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represent the people of Hawai `i. However, Emily Naeole doesn't understand the people <br />of Hawai `i may not all be Hawaiians. Okay. <br />GENTRY: Mr. Chair, if I may? <br />CHAIR: Yup. <br />GENTRY: I heard what you said about the complaint and about the petition format. <br />What I was asking you is when did you become aware <br />COLE: - -When it was published in the paper. <br />CHAIR: Okay. <br />GENTRY: So it was through this article <br />COLE: -- Through that article, yes <br />GENTRY: - -there was no direct she didn't say it to your face or anything like that. <br />COLE: No, she said it publicly to everybody. <br />GENTRY: Okay. <br />COLE: Which in fact is libelous, slander with malice. <br />LUM: So she was, though, referring to the petition? <br />COLE: I have no idea. I assume she was referring to my mental case, that I was crazy <br />enough, or whacky enough, to actually attempt to expose organized government <br />corruption and her part in it. That's what I assume. And that's what she also assumed, <br />and Judge Ibarra concurs, by non - response to the letter. <br />LUM: I don't understand this non-responsive- <br />COLE: -- Could- - <br />LUM: - -Why why I don't understand why <br />COLE: - -Could the attorneys please explain -- <br />L UM: - -I don't understand why a non-response- <br />COLE: - -the assenting in silence doctrine <br />LUM: - -why a non - response is interpreted as being why anon-response is something <br />that's interpreted as being that they would agree with it. <br />16 <br />