• More on Fahreneheit 9/11 • The good old days More on Fahreneheit 9/11 Michael Moore had the right to produce Fahrenheit 9/11 just as Mel Gibson had to produce The Passion of The Christ. We have the First Amendment
• More on Fahreneheit 9/11
• The good old days
More on Fahreneheit 9/11
Michael Moore had the right to produce Fahrenheit 9/11 just as Mel Gibson had to produce The Passion of The Christ. We have the First Amendment to ensure that everyone is heard and I thank the Kilauea Theatre for showing this film. As in Fahrenheit 9/11, my mother was willing to sacrifice her son in war for reasons clear to her as she ultimately trusted her government. I was a patriot who came home from The Vietnam War with medals, Bronze Star, etc. I had tough questions about the reasons for that war but hit a wall of silence with family and community. “Love it or leave it” kind of thing. I wanted to know why my life was less valuable than let’s say those sons of privilege (like the Bush boys)? Then God said remember your life experience and “the truth shall set you free.”
Truth No.1 Men and governments fight each other in power plays, each claiming moral superiority. Money is power. In this country white men have had control of both from the get-go and aren’t going to share it with women or minorities without a fight.
Truth No.2 God gets very upset when we use him to justify our reasons for going to war. Information and education, combined with religious tenants,if desired, allow for the best understanding of our complicated world. We allowed religion for slaves before emancipation, but not education, for a reason! Truth is, education generates independent thought. Easier for President Bush to explain our moral purpose if we’re not educated as to what really goes on.
Truth No.3 The main reason we are interested in Iraq at all is the fact it has huge oil reserves. We consume 40% of the worlds’ energy and we all demand that oil and gas be available now and cheap. Poor and rural men and women are dying to secure it.
Bruce Porter
Wailua
The good old days
The good old days! Remember the good old days , when kids could ride their bikes around in their own neighborhood . When the “Spirit of Aloha!’ Was more than just an old “cliché!!” It seems we are so caught in our hustle and hurry world that many of us have lost the one thing that made living on Kaua‘i a blessing. When “family” meant more than just being related to someone. I’m 29 years old and my fiancé and I have 4 beautiful children. For almost a year now we have been trying to find a house for our family. Note that I said a house. Because, we are home to each other, after all, a home is where the heart is. Anyway, it’s been a long hard road and we have pretty much exhausted our options. Within the next few weeks or so, we will become another houseless family living on the beach somewhere. The funny thing is that it seems like so much is done for the lower to middle income home renters. However, if you ask me, I don’t really see it a lot . With the rising cost of living and taxes, home insurance clauses etc., etc. You have to own a home just to be able to rent a house. Of course we are just as much to blame for our situation. We’ve done wrongs in the past, but whatever happened to the second chances? Last time I checked it was still okay to believe in people.
David Pacanas
Lihu‘e
