[Magdalen] Another Scotland?

[Eleanor Braun]

Do you have any links or reading materials on this?  This is the first time
I've heard of this.

Eleanor

On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 12:06 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> I've read several news items recently that describe various
> stages of "independence" for the State of Hawaii.  These  movements
> consist of various special interest groups, such as the 100,000 or so
> ethnics of pure Hawaiian/Polynesian ancestry, as well as other groups
> who have different political agendas.
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> The proposals run the gamut from complete independence for Hawaii
> with no residual strings attached to the USA and various levels of
> autonomy in between.
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> What is interesting is that the USA officials dealing with these  proposals
> are described as in full cooperation with these proposals for  autonomy.
>
> There is, of course, the history of American takeover of Hawaii with
> overthrow of the Hawaiian Queen and largely because of the desires
> of American and British merchants.  This is mid-nineteenth  century.
>
> To me, frankly, these proposals smack of secession, and should be
> dealt with accordingly, but this may be purely reactionary and  insensitive
> on my part.
>
> Other ideas?
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> David Strang.
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