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Ms. Malakaua: I think we're all distanced enough. <br />Mr. Robinson: Mr. Currie. <br />Mr. Currie: Yes. <br />Mr. Robinson: Would you please go ahead. <br />Mr. Currie: Sure. This is my testimony. My name is Thayne Currie. I <br />currently have a dual appointments at the NASA Ames Research <br />Center and also has an affiliated researcher at the Subaru <br />Telescope on the Big Island. To be very clear, Mauna Kea is <br />personally very special to me. Requires care when I believe it's <br />resources should be protected. And I also believe very strongly in <br />due process and equality of the law for everybody. And It's for <br />these reasons, I support Lisa Malakaua and Mike Nathaniel's effort <br />to show the truth which is that the State and County of Hawaii <br />have committed severe ethics violations by allowing an <br />unpermitted environment damaging and habitually trash-shrewn <br />TMT protest site to persist. And also by not enforcing TMT safe <br />legal access to it's construction site even though they enforced they <br />law at different locations or on the same plot of land for different <br />issues. So Attachment A which you should have, demonstrates in <br />a crystal clear way, why the campsite is illegal, irrespective of the <br />ownership of the road. [Inaudible] the County and State are in <br />ethical violation by not enforcing the law. It took many <br />community members who personally petitioned their elected <br />officials and other orders of the State and County to enforce the <br />law. Do something. So Lisa and Mike did this with DLNR and <br />DHHL. Attachment B recounts my effort with the Mayor to do <br />this, the meeting. Specifically I communicated to the Mayor that <br />the non -enforcement of the law was doing tangible damage to the <br />community. And how it undermines their role off for everybody. <br />In both cases with the State and with the County, no action was <br />taken. And finally I think I wanted to underscore that the lack of <br />enforcement or non -enforcement of the law with respect to protest <br />activities on Mauna Kea is a chronic problem. Not an isolated <br />incident, and it dates back years. The many examples in <br />Attachment C gives a vivid example. Where someone disinterred <br />remains in Ka'u and placed the bones in an ahu on the TMT site in <br />effort to falsely demonstrate that Thirty Meter Telescope was built <br />on a gravesite. This effort was performed with a clear knowledge <br />and tacit approval of dozens of protestors. Aside from being a <br />clear violation of the State law, this act was denounced by experts <br />as an act of cultural terrorism as the attachment demonstrates. <br />14 <br />