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waters are of the State not included in any fish pond, artificial fish enclosure or state- licensed mariculture operation shall be free to public, subject to vested rights and the right of the State to regulate the same; provided that mariculture operations shall be established under guidelines enacted by the legislature, which shall the protect publicÓs use and enjoyment of the reefs. The State may condemn such vest use.Ñ See, the public right they talk about it says, Ðfish pondsÈpublicÈsubject to vested rights.Ñ ThatÓs all Hawaiian rights, to our fish, to our ponds. The State is regulating our rights to subsist. These projects, I donÓt know of one of these projects that they going not only help us protect our ponds, help us protect our quality of our resources, but, I guess itÓs Òcause long standing attitude, yeah? Though, I appreciate Mr. Yuen is going to take Òem back to County Council. Hopefully, we can redraft the whole Planning Commission process because I want a place where I can complain, I want a place where the Commissioners going to ta going call me in the next couple of weeks and tell me that this permission, and when the hearings going to be held to bring forth the people that has done me wrong. ThatÓs what IÓm looking for. IÓm not looking for this kind Contested Case s putting the burden on me. And the Ka PaÒakai case says, this is your mandate, this is governmentÓs mandate. You guys protect my rights, whatever those rights are. Finally, under Article XIV of the State Constitution, it talks about Code of Ethics. In the Hokulia case, we only could prove one, one corruption; thatÓs all we could prove, one. People on the take, okay? We have corruption in our Planning Department, big time, big time corruption. Question is proving it. So, hereÓs another one, I guess, note to the Commission. ÐThe people of Hawaii believe that public officers and employees must exhibit the highest standard of ethical conduct and that these standards come from the personal integrity of each individual in government. To keep faith with this belief, the legislature, each political subdivision and the constitutional convention shall adopt a code of ethics which shall apply to appointed and elected officers and employees of the State or the political subdivision, respectively, including members of the boards, commissions and other bodies. ÐEach code of ethics shall be administered by a separate ethics commission, except the code of ethics adopted by the constitutional convention which shall be administered by the state ethics commission. The members of ethics commission shall be prohibited from taking an active part in political management or in political campaigns. Ethics commissioners shall be selected in a matter which assures that independence and impartiality. 11