Aloha Q,
"Guess things aren't as bad as you say if you are just sitting around, waiting for the 'oppressing government' to give you what you think is rightly yours."
What I think is not important.
It is the rule of law and strict adherence to that which is written is what is important. Even though it has been nearly 122 years since the Restoration Agreement has been signed, those who still believe in the rule of law need to remain patient and vigilant. This is no different than everyone on this forum who continues to fight for the 2nd Amendment included in a 227 years old document called the US Constitution. While elements of society and parts of the US Government itself are making excuses to remove and/or create a restrictive situation that make gun ownership difficult, that has not affected those on this 2a forum from keeping the spirit of the 2a alive and well.
Kuleana
Do you even know how international law works? Think Nuremberg Trials in Nazi Germany. Think Trial of Saddam Hussein.
The US dropped 2 nukes on a sovereign nation. If we didn't get dinged in the world court for that, who on this Earth do you think will EVER bring the USA for failing to follow a 100+ year old restoration agreement?
The "rule of law and strict adherence to it?" Without an international body willing to levy charges, and a judicial body willing to hear the evidence, and without an enforcement body willing to carry out whatever sentence, sanctions, shunning, or what have you to coerce compliance, you can forget any kind of "rule of law" scenario coming to kick the US out of Hawaii.
What part of "admission day" did you not get taught in school? Learn from the civil war. Once you are in the "family", there is no leaving the "family!" Secession has been quashed, and if memory serves, Texas is the only state in the US which may actually have a legal footing if they ever decide to do it.
I think it goes, Texas was a sovereign state before negotiating annexation. Hawaii, on the other hand, became a territory first. Being a territory negates the sovereignty of the Hawaiian Kingdom prior to annexation, so the state doesn't have the legal right to secede.
Now, if someone, someway, somehow finds a way to prove Hawaii becoming a territory was illegal, invalid, or never happened, then maybe the Hawaiian Sovereignty movement would have a leg to stand (and run away) on.