Mural redux Mural redux ADVERTISING An apology offered First it was the early Italian preachers who burned the famous paintings. Then came the Nazis who burned the books and now some mindless Kona residents paint over a beautiful mural in
Mural redux
An apology offered
First it was the early Italian preachers who burned the famous paintings. Then came the Nazis who burned the books and now some mindless Kona residents paint over a beautiful mural in town. They are the local version of the Nazis.
They are like the self-appointed do-gooders who pick up all those rocks on the road.
But the rock pickers are puny amateurs compared to these hard-core vigilantes. Your eyes have to be pretty glazed over to do something like this.
A famous artist blessed our town with a world-class work of art, that epic mural on Palani Road. It looked like a rendition of the famous painting in Mexico City of the serpent god with all the religious figures on his back.
But the fools who destroyed it know nothing of art — or of anything else for that matter. Painting over that mural showed that ignorance is alive and well in Kona, Hawaii.
I would like to personally apologize to the artist for the shameful actions of a few fanatics and for the shrinking cowardice of the owners of the wall who did not object to this horrendous destruction of beauty.
It is deeply embarrassing.
They proved that Hawaii is still in the Dark Ages.
Dennis Gregory
Kailua-Kona
Landfill
Unfortunate siting
Hasn’t anybody noticed, Hawaii County is the size of an Eastern state, but with the population of a small town?
Our population density is comparable to Oklahoma. There is room to site almost anything if it isn’t located next to a village.
Unfortunately, it seems the only place government thinks to build a controversial facility, like a landfill, is always in someone else’s back yard.
Ken Obenski
Kaohe
Gun control
Shift the focus
A fight with the NRA regarding gun control seems useless at this point, especially since there are so many guns in the populace already.
The laws should shift to very stiff control of ammunition purchases, both from dealers and the internet, that way the enthusiasts can still “bear arms” and we would all be safer.
Christa Wagner
Kailua-Kona
