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From: Lanny Sinkin, Ali'i Mana'o Nui, Kingdom of Hawai'iNow that the severe restrictions on spiritual practice imposed by the Office of Mauna Kea Management have been withdrawn, we have decided to withdraw the motion for a temporary restraining order and proceed to the preliminary injunction.We have also filed an Amended Complaint. This Amended Complaint is far more extensive than the original Complaint because new evidence emerged in the Hawai'i Tribune-Herald regarding the collusion between various State agencies and TMT lawyers to develop a plan for suppressing the constitutional and statutory rights of the Protectors. In pursuit of that goal, the State agencies adopted policies, rules, and regulations that also violated the rights of spiritual practitioners and the traditional and customary rights of Native Hawaiians. The Amended Complaint alleges a conspiracy that is involving numerous State agencies in the misuse of their regulatory powers to achieve illegal and unconstitutional political goals.

Transcript of 150723 AMN Amended Complaint

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    Lanny Alan Sinkin Tx. Bar #18438675 P. O. Box 944 Hilo, Hawaii 96721 (808) 936-4428 [email protected] Counsel for Plaintiff IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF HAWAII ) Frank Kamealoha Anuumealani Nobriga, ) Civ. No. 15-cv-00254 DKW BMK In his capacity as Kahuna of the ) Temple of Lono, ) ) Plaintiff ) ) AMENDED COMPLAINT; Vs. ) ) ) ) David Y. Ige, in his official capacity as ) Governor, State of Hawaii, ) and in his private capacity; ) ) Suzanne Case, in her official capacity as ) Chairperson, Department of Land ) And Natural Resources, State of ) Hawaii, and in her private ) capacity; ) ) Kekoa Kaluhiwa, in his official capacity as ) First Deputy, Department of Land ) and Natural Resoures, State of ) Hawaii, and in his private ) capacity; ) ) Jason Redulla, in his official capacity as ) Acting Chief of the State of Hawaii ) Department of Land and Natural ) Resources Division of Conservation) And Resource Enforcement; ) ) Stephanie Nagata, in her official capacity ) as Director of the Office of Mauna ) Kea Management, and in her )

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    private capacity; ) ) Donald Straney, in his official capacity as ) Chancellor, University of HawaiI ) at Hilo, and in his private capacity; ) ) ) David Chin, in his official capacity as ) State of Hawaii Attorney General, ) and in his private capacity; ) ) Linda Chow, in her capacity as Deputy ) Attorney General, and in her ) private capacity; ) ) Julie China, in her capacity as Deputy ) Attorney General, and in her ) private capacity; ) ) Mitch Roth, in his capacity as Hawaii ) County Prosecuting Attorney, and ) in his private capacity; ) ) Damien Nagata, in her capacity as ) Hawaii County Deputy ) Prosecuting Attorney and in her ) private capacity; ) ) Elizabeth Britt Bailey, in her capacity as ) HawaiI County Deputy ) Prosecuting Attorney and in her ) Private capacity; and ) ) John or Jane Doe #1, in his or her official ) capacity and private capacity ) ) Defendants ) ________________________________________________) NOW COMES, FRANK KAMEHALOHA ANUUMEALANI NOBRIGA and files this First Amended Complaint seeking assistance from this Honorable Court in protecting the rights of those embracing the traditional faith of the Hawaiian people to practice, the rights of those having traditional and customary access to Mauna a

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    Wkea to continue to have those rights unfettered by illegal restrictions imposed by State agencies, and the rights of spiritual practitioners and others to engage in peaceful opposition to the proposed Thirty Meter Telescope. Jurisdiction 1. Plaintiff herein alleges that Defendants are engaged in a conspiracy to suppress a peaceful political movement in violation of the United States Constitutions First and Fourteenth Amendments. 2. Plaintiff alleges that, in furtherance of this conspiracy, Defendants have adopted policies, rules, and regulations whose sole purpose is to prevent a peaceful political movement from being effective and/or successful, in violation of the constitutional rights of those engaged in the movement. 3. Plaintiff alleges that in the course of this conspiracy, Defendants adopted policies, rules, and regulations that illegally restricted and/or restrict the spiritual practices of those embracing the traditional faith of the Hawaiian people in violation of rights protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and in violation of 18 U.S.C. 242. 4. This Honorable Court has jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. 1331 (Federal Question). 5. Plaintiff alleges that Defendant Office of Mauna Kea Management enacted new rules using a process that violated the procedural requirements of State law and the due process requirements of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution. 6. Plaintiff alleges that Defendant State Department of Land and Natural Resources enacted new rules in a process that violated the procedural requirements of State

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    law and the due process requirements of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution. 7. Plaintiff alleges that Defendants are restricting the spiritual practices of those embracing the traditional faith of the Hawaiian people in violation of rights protected by the State of Hawaii Constitution and statutes. 8. Plaintiff alleges that the Defendants are restricting the traditional and customary rights of the Hawaiian people in violation of protections provided to those rights in the Constitution and laws of the State of Hawaii. 9. Plaintiff alleges that the actions taken by Defendants are part of a conspiracy forming a coordinated effort to suppress the First Amendment rights of those who seek to prevent the desecration of a sacred site by stopping the construction of a private astronomical facility. 10. Plaintiff alleges that the Defendants are prepared to pursue construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope without regard for burials and altars in violation of Federal and State Constitutions and statutes. 11. Plaintiff is further alleging that the Defendants intend to use the illegal and unconstitutional rules and regulations to punish people for exercising their rights to practice their faith by arrests, disruption of their spiritual ceremony, seizure of personal possessions, ejection from the restricted area, or other punishments. 12. Finally, Plaintiff alleges that Defendants intend to use the illegal and unconstitutional rules and regulations to punish those exercising their rights to engage in protected speech, assembly, and petition for redress by arrests, seizure of personal possessions, ejection from the restricted area, or other punishments.

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    Plaintiff 13. Plaintiff is the Kahuna of the Temple of Lono, a traditional faith of the Hawaiian people. Respondents 14. David Y. Ige is Governor of the State of Hawaii and is named in his official capacity and his private capacity. 15. Suzanne Case is Chairperson of the State of Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) 1 and is named in her official capacity and her private capacity. 16. Kekoa Kaluhiwa is Deputy Director of DLNR and is named in his official capacity and his private capacity. 17. Jason Redulla is acting Chief of the State of Hawaii Land and Natural Resources Division of Conservation and Resource Enforcement and is named in his official capacity and his private capacity. 18. Stephanie Nagata is the Director of the Office of Mauna Kea Management (OMKM) and is named in her official capacity.2 1 The Department of Land and Natural Resources, headed by an executive Board of 2 Office of Mauna Kea Management(OMKM) - The Maunakea Management Board provides the community with a sustained direct voice for the management of the Maunakea. The Board is comprised of seven members from the community who are nominated by the UH Hilo Chancellor and approved by the UH Board of Regents. The volunteer members represent a cross-section of the community and serve as the communitys voice providing input on operations and activities, developing policies, reviewing and providing recommendations for land uses planned for Maunakea. http://www.malamamaunakea.org/management/mauna-kea-management-board

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    19. Donald Straney is Chancellor of the University of Hawaii at Hilo and is named in his official capacity and his private capacity. 20. David Chin is Hawaii Attorney General and is named in his official capacity and his private capacity. 21. Linda Chow is Hawaii Deputy Attorney General and is named in her official capacity and her private capacity. 22. Julie China is Hawaii Deputy Attorney General and is named in her official capacity and her private capacity. 23. Mitch Roth is Hawaii County Prosecuting Attorney and is named in his official capacity and his private capacity. 24. Demien Nagata is Hawaii County Deputy Prosecuting Attorney and is named in her official capacity and her private capacity. 25. Elizabeth Britt Bailey is Hawaii County Deputy Prosecuting Attorney and is named in her official capacity and her private capacity. 26. John or Jane Doe #1, yet to be identified, is a co-conspirator in the conspiracy alleged in this Amended Complaint and/or also responsible for imposing rules or enforcing rules designed to suppress the political movement opposing the TMT and/or that restrict traditional and customary practices on Mauna a Wkea, including spiritual practices, and is named in his or her official capacity and private capacity. Facts 27. There is a major controversy over the proposal to build the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) on Mauna a Wkea, a mountain on the Island of Hawaii held

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    sacred within the traditional faith of the Hawaiian people . 28. Prior to the arrival of Europeans, the Hawaiian people had complete and unfettered access to Mauna a Wkea. 29. The Mountain was considered a sacred site, both symbolically and physically. 30. On its website for the Imiloa Astronomy Center, Defendant University of Hawaii acknowledges that the traditional Hawaiian faith held the Mountain as sacred with its presentation that states: Cultural Significance The Mountain of Wkea The original name of Maunakea is Mauna a Wakea, or Mountain of Wakea. In Hawaiian tradition Wakea (sometimes translated in English as Sky Father) is the progenitor of many of the Hawaiian Islands, and of the Hawaiian people. This mountain is his piko, or the place of connection where earth and sky meet and where the Hawaiian people connect to their origins in the cosmos. Realm of the gods As a sacred site, many of the physical features and environmental conditions of the mountain are associated with Hawaiian gods and goddesses. Lilinoe, Poliahu, and Waiau are just a few of the deities associated with this place. The summit of Maunakea was considered a wao akua, or realm of the gods and was therefore visited only rarely by humans. http://www.imiloahawaii.org/60/cultural-significance. . 31. Defendant University of Hawaii acknowledges that the practitioners of the Hawaiian faith honored that sacredness by strictly limiting access to the Mountain top.

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    32. Defendant University of Hawaii erroneously characterizes this acknowledged traditional faith relationship to Mauna a Wkea as no longer practiced (The summit of Maunakea was considered a wao akua, or realm of the gods. 33. The traditional faith relationship to the sacred Mountain remains part of the living practice of the traditional faith today. 34. The Mountain is a manifestation of Lono. 35. The Mountain is an Amakua. 36. The Mountain is a symbol for the ancestors. 37. The Mountain is a place of worship. 38. The Mountain is a source of materials used elsewhere for worship. 39. The Mountain is a burial ground. 40. The Mountain is a land primarily reserved for the Gods. 41. The Mountain is a cosmology of complexity which can only be understood through years of observation and contemplation. 42. The Mountain has always also been a source of subsistence, providing hunting and gathering. 43. In that subsistence paradigm, traditional cultural values are renewed and preserved. 44. Even after the United States Government agents and Marines illegally overthrew the Kingdom of Hawaii Government and installed surrogate governments,3 including the Provisional Government, Republic of Hawaii, Territory 3 The term surrogate government is used to describe a government illegally claiming jurisdiction over the Kingdom of Hawaii and its lands based on the illegal overthrow of the Kingdom Government by the United States. A comparable political

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    of Hawaii, and State of Hawaii, the practitioners of the traditional Hawaiian faith still had complete and unfettered access to the Mountain. 45. As the stolen lands belonging to the Kingdom of Hawaii passed into the hands of the so-called State of Hawaii, the State began to make use of the lands. 46. The State of Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) became manager of the stolen lands, including Mauna a Wkea. 47. The DLNR leased some of the lands on Mauna a Wkea to the University of Hawaii, a public institution. 48. Beginning in the 1970s, the University of Hawaii leased lands on Mauna a Wkea to private corporations and foreign governments for the building of telescopes. 49. The University of Hawaii issued these leases for telescopes over the objections of numerous people and organizations. 50. The sacredness of the Mountain and the desecration by the telescopes formed part of the objections. 51. There are currently thirteen working telescopes on Mauna a Wkea. 52. The TMT is the most recent telescope to be sited on Mauna a Wkea. 53. Despite all the telescopes, the unfettered access to the Mountain for spiritual practice continued.

    situation existed when the Germans installed the Vichy Government in France during World War II. Fortunately for the French people, they recovered their legitimate government. The Hawaiians have not been so fortunate.

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    54. Recently, however, various agencies within the surrogate government known as the State of Hawaii have asserted their right to restrict the practice of the traditional faith on the Mountain. 55. These same agencies have made no attempt to impose restrictions on any other faith, religion, or spiritual tradition found in the islands. 56. The impetus for these restrictions is the massive opposition that has emerged to the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on the sacred Mountain. 57. Part of the basis for that controversy is the continuing assertion by practitioners of the traditional Hawaiian faith that the mountain is sacred and that the construction of the telescope constitutes desecration of a sacred site. 58. Those seeking to prevent desecration refer to themselves as Protectors and object to being termed protestors. 59. Another component of the opposition to the TMT is that the telescope is being built on lands belonging to the Kingdom of Hawaii without permission of the Kingdom. 60. Access to the Mountain by car is limited to one road, known as the Mauna Kea Observatory Access Road. 61. On October 7, 2014, the Protectors attempted to drive up the Mountain to attend the ground-breaking ceremony for the TMT. 62. State vehicles blocked the Protectors from ascending the road. 63. That State blockade resulted in everyone else coming to the ceremony also not being able to ascend the Mountain. 64. As a result, the ceremony was cancelled.

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    65. At the end of March 2015 and in the first week of April 2015, Protectors blockaded the access road twice in an attempt to prevent TMT workers from ascending the Mountain. 66. The second time, police arrested 31 people. 67. The TMT construction workers did reach the construction site. 68. The arrests, however, led to a suspension of TMT construction. 69. Despite the absence of any criminal intent on the part of those acting to prevent desecration, the Hawaii County Prosecutor charged some of those arrested with trespassing onto their sacred Mountain. 70. Others were charged with obstruction. 71. The prosecutions for trespassing emerged as part of a broader plan, initiated in April by State officials, including and not limited to Defendant Damien Nagata, to suppress the opposition to the TMT 72. In May, various officials of the State, including and not limited to Defendants Case, Redulla, and Roth, had begun to develop a plan to remove the Protectors from the Mountain and prevent their interacting with the TMT construction crews going up the Mountain. 73. Subsequently, Defendants Kaluhiwa, Chow, China, Bailey, joined the conspiracy planning the suppression. 74. That plan included closing the Mauna Kea Observatory Access Road in such a way as to avoid revealing that the true intent of the closure was to frustrate any efforts by the Protectors to prevent construction of the TMT.

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    75. The Hawaii County Prosecutors Office and the University of Hawaii coordinated their suppression efforts with the attorneys for the Thirty Meter Telescope through pursuit of the trespassing charges. 76. The Hawaii County Prosecutors Office and the University of Hawaii received a legal memorandum from the TMT attorneys on how to defeat the legal claims of the Protectors regarding the continued existence of the Kingdom, sovereignty, jurisdiction and other legal issues. 77. Subsequently the Prosecutor filed nolle prosequi motions requesting to dismiss all the trespassing cases. 78. While the Prosecutor knew by May 18 that he was going to dismiss the trespassing charges, he delayed filing the motion until May 25, requiring the trespassing defendants to expend whatever resources were required to file all pretrial motions in a case that the Prosecutor knew he was going to be dismiss. 79. The Prosecutor asked for the dismissals to be without prejudice. 80. The Prosecutor subsequently stated that he might refile the charges at a later time. 81. The State Court granted the motion without prejudice to the Prosecutor refiling the charge at a later date. 82. The State Court granted the motion without allowing an opportunity for any of the trespass defendants to object to the dismissal or the nature of the dismissal as without prejudice.

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    83. While the citations for those arrested called for them to appear in Hilo, Hawaii, the Prosecutor and the Court, absent any request from defendants, proceeded to change the venue to Waimea, requiring a lengthy trip for many of the defendants. 84. The Protectors established a 24 hour a day vigil at the 9,000 foot level to ensure construction workers did not ascend to the site. 85. The State officials involved in the conspiracy knew that the purpose of their activity was to prevent the Protectors from exercising rights protected by the United States Constitution and the Hawaiian Constitution. 86. The State officials tried to develop a plan that would disguise the targeting of the Protectors by adoption of a rule of more general applicability to Mauna a Wkea and areas outside the Mauna a Wakea lands that would achieve the targeting goal while obscuring the visibility of that goal. 87. On Wednesday, June 24, 2015, an attempt was made to bring a construction crew to the site of the TMT. 88. Hundreds of people gathered to protect the Mountain and prevent what they considered desecration. 89. The construction crew was first preceded by County of Hawaii police officers. 90. From the 9,000 foot level and continuing up the mountain, hundreds of Protectors of Mauna a Wkea blocked the progress of the convoy. 91. While in the County jurisdiction, the moving blockade and the County police proceeded peacefully up the mountain. 92. In the County jurisdiction, there was only one arrest, which took place without incident.

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    93. At the 10,000 foot level, the jurisdiction changed to the DLNR. 94. In the DLNR jurisdiction, the officers became more aggressive and arrests increased. 95. In response to the more aggressive DLNR actions, Protectors further up the Mountain placed rocks and rock walls in the roadway to obstruct the progress of the convoy without requiring interaction between the Protectors and the DLNR officers. 96. When the convoy reached the rocks, DLNR made the decision to abandon the effort to reach the TMT site. 97. The convoy turned around and descended the Mountain. 98. By Friday, June 26, 2015, the Protectors had removed all the rock obstructions from the road. 99. In their zeal to prevent a repetition of the successful blockade, State agencies enacted new rules to shut down the Protectors that also had or have adverse impacts on the traditional faith practices, on traditional and customary Native Hawaiian rights, and preservation of Native Hawaiian cultural values.. 100. The Office of Mauna Kea Management (OMKM) took various punitive measures. 101. After the successful blockade, the Office of Mauna Kea Management (OMKM) closed the Visitor Center at the 9,000 foot level where the Protectors had set up their vigil site. 102. OMKM cut off the water at the 9,000 foot level. 103. OMKM locked up the bathrooms in the Visitor Center. 104. OMKM locked up the portable bathrooms on site.

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    105. When the Protectors arranged for porta potties to be brought to the site, DLNR threated to levy fines against the porta potty companies and seize their equipment, if they did not remove the porta potties from the site. 106. The porta potties were removed leaving the area without bathroom facilities for the hundreds of people coming up to the Mountain on a daily basis. 107. As part of the greater plan to suppress the rights of the Protectors, the Office of Mauna Kea Management (OMKM) issued the first set of rules and regulations targeting spiritual practices for restrictions. 108. The OMKM conducted no public process in adopting the restrictions. 109. The OMKM issued the rules with no prior public notice. 110. The OMKM issued the rules with no prior publication. 111. OMKM adopted the rules without consulting the Kahu K Mauna.4 112. The OMKM issued the rules with no opportunity for public comment. 113. Even after adoption, the OMKM never published the rules. 114. The new restrictions included rules and regulations preventing some spiritual practices altogether in certain forms and certain time frames. 115. The OMKM rules required those wishing to engage in spiritual practice on the Mountain to present themselves to an OMKM Ranger at 1:00 p.m. 4 Kahu K Mauna (Guardians of the Mountain) is a volunteer community-based council whose members are from the native Hawaiian community. Kahu K Mauna advises the Mauna Kea Management Board, OMKM, and the UH Hilo Chancellor on Hawaiian cultural matters affecting the UH Management Areas. They review proposed projects and give their input to the Mauna Kea Management Board. A member of Kahu K Mauna participates in the discussions of the Mauna Kea Management Board during their public meetings.

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    116. Access at 1:00 p.m. would be the only time the spiritual practitioners could ascend the Mountain to practice. 117. The OMKM Rangers denied permission for people arriving after 1:00 p.m. to ascend the Mountain for spiritual purposes. 118. OMKM Rangers have no law enforcement authority. 119. OMKM also limited the number of people that could ascend the Mountain for pule (prayer) or other practice to no more than ten. 120. OMKM required the spiritual practitioners to be accompanied by a Ranger. 121. OMKM limited the time during which spiritual practice could take place to one hour. 122. OMKM defined the site where the spiritual practitioners could go to practice. 123. These rules and regulation applied only to those engaged in spiritual practice, not to any other persons ascending the Mountain. 124. During the same period of time that the OMKM rules and regulation were being enforced, water trucks, nitrogen trucks, astronomers, and others freely transited the access road throughout the day and into the night. 125. The OMKM rules and regulations were not based on any inquiry into or attempt to accommodate the practices being suppressed. 126. The OMKM rules and regulations demonstrated a profound ignorance of the practices of the traditional faith. 127. The OMKM restrictions prohibited long standing practices that posed no threat to public health and safety.

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    128. The OMKM restrictions were capricious and arbitrary with no basis in any action or practice attributable to faith practitioners. 129. The OMKM lacks the statutory authority to enact such rules and regulations. 130. The OMKM lacks the statutory authority to enforce such rules and regulations. 131. Lacking its own authority, OMKM called in other law enforcement agencies to enforce the restrictions announced by OMKM. 132. After the filing of this suit challenging the restrictions as clearly unconstitutional and illegal, OMKM removed the restrictions. 133. The decision to remove the restrictions was also made without any public process or explanation. 134. There is nothing to indicate that OMKM will not impose such restrictions again, absent some direction from the Court. 135. The next State agency to further the conspiracy to suppress the Protectors political movement by issuing new rules and regulations restricting access to the Mountain was the State Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR). 136. After the Protectors successful blockade on June 24, 2015, DLNR closed the Mauna Kea Observatory Access Road to the public. 137. Then DLNR declared an emergency to exist that required adoption of the new rules without conforming to the normal statutory requirements for agency rule making. 138. The reasons given for declaring the emergency were all pretexts.

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    139. The planning for the restrictions on access to the Mountain were begun no later than May before most of the pretexts offered by the OMKM for declaring an emergency took place. 140. The plan developed by the conspirators involved using the Game Mammal Hunting rules of the DLNR Division of Forestry and Wildlife5 to enact the suppression restrictions. 141. The only imminent peril to public health on Mauna a Wkea was created when OMKM closed the Visitor Center bathrooms, locked up the porta potties, and demanded the removal of the porta potties brought up to the Mountain by the Protectors to provide sanitation for visitors and themselves. 142. Other than the ban on toilets, there is no imminent peril to public safety or morals on Mauna a Wkea. 143. There is no imminent peril to livestock of poultry health. 144. There is no emergency existing related to the actual regulatory functions of DLNR. 145. There is no natural condition on Mauna a Wkea calling for emergency measures. 146. There is no imminent threat to natural resources on Mauna a Wkea calling for emergency measures. 5 The mission of DLNRs Division of Forestry and Wildlife is to responsibly manage and protect watersheds, native ecosystems, and cultural resources and provide outdoor recreation and sustainable forest products opportunities, while facilitating partnerships, community involvement and education. Mlama i ka ina.

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    147. The desire of State agencies to aid and abet the desecration of a sacred site by enabling the construction of the TMT does not constitute an emergency. 148. There is no deadline for constructing the TMT. 149. There is litigation pending that might end up revoking the permits for TMT. 150. There is no crisis of any kind calling for emergency measures to be taken. 151. The real reason for the new rules was to drive the Protectors of the Mountain off the Mountain in preparation for resuming the attempt to construct the telescope. 152. The rules adopted by the Board of Land and Natural Resources states: 13-123-21. 2 Prohibited activities. (a) The area referred to in this Rule as the restricted area is defined as any lands in the public hunting area that includes the Mauna Kea Observatory Access Road and one mile on either side of the Mauna Kea Observatory Access road. (b) As used in this Rule, the term transiting means operating, or being a passenger in, a motor vehicle travelling at a reasonable and prudent speed and having regard to the actual and potential hazards and conditions then existing. (c) No person shall at any time possess or control in the restricted area any of the following items: sleeping bag, tent, camping stove, or propane burner. 3

    (d) No person shall enter or remain in the restricted area during the hours of 10:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m., unless the person is transiting through the restricted area on the Mauna Kea Observatory Access Road or is lawfully within or entering or exiting an existing observatory or a facility operated by the University of Hawaii. 153. The restricted area is capriciously and arbitrarily defined as lands within one mile of the Mauna Kea Observatory Access Road. 154. This restriction has no rational relationship to any regulatory objective supported by the actual authority of DLNR. 155. The plan developed by the conspirators involved using the Game Mammal Hunting rules to achieve their political goals.

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    156. The restriction has no rational relationship to any condition or circumstance requiring action by DLNR. 157. DLNR also failed to consult with the Kahu K Mauna of the Office of Mauna Kea Management. 158. One purpose of the rule is to force the end to the twenty-four hour vigil that the Protectors of the Mountain have maintained for almost four months. 159. The ban on camping is achieved through making possession of physical objects that might facilitate camping a violation, whether the person targeted is actually camping or not. 160. The area where camping is banned includes areas routinely accessed by spiritual practitioners for religious purposes. 161. DLNR also adopted a rule that prohibits people being present in the exclusionary zone between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 4:00 a.m. 162. The hours of exclusion include times when traditional religious practices routinely take place. 163. The 10:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m. exclusion provides a window of opportunity for the TMT project to bring heavy equipment, workers, and supplies up to the construction site to begin grading, drilling, and other work without opponents of the project having an opportunity to express their opposition or interact with the TMT personnel. 164. The emergency rules will be in place for 120 days. 165. On July 14, 2015, Defendant Ige signed the new DLNR rules as part of his ongoing participation in the conspiracy.

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    166. The University of Hawaii is proposing additional restrictions on access and activity on Mauna a Wkea. 167. A traditional Hawaiian faith practice involves the stacking or piling of rocks to build an altar or heiau. 168. In the new rules that the University is suggesting, the stacking, or piling of rocks is prohibited. http://www.malamamaunakea.org/uploads/about/blog/2015/SuggestedRules_June2015.pdf at 5; http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/29487400/native-hawaiian-cultural-access-to-mauna-kea-limited 169. The new rules that the Unversity is proposing prohibit any activity with a group larger than ten in size. http://www.malamamaunakea.org/uploads/about/blog/2015/SuggestedRules_June2015.pdf at 5, item 10. 170. Under the new rules, it appears that the University will forbid the use of cell phones. Ibid. at 6, Preservation of scientific resources, item (2). 171. The ban on cell phones could assist the conspirators in preventing the Protectors from communicating and coordinating their actions with each other. 172. The ban on cell phones could assist the conspirators in preventing the Protectors from filming arrests and other actions by the conspirators and their agents. 173. The new rules will also forbid camping, ibid at 8, which the University would define as being in possession of a backpack, tents, blankets, tarpaulins, or other obvious camping paraphernalia, any time after one hour after sundown until sunrise in the Maunakea lands. Ibid. at 1.

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    174. All these suggested rules would further the conspiracy to suppress the Protectors political movement and spiritual practices conducted for more than 1,000 years. 175. Defendant Governor David Y. Ige suggested that he might call out the National Guard to ensure the Protectors cannot again conduct a successful blockade. 176. Based on the facts set forth above, various State of Hawaii agencies are engaged in a concerted and coordinated conspiracy to drive the Protectors off the Mountain and prevent a recurrence of the blockade or other obstruction action when the TMT workers try again to desecrate the sacred site. 177. The cumulative effect of all the rules and regulations is to suppress the rights of the people to assemble to petition for redress of grievances, engage in protected speech, and to otherwise object to the flawed decision by the TMT and its State proponents to build the telescope on Mauna a Wkea, rather than build on other sites available or pursue the same purpose through space-based telescopes. 178. The direct and indirect impacts of the rules and regulations on the spiritual practice of the traditional Hawaiian faith violate the rights of the spiritual practitioners. 179. Ultimately, people are being targeted for law enforcement action because they are Hawaiians, insisting on their faith and their nationality. 180. As stated by the King in a recent letter to the Adjutant General of the Hawaii National Guard: Note: Under Article I, Section 8, Clause 15 [United States Constitution]. The protectors of Mauna a Wkea are not in violation. The protest is peaceful and in the spirit of Kapu Aloha. They are in harmony with nature, the elements, each other and their surroundings. They are not insurrectionist to be

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    suppressed or an invading army, but peaceful Hawaiians protecting what is sacred and loved by us all. Relief 181. Plaintiff seeks relief in the form of a Temporary Restraining Order, Preliminary Injunction, Permanent Injunction, attorneys fees, and such other relief as the Court finds appropriate to prevent violations of the constitutional rights of traditional faith practitioners and others seeking to protect Mauna a Wkea from desecration. Respectfully submitted, ___________________________________________ LANNY ALAN SINKIN Counsel for Plaintiff DATED: July 23, 2015