since the topic of this comment thread has evolved into a general discussion of law, justice, Hawai'i and the US I'd like to remind everyone that the US violated its diplomatic treaty with the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1893 when it committed an unprovoked, undeclared act of war against a peaceful, neutral ally, the Hawaiian Kingdom, in order to support a treasonous coup d'etat which was planned and carried out in collaboration with the US government by a group of 13 self-avowed American/Hawaiian white supremacist racists, the Committee of Safety, whose stated purposr was to take iver the Hawaiian government because, as non-whites, Hawaiians were inferior subhumans who did not have the intelligence to govern themselves even though Polynesians had been governing themselves for thousands of years, had developed a complex society with an advanced food production system, the ahupua'a system and the ability to voyage the length and breadth of the vast Pacific without instruments.