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hasn't even been a beneficiary consultation on the disposition of <br /> the road yet. <br /> Mr. Robinson: Time please. <br /> Ms. Kaho`opi`i: So that's up in the air. We've wasted millions of dollars doing <br /> this. Including paying for the EIS. My other thing I really want to <br /> bring up is how State... Some of things I'm gonna agree with our <br /> group on. The State and the monies that were allocated. Media <br /> PR. Law enforcement. The purchasing of combat level <br /> enforcement tools, specifically to come after kanaka and the people <br /> that are fighting on the access road. Grant money being used to <br /> fund TMT legal fees that included the contested case. And that <br /> included also the Supreme Court case. The abuse of executive <br /> powers. Declaring a false state of emergency. Targeting and <br /> harassing citizens on the Saddle Road. Bartering the destruction of <br /> property on Department of Hawaiian Homelands by destroying the <br /> classroom and the guard shack. If you don't know the laws of <br /> Hawaiian Homelands, you can...you can...build a structure as <br /> long as there's not a kitchen or a bathroom. And if you are going <br /> to take that property down, you have to give the people 30 days if <br /> it cost over$6,000. So the destruction of that was illegal...of the <br /> classroom. And then my last thing is the black propaganda <br /> campaign that was paid for by tax dollars. That was launched from <br /> the Governor's Office and I have insight into the PR firm that <br /> specifically did that. But it funneled through State institutions and <br /> really it demonized. It humiliated and it disenfranchised the <br /> Hawaiian people on the mountain by presenting us as alcoholics, <br /> drug addicts, EBT people. Not that I have an issue with that. But <br /> most of us are educated professional people that have served our <br /> communities...all of our adult lives. So in closing... <br /> Mr. Robinson: Please. <br /> Ms. Kaho'opi'i: I'm asking. I know. But it's very important to us. In closing, if <br /> you're gonna go ahead and move through this with this resolution, <br /> I'm gonna stand guard and hope and demand that our issues also <br /> be part of the resolution that you're bringing forward. And it's not <br /> only people who think we should be removed from the mountain. <br /> Thank you. <br /> Mr. Robinson: Thank you. There's a question. <br /> Ms. Sumner-Mack: Excuse me. The letter that you mentioned. You referenced... <br /> Ms. Kaho`opi`i: United Nations. <br /> 10 <br />