2010-07-14 Board of Ethics Minutes

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HAWAII COUNTY BOARD OF ETHICS MINUTES – REGULAR SESSION' Wednesday, July 14, 2010 10:03 a.m. – 12:23 p.m. 101 Aupuni Street, Suite 230 Hilo, Hawaii 96720 Members and staff present: John E. K. Dill, Chair Ann Lum, Vice Chair Arne T. Henricks, Member Renee N. C. Schoen, Deputy Corporation Counsel Lorene M. Mizuba, Secretary for the Board 1. CALL TO ORDER 10:03 a.m. The Chair called the meeting to order. 2. STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC ON AGENDA ITEMS CHAIR: Okay, statements from the public on agenda items. Why don't we call Anne Marsh Johnson to come provide testimony. We'd like to keep the statements from the public on the agenda items in about three minutes, if we could. If you could just state your name for the record. MARSH - JOHNSON: My name is Anne Marsh- Johnson. I wanted to state that I believe that the Hamakua Forest Reserve lands, the sale of them, is wrong. I've seen paperwork that I held in my hand from the county when they were putting the items up for sale, and it said Hamakua Forest Reserve over it, and I said what are you doing selling off Hamakua Forest Reserve? That's for the people of Hawai `i. And I did , and I found out Hamakua Forest Reserve is actually part of the Queen's Trust land and that it goes way past Waimea. And this land has been sold off and sold off illegally. I brought a couple items with me. I wanted to state real quickly and this is from the Bible. It says God's word tells us thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife nor his manservant nor his maidservant nor his ox nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor's. When you covet something, you steal it. The queen, when she was converted to Christianity, she did this. She listened to what God's word told her. This is how she ruled her country, her nation. And what happened was, this man came in. I don't want to listen to what the queen has to say. I don't want to obey anyone that's obeying God. So he just decided to overthrow the Hawaiian Kingdom, and that is Christian persecution. It's religious persecution. When her name was stricken out of her trust, that's also religious persecution. This is not right. This land was stolen. It was stolen from the Hawaiian people. Now regarding the Hamakua Forest Reserve lands themselves, I've also done research on the lands, and they're- ' Minutes in italics are verbatim. Blanks indicate inaudible or indecipherable speech.