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them. This false religion believed in human sacrifice and believed <br /> in slavery. <br /> Mr. Wiseman: Why do you call it a false religion? <br /> Mr. Dorsey: Anyway, I'm making some historic points. I'm a historical <br /> researcher and writer myself so... <br /> Mr. Robinson: Go ahead and finish up and we'll ask you some questions. <br /> Mr. Wiseman: Sorry Mr. Chairman. <br /> Mr. Robinson: Yeah. <br /> Mr. Dorsey: Okay so, we have a false religion coming to Hawaii and taking <br /> over. They had the ali`i and the kama'aina. The kama'aina were <br /> worse than most of the peasants. And Europe at the time, they had <br /> no right to life, liberty or the pursuit of happiness. They were <br /> confined to their own ahupua`a. They could not travel from there. <br /> The ali`i were like the aristocratic class and they could collect <br /> taxes from the kama'aina. And they didn't even [inaudible] had <br /> human feelings. They had no rights to life, liberty and pursuit of <br /> happiness. They're ruled by a very strict bunch of kapus, which if <br /> the kapus where violated, they were immediately killed. So it was <br /> not a very good religion. I have to point out. The kama'aina were <br /> never allowed on Mauna Kea. Only the highest of the ali`i could <br /> go there. And this was true right up to the reign of King <br /> Kamehameha II. Now Kamehameha II had already brought in the <br /> missionaries, the Christian missionaries and had been affected by <br /> Christian beliefs. And he realized the great in justice of many of <br /> the kapus. So he started breaking these kapus. <br /> Mr. Robinson: Time please. <br /> Mr. Dorsey: Okay so anyway. What I want to point out to all these people now, <br /> I respect the fact that they worship the mountain and so on. But I <br /> also want to point out that some of their beliefs are based on a false <br /> religion. And King Kamehameha I and every heiau he built, he <br /> had sacrificed a human being, a living human being and placed <br /> them inside the corner stone of each of the heiaus. So don't tell me <br /> that this religion should be respected that much. Okay. <br /> Mr. Robinson: Okay. <br /> Mr. Dorsey: Okay, another statement. <br /> 15 <br />