -- Memories: Overthrow |
| | Her Cabinet wouldn’t sign on to the new constitution, and according to the Bayonet Constitution, she couldn’t do anything unless her Cabinet approved it first. | | | "Organizer and fire brand of the league was Lorrin A. Thurston, a lawyer and missionary grandson, who would later be a leader in the overthrow of the monarchy, with many of the same men." (Pitzer, 1994). | | | It imposed heavier property requirements for voting, so people could only vote for the upper house of the legislature if they had so much property, or a certain income. |
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| | Did U.S. citizens decide to overthrow Chavez? |
| | The United States had been considering a coup to overthrow the elected Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, since last June, a former US intelligence officer claimed yesterday. | | | Pentagon sources revealed the United States provided critical military and intelligence support to the Venezuelan military coup against President Hugo Chavez. | | | It supported authoritarian regimes throughout Central and South America during and after the cold war in defense of its economic and political interests. |
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| | US Plans to Overthrow Venezuela President? - PRAVDA.Ru |
| | Venezuela President Hugo Chavez believes that the US is preparing to overthrow him. | | | The leader of the South American country stated that in his traditional TV and radio appearance on Sunday called Hello, President! | | | Washington may treat Chavez as an enemy of democracy who has sabotaged the referendum and thus must be overthrown |
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| | EDSA Revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This was not successful, because it can be argued that Joseph Estrada learned from past mistakes and made decisions to prevent his ouster- by nightfall, he had declared all of the National Capital Region as being under a State of Rebellion. | | | According to some observers, the EDSA Revolution was little more than a coup d'état by disgruntled military officials, who attempted to overthrow Marcos and install a military junta with Corazon Aquino as a figurehead president. | | | Months after EDSA II, a desperate attempt to overthrow the government prompted an EDSA III (EDSA tres) that was staged by hundreds of thousands of Estrada's supporters. |
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| | Overthrow Journal/Magazine Resources |
| | Summary: The portraits of the two aspirants for Congressional Delegate honors at the election in Hawaii Territory this month are presented on this page. | | | Summary: An international organization of indigenous people it being asked to conduct an impartial investigation of American involvement in the overthrow of the Hawaiian government in 1893 and the subsequent role played by the United States in Hawaii. | | | Summary: Recent scholarly assessments of the motives of the United States in supporting the overthrow of Queen Lili'uokalani in January of 1893 by non- native, primarily American, planters, businessmen, and lawyers have emphasized economic and geostrategic positions. |
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| | Venezuelan warns of U.S. overthrow / Speech points to growing friction with Bush |
| | Venezuelan Foreign Minister Ali Rodriguez warned Friday that the Bush administration may be plotting to overthrow his country's leftist leader, Hugo Chavez, in what he called a throwback to Washington's long history of gunboat diplomacy in Latin America. | | | In a speech at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Rodriguez added fuel to the burning dispute between the White House and Chavez, saying U.S. officials' recent criticisms of the Venezuelan president were "ignorant" and "arrogant." | | | "There have been lots of attacks against Venezuela from the United States recently, and we have lots of prior experience with this sort of thing," Rodriguez said, citing successful CIA-influenced overthrows of leftist leaders in Guatemala in 1954, the Dominican Republic in 1965 and Chile in 1973. |
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| | ZNet Haiti Haiti - Insurrection in the Making |
| | The towns remain under siege by criminal gangs led by former paramilitary members. | | | Rejects any violent overthrow of the government and insists that any change in government be in compliance with Haiti's constitution. | | | Only with the rise of Aristide, Haiti's first democratically elected president, did US support shift from the Haitian leadership to those who orchestrated the 1991 coup d'etat. |
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| | Egypt - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Egypt |
| | The majority of African states did not follow the UAR in breaking off diplomatic relations with Britain over the Rhodesia issue in December 1965 (see Zimbabwe). | | | Nasser established close personal links with President Nkrumah of Ghana, and this alliance long seemed formidable. | | | But Nkrumah's overthrow in 1966 and Ghana's subsequent immediate withdrawal from the UAR orbit illustrated the weakness of this connection; few other African political leaders were prepared to subscribe fully to the UAR's particular interpretation of pan-Africanism. |
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| | THE BUSINESS PLOT TO OVERTHROW ROOSEVELT |
| | The plotters felt his good reputation was important to make the troops feel confident that they were doing the right thing by overthrowing a democratically elected president. | | | They selected him because he was a war hero who was popular with the troops. | | | However, this was a mistake: Butler was popular with the troops because he identified with them. |
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| | Amazon.com: How to Overthrow the Government: Books: Arianna Huffington |
| | "Our government is no longer serving us," declares Arianna Huffington in How to Overthrow the Government. | | | As for the overthrowing of the government, Mrs. | | | This book is about overthrowing this plutocracy, and people of all political persuasions should be concerned, unless you're a slave to the big money. |
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| | WorldNetDaily: Secret Saddam memo in case of overthrow |
| | Israel's new confidence in attack on Iran nukes | | | WorldNetDaily: Secret Saddam memo in case of overthrow | | | Document ordered officials to destroy buildings, nation's infrastructure |
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| | the act of overthrowing; state or condition of being overthrown. | | | If I hadn't overthrown, it would have been a sure putout. |
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| | Documents Expose U.S. Role in Nkrumah Overthrow |
| | Declassified National Security Council and Central Intelligence Agency documents provide compelling, new evidence of United States government involvement in the 1966 overthrow of Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah. | | | Prepared by the State Department's Office of the Historian, the latest volumes reflect the overt diplomacy and covert actions of President Lyndon B. Johnson's administration from 1964-68. | | | Komer would have known that orders such as the overthrow of Nkrumah would have been communicated in a deliberately vague, opaque, allusive, and indirect fashion, as Thomas Powers noted in The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA. |
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| | The overthrow of Haiti's Aristide: a coup made in the USA |
| | Aristide’s overthrow is the outcome of a bloody coup orchestrated by the Bush administration and aided by the Chirac government in Paris. | | | The violent overthrow and forced exile of Haiti’s President Jean-Bertrand Aristide has ripped aside the democratic pretensions of Washington and the other major powers to expose the brutal and predatory character of resurgent imperialism. | | | His anti-imperialist rhetoric notwithstanding, Aristide never sought to overthrow the state structure that was the product of two centuries of foreign oppression. |
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| | The Bottom of the Barrel |
| | Furthermore, it is important to note that White can by no means be held directly responsible for the content posted on his site’s message boards. | | | Whether or not White is personally sincere in his violent propaganda is irrelevant. | | | Often referred to as the "Third position," as it is technically neither a politically-Left nor politically Right-wing movement, this new doctrinal synthesis, which is one of the fastest growing ideological movements on the political fringe, uses a strange brew of socialism, anti-Semitism, and anti-Americanism to unite extremist factions from both sides of the political spectrum. |
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| | Overthrow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | An overthrow or coup is a term referring to a change in government, whereby a leader or party is removed from power, often through the use of force. | | | This page was last modified 00:03, 14 January 2006. | | | Famous overthrows have included the coup in the Soviet Union in the early 1990's, or of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. |
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| | The Daily Star - Politics - Kuwait accuses Islamists of plotting to overthrow regime |
| | "The charge has been upgraded from a misdemeanor for violating the publication and assembly laws to a felony for establishing a political party to overthrow the regime," the statement said. | | | KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait's public prosecution Tuesday interrogated nine Islamist activists who founded the emirate's first political party on charges of plotting to "overthrow the government," the party said. | | | Nine activists interrogated, charged with felony over founding emirate's first political party |
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| | Wars and International Conflicts |
| | The Russian Revolution was a political movement in Russia that climaxed in 1917 with the overthrow of the Russian Tsar system and led to the establishment of the Soviet Union, which lasted until 1992. | | | This movement was led by Vladimir Lenin and marked the beginning of the spread of communism in the twentieth century. |
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| | Turkmenistan: Leaflets Calling For Overthrow Of Government Appear In Bazaars - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY |
| | It remains unclear who is behind the leaflets, but it is a strange and potentially serious act of defiance in a country where the government is known for exercising strict control over society. | | | Prague, 15 July 2004 (RFE/RL) -- Police and security forces in Turkmenistan are still looking for the people responsible for distributing leaflets in bazaars in Ashgabat last week that called for the overthrow of President Saparmurat Niyazov's government. | | | In an appeal to the country's Muslims, the leaflets call for the faithful to avoid worshipping at the new mosque Niyazov is building in his former hometown outside Ashgabat. |
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| | WorldNetDaily: Iraqi overthrow of Saddam not likely |
| | Although U.S. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice recently said that the United States wishes to be seen as "liberators" promoting "democratization or the march of freedom in the Muslim world," the rest of the Arab world is unlikely to see this, especially during an Iraq war. | | | In the end the United States will launch a conventional war while using Iraqi opposition members as an auxiliary force, which will likely cause Iraqi citizens to rally around Hussein in defending their country from invasion, Stratfor says. | | | Moreover, they would not even know where he and his inner circle are located at that point. |
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| | VENEZUELA: OPPOSITION FAILS TO OVERTHROW PRESIDENT HUGO CHAVEZ |
| | he Venezuelan opposition, with the support of dissident military officers, attempted to overthrow President Hugo Chavez on April 11, but coup leaders seriously misjudged the degree of support Chavez had both within the military and in civilian society. | | | Outrage at the undemocratic actions of the "interim government" forced a reversal of the coup, with Chavez returning to power April 13. | | | It also provided a dress rehearsal and allowed those plotting the coup to see which military units could be relied upon and which could not. |
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| | [n] the act of disturbing the mind or body; "his carelessness could have caused an ecological upset"; "she was unprepared for this sudden overthrow of their normal way of living". |
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| | US CODE: Title 18,2385. Advocating overthrow of Government |
| | Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction. | | | Whoever organizes or helps or attempts to organize any society, group, or assembly of persons who teach, advocate, or encourage the overthrow or destruction of any such government by force or violence; or becomes or is a member of, or affiliates with, any such society, group, or assembly of persons, knowing the purposes thereof— |
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| | Memo on the Margin: Let’s Overthrow China’s Government!!; 04-16-01 |
| | There he was on NBC’s Meet the Press, practically on Tim Russert’s lap, wringing his hands over the humiliation he feels for all of us red-blooded Americans, by jingo. | | | Memo on the Margin: Let’s Overthrow China’s Government!!; 04-16-01 | | | I don’t know whether you still watch the Sunday morning talk shows, but the editor of your Weekly Standard, Bill Kristol, announced on Easter Sunday that his goal is to persuade Uncle Sam that we should overthrow the People’s Republic of China. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Special reports Bacardi accused of campaign to oust Castro |
| | The company is accused of bankrolling extreme rightwing groups and American mainstream politicians in an effort to remove Fidel Castro and re-establish its profitable empire on the island. | | | It was also used as a conduit in the secret war against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua carried out by the Reagan administration until the exposure of the Iran-Contra affair. | | | Directors and leading shareholders in Bacardi were instrumental in the formation in 1981 of the Cuban American National Foundation (CANF) which was to become one of the main bodies coordinating efforts to overthrow Castro. |
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| | Media Watch (April 24, 2002) |
| | Chavez himself." The editorial went on to support the coup installed "presidency" of business leader Pedro Carmona, who resigned a day before the editorial was published, and urging a quick return to "democracy" after the overthrow of a democratically elected president. | | | The coup was obviously a done deal and Chavez's populist presidency was a major disaster and now history. | | | Predictably, the WSJ's anti-Chavez editorial "Castro's Man In Caracas" didn't mince words about what Washington should do next to try to overthrow Chavez: "Saddam Hussein has hailed his return and Castro and Gadhafi cannot be far behind. |
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| | CIA: Overthrow of Premier Mossadeq of Iran |
| | Full authority was given to Ambassador Henderson and the Chief of Station enabling any part or all of the $1,000,000 to be used without further authority, as long as the Ambassador and the station concurred. | | | S E C R E T HISTORIAN'S NOTE This paper, entitled Overthrow of Premier Mossadeq of Iran, was written in March 1954 by Dr. Donald N. Wilber who had played an active role in the operation. | | | This was to become the Amini/Qashqai plan which the station kept alive as a possible alternative until the successful conclusion of TPAJAX. |
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| | The Pinochet File |
| | The Archive also posted today a series of declassified transcripts of Kissinger's staff meetings after he became Secretary of State. | | | "It reinforces the judgement of history on Kissinger's role as the primary advocate of overthrowing the Allende government." |
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| | NarutoFan > Naruto Encyclopedia |
| | A French word meaning to overthrow a government or dictator; Which are attempted usually in small groups of members of the community which are known as rebels. | | | Momochi Zabuza attempts this act on the Hidden Mist Village but does not suceed and leaves the village. | | | Collectors also give scrolls to other members of their village to make sure they will pass it aswell. |
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| | The Overthrow Of The American Republic, Part 76 |
| | It stated that just released data shows that a member of British royalty, a prominent militaristic Tory, secretly traveled across the U.S. in 1968, to elicit American elite aid to overthrow the British Labour Government in London. | | | The day before the attempted assassination of newly inauguated President Ronald Reagan, in 1981, was a boxed in item in many mass media newspapers. | | | The Overthrow Of The American Republic, Part 76 |
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| | Preventing the Maoist Overthrow of Nepal |
| | Thus, the overthrow of the Nepalese government could undermine both countries' interests in Katmandu. | | | Before the cease-fire, some analysts were predicting that the rapid military success of the Maoists would result in the overthrow of Nepal's government. | | | The conflict began in 1996 when the Communist Party of Nepal launched a "war of liberation" that spread to more than 50 of Nepal's 75 districts by the time of the cease-fire. |
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| | USATODAY.com - Saudi Arabia would back overthrow led by Iraqis |
| | In an interview one day after Vice President Cheney met with Saudi officials, Saud indicated that a coup against Saddam is preferable to a reprise of the Gulf War in 1991. | | | JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia would support a U.S.-assisted overthrow of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein as long as it is led by the Iraqi people, Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal said Sunday. | | | Saudi Arabia would back overthrow led by Iraqis |
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| | Ivory Coast loyalists fear leader's overthrow - World & Nation |
| | French and Ivory Coast military leaders, appearing together on state television, appealed for calm following three days of violent protests that have wounded more than 500 people. | | | Thousands of government loyalists massed outside the home of Ivory Coast's president Monday, facing off against French armored vehicles in response to urgent appeals for a "human shield" around the hard-line leader, amid fears of an overthrow. | | | Ivory Coast loyalists fear leader's overthrow - World & Nation |
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| | To this "superior force of the United States of America," Queen Lili`uokalani yielded her throne, under protest, in order to avoid bloodshed, trusting that the United States government would right the wrong that had been done to her and the Hawaiian people. | | | Summarizes the Blount Report and concludes: "Can the United States consistently insist that other nations shall respect the independence of Hawaii while not respecting it ourselves? | | | For readers new to Hawaii's history, Pat Pitzer's article The Overthrow of the Monarchy, is an excellent introduction, although it covers events in the middle of a very long time-line. |
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