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AU: Okay.
<br /> CLARKSON: Any further questions? If not, thank you. You've already addressed the
<br /> Background and Recommendation Reports. Is there any public testimony on this matter?
<br /> Apparently, so. Will Dwight Vicente please come forward? Please raise your right hand. Do
<br /> you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter before the Commission today?
<br /> VICENTE: [No response.]
<br /> CLARKSON: Let the record show that Mr. Vicente is unswomn-.-Please proceed.
<br /> VICENTE: Good morning. My name is Dwight Vicente ffloresent the Hawaiian Kingdom. I
<br /> noticed that the administrative rules for the Planning Dg-
<br /> they use a term, "Native
<br /> Hawaiian." That term is defined in the Hawaiian Hlom'WCommts,s'-pon Act so that term is limited
<br /> to the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act which i
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<br /> ,4, 0,000 acres
<br /> 25, as illegally ceded in
<br /> 1898 by joint resolution to the United States bytts�=banana republic th-_'d no authority of these
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<br /> Crown and Government lands that was illegalf d ed and was incorpoedt 6d under Article IV,
<br /> Section 3, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution.
<br /> ------ -------At that time period, 1898, the Spaniggimerican War&hW'and the—Spain hadcededto the
<br /> United States without authority, Philip�pffijds" Guam, Puerto Ri-c
<br /> - o, Cuba, and they threw in the
<br /> bonus baby which is the 1,750,000 acre,s J of ChoW ru and G ovcFrwnent lands. So, in 1920,those
<br /> lands had become the Hawaiian Home Lands, whiblfoqced theseslands under the Northwest
<br /> `_W loodq d Public Trust Doctrine.
<br /> Ordinance of 1787. That`.s"�'Whiv.N.-ou.have t
<br /> So, the State and Coununder Section IV of that':`6dmission act is limited to the 1,750,000 acres
<br /> only. I believe this land-herd was fiat- -----ceded in I by the banana republic and, therefore, is still
<br /> under the Hawaiian KingdoAffiw�jslCr wn lands that has Native Tenant Rights and political rights
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<br /> to them. ndt_heatehas_-,_' d� �' n through the Land Use Commission, the
<br /> State Historic Preservation, theI
<br /> _y P anniag-Department, and the Planning Commission.
<br /> And,by thewad, you guys are.n the wrong location. You guys should be located at Prince
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<br /> Kuhio Plaza fight now. That fiW-s are Hawaiian Home lands. This is still Kingdom. Hilo was
<br /> not ceded in 1898 So, the decision you make is in question because you are in the wrong
<br /> location. It's just so of the President, the Congress, or the U.S. Supreme Court under Article 1,
<br /> Section 8, Clause 17, dfVw UNrSViConstitution. They're limited to the 10-mile square,
<br /> Washington D.C., so they cap�'ly make the decision there. So, the County and the State is in
<br /> the,pretty much in the wrong location. They need to relocate for the time being untill the 1898
<br /> joint resolution get resolved.
<br /> So, going back to the terminology of the Native, Native Hawaiian, so the Planning Department
<br /> admits that they only deal with Hawaiian Home Lands. The other term is the Native Tenant
<br /> Rights and political rights to the land. So, there's a distinction that there is a separation going
<br /> on.
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