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Ken Conklin Ph.D. vs. Keanu Sai Ph.D. -- Dialog regarding Sai's presentation to a committee of the Maui County Council in May-June 2019 in which Sai relies on false assertions that Hawaii is under a continuous prolonged belligerent occupation by the United States from January 1893 to now; that the State of Hawaii is an illegitimate puppet regime; that therefore land titles in Hawaii are not valid.

On May 15, 2019 the Planning and Sustainable Land Use Committee of the Maui County Council entertained Hawaiian independence activist David Keanu Sai for nearly three hours. He began with a lecture and slide show lasting two hours, followed by a question and answer discussion of about 53 minutes. Later the committee posted a notice that Mr. Sai would be returning for another session on June 5, which might last for as long as three more hours.

This webpage provides links to two YouTube videos produced by Mr. Sai's media team, showing the entirety of Mr. Sai's presentation and discussion of May 15. Also provided is a lengthy "news report" puff piece in an alternative newspaper describing who he is and many details of what he said. Upon learning that Mr. Sai would be returning for another session with the committee, Ken Conklin wrote a 20-page memorandum as a rebuttal to Mr. Sai and sent it to the committee. The memo, provided in its entirety on this webpage, urges the committee to cross-examine Sai in light of facts about Hawaii's history described and proved in the memo, and in light of information about Mr. Sai's three decades of business scams. The scams enrich him because gullible clients pay large fees for documents provided by Mr. Sai which the clients try to use to defend in court against mortgage foreclosure and/or to get title insurance companies to pay the value of the foreclosed property.

On June 5 Mr. Sai did return to the same committee for an additional 3 hours of presentation including a relatively short Q&A session at the end. Mr. Sai's media team divided the entire event into 4 YouTube videos; links are provided.

TABLE OF CONTENTS: SCROLL DOWN TO FIND WHATEVER INTERESTS YOU

A VIDEO OF MR. SAI'S TWO-HOUR PRESENTATION ON JUNE 15, 2019; AND A VIDEO OF THE 53 MINUTE Q/A DISCUSSION THAT IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWED IT.

FULL TEXT OF A LENGTHY NEWS REPORT IN THE "MAUI TIME" WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DESCRIBING WHO MR. SAI IS AND WHAT HE SAID TO THE COMMITTEE.

KEN CONKLIN'S 20-PAGE MEMORANDUM TO THE COMMITTEE. THE MEMO EXPLAINS, AND PROVIDES PROOF, THAT THERE WAS NO "OCCUPATION" OF THE KINGDOM OF HAWAII BY THE U.S. FOR FIVE YEARS AFTER THE REVOLUTION OF 1893 UNTIL THE ANNEXATION IN 1898; NO PUPPET REGIME; HEADS OF STATE OF NUMEROUS NATIONS FORMALLY RECOGNIZED THE REPUBLIC OF HAWAII AS THE RIGHTFUL SUCCESSOR GOVERNMENT TO THE KINGDOM; THE REPUBLIC OFFERED A TREATY OF ANNEXATION WHICH THE U.S. ACCEPTED; THE U.S. HAS SOVEREIGNTY IN HAWAII AND LAND TITLES ARE VALID.

ON JUNE 5, 2019 MR. SAI RETURNED TO THE PLANNING AND SUSTAINABLE LAND USE COMMITTEE OF THE MAUI COUNTY COUNCIL WHERE HE SPENT MORE THAN THREE HOURS (INCLUDING A 10 MINUTE BREAK) EXPANDING AND EXTENDING HIS EARLIER PRESENTATION. COMMITTEE MEMBERS SHOWED NO INTEREST IN CROSS-EXAMINING HIM; ONLY A FEW FRIENDLY QUESTIONS WERE ASKED TOWARD THE END. MR. SAI'S MEDIA PEOPLE CREATED 4 YOUTUBE VIDEOS; DESCRIPTIONS AND LINKS PROVIDED BELOW.

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Keanu Sai's blog entry for May 22, 2019 provides a photo of the official Maui County Council committee agenda item announcing his upcoming presentation for May 15. The blog also provides two embedded videos, for the two hour presentation and for the followup question/answer discussion. Below that are a few brief online comments made by Sai's admirers -- Mr. Sai usually screens attempted comments and then posts the ones he likes.

https://hawaiiankingdom.org/blog/video-of-dr-keanu-sais-presentation-to-the-maui-county-council-on-the-status-of-the-hawaiian-kingdom-under-international-law/

The same two videos are available on YouTube, which allows pausing and fast scrolling.

(1) The two hour presentation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG9Z6mlEPWE

(2) The 53-minute followup question/answer period
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6eL3GArq3U&t=5s

Those videos could conceivably be changed or deleted by Keanu Sai at any time, so it would be nice if they were more permanently available in the archives of the Akaku Maui Community Media (similar to 'Olelo TV on O'ahu), which originally broadcast those events live by streaming video on May 15. See information about Akaku at
https://www.facebook.com/pg/AkakuMauiCommunityMedia/about/?ref=page_internal

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Maui Time weekly, May 24, 2019, headline article

Hawai'i: The Fake State - Dr. David Keanu Sai talks to the Maui County Council about the ongoing American occupation of the Hawaiian Kingdom

BY AXEL BEERS

Don't call Dr. David Keanu Sai a sovereignty activist. Despite decades of research into the 1893 overthrow and ongoing occupation of the Hawaiian Kingdom, the UH faculty member and political scientist takes pains to avoid the word "sovereignty" and emphasizes that he is not a political activist.

Sai's low-key approach is unusual in a field that "still has the air of conspiracy theory," as one newpaper put it last year. Yet, the idea that the Hawaiian Kingdom exists as a nation illegally occupied by the United States has become so legitimized that it was recently a Maui County Council agenda item.

In a May 15 meeting of the County Council Planning and Sustainable Land Use Committee, Chair Tamara Paltin invited Sai to present an "Update on Land Use and Planning in Consideration of Hawaii's Status Under International Law." Paltin is currently investigating disputes regarding ceded lands (lands that were designated as "Crown Lands" during the Hawaiian Kingdom but following the overthrow were considered surrendered to the U.S. as government lands).

"That's assuming something got ceded," Sai told the committee. He added that a better term would be "seized lands."

Because of statements like that "A lot of people tend to paint this image of me as if I'm a Hawaiian activist," Sai said. "A lot of people think I'm in Hawaiian Studies and I say, 'Hey, that's racial profiling,'" he added with a laugh.

Sai's roots as a leading expert on the overthrow and occupation of the Hawaiian Kingdom come from a surprising place: the U.S. Military. As an artilleryman, he gained a sense of pragmatism and the importance of drawing conclusions based on comprehensive intelligence, which during his military tenure often related to the Gulf War. As he learned about the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait, Sai noticed a familiar pattern, which he outlined in a video shown to the committee.

Sai learned from Desert Storm intelligence briefings that after invading Kuwait, Iraq established a puppet government called the Provisional Government of Kuwait. "And here I'm looking at Hawai'i and these guys [who overthrew the Hawaiian Kingdom government] called themselves the Provisional Government of Hawai'i. And then, later, that Provisional Government of Kuwait changed its name to the Republic of Kuwait. That's exactly what the provisional government did in Hawai'i. They changed their name to the Republic of Hawai'i and then asked to be annexed, just as the Republic of Kuwait was asking to be annexed... they were disguising themselves to be Kuwaitis when they were in fact Iraqi nationals. And then just as Iraq unilaterally seized Kuwait, the United States did the same in 1898 in a joint resolution of Congress.'

"The parallels were unbelievable and I quickly saw Hawai'i's situation," he said.

Subsequent research caused Sai to conclude that Hawai'i is not not a part of the United States "and that we're occupied... Just as Iraq was not complying with the law of occupation - the Hague and Geneva Conventions - the United States was not complying with the law of occupation either."

Since then, he has worked to deepen his understanding of the situation, and share his knowledge with others through his work as an educator and in legal cases regarding the Hawaiian Kingdom.

Sai analyzes international law and precedence, and uses that framework to study the actions and events related to the Hawaiian Kingdom's independence, the overthrow of Queen Lili'uokalani, and how the United States' takeover of the Hawaiian Kingdom government fits that framework.

In Kuwait's case, despite the Iraqi occupation, the U.S. and the world understood that Kuwait still existed, Sai said. During that time, Iraq was still expected to administer Kuwaiti law until a treaty of peace was signed.

"Jurisdiction under international law is through treaties," Sai said. "One country can have jurisdiction over another country under the Hague Convention, the Vienna Convention, or the Status of Forces Agreement."

These agreements have been the norm in the history of the United States' land acquisition. Through treaties, such as the 1803 treaty with France that set the terms of the Louisiana Purchase, lands were voluntarily ceded from foreign countries. In the case of the Mexican Cession that included what's now California and Texas, land was acquired through post-war treaty.

When it comes to Hawai'i, however, no such treaty of annexation between the United States and the Hawaiian Kingdom exists.

Instead, the annexation of Hawai'i and the long-held belief that it is a part of the United States stems from an 1898 joint resolution of the U.S. Congress.

But, Sai clarified, "A joint resolution is not a treaty."

That means the joint resolution that "annexed" Hawai'i had no authority and jurisdiction within the Hawaiian Kingdom, a sovereign nation recognized by other countries worldwide. Yet, the U.S. continued to pass laws governing the occupied kingdom, including the Organic Act of 1900 which named Hawai'i a territory of the U.S. and the 1959 Statehood Act which enrolled Hawai'i as the 50th state.

Sai recalled the words of Nebraska Sen. William Allen, who opposed the 1898 joint resolution. "[A]n attempt to annex or acquire territory by act or joint resolution of Congress is in violation of the letter, spirit, and policy of the Constitution... I utterly repudiate the power of Congress to annex the Hawaiian Islands by a joint resolution such as passed the Senate. It is ipso facto null and void."

The U.S. Supreme Court has also recognized the limit of municipal laws. "Neither the Constitution nor the laws passed in pursuance of it have any force in foreign territory," Sai said. "Operations of the nation in such territory must be governed by treaties, international understandings and compacts, and the principles of international law."

So, if the so-called annexation of Hawai'i has no authority and the Hawaiian Kingdom still exists, but under occupation, what does that mean to us today?

In 1893, following the overthrow, President Grover Cleveland addressed Congress about what he called an "armed invasion." Said Cleveland, "By an act of war the Government of a friendly and confiding people has been overthrown."

To Sai, "Overthrowing the government does not equate to an overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom as an independent state."

To understand the implications, one has to look at the international law of occupation that existed at the time the American occupation began - January 17, 1893, the date of the overthrow.

"The law of occupation in 1893 obligated the United States to administer Hawaiian Kingdom law," said Sai. However that never happened.

One legal consequence of the government failing to fulfill these obligations or properly annex Hawai'i involves land titles. Hawaiian Kingdom law requires these transactions to be signed by a Hawaiian Kingdom notary. But none existed after the overthrow.

"Deeds of conveyance of real property and mortgages after January 17, 1893 could not be considered lawfully executed," said Sai.

In 1996 the Council of Regency was formed, authorized by a provision in the Hawaiian Kingdom Constitution of 1864 for times when there is no monarch.

The Council was formed similar to other governments in exile in World War II, and includes Sai in the Cabinet Council as chairman and minister of the interior.

Sai explained the three phases of the Council of Regency's strategic plan: Verification of the Hawaiian Kingdom as an independent state and subject of international law (phase one), exposure of Hawaiian statehood within the framework of international law and the laws of occupation as it affects the realm of politics and economics at both the international and domestic levels (phase 2), and restoration of the Hawaiian Kingdom as an independent state and a subject of international law (phase 3).

By 1999, the Council of Regency was representing the Hawaiian Kingdom at the Permanent Court of Arbitration, an intergovernmental organization in the Netherlands formed under the 1899 Hague Convention to solve international disputes. The case involved an individual who claimed the Hawaiian Kingdom was obligated to defend him from U.S. law. As a result of the proceedings, the first phase of the Council of Regency was completed: The Permanent Court of Arbitration verified the Hawaiian Kingdom to be an independent state and subject of international law, and the Council of Regency as the government of the Hawaiian Kingdom.

The case caught the attention of Rwandan Ambassador Jacques Bihozagara. According to Sai, Bihozagara, a survivor of the Rwandan genocide, urged the Council to report to the United Nations General Assembly about the prolonged occupation of Hawai'i, because "Rwanda understands what happens when international law is violated but the international community does not step in until it's too late." The Council declined Bihozagara's offer and decided to engage, educate, and build community around the issue instead.

So began phase two of the Council of Regency's plan, exposure of the facts through "education, education, education."

This phase, still ongoing, has unfolded through Sai's work as an educator within the University of Hawai'i system, the publishing of his history book Ua Mau Ke Ea Sovereignty Endures: An Overview of the Political and Legal History of the Hawaiian Islands, corrections to American-centric textbooks, articles published for the National Education Association, journal papers, and more.

In turn, that's resulted in more recognition and exposure. Last year, Dr. Alfred M. deZayas, professor of international law and then United Nations independent expert, wrote in a memo: "I have come to understand that the lawful political status of the Hawaiian Islands is that of a sovereign nation-state in continuity; but a nation-state that is under a strange form of occupation by the United States resulting from an illegal military occupation and a fraudulent annexation. As such, international laws (the Hague and Geneva Conventions) require that governance and legal matters within the occupied territory of the Hawaiian Islands must be administered by the application of the laws of the occupied state (in this case the Hawaiian Kingdom), not the domestic laws of the occupier (the United States)."

"I'm not into arguing, I'm just into defending the research," Sai stated, emphasizing again the need to present facts without politicizing the issue.

Given the politically charged situation, that's asking a lot, especially when war crimes enter the discussion. Sai listed possible crimes committed by the United States and its agents in the Hawaiian Kingdom, including denationalization (the obliteration of the national consciousness of an occupied state), pillaging, unlawful appropriation of property, depriving a protected person of a fair and regular trial, destruction of property, unlawful confinement of a protected person, removing protected persons from the country (shipping prisoners to Arizona), and involuntary conscription into the U.S. armed forces (the draft).

To be guilty of these crimes, it's necessary for the perpetrator "to know the connection between his or her acts and the existence of occupation," Sai said. Part of his goal is that pleading ignorance on the issue will no longer be an acceptable excuse, now that he and his colleagues are turning the tide with research and education.

Yet, Sai maintained that he is committed to solutions, not exacerbating existing problems.

To this end, the Council of Regency announced in 2014 that laws that "have emanated from an unlawful legislature since the insurrection began on July 6, 1887 to the present, to include United States legislation, shall be provisional laws of the Realm subject to ratification of the Legislative Assembly of the Hawaiian Kingdom once assembled." A provision excludes laws that are contrary to the spirit of Hawaiian Kingdom law, the international laws of occupation, or international humanitarian law.

And last month, the Council of Regency announced that a Royal Commission of Inquiry will be formed to thoroughly investigate the U.S. occupation of Hawai'i, its consequences, and the possibility of war crimes committed. The selection of academics from around the globe to serve on the Commission is still underway.

"For the first time, this Commission of Inquiry is gonna be huge, broad, task-oriented, unbiased, professional," Sai said. "That's all we have to engage attacks. We can only speak to professionalism; we can only speak to qualification; we can only speak to demeanor and having a reputation above reproach."

In terms of immediate practical advice for the County Council in righting a 100-year-old historical wrong, Sai suggested a task force, which "can be established to look into issues of taxation, legislation, and to seek out experts for recommendations for decision-making," specifically as they relate to Hawai'i's status under international law.

"I found Dr. Sai's approach of providing information and education as a means of creating awareness a good way to approach an emotionally charged subject like this," said Councilmember Shane Sinenci after Sai's presentation. "I appreciate that Dr. Sai asked that people take time to understand the information that he provided and pause and reflect. It's important we all be informed, especially legislators, so that we can ask the right questions and make better informed decisions."

Sinenci added that "Understanding how native people were treated by the government after Annexation helps to explain the current sense of disenfranchisement felt by Native Hawaiians. It is encouraging to see the resurgence of Hawaiian culture in today's society. Only by understanding the past, can we move forward into the future."

Indeed, for his dedication to the facts, some of Sai's most moving words were the aspirational thoughts shared in his conclusion, in which he implored the audience to be unafraid to look to the past in order to move forward.

"This is a kakou thing. This is how we move forward in light of our situation, but we cannot whitewash anymore what happened in our past," said Sai. "The practical value of history is that it's a film of the past, run through the projector of today, onto the screen of tomorrow. That film never changes but you have to update the projector. Once you update the projector, you now see something that you didn't see before, and now it's called decision-making. Don't make a decision until you get the information. That's the process."

Still have questions? As Dr. Keanu Sai said, that's a good place to start. Watch his presentation to the PSLU Committee at Mauicounty.us. His blog is at Hawaiiankingdom.org/blog.

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Email sent Monday June 3, 2019 at 8 AM

Aloha Maui County Council Chair Mike White, and members of the Planning and Sustainable Land Use Committee

Attached please find a pdf file which is a memorandum I am sending in rebuttal to the May 15 presentation by David Keanu Sai and in anticipation of his further appearance scheduled for June 5.

Please ensure that it gets distributed to members of the Council, and the Committee (many of whom have no listed email address). I was surprised to see the absence of any serious cross-examination of Mr. Sai on May 15 regarding the alleged historical facts he presented, and especially the facts he did NOT present; so when I saw that he is scheduled for an additional presentation I decided it's important for committee members to be prepared to cross examine him.

Thank you for your attention.

Kenneth R. Conklin, Ph.D.
e-mail Ken_Conklin@yahoo.com

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To: Maui County Council Planning and Sustainable Land Use Committee; and
Mike White, Chair, Maui County Council
[please distribute to the Council and Committee members]

From: Kenneth R. Conklin, Ph.D.
46-255 Kahuhipa St. Apt. 1205
Kane'ohe, HI 96744-6083
tel (808) 247-7942
e-mail Ken_Conklin@yahoo.com
Website: "Hawaiian Sovereignty: Thinking Carefully About It"
http://tinyurl.com/6gkzk
Book: "Hawaiian Apartheid: Racial Separatism and Ethnic Nationalism in the Aloha State"
http://tinyurl.com/2a9fqa

Re: David Keanu Sai presentation made on May 15, 2019 and followup planned for June 5

Date of this message: June 3, 2019, 8:00 AM HST

Aloha Maui County Council and Planning and Sustainable Land Use Committee members

I hope that the information in this memorandum will enable you to rigorously cross-examine the witness appearing before you on June 5. You have a responsibility to do so.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

David Keanu Sai gave a two hour presentation plus followup discussion period to Planning and Sustainable Land Use Committee of the Maui County Council on May 15, 2019 and is scheduled for another lengthy session on June 5. The present memorandum is a rebuttal to several important historical and legal issues he raised, or which he failed to mention but should have.

Mr. Sai has lied to you by omission of important facts of Hawaii's history. Mr. Sai's whole theory, which he summarized for you on May 15, is based on his assertion that Hawaii has been under a prolonged belligerent "occupation" by the U.S. which started with an armed invasion in January 1893 -- an occupation which has continued for 126 years. That is false. The U.S. never took over the government of the Kingdom, and never set up a puppet regime. 162 U.S. sailors were sent ashore temporarily (not as an "occupation force") from a ship in the harbor at the time of the Hawaiian revolution in 1893, to protect American lives and property against credible threats of violence and arson, as verified by 808 pages of sworn testimony in a U.S. Senate committee. After a few weeks, when they had taken no action, President Grover Cleveland's emissary ordered the few remaining sailors to return to their ship in the harbor. For the following five years, until annexation, there were no U.S. military men on duty in Hawaii. There was no "occupation." Indeed, late in 1893 President Cleveland and his emissary "ordered" Hawaii President Dole to stand down and restore the ex-queen; and the U.S. engaged in gunboat diplomacy with two warships trying unsuccessfully to intimidate the very strong and determined President Dole. This was clearly no puppet regime! Please read the memorandum below for details and proof regarding the alleged "occupation." Other items proved in the memorandum but never mentioned by Mr. Sai are that after the revolution the successor government -- the Republic of Hawaii -- was internationally recognized de jure (as the lawful, rightful government) by letters from the heads of state of at least 19 nations and by a loyalty oath sworn by ex-queen Lili'uokalani; links are provided for you to view photographs of them. As the lawful government, the Republic had the right to offer a Treaty of Annexation; and as a sovereign nation the U.S. had the right to choose its own method (joint resolution) to decide to accept Hawaii's offer of annexation.

Your land use committee utterly failed to cross-examine Mr. Sai on these matters. Perhaps you were unaware of them. I am sending this memorandum two days before the June 5 second event so that committee members can absorb the information in time to conduct at least the beginnings of a cross-examination which should have happened at the first event. The Maui County Council in general, and this committee in particular, have a legal and moral duty to the citizens you serve to ensure that the information you and they rely upon for decision-making is accurate and complete, and to avoid enabling con artists in furtherance of their scams. You have taken an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States and of the State of Hawaii. If you cannot uphold your oath -- if you fear you might be committing "war crimes" by continuing to participate in Council business -- then you should at least have the integrity to stop collecting your salary and to resign from office, unlike Jennifer Ruggles of the Hawaii Island County Council last year.

I watched Mr. Sai's entire 2-hour presentation on Akaku TV as it was happening on May 15, along with the followup discussion. I noticed that committee members did not cross-examine Mr. Sai about the historical or legal claims he asserted, and the followup discussion seemed almost fawning and obsequious. Maui County Council and its committees have a legal and moral obligation to ascertain facts and give careful consideration to more than one viewpoint on an important issue, and not to allow your forum to be used as a vehicle for unrebutted propaganda or self-promotion. I hope that the information in this memorandum will enable you to rigorously cross-examine the witness appearing before you on June 5, and that you will do so. You should stop giving a forum and credibility to a scam artist.

For three decades Mr. Sai has (ab)used numerous institutions, turning them into forums for propaganda and self-aggrandizement. He has created an image of expertise enabling him to push political views favoring the secession of Hawaii from the U.S., and he has also used that image of expertise to lure many hundreds of gullible victims to spend thousands of dollars apiece as fees paid to himself and his associates for bogus land title searches and legal documents which the victims were led to believe would enable them to avoid mortgage foreclosure or to collect on title insurance. Evidence will be provided at the end of this memorandum showing Mr. Sai's track record of deception and the failure of his theories when actually put to the test.

But the most important part of this memorandum comes first, when I identify important facts about the history of Hawaii during the 1890s -- facts which Mr. Sai intentionally did not mention. You owe a duty to your constituents to rigorously cross-examine Mr. Sai about the historical facts provided in this memorandum, and about how his business practices enrich him through the continued spewing of his propaganda in venues such as the one you are providing to him.

Mr. Sai's whole theory, which he summarized for you on May 15, is based on his assertion that Hawaii has been under a prolonged hostile "occupation" by the U.S. which started with an armed invasion in January 1893 -- an occupation which has continued for 126 years. He says the Kingdom of Hawaii remains the rightful sovereign, while a fake puppet regime (now known as the State of Hawaii) has imposed its own laws, contrary to the (alleged) duty of an (alleged) occupier to uphold the laws of the occupied territory. He says that therefore all transfers of land titles for 126 years have been illegal, partly because there have been no duly authorized and sworn government officials such as notaries and recorders of deeds. During the early years of his scam he claimed to be the acting Regent of the Kingdom, and/or the acting Minister of Interior, and/or the acting Foreign Minister; and claimed he had the authority to condone or "make perfected") the improperly transferred land titles. More recently he claims that clients can file in court the documents he provides them to defend against mortgage foreclosure, or to receive payment from the title insurance company for the value of the foreclosed property.

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1. Mr. Sai is correct about one thing -- that the nation of Hawaii was not overthrown in January 1893 -- all that was overthrown was the monarchial government. Hawaii remained an independent nation under a revolutionary Provisional Government and then a Republic, which had full rights to speak on behalf of the nation to negotiate a Treaty of Annexation.

The Hawaiian revolution of January 1893 was planned and led by a "Committee of Safety" of 13 local residents, of whom a majority were native-born or naturalized subjects of the Kingdom of Hawaii, while the remainder had substantial property interests in Hawaii. The revolution was carried out by many of the same militia of 1500 armed local men who had surrounded the Palace in 1887 and forced the corrupt King Kalakaua to sign the "Bayonet Constitution" under threat that he would be ousted if he refused (no U.S. personnel were involved in 1887). In 1893, 162 U.S. sailors came ashore as peacekeepers, to provide short-term protection of American and foreign lives and property in the face of credible threats of rioting and arson, as has been done many times elsewhere during periods of environmental disaster or political upheaval; for example in recent times Haiti (earthquake) and Liberia (civil war). The U.S. is always expected to protect its citizens and business interests abroad, and often to help sustain a measure of stability during the death-throes of a failed state (like Hawaii in 1893). Let's remember that the administration of President Obama, with Secretary of State Clinton, came under severe criticism for failure to use military force to protect our diplomatic mission in Benghazi Libya which resulted in the murder of the U.S. ambassador and his bodyguards. Notice that U.S. forces entered Haiti and Liberia, provided the necessary protection for a while, and then left. There was no lingering U.S. "occupation" or puppet regime in those countries -- just as there was none in Hawaii.

In Hawaii the U.S. sailors did not take over any buildings, did not patrol the streets, did not enter the Palace grounds nor disarm the royal guard nor participate in arresting the Queen, did not supply any arms or ammunition or food to the revolutionaries. Within two days after the revolution every local consul of foreign nations who had consulates in Honolulu (most or all of whom had treaties with Hawaii under the Kingdom government) gave written recognition de facto to the Provisional Government. De facto recognition was not permanent, but did officially recognize that the Provisional Government had taken control of Hawaii -- business (including fulfilling treaty obligations) would henceforth be conducted with the PG and not with the previous monarchial government. In the eyes of the consuls of those other nations, Lili'uokalani no longer held power, and could no longer issue official documents or statements. The text of those initial letters of de facto recognition were published in the Honolulu newspapers on January 18 and 19, 1893 and also in the Morgan Report (an official document of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs) in February 1894 on pp. 1103-1111.
Full text of those letters can be seen at:
https://tinyurl.com/9f4vh4
The 808-page Morgan Report of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs was filled with documents and testimony about U.S. behavior during the revolution. Testimony was under oath with severe cross-examination (unlike the Blount Report), and can be seen at
https://morganreport.org
through an outline with clickable links at
https://morganreport.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Outline_of_Topics

No reputable historian would try to claim that the U.S. used its military power to fight battles or take over buildings during the Hawaiian revolution (although at least one adventure movie portrays U.S. troops storming the Palace!). But even if such an absurd theory were to be accepted, the alleged U.S. involvement would pale by comparison with the role of French military actions during the American revolution against Britain. The American revolution could not have succeeded without the help of thousands of French troops on the battlefields, huge amounts of guns and ammunition, and many French ships. Yet nobody says the American revolution was somehow not legitimate and the British should have surrendered to the French. At the surrender field in Yorktown, October 19, 1781, the British general offered his surrender sword to the French; but the French refused to accept it and insisted he give his sword to American General George Washington. In the Hawaiian revolution the Queen wrote a protest claiming she was surrendering to the U.S., and only temporarily until the U.S. would undo it (She knew her friend Grover Cleveland had won the November election and would soon be inaugurated President on March 4). It was a clever political ploy, but absurd. She knew well enough to deliver her protest letter to the office of President Dole rather than to any U.S. official, because it was the PG and not the U.S. whose armed men might otherwise attack.

The 1893 revolution was not the work of Americans alone, nor Hawaii men of American ancestry. In 1893, Cleveland's "fact finder" to Hawaii, James H. Blount, wrote in his report that the 5,500 members of the city's Annexation Club at that time included 1,218 Americans (22 percent of the club); 1,022 Native Hawaiians (19 percent); 251 Englishmen (5 percent); 2,261 Portuguese (41 percent); 69 Norwegians (1 percent); 351 Germans (6 percent), along with 328 persons unclassified but making up the balance. Note that the Portuguese, not Americans, were by far the largest group agitating for overthrow and annexation; while more than a thousand others were native Hawaiians.

2. U.S. President Grover Cleveland was inaugurated on March 4, 1893. A friend of ex-queen Lili'uokalani, he promptly sent his personal emissary James Blount under secret orders, naming Blount "Minister Plenipotentiary With Paramount Powers" to outrank Harrison-appointed Minister Plenipotentiary Stevens, despite Blount's not having Senate confirmation. Blount stepped ashore in Honolulu and immediately, on April 1, ordered the few remaining U.S. peacekeepers to return to their ship in Honolulu Harbor. Blount also ordered the removal of a U.S. flag which had been flying side by side with the Hawaiian flag to provide a feeling of stability for frightened American and European residents. FOR THE NEXT 5 YEARS THERE WERE NO U.S. MILITARY MEN IN HAWAII. Furthermore Cleveland and Blount, along with Blount's permanent replacement U.S. Minister Albert Willis, spent the Summer and Fall of 1893 trying their best to destabilize the Hawaiian revolutionary Provisional Government.

On December 19, 1893 Willis delivered a letter to Provisional Government President Dole ORDERING Dole to step down and restore the Queen, as though Willis had any authority over Dole! Sanford B. Dole was native-born at Punahou in 1844. Dole grew up in Hawaii and had previously been elected to the Kingdom legislature and served as Justice on the Supreme Court, appointed by King Kalakaua. Dole was a Hawaiian national, not an American.
https://www.angelfire.com/hi2/hawaiiansovereignty/doleusdemandrestorequeen12191893.html

Dole's blistering 17-page reply delivered to Willis at midnight on December 23 refused; Dole said Hawaii wanted annexation to the U.S. (which Cleveland opposed), but said that in the meanwhile Hawaii remained an independent nation and the U.S. should stop interfering in Hawaii's internal affairs.
https://www.angelfire.com/hi2/hawaiiansovereignty/dolerefusal12231893.html

In December 1893, while Willis was ordering Dole to step down, the U.S. backed up its effort to intimidate and overthrow the Hawaiian government by engaging in gunboat diplomacy as two U.S. warships repeatedly fired cannons and staged mock invasions; but the Dole government stood strong. See "Black Week" at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Week_(Hawaii)

CLEARLY THERE WAS NO U.S. OCCUPATION OF HAWAII FROM APRIL 1 1893 THROUGH THE NEXT 5 YEARS. MR. SAI LIED TO YOU BY TELLING YOU THE U.S. STAGED A MILITARY OCCUPATION OF HAWAII BEGINNING JANUARY 1893 AND CONTINUOUSLY THEREAFTER, OR THAT THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT AND REPUBLIC WERE U.S. PUPPET REGIMES.

3. During Spring of 1894 the temporary revolutionary Provisional Government realized the need to create a permanent government in the face of continued hostility from Grover Cleveland, and the fact that he would never agree to the Hawaiian government's wish for annexation. They decided to create a permanent Republic of Hawaii that could be formally recognized by other nations as the rightful successor to the Kingdom government. A Constitutional Convention, including at least six ethnic Hawaiian delegates, produced a Constitution. The Speaker of the House of Representatives was former royalist full-blooded native John Kaulukou. President Dole delivered a copy of the Constitution to each of the local consuls of foreign nations, asking them to request their home governments to review the Constitution and to grant full-fledged diplomatic recognition to the Republic as the de jure (rightful) government of the still-independent nation of Hawaii. During Fall of 1894 letters from those nations arrived in Honolulu. Emperors, Kings, Queens, and Presidents of at least 19 nations on 4 continents personally signed letters in 11 languages addressed to President Sanford B. Dole formally recognizing the Republic of Hawaii. THUS HAWAII REMAINED A SOVEREIGN INDEPENDENT NATION WHOSE GOVERNMENT, THE REPUBLIC OF HAWAII, WAS FULLY RECOGNIZED BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY OF NATIONS AS THE RIGHTFUL GOVERNMENT.

MR. SAI LIED BY OMISSION WHEN HE NEVER TOLD YOU ABOUT THESE LETTERS FROM HEADS OF NATIONS RECOGNIZING THE REPUBLIC, AND WHEN HE LED YOU TO BELIEVE THAT THOSE OTHER NATIONS CONTINUE TO RECOGNIZE THE KINGDOM OF HAWAII TO THIS DAY. Those letters are in the Hawaii archives, and I have photos of them on my website. Perhaps the most politically significant letter, and most devastating to the morale of the royalists, came from Queen Victoria who was a personal friend of Kapiolani, Lili'uokalani, and dowager Queen Emma, and godmother to Emma's baby Prince Albert (the crib sent from Victoria to Emma remains on display in the Queen Emma summer palace). Other letters came from Tsar of Russia (in Russian with French translation), the King and Queen of Spain, the President of France, the head of the Swiss federation, the Emperor of China (a 5-page fan-folded document in Mandarin with red "chop" stamps, accompanied by an English translation produced under the Emperor's supervision). See photos of those letters, and English translations of most of them, along with Lili'uokalani's letter of abdication and oath of loyalty to the Republic (January 24, 1895), at
https://historymystery.kenconklin.org/recognition-of-the-republic-of-hawaii/

As the Republic government grew stronger and foreign heads of state sent letters formally recognizing it, Hawaiian royalists grew restless. They knew they must act soon or forever lose any hope of restoring the monarchy. In January 1895 native Hawaiian Robert Wilcox led a failed counterrevolution in which men were killed; hundreds were arrested, and several were sentenced to death (but later pardoned). Lili'uokalani was found guilty of (misprision of) treason because guns and ammunition had been hidden in her flower garden and she had already signed letters appointing her cabinet ministers for when Wilcox succeeded. On advice of her longtime private attorney she made a plea bargain agreeing to abdicate any pretention to the throne and sign a loyalty oath to the Republic and live under house arrest in a huge room in the Palace with full-time maidservant (where she stayed for several months until pardoned by her erstwhile friend President Dole). Throughout the attempted counterrevolution and trials and imprisonments there were zero U.S. troops anywhere in Hawaii, as the Republic proved it was standing alone (no U.S. occupation, no puppet regime). The guns for Wilcox had been smuggled in from California past a U.S. blockade, and there were rumors the shipment had been approved by President Cleveland or at least his Navy secretary.

When the Tsar of Russia was overthrown 24 years later, in 1917, he never signed a treaty or document of surrender with Vladimir Lenin or the Bolshevik regime, and never signed a loyalty oath. The Tsar and his wife and children were shot, which put an end to the matter. The Republic of Hawaii was magnanimous to the ex-queen, even giving her a pension despite her efforts to sabotage annexation.

You should also take note that the method whereby foreign nations recognized the Republic was even more impressive than the method whereby foreign nations initially recognized Hawaii as an independent nation, and then continued to recognize new Hawaii governments when new monarchs came to power. For example, there will be lots of hoopla on November 28, a Kingdom holiday called Ka La Ku'oko'a (Independence Day) because on that date in 1843 Britain and France signed a joint declaration with each other agreeing to acknowledge that Hawaii was an independent nation with a stable government that neither France nor Britain would invade. Please note that Hawaii did not sign that agreement, and it was not addressed to King Kamehameha III. But the letters to President Dole from Queen Victoria and the President of France were specifically addressed to him, just as letters published in the Hawaiian language newspapers were sent by heads of foreign nations addressed to Hawaiian kings whenever a new one succeeded a former one; and just as heads of state today send congratulatory letters and phone calls to newly inaugurated heads of other nations even when they are of an opposing political party.

Following the Hawaiian revolution only five government officials were ousted: the Queen and her four cabinet ministers. Nearly the entire government bureaucracy chose to remain in their posts and signed the loyalty oath to the new government, although a few demurred (most notably the Royal Hawaiian Band). For example: Colonel Curtis Pi'ehu 'Iaukea served in the inner circle of every Hawaii head of state from Kamehameha IV through Sanford Dole, personally witnessed at close quarters the most important personal and political events of Hawaii's leaders, and served as a Hawaiian diplomat in the United States, Europe, and Japan. Mr. 'Iaukea's autobiography made fascinating observations about the corruption, infighting, and political instability of the Kalakaua and Lili'uokalani regimes; and provided an insider's look at the death of Kalakaua, the ascent of Lili'uokalani, and the overthrow of the monarchy. Mr. 'Iaukea came to support the political efforts of Sanford B. Dole and to work as his ambassador during the Republic, and as an emissary for Governor Dole during the first years of the Territory. A modern-day sovereignty activist added a chapter to 'Iaukea's autobiography trying to portray him as forever a royalist -- that's what today's activist history-twisters like to do.

4. As discussed above, in Fall 1894 Emperors, Kings, Queens, and Presidents of at least 19 foreign nations on 4 continents personally signed letters in 11 languages addressed to President Dole formally recognizing the Republic as the rightful government of the still-independent nation of Hawaii. Therefore, under "international law" (if you believe in that), the Republic had the right to speak on behalf of the nation, including the right to offer a Treaty of Annexation to the United States. The Republic followed its own process to write the Treaty and to decide to offer it to the U.S., in 1897. In 1898 the U.S. Congress passed a joint resolution, signed by President McKinley, accepting the offer. In 1900 Congress passed the Organic Act creating a government for the Territory of Hawaii; and President McKinley appointed Sanford Dole as Hawaii's first Territorial Governor, thus ensuring a smooth transition.

Today's Hawaiian sovereignty activists, including Mr. Sai, like to say there is "no Treaty of Annexation." But indeed it exists, and can be seen on my website. The activists don't like the method whereby the Treaty was ratified, so they say there is no Treaty. They say the joint resolution of annexation is merely an internal municipal law of the U.S. and therefore lacks any power to reach out and grab a foreign nation like Hawaii. They say it would be like Congress passing a law to annex Russia. Indeed Mr. Sai, in his opening remarks on May 15, compared what happened in Hawaii to what happened in Kuwait when Iraq invaded Kuwait, set up a puppet regime, and then annexed Kuwait as a province of Iraq. How silly! Because we have seen that there was never a U.S. "occupation" of Hawaii, and never a puppet regime here.

In July 1898 Congress passed a joint resolution to ratify the Treaty of Annexation. A joint resolution requires only a simple majority in both houses of Congress, but the resolution to adopt the Treaty of Annexation actually passed by 42-21 in the Senate and 209-91 in the House. President McKinley signed the annexation into law on July 7, 1898. The formal ceremony marking the annexation was held at Iolani Palace on August 12, 1898 because the Palace was the Capitol of the Republic of Hawaii and now would house the legislative and executive offices of the Territory of Hawaii. The U.S. did not reach out and grab Hawaii -- the offer first was made by Hawaii; Congress had a prolonged and heated debate, and finally accepted the offer. For details see
"Treaty of Annexation between the Republic of Hawaii and the United States of America (1898). Full text of the treaty, and of the resolutions whereby the Republic of Hawaii legislature and the U.S. Congress ratified it. The politics surrounding the treaty, then and now." at
https://www.angelfire.com/big09a/TreatyOfAnnexationHawaiiUS.html
See also
"Is there a Treaty of Annexation between Hawaii and the United States? Dialogs between Williamson Chang and Ken Conklin" at
https://big11a.angelfire.com/DialogsChangConklinTreatyAnnex.html

Activists say that a joint resolution is not allowed for ratifying a treaty. But that's not for Mr. Sai or even the United Nations or World Court to decide -- that's for the U.S. alone to decide. The Senators who opposed the Treaty could have filed a complaint with the U.S. Supreme Court claiming that using a joint resolution deprived them of the Senate's sole authority to ratify treaties, but they never filed any such complaint. They would have had "standing"; neither Keanu Sai nor any international court has any standing to complain about what method a sovereign nation uses for making its own decision about whether to ratify a treaty. Yes indeed, a joint resolution is an internal decision that has no power to reach out and grab a foreign nation. It is an internal decision whereby the U.S. decided to ratify the treaty offered by Hawaii; the joint resolution did not reach out or grab anything, it was an internal decision by the U.S. agreeing to accept the Treaty that had been offered by the Republic of Hawaii a few months previously.

The public lands of Hawaii (government lands and former crown lands) were ceded to the U.S. through the Treaty of Annexation, in exchange for the U.S. assuming (i.e. paying for) the entire accumulated national debt of Hawaii (which was greater than the ceded lands were worth at market value). Hawaii also insisted on a requirement that the U.S. would not merely add the ceded lands to U.S. inventory but would hold them in trust for the people of Hawaii with all revenue being used in Hawaii for education and other public purposes. Any lawyer can recognize the essential elements of a contract here: two competent persons (internationally recognized governments of two sovereign nations) freely sign an agreement where there is an offer (by Hawaii), an acceptance (by the U.S.) and an exchange of value (Hawaii's public lands in return for U.S. paying off Hawaii's national debt). One way to look at how the ceded lands were transferred is that the U.S. purchased them for more money than their fair market value.

The legitimacy of land titles in Hawaii and the legitimacy of the Treaty of Annexation are both confirmed in a very important court decision which Mr. Sai and the sovereignty activists do their best to ignore and conceal. There is one and only one court case in which ex-queen Lili'uokalani sued the United States for any reason. On November 20, 1909, nearly 17 years after the overthrow and more than 11 years after the annexation, she filed a lawsuit in which she tried to get money for the Crown Lands, claiming those lands rightfully belonged to her but were illegally confiscated by the Provisional Government, Republic of Hawai'i, and United States. The case was decided May 16, 1910 and has the legal citation: Liliuokalani v. United States, 45 Ct. Cl. 418 (1910) The ex-queen lost the case. But in the process, many of the claims made today by the sovereignty activists were asserted by the ex-queen. After seeing all the evidence and hearing all the arguments on both sides, the Court of Claims became convinced that her claims had no merit. The decision itself is a valuable legal document. It is important not only because it contains these arguments concerning the Crown Lands, but also because of the very important appendices included by the Court as part of the evidence. Some of the material in these appendices is difficult or impossible to find anywhere else, and decisively refutes assertions raised by today's sovereignty activists on issues other than the Crown Lands. One of the appendices is the full text of the Treaty of Annexation. The Court cited the Treaty as evidence that the Crown Lands had been lawfully ceded to the U.S., and that the Court had jurisdiction to rule on this lawsuit because Hawaii is lawfully part of the U.S. Read Lili'uokalani's legal complaint, the Court's decision, and an analysis of the relevance to other topics, at
https://www.angelfire.com/hi2/hawaiiansovereignty/liliucrownlands.html

5. For three decades Mr. Sai has (ab)used numerous institutions, turning them into forums for propaganda and self-aggrandizement. He has created an image of expertise enabling him to push political views favoring the secession of Hawaii from the U.S., and he has also used that image of expertise to lure many hundreds of gullible victims to spend thousands of dollars apiece as fees paid to himself and his associates for bogus land title searches and legal documents which the victims were led to believe would enable them to avoid mortgage foreclosure or to collect on title insurance. Evidence is provided below showing Mr. Sai's track record of deception and the failure of his theories when actually put to the test.

One small sample of Mr. Sai's lack of credibility came in his opening remarks to this land use committee on May 15 when he took considerable time to describe the alleged rigor of his dissertation committee in Political Science, and he insisted he's an expert on international law and not a Hawaiian Studies activist -- yet his "academic" affiliation is a position as part-time lecturer at Windward Community College IN THE HAWAIIAN STUDIES DEPARTMENT, not in Political Science or History or Law. By contrast I should add that my own Ph.D. is in Philosophy, specializing in epistemology in relation to teaching and learning; that I published 43 articles in refereed scholarly journals, and rose to the rank of Associate Professor at Boston University, building on earlier positions as Assistant Professor at a branch of Michigan State and at Emory University (Atlanta). My masters degree is in Mathematics, which gives me a special appreciation for logic and intellectual rigor, which I find sorely lacking in Mr. Sai's numerous performances. Is it necessary for me or Mr. Sai to tout our academic credentials? No, but it sure is fun! I believe facts and logic should be used to judge validity, not ad hominem appeals to authority. People who become experts in a particular field often earned degrees in other fields of study until their research or inclinations led them to their new area: For example, the renowned Haunani-Kay Trask earned her Ph.D. in Womens Studies but later changed her focus and rose to the rank of full professor and department chair in Hawaiian Studies.

NOW PAY ATTENTION you members of the Planning and Sustainable Land Use Committee of the Maui County Council. Mr. Sai and his attorney Dexter Kaiama are reported to be currently under investigation, and might be charged with fraud, by the Office of Consumer Protection of the Hawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. It's because they collect fees (thousands of dollars) from clients who rely on documents they provide for use in court to defend against mortgage foreclosure, based on Sai's theories about U.S. "occupation" of Hawaii and illegal land title transfers.

On May 13, 2019 retired Honolulu newspaper reporter Ian Lind wrote a blog entry entitled "Two sovereignty advocates hit with allegations of mortgage rescue fraud"
https://www.ilind.net/2019/05/11/two-sovereignty-advocates-hit-with-allegations-of-mortgage-rescue-fraud/
Mr. Lind stated: "In a series of legal filings in both state and federal court since the beginning of 2018, the consumer protection agency alleges the scheme involves David Keanu Sai, an activist scholar who has vigorously promoted his own theory that the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom invalidates subsequent laws and land titles; attorney Dexter Kaiama, who has defended a number of sovereignty activists with arguments based on Sai's theory; and Rose Dradi, a former Kapolei resident. ... The agency alleges homeowners facing imminent or threatened foreclosure were told, both explicitly and implicitly, that a legal defense based on Sai�s sovereignty beliefs would result in the foreclosures actions being dismissed and their homes being saved. According to OCP: Sai, who claims to be an expert on sovereignty issues, maintains that the continued existence of the Kingdom of Hawaii means that the State of Hawaii does not exist. According to Sai, there are no state laws, and there are no state courts. Sai claims to know all of this first-hand because Sai claims to be an acting minister/diplomat for the Kingdom, and Kaiama is supposedly the Kingdom�s acting attorney general. Sai, the agency alleges, has a standard written contract that clients are asked to sign which requires them to pay a fee before services can be provided. ... Once fees are collected, Sai then allegedly provides a written answer to the foreclosure lawsuit or a "motion to dismiss" that contests the court�s jurisdiction based on his theory that all U.S. or Hawaii law is unenforceable here because Hawaii remains an independent state. The motion is provided in a standard format which the property owners are advised to sign and file in court "pro se," without the benefit of an attorney. The agency alleges this scheme "in which Sai's supposed expertise on Hawaiian sovereignty issues is packaged as part of a motion to dismiss, has been shown to be of no benefit ... No judge presiding over a foreclosure case has yet to be convinced that the case must be dismissed for lack of subject matter jurisdiction based upon the continued existence of the Kingdom of Hawaii, and yet Sai keeps offering his services and illegally collecting his fees in advance." And when the sovereignty argument fails in court, as it consistently has, the agency says the home owners have incurred additional costs and delays, and as a result "have essentially squandered any meaningful chance they had to save their property ..."

Does the scam described above remind us of the same sort of scam regarding land titles previously perpetrated by the same Keanu Sai during the 1990s? Here we go again! Mr. Sai was found guilty of felony attempted grand theft. See a lengthy compilation of news reports documenting "The Perfect Title Scam -- Self-Proclaimed Regent of Hawaiian Kingdom Collects Huge Fees, Causes Grief to Property Owners, Messes Up Land Titles, Escapes With Probation and $200 Fine" at
https://www.angelfire.com/hi2/hawaiiansovereignty/fraudperfecttitle.html

Does the Maui County Council and its Planning and Sustainable Land Use Committee really want to rely on this same man who continues to put forward the same sort of historical and legal nonsense that led to his felony conviction? Do you really want to provide him with a government-sponsored forum to spew his nonsense, that will give him prestige to encourage citizens of Maui to waste their money on schemes doomed to failure?

Mr. Sai's "Perfect Title" scam was followed immediately by his next one -- his adventure at what he called "The World Court" at the Hague, partly financed by a televised multi-hour infomercial from the Palace where he raised money for the trip and also to pay $10,000 to each of three members of an arbitration panel to decide a trumped up bogus lawsuit in which Lance Larsen, a subject of the still-living Hawaiian Kingdom, claimed that Keanu Sai, Regent Pro-Tem, owed him compensation for failing to protect him against the U.S. puppet regime "State of Hawaii" which had imprisoned Larsen for repeatedly failing to have a State driver license and car registration. Please read "Fraudulent Hague Arbitration -- The Use of "the International Court at the Hague" for a Propaganda Circus" at
https://www.angelfire.com/hi2/hawaiiansovereignty/fraudhague.html
At his sentencing in the Perfect Title case, the bleeding-heart judge (perhaps similar to some County Council members) had told Mr. Sai that she sympathized with his civil rights activism, and she was happy to grant Sai's request for permission to travel to Europe, even while on probation, to pursue his "case."

But wait! There's more! [as the huckster salesman says on TV]