• Are you ‘freegan’ nuts? • How refreshing • Natural rights • I may be wrong but… Are you ‘freegan’ nuts? Well, I had a feeling I’d get a response from Mr. Rosen on my reply to his scrounging for
• Are you ‘freegan’ nuts? • How refreshing • Natural rights • I may be wrong but…
Are you ‘freegan’ nuts?
Well, I had a feeling I’d get a response from Mr. Rosen on my reply to his scrounging for doggie scraps letter.
Hmm, dumpster diving huh? I never heard that term before, but I guess when you tack on a trendy name to a disgusting practice it makes it OK.
Gee, a few thoughts here. Did Mr. Rosen get permission from the establishment’s owners or management to “scrounge” on their property for waste food? Does Mr. Rosen wait patiently outside to see what gets thrown away? And how is he checking to see what’s still warm? (Ugh.) Does he politely ask the staff how long these throwaways been lying around?
Sorry, but this practice seems utterly disgusting to me let alone fun. Also, flies can start to lay eggs almost immediately on anything they can reproduce on. Certainly not something I’d wanna feed to my treasured pet under any circumstances. I seriously believe there is a health issue here, for the dog I mean. And what about the liability the restaurant is exposed to? Dumpster Diving 101?
Seriously, if I had a kid who told me he or she wanted to pay for a college class on “dumpster diving” I’d ask, are you “freegan” nuts?! But hey, I realize I may be the only one that feels this way.
Stephen Shioi, Kapa‘a
How refreshing
Somehow I do not believe that when we leave this earth and stand at the “Pearly Gates” that our maker will be concerned with whether we owned property as the detractors of Caren Diamond regard as a fault in her character.
In fact, I am glad they mentioned it for it tells me that Caren’s interest and motivation is not based on her own personal gain. She remains an intelligent and vital voice for the Garden Island itself and our Kaua‘i way of life.
Imagine, a true lobbyist not influenced or controlled by the money-grabbers, how refreshing.
Eduardo Valenciana. Lihu‘e
Natural rights
U.S. President and former Army General Dwight Eisenhower warned Americans upon leaving the White House in 1961 that the “military-industrial complex” posed the threat of a “disastrous rise of misplaced power”. He saw it coming and gave the warning, but not many were awake at the time.
Since Eisenhower’s warning, no such prophetic words have been spoken by any prominent political leader and the general population has paid little attention to the gradual takeover of U.S. political power by top-secret operations of the military-industrial interests evidenced by the Presidential authorization for the super-secret Central intelligence Agency to kill (i.e. murder) people, a new world order of criminal-like behavior.
Disclosure of military-industrial-(add) intelligence “black operations” have been revealed by insiders who often cloak their true stories as fictional to avoid being charged with treason. One of them who worked in national security operations at the White House, Army Colonel Fletcher Prouty, wrote as far back as 1973 “the CIA and its allies (are) in control of the U.S. and the world”. A short time later, resigned CIA official Victor Marchetti disclosed that the Secret Government was “overthrowing foreign governments, subverting elections, bribing officials … and waging secret wars”.
In substance, this ever-growing military-industrial-intelligence world is a highly compartmentalized Secret Government that operates beyond all national borders and even into space. It is comprised of thousands of secret people operating in unknown numbers of secret places, within an unknown number of secret programs with untold numbers of secret devices and techniques, through untold numbers of secret agencies, both domestic and foreign.
It has become abundantly clear that the rise of misplaced U.S. government power is a total disaster for what was seen as the founders high hopes for a Constitutional republic of the people, by the people and for the people, but by virtue of its unintended loopholes and unexpected subversions, the U.S Constitution has produced a disaster for the general population in addition to reducing native American, Hawaiian and other cultures to servitude – a government of, by and for the military-industrial-intelligence elite.
Today, the familiar but unsatisfied cry for “liberty and justice for all”, now being heard at the grassroots level worldwide, can best be served by the one Human Family uniting in a new constitutional contract that protects and balances each members Natural right to be free of the initiation of physical force which holds them enslaved.
Triaka-Don Smith, Lihu‘e
I may be wrong but…
Using Premier Hatoyama as an example, should American politicians emulate from their counterparts in Japan by resigning their elected offices if they cannot fulfill their campaign promises?
Rudy Sina, Lihu‘e
