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currently, there is no access for handicapped people to utilize the sidewalks. They have no entry
<br />way or exit way from each block.
<br />CLARKSON: We'll follow up with that after we hear testimony from this group of people.
<br />VICENTE: Good morning, my name is Dwight Vicente representing the Hawaiian Kingdom.
<br />These are the lease lands at the, was leased to Waiakea Mill or Sugar Plantation. It's over
<br />10,000 acres that under King Kalakaua was leased out for a term of 25 years. So, when the lease
<br />ended, the plantation claimed they owned the land which is a false, falsehood. That's how you
<br />have the homestead going on. Till today, it's still Kingdom land. These are actually Crown
<br />Lands. Still belonging to the Hawaiian Kingdom, fall under the jurisdiction of the Hawaiian
<br />Kingdom. In 1898, it was not lands ceded to the United States --the 1,750,000 acres. Those
<br />lands did not have a lease contract on where this land in particular, the Crown land, has lease
<br />contract, which ended in 1915 and, therefore, is not a part of the State of Hawaii or the County
<br />of Hawaii nor was it ceded to the United States and incorporated under Article IV, Section 3,
<br />Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution.
<br />So, this has a status of Kingdom, yet even this land that this building is on, where this meeting is
<br />held, is still a Hawaiian Kingdom. You're not, you should be relocated to Hawaiian Home
<br />Lands. So, your decisions here is questionable because you're making decisions in the wrong
<br />jurisdiction, and you're dealing with the lands that the political question belongs to the Hawaiian
<br />Kingdom rather than the County of Hawaii or the State of Hawaii. How they're getting away
<br />with it? They're using the State Land Use Commission. Then they use the County Planning
<br />Commission to use their power to—go over the Great Divide of 1898, which is a joint resolution.
<br />So, the, these lands are not speculated on, and they all have Native Tenant Rights attached to
<br />them. Because these lands was never ceded. The other lands has a Public Trust Doctrine, and
<br />the Public Trust Doctrine comes from the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. So, the—and the
<br />Northwest Ordinance was based on the Indian removal, and the "white man" was going to
<br />occupy the lands, and it goes back to the Revolutionary War where the Continental Congress
<br />promised those civilians that fought the Revolutionary War was going to be given lands. The
<br />only problem was the lands was not in the 13 colonies. It was lands in the Ohio River Valley
<br />that the Indians occupied. It's a strange concept. Thomas Jefferson, Monroe, and Dane, that's
<br />the plan that became the Northwest Ordinance. It was adopted by the Congress under Articles of
<br />Confederation, and the U.S. Constitution, Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2. This is how they
<br />created the State of Hawaii and do all the things that they do under—you can go back to
<br />Downes vs. Bidwell. That's 182 U.S., I don't know what page it's on, though. And, it'll say that
<br />the United States is not only a constitutional republic, but it is also a kingdom under the
<br />Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2.
<br />With this, I'll end with the reservation of the rights of this Kingdom under Queen's Protest of
<br />January 17, 1893, against U. S. Minister Stevens. It has yet to make its way to the U.S. Supreme
<br />Court, and the other one is the 1898 Joint Resolution. It's unconstitutional because the U.S.
<br />doesn't have jurisdiction to cede or receive lands that belong to the Hawaiian Kingdom. And,
<br />the other one is the Reciprocity Treaty of 1898, King Kalakaua and the U.S. President did not
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