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Banyan Drive and my first request from DLNR is please give to Mr. Don Inouye who owns
<br /> Reed's Bay Hotel; his lease. He's fixed everything up, continue to fix that hotel, he's also now
<br /> bringing in so much clients that they have a hard time of filling up his hotel. I see that every day
<br /> going on. So he deserves to get that lease from DLNR. As for the other two buildings, well,
<br /> they should close down Country Club and shut it down. It is one of the problems we having with
<br /> the drug problem on Banyan Drive and this is why I'm also here.
<br /> I'm carrying around a screwdriver on me because I've been threatened by the street gangs.
<br /> When I talk street gangs, I'm talking about the young kids and the old farts who are riding on
<br /> bicycles. Those are the street gangs. Those are the guys who are dealing in Ice. That's what the
<br /> big problem we're having on Banyan Drive and now you are setting up this agency. I've asked
<br /> help from Gordon Heit as well as I'm asking help from the Mayor and the park, Park and
<br /> Recreations, as well as Hawaiian Homes. Last week Monday I approached and dropped the
<br /> bomb on the Hawaiian Homes commissioners. I started remembering things back when I started
<br /> tourism. Back then when the Merrie Monarch started. Koa Puna donated the time, the security,
<br /> free. Now you gotta remember, when Merrie Monarch started back in the `60s, it fell apart
<br /> because (inaudible) didn't know how to run it. So they brought in Dottie Thompson. When
<br /> Dottie Thompson came in, the fiscal wasn't that big. The big money maker and the fundraiser
<br /> for Merrie Monarch was the beer garden, if you all remember that if you go back that far with
<br /> me. So we bring our families down, we enjoy the show in the Civic, and we would suck `um up
<br /> in the beer garden. Well back then, I was in tourism, and in tourism back then I got to know
<br /> people in high places and low places. To take care my people, (inaudible) towards the agents
<br /> and everybody. And also went into the hotels and everything that dealt with tourism to make
<br /> sure that everything was running right. And this is how I got into this kind of information and
<br /> history. So what I'm saying is this, Koa Puna hooked up with the yakuza, gotta remember that.
<br /> They're now international and I'll tell you why later on because I only got one minute. When
<br /> Koa Puna brought in shabu, which is the ice that came out of the orient, that's when it started,
<br /> back in the late `70s and `80s. When Hell's Angels showed up it's because the Chicano's were
<br /> coming in from America to work the farms here, and they not only brought in their own type of
<br /> ice, batu, but they also brought in black tar, their version of heroin. Then just (inaudible) I saw
<br /> the apostles at the Reed's Bay Beach. Now, I tried to bring this to the Mayor through Lance
<br /> Niimi, but he wanted me to talk to the Vice Squad, which I did, and he expected me to turn in my
<br /> friends and family. That is not what I brought this to all of you. I want you folks to know the
<br /> problem. It is very hard to control ice. I'm not going to stop here because I'm not done. So I'm
<br /> asking the different areas, Park and Recreations, DLNR, Hawaiian Homes, to control this ice
<br /> problem, especially that area. You have to cut down the brushes. Airport, the old airport. Get
<br /> rid of the brushes. Keep the trees for coolness, but this is how we're going to move all these
<br /> street divas back into King's Landing, and later on I'll explain why I'm doing this. It's because I
<br /> don't want the communities, again, I'll tell you right now, I don't want you folks sending them to
<br /> Pepe`ekeo again, coming back into Wainaku, coming back into Pu`u`eo, coming back into Hilo,
<br /> coming back into Waiakea, back into Keaukaha again. It always happens when the police does
<br /> that. It is only lately these guys started coming out of King's Landing started selling their junk
<br /> again. So later on when I explained to Lance again and to the Mayor, and to everybody else why
<br /> we have to do this to protect our grandchildren.
<br /> DELIMA: Thank you, Mr. Makaio.
<br /> MAKAIO: Okay. Thank you very much.
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