text: Aloha Pono, 
  
  It's pretty apparent that no treaty of annexation exists.  We wouldn't be referring to the Newlands Resolution ( a joint reso) if a treaty existed.  It was an illegal annexation, plain and simple.  If this happened ten years ago, there might be legal remedy.  
  
  However, this happened over 116 years ago and the great many circumstances in between the day it happened and now have to be taken into account.  I included the passage from int'l law jurist James Crawford because that's how the situation is weighed.  As far as the world is concerned, the Hawaiian Islands are a part of the United States - you won't find a court on Earth that will hear that case.  
  
  We have to move forward and not hang on to these kinds of claims, where no forum will provide remedy.  We can use fed-rec and its greater political authority to have standing to assert other claims.  
  
  "No treaty," "belligerent occupation," "war crimes" - these are claims that will take us around in circles.