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<br />HAWAII COUNTY CHARTER COMMISSION
<br />Transcript of Meeting of March 8, 2000
<br />Hawaii County Liquor Commission Conference Room,
<br />Hilo Lagoon Center
<br />Attendance: J. Ray, M. Herkes, R. Higashi, S. Irvine, G. Martin, G. Yoshiyama, Counsel C. Yuen
<br />Absent: E. Alonzo, K. Balog, S. Bess, D. Kurozawa, J. Santangelo
<br />And 8 members of the public in attendance.
<br />The meeting was called to order at 5:15 p.m.
<br />RAY: I’d like to call the March 8th meeting of the 1999-2000 Hawaii County Charter Commission to order. It’s 5:15 p.m.
<br />We’re in Hilo this evening in the Liquor Commission Conference Room.
<br />Attendance. Present at this time, myself John Ray; Chair; Roland Higashi, Vice Chair; Marni Herkes; Sue Irvine; George
<br />Martin; and Gary Yoshiyama, and we’re expecting a couple more folks.
<br />Statements from the Public. Anything you’d like to comment on that’s been suggested or related to proposed Amendments,
<br />have at it. First is Dwight. Would you like to come up and state your name, and just whatever you want to address on here.
<br />VICENTE: Good evening. My name is Dwight Vicente. I’m representing myself. The Rice vs. Cayetano was an awakening
<br />call for the State being in violation of the U.S. Constitution. Article IV, Section 3, Clause 1 states that new states may be
<br />admitted into the Union. Read the Admission Act. The State of Hawaii was not admitted into the Union. A colony was
<br />admitted into the Union, all controlled totally by Congress. It was Congress’s doing from the beginning, going back to the
<br />joint resolution they called Treaty of Annexation of 1897. We had Americans voting here as far back as 1887 to ban that
<br />constitution. That’s where the State of Hawaii comes about from, and till today the Americans still have rights to vote here,
<br />without even renouncing their citizenship. And you have the Public Law 103-150 which states that those of Hawaiian descent
<br />never became U.S. citizens, so I find it a problem trying to vote. Saying you’re a U.S. citizen when you’re not, or in the
<br />application, you have to be a U.S. citizen to vote when the Public Law 103-150 says those of Hawaiian descent never became
<br />nothing to renounce, never was. So I find a problem with voting.
<br />Commissions, Boards, Regents; all means by which government used to - a vehicle that is used to usurp power, okay? You
<br />got the Police Commission. Most people don’t understand when they wrote the U.S. Constitution, at that time, there was no
<br />police. By design, the police is a military force. They’re in uniform and armed. The 10th Amendment reads ‘powers not
<br />delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or
<br />to the people.’ The original constitution, as adopted, was never amended, so all military powers rest with Congress under
<br />Article 1, Section A, Clause 11 through 18, okay? So you can’t create a Commission to usurp that power and the HRS’s 52
<br />(d), they create the Police Commission.
<br />RAY: Dwight, looking at the larger picture, the Charter, what do you suggest as Charter Commission members? I mean,
<br />specifically you’re addressing a part of the Charter, but what -
<br />VICENTE: Well, my view is that the State of Hawaii is illegal so they cannot create anything, any creature, besides
<br />themselves. The question is where did they get the legal authority from.
<br />RAY: So, you’re saying this whole process -
<br />VICENTE: Is all illegal.
<br />RAY: Is invalid in your mind.
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