Respect private property • Address KIUC, not board members • Let’s hear it for the professional hand wavers • Beware of the real leeches – the mega rich
Respect private property
Your article on the recent fire in Anahola brought to light a re-occurring problem in Anahola. Illegal dirt bikers and mountain bike riders.
Your article mentions folks saying that DHHL is responsible for maintaining the roads there. DHHL has done so, many times, only to have illegal riders erode them over and over again. All of that property is privately owned. DHHL is not required to maintain any roads there.
People are required to stay out of there as it is private property. Why don’t those people tell Grove Farm to clear their property so the bike riders can have that land to wreck too? Tell Ni‘ihau Ranch to open their gates while you’re at it too.
It is pure greed to think you have a right to trespass on someone’s property. How hard is it for people to start respecting each other and each other’s property?
If you don’t have any place to ride, go buy your own property and ride there to your heart’s content. Just because you like do something doesn’t mean you can!
Sharon Pomroy, Anahola
Address KIUC, not board members
I want to discuss the letter published on Thursday, June 14, “Smart meters and income,” written by Christopher Schaefer of Kapa‘a.
First of all I feel that your concerns about smart meters emitting EMF seem pretty silly, being that low income as well as high income people use cell phones every day for hours. Cell phones are a lot worse and no one is writing letters about them.
Second, for you to say that, “high income board members and their children will live longer than low income people,” that is false and I feel it’s hitting below the belt. If you have an issue with a company you never bring up anything personal, let alone their children.
I take offense with your statement about board members making a high income because I personally know some of them and no one lives in mansions or drive fancy cars.
I just thought that if you have a problem with KIUC, keep it with KIUC, the co-op, and leave the board members’ personal lives and families out of it.
Raychel Brandenburg, Kapa‘a
Let’s hear it for the professional hand wavers
The professional sidewalk trespassers and hand wavers are back for the 2012 elections doing what they do, trying to employ and emulate what they believe a politician does best.
A politician first and foremost must be able to wave, the shaka wave will usually get you extra votes in Hawai’i.
Blocking sidewalks and forcing pedestrians to walk on the street is another prerequisite in running for political office.
After the elections there is no longer the need to block sidewalks or wave from their favorite street corner. For the hand wavers who win county council seats, it’s now time to attend to their part-time job which pays $56,000 a year (an extra $7,000 for the chair), $500 a month car allowance, the best available health insurance known to man- and womankind and free bus service for unlimited travel islandwide — which most county employees never use.
Enjoy the hand-waving competition, for it will soon be over, and make sure to vote for your favorite hand waver this coming November.
I still like the Miss America wave da best!
James ‘Kimo’ Rosen, Kapa‘a
Beware of the real leeches – the mega rich
It’s election time and thanks to the most egregious decision ever handed down by the Supreme Court, Citizens United, the mega wealthy and corporations can openly buy political office rigging the government in their favor.
“We the People” have little chance of attaining a government solution to the trampling of our collective constitutional rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
It’s hard to fathom the goal of those with massive wealth and power in their relentless pursuit of even more wealth and power when the obvious result of trying to maintain the unsustainable disparity of wealth and resources will inevitably create the impending economic collapse that is now staring us in the face.
Since the media is owned by the wealthy there are few if any voices speaking out about the failure of the monetary system to meet the needs of the growing majority of people to maintain even a simple lifestyle.
The real leeches and hindrances to the evolvement of society are the mega rich we allow to live among us, not the poor.
They use media and entertainment to condition people’s minds into believing they are better and deserve more than they need when their greed is actually the root of most people’s suffering.
Some decide to drop off the grid and quit playing the money game but the inner Buddhist in me still believes there must be a middle path between being an economic slave in a rigged system and just dropping out of society completely.
Jason Nichols, Lawa‘i
