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<br />LOPRINZI: Okay, well, I don’t have my Hawaiian name. I have my Sicilian name.
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<br />So – let me think, you know, when you, when you speak as a cultural practitioner and someone
<br />interrupts you, you just kind of do the, the train, the thoughts go, so let me go back – so as a
<br />practitioner and as, as anybody of us, we all have accountability and kuleana. I was part of the
<br />first group in 2005. And I remember there was someone from Italy that came. And we worked
<br />and we worked, we devoted all of our Saturdays. And, in fact, it’s not like, we were not, it’s not a
<br />paid job. Just remember that. This is, this is our kuleana and we take it seriously because we are
<br />not going away, because we care. Now, I can tell you that my other half, he was on the housing
<br />committee. I asked him this morning. He works in recovery work like an alcoholism, he’s a
<br />physician; he couldn’t get here. And he said, you know, he was on housing, he said they got it so
<br />bad that we even held on to this, this whole thing, just for cultural and environmental, but the
<br />housing, and I just like to think of that how many, why don’t you care about especially the
<br />indigenous population here that don’t have homes. So, how can you do more, how can you bring
<br />in a lawyer? This was sad honestly, no, no, no \[inaudible\] against you, with all aloha, but, to sit
<br />here and to see, mm-hmm, a lawyer shaking his head, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, and then
<br />you just kind of reading off these papers, and I’m like going where is the heart and soul? Have we
<br />forgotten about those things? Have we forgotten about how important it is to protect our land,
<br />protect our water? And when you look at all the development that’s been happening, private wells
<br />going in and all of our resources—. Oh, I was at the \[inaudible\] commission meeting about a
<br />week and a half ago. Lucky I made two of the days because I had two babies those days, but I got
<br />there. That’s how hard we work. I may work all night long, but I’m still going to make meetings.
<br />And to hear how many boats are out there, the violations, and to see this, and it’s laws already. So
<br />I just really ask all of you to really look inside at what’s happening here, what’s happening to the
<br />people, the land, the cultural sites, their past. No, they are violated, and that was very clear at the
<br />marathon – ten million dollars business Kona is making now on the oceans right there. People
<br />don’t care? So, this “shall” meant “shall,” and we had already had to cut and cut and cut and cut
<br />and cut and work and work and work. And how come we weren’t asked? How come all these
<br />faces are up here? Where were you guys? Because you didn’t get paid that day? Because you
<br />work harder than we do? It’s not true. And, when you come to Kona, we don’t do that, either
<br />\[speaking of the sign Ms. Hall was holding up, indicating the time left for testimony\]; you don’t
<br />signs, put signs that says—
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<br />UNGER: Please keep your testimony to the Commission, and we would appreciate it if you wrap
<br />up your—
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<br />LOPRINZI: Well, she just signed the—
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<br />UNGER: I understand that, please wrap up your testimony. There are other neighbors here that
<br />would also like to testify and also have given up their time to be here. Thank you.
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<br />LOPRINZI: We have our rights and these meetings are our rights. And so I would go not back to
<br />the beginning, but you should call us back in here, and, and, no, you can’t change it any more.
<br />Change the legal structure that give these guys so much time to be able to do what they do, and
<br />give us the rights.
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