2015-01-08 Hearing Transcript-GAF Puna Pono Alliance

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asking for what monies on the psychological effects on Hawaiians—it’s the same psychological effects that you’d have on any religion if you start altering the theology of it. So, eh, even taking this money, to me as one Hawaiian whose been defending my traditions, you guys using and prostituting my religion and just pimping with the money, paying off this State created Office of Hawaiian Affairs with a 20 percent, and the State getting 50 percent, and the County getting 30. Like everybody gets paid off to shut down the Hawaiian. It’s about money. You sit around and just collect these funds or these royalties and you understand what royalties is? How did it even get there? What is a royalty? You get royalty for koa? You get royalty for fish? You get royalty for water? How come you get royalty for geothermal? What, it was something that was in our monarchy that we had mineral rights? So, you reach back into our past government and pick out what you think you need like mineral rights? Well, what about the overthrow? You no like address that? You just like take things of the past to benefit yourself in the future and step on the Hawaiians in the process. Because of your assimilated pressure or put upon the Native Hawaiian, we have to go with the flow or we just ain’t gonna make it. And it’s all about to me the whole idea of three, four generations of immigrants coming to these Islands, growing up with Hawaiians, and not taking care of the host people. You guys no go home. You stay! Why you stay? Because we neva ask you to come. Somebody else did. But you know history, and you know when you grow up here. Lot of things was wrong. You guys think about fixing ‘em? Or you going take advantage of the pilau that was done. This money they asking for should have been automatic already! It shouldn’t have come out of doing geo, that you get the payoff and now you going put the bucks back into one study. I mean, what, why, you kill somebody first and then you going study ‘em after? You gonna say that geothermal isn’t something bad to Hawaiians? Well it’s a rape of my belief and my traditions. And, you ain’t gonna tell me get nice rape. And you, Duane, you knew that long time. You should be cleaning up the opala you was part of making. PATEL: Sorry, I have to interject. I mean, I think we can be cordial— DEDMAN: Aw, c’mon— PATEL: --I know— DEDMAN: I’ve been at it for 30 years— PATEL: --I know it’s a sens— DEDMAN: --Where were you in ’83? PATEL: --I know— DEDMAN: --Not born yet. PATEL: --I know it’s a sensitive— 3 EXHIBIT D