Stunning joke
Stun gun use will be made legal in Hawaii though certification by the scheming (“misusing the bankruptcy system, ”Reuters), embezzling, and sexually discriminating National Rifle Association, (i.e., the only path to certification is through an organization run by crooks). This abominable legislation was forced upon our state by a conservative U.S. Supreme Court majority that puts corporate profit and gun rights above the lives of humanbeings (unless they’re still in the womb, of course. After that, you’re on your own.).
It’s not much of a stretch to imagine what the gun lobby has in mind next for the Aloha State.
Janice Palma-Glennie
Kailua-Kona
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Military toxins
Mahalo to all citizens, media and officials, especially Ernie Lau of the Honolulu Board of Water Supply, for speaking out on the Red Hill water crisis from military fuel leaks. We need more public officials like Lau who put principle before money and politics, and speaks out for the common good.
Here on Hawaii Island we ave been raising questions for years about contamination of air, land, and water from the many military toxins used at the 133,000-acre Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA) in the center of the island at 6,500 feet elevation. Concern about a military toxic stew include: lead, perchlorate, PFAS, Depleted Uranium (DU), etc.
Highly cancerous DU oxide particles can be carried long distances in the wind. Every year, millions of live-rounds, including howitzers, missiles, bunker buster bombs, etc, are fired at PTA that create massive dust clouds. Visitors and residents alike are all down hill and downwind from PTA, which we call the Pohakuloa Toxic Area. But instead of answers to serious questions, all we get is silence from public officials. The time for answers is now before it’s too late. What military toxins are blowing in the wind from PTA? And what military toxins are in the two water wells drilled nearly nine years ago at PTA but are still not being used? PTA continues to spend $2 million per year hauling water, which the military now wants to expand by nearly 100,000 acres.
Jim Albertini
Malu ‘Aina Center For Non-violent Education and Action
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Bravo, Ken
Once again, I am reminded what informative, interesting and enjoyable Ken Obenski’s columns are. Bravo!!!
C F Steffen
Captain Cook
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