Fishing ban a slap in culture’s face
Fishing ban a slap in culture’s face
In regards to the “marine sanctuary,” which would deny the right to gather food or spearfish or tako or collect crab and limu and fishing, it would also deny families, who have for centuries, the right to spend the days cooking and socializing while the kids poked around in holes and tide pools and chased fish with spear or cane poles in a safe and meaningful environment.
And I am going to say what it is really all about? Preserving fish is an excuse so rich people can snorkel, walk and explore and they don’t want “Polynesians” and all their kids doing whatever they do.
Don’t be fooled, it is a “say one thing but mean another” scheme. It is so sad that local/Hawaiians have such little representation. Look how the Hawaiians at Napoopoo, DLNR cemented an ugly gate to keep them from gathering there.
Hawaiians not welcome to swim and picnic and play at Napoopoo! Who would want such a thing? Why is OTEC not used to replenish the fish? Sold out, that’s why. Why not target the Roy/Taape. The species of fish brought in by the DLNR that decimate the reef? They want condos and golf courses and shopping centers and they will pay the high taxes but just remove those pesky day campers and their free lifestyle.
Brian Smith
Honaunau
Trump will ruin us all
People like Trump do not consider themselves evil, which honestly makes them all the more scary. In their own view, they are beneficent and only seek to bring about the “universal good” of their own supposedly enlightened rule.
What truly baffles me is how this obnoxious, self-aggrandizing person has managed to pull the wool over so many people’s eyes! He shows contempt for women and for the lesser educated. He is a flaming racist and has shown no understanding of the U.S. or world politic.
As a senior, I would not trust my life or welfare or my children or grandchildren’s lives and welfare to this severely self-delusional man’s hands.
I fully understand our loss of trust in the existing government (really starting with the unholy Trinity of Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld). Does that mean, though, that we must throw out the baby with the bathwater? I know there is not much of a lineup from which to choose a president currently. Most of the candidates have one or more fatal flaws to contend with. All we can do is choose the candidate that will or can do the most good for our country and our people. Someone who will use diplomacy before getting the U.S. involved in yet another affordable illegal war.
Do your own research of the candidates. Use the Internet. Then may the best person, woman or man, win.
Lisa Christensen
Waimea
Is history repeating itself?
The self-destructive conduct of some Republican candidates is reminiscent of the internal squabbles of the Whig party during the mid-nineteenth century, when xenophobic fears of Irish and German immigrants, and of the Catholic religion, led to the creation of the know nothing party.
This popular movement espoused the enactment of strict controls on voting, immigration, and naturalization. Know nothing demagogues enjoyed a considerable success, winning many congressional, state, and local elections, and the movement eventually contributed to the demise of the Whig party. I, for one, would hate to see the same fate befall the Republican party.
Burt Masters
Kailua-Kona