Is Hawaii Really A State? Proofplz.

I did mean to say "this" not "the", I happen to live here to.

/wave then

If you come to Hawaii, go to Boot's and Kimo's for macadamia nut pancakes!!

They 1 tsunami from not being 1

[vague allusion to something that hasn't ever happened without providing factual information to back it up. A what-if theory.]

bra how u tink da dinosaurs ded?

[vague allusion to something that may or may not have happened]

Being in Hawaii, I can assure you that Hawaii is a state and that it exists :)

I find the irony amusing. Like 100 years or so ago, Hawaii was a colony of the US. When, what was it, the United Nations decided to get rid of colonies after the last world war, the US would have had to give up Hawaii, so they made it into a state without the consent of the natives. No wonder they don't want to give up 'proof' they are, they never had a say to begin with.

This is just from memory though. I might have gotten some things wrong.

I find the irony amusing. Like 100 years or so ago, Hawaii was a colony of the US.

At least 100 years ago is a typical Wikipedian statement coined at least 100 years ago but under 9000 years ago that passes for accuracy and fact in articles about completely irrelevant history.

Jesus was born in Bethlehem at least 100 years ago. He then turned water into wine and became a Jew.

lol lol lol At least 100 years ago

lol lol lol At least 100 years ago

In January 1893, Queen Liliʻuokalani was overthrown and replaced by a Provisional Government composed of members of the Committee of Safety. Controversy filled the following years as the queen tried to re-establish her throne. The administration of President Grover Cleveland commissioned the Blount Report, which concluded that the removal of Liliʻuokalani was illegal. The U.S. government first demanded that Queen Liliʻuokalani be reinstated, but the Provisional Government refused. Congress followed with another investigation, and submitted the Morgan Report on February 26, 1894, which found all parties (including Minister Stevens) with the exception of the queen "not guilty" from any responsibility for the overthrow.[37] The accuracy and impartiality of both the Blount and Morgan reports has been questioned by partisans on both sides of the debate over the events of 1893.[36][38][39][40]

In 1993, a joint Apology Resolution regarding the overthrow was passed by Congress and signed by President Clinton, apologizing for the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom.[40] It is the first time in American history that the United States government has apologized for overthrowing the government of a sovereign nation.

After William McKinley won the presidential election in 1896, Hawaii's annexation to the U.S. was again discussed. The previous president, Grover Cleveland, was a friend of Queen Liliʻuokalani. McKinley was open to persuasion by U.S. expansionists and by annexationists from Hawaii. He met with three annexationists from Hawaii: Lorrin Thurston, Francis March Hatch and William Ansel Kinney. After negotiations, in June 1897, Secretary of State John Sherman agreed to a treaty of annexation with these representatives of the Republic of Hawaii.[41]

The treaty was never ratified by the U.S. Senate. Instead, the Newlands Resolution by both houses of Congress annexed the Republic to the United States and it became the Territory of Hawaii. Despite some opposition in the islands, the Newlands Resolution was passed by the House June 15, 1898, by a vote of 209 to 91, and by the Senate on July 6, 1898, by a vote of 42 to 21.

On June 27 of that year, a referendum asked residents of Hawaii to vote on the statehood bill. Hawaii voted 17 to 1 to accept. The choices were to accept the Act or to remain a territory, without the option of independence.

The prolonged occupation of the independent State of the Hawaiian Kingdom by the United States of America, is a continual and flagrant violation of the 1907 Hague Conventions IV and V relative to the Laws of War and the rights of Neutral States, respectively, and the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. The Acting Government of the Hawaiian Kingdom also affirms the rights accorded to Hawaiian subjects under international law and related international conventions.

It's a state and screw all you people that live there..

/jealous.

Maui is my favorite place on Earth.

In any event this article wasn't questioning the legitimacy of some treaty, it was sarcasm and satire aimed directly at the birther issue.

Hawaii is a state. Formalities aside it's been acting like a state and treated like a state for 50 years.

The administration of President Grover Cleveland commissioned the Blount Report, which concluded that the removal of Liliʻuokalani was illegal. The U.S. government first demanded that Queen Liliʻuokalani be reinstated, but the Provisional Government refused. Congress followed with another investigation, and submitted the Morgan Report on February 26, 1894, which found all parties (including Minister Stevens) with the exception of the queen "not guilty" from any responsibility for the overthrow.[37] The accuracy and impartiality of both the Blount and Morgan reports has been questioned by partisans on both sides of the debate over the events of 1893.

In any event this article wasn't questioning the legitimacy of some treaty, it was sarcasm and satire aimed directly at the birther issue.