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build something for them, so they won't do all kind of like criminal kind of things?
<br />Okay? Meaning, raising funds or something kind of thing, so then they can have a place
<br />to go and stay and not get and be arrested on the streets or doing crimes. Bad crimes. I
<br />see it myself. I live in the heart of town, now, and because of my children kind of thing,
<br />, when to practice my hula and go and dance for the care home all over the
<br />place Igo —and I love to do that with the kupunas, you know, and driving with them. So
<br />I'm 62. I don't look like it. I'm a very happy person. I don't , `cause
<br />when I die, I no can take nothing with me. Everybody cannot do that. It's by the power
<br />of God, heals everything that He made. That's what I believe, okay? And I still going on
<br />`cause they make me leave. I wake up this morning, and I say thank you, Lord, for the
<br />day when my eye when open. I see today, and anything can happen tome. It's so with
<br />everyone. So the land belongs to God. Everything belongs to Him, `cause he makes
<br />everything. I'm very thankful for that, `cause I read my scriptures, I know what it say.
<br />What we do on earth, in Revelation, is written on the Book of Life. It's found in
<br />Revelation chapter 20, and if you read that, it shows you that, in St. James version. So
<br />that's all I have to say. Praise the Lord, He bless all you here. We all make a good
<br />agreement, you know, and I hope the bill, the bill Akaka, will be passed.
<br />CHAIR: Thank you.
<br />GOLDEN: For the Hawaiians.
<br />CHAIR: Gene Tamashiro?
<br />TAMASHIRO: Good morning.
<br />CHAIR and L UM: Good morning.
<br />TAMASHIRO: I'm Gene Tamashiro. My grandparents are from Okinawa. My family's
<br />been here over a hundred years. I grew upon Oahu and got pretty tired of the rat race
<br />that is enveloping the United States right now, so I completed the cycle and returned back
<br />to the roots where my mom and dad were also born, hereon the Big Island. The ongoing
<br />cognitive dissonance that is occurring for all of us is not something that you should
<br />wrestle with just alone in your private time with your family or all by yourself in your bed
<br />as you go to sleep. It is common knowledge right now that this land was stolen, that this
<br />was a country that had 80 embassies all across the world. And it's very frustrating, as
<br />you probably would know if you were sitting in our shoes, and maybe one day you will
<br />be, to go time and time again to official hearings where people who are working for the
<br />occupier's government are conducting themselves professionally yet, in my view, without
<br />heart and without integrity. And irregardless of what you do and say amongst your
<br />professional selves, I encourage you as a child of God, which we all are, to take it upon
<br />yourself and ask your Creator what shall I do in this situation? I work for whether as a
<br />volunteer or as a paid employee for a government that has, through no fault of your
<br />own, taken land, taken culture, committed genocide, and continues to commit genocide
<br />across the planet today. I'm not making this up. If you have intellectual honesty, you
<br />know in your heart. It pains your heart, like it does all of us here. So I just want to ask
<br />any of you to give us in the community some glimmer of hope, that there is some integrity
<br />and courage. I know the system worldwide has been co -opted by ultimately international
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