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CLARKSON: when this actually comes before us for a decision. Any other questions?
<br />REPLOGLE: Thank you.
<br />CLARKSON: Thank you.
<br />ENOCENCIO: ENOCENCIO: Thanks, appreciate it.
<br />CLARKSON: If not, I'll ask Mr. Vicente to introduce himself and then proceed.
<br />VICENTE: Good morning. My name is Dwight Vicente, representing the Hawaiian Kingdom.
<br />These lands are actually leased under King Kalakaua, he bumped up the leases from three to
<br />five years to 25 years. He knew the United States was up to no good, and that's why those lands
<br />was never ceded, illegally ceded in 1898. They were leased out as agricultural lands to the sugar,
<br />pastoral, coffee, that's why whenever you have the, the zoning agriculture, you're going to
<br />notice, those are the leased lands under the Kingdom.
<br />So, and what they're trying to do is get a zoning change from the Land Use Commission
<br />supported by HUD and supported by the Hawaii County Planning Department that has no
<br />jurisdiction over these lands. These are not the ceded lands. The ceded lands fall under
<br />Hawaiian Homes, and that's 1,750,000 acres. There's over two million acres that was not ceded
<br />to the United States illegally, and there's a reason for that. There was a contract they couldn't
<br />break. Just like the, in 1893, they tried the annexation, and it never passed because there was
<br />treaties that was going to end, in 1897, and that was the last treaties because of the illegal acts of
<br />the United States. But, that doesn't mean that the Hawaiian Kingdom doesn't exist. There's
<br />over two million acres of Hawaiian Kingdom land. Iolani Palace still stands. It wasn't given
<br />away. If you read the Joint Resolution, it states government buildings. Harbor—not the water
<br />itself, but the buildings, the structures at the harbor. There's a lot of things ambiguous, Joint
<br />Resolution that was written in 1898, and those people were American citizens, here with an
<br />unconstitutional treaty because the President of the United States nor did the U.S., King
<br />Kalakaua sign it. So, you have to question what was going on. Is this criminal activity? Yeah.
<br />Is it an act of war? No. There was no war declared on either side although there was gun fire.
<br />U.S. Minister Stevens on board the navy ship when he visited this island fired the cannons at the
<br />Islands, at Native Hawaiians. And, they did it on the outer islands, not on Oahu. They just
<br />landed the troops at Oahu illegally.
<br />The Pearl Harbor Treaty, amended 1875 treaty was not legal because the United States cannot
<br />have a harbor or a station in the military outside of Article I, Section 2, Clause 3. That's thirteen
<br />states only, and they have to purchase it under Article I, Section 8, Clause 17. And, that's only
<br />the 13 states, there's no amendment that adds any new states or extends Northwest—Article V of
<br />the Northwest Ordinance beyond its limits. They got incorporated, non -incorporated territories
<br />under that. Now a lot of countries are on there right now. I'll name—South Korea, Japan,
<br />Philippines, Guam, Northern Marianas, Micronesia, Panama, Samoa, Haiti, Virgin Isles, Puerto
<br />Rico, Germany, Spain, Middle East—wherever you see the U.S. Military. They're called
<br />unincorporated territories under Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution.
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