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Trapped in a Mystique

Abbott, William L. | February 3, 1969 issue

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A new statue will be unveiled in Honolulu, Hawaii. It is the romanticized likeness of King Kamehameha "The Great," a pagan chief whom Hawaii has selected as the eminent personality it wishes to show off to the people of the U.S. The nearest comparison to the King is Adolf Hitler, although King Kant, who came to the throne of one of the then four kingdoms in 1782, was more debauched. He treacherously murdered his own relative, used his prisoners for human sacrifice and conquered most of the Hawaiian Islands in a bald act of premeditated aggression. He won his wars with tile aid of Western gunnery and his conquest opened up Hawaiian land and markets to European and the U.S. traders who quickly stole the Hawaiians blind, decimated their population with their diseases, and subjugated them into a servant race.

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HAWAII -- Politics & government; POPULATION; ETHNOLOGY -- Hawaii; HITLER, Adolf, 1889-1945; HONOLULU (Hawaii); HAWAII; UNITED States
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