We're helping the public to view the homeless as faceless people -- not even people, but objects to sweep away. I'm very disturbed by this.

Honolulu City Councilman Breene Harimoto, explaining his opposition to several recent measures passed by the Council to move homeless people out of tourist destinations and over to a temporary encampment on a remote, industrial island. Harimoto voted against all the proposals except a ban on urinating and defecating in Waikiki.