• Forgiveness is the path to peace on Earth • Newton’s third law of motion • Stop hurting people for selfish desires Forgiveness is the path to peace on Earth I may be one of the very few humans who
• Forgiveness is the path to peace on Earth •
Newton’s third law of motion • Stop
hurting people for selfish desires
Forgiveness is the path to peace on Earth
I may be one of the very few humans who do not rejoice when vengeance is served.
For me, it seems as we are really no better than the villains of this world.
They kill 3,000 of us, we kill tens of thousands of them. I can’t see how peace will be realized in this world when vengeance is called justice.
Forgiveness is the pathway to peace, not vengeance. I pray that this will all stop, as an eye for an eye, leaves the whole world blind.
Dan Shook, Kilauea
Newton’s third law of motion
When I turned on the TV this evening I saw the American president making a speech about the killing of Osama Bin Laden. I also saw crowds celebrating the death in Washington, DC. I am sure other celebrations will follow in other U.S. cities tomorrow when the day breaks.
It was interesting to listen to the details of Obama’s jubilant speech. Namely, that he had five national security conferences on the plan to kill him since the suspicious house near Islamabad, Pakistan was discovered, where Bin Laden allegedly lived for the past few years. What precautiousness!
There were no national security conferences before the U.S. forces fired missiles into weddings and funerals in Afghanistan, killing children, women and civilians.
Obama also announced that no civilian lives were lost.
But the reports later revealed that three couriers, plus a woman were killed and others injured in the compound where Bin Laden was allegedly hiding. So, were these not civilians?
Just to put the topping on the cake he also raised the terror threat level for the Americans because he expected retaliations from the terrorist organization Al Qaeda.
He fell short of declaring the day of killing Osama Bin Laden a national public holiday in the USA. We’ll see what happens next.
As to the jubilation I cannot help but laugh at the cheap publicity.
Since 2001 the intelligence services of the so-called developed nations with practically unlimited funds and the most modern arsenal of overt and covert intelligence have joined forces to find this limping old man and to kill or capture him.
The FBI posted a $25 million reward for the capture or killing him many years ago. And now, success!
Using an easy to understand analogy the success is comparable to the results of potty training a child when not only the parents, but the entire community is taking part in it. And after 10 years of hard work, it works. A reason for celebration, an occasion for a public announcement by the president of the country.
Will this end the military adventures of the United States? The signs indicate just the opposite. President Obama nominated General Petreaus to head the CIA and he will prepare the next National Intelligence Estimate for the president basing it on the military performance of the troops under his command.
What do you expect? Will he critique or praise himself? Is it hard to guess? There is enough profit in the military hardware for the U.S. investors to push for continuing the never ending wars. At least until you pay for it.
János Keoni Samu, Kalaheo
Stop hurting people for selfish desires
I continue to be sickened by the desecration of human remains in Hawai‘i.
Even our oldest caveman ancestors showed reverence and respect for the dead.
Yet here in Hawai‘i in the modern day these universal protocols are completely ignored.
How dare the county or anyone for that matter perpetuate these heinous acts? Obviously the system that allows these things to occur is a flawed one. One that deserves and needs fixing.
I call out to the machine operators of this island to refuse to work on sites where human remains are found. The developers and financiers find it very easy to draw up plans for you to do so.
I call on you to listen to your higher awareness — as a human being — and to refuse to participate in these terrible acts.
I also call on everyone, whether “flown” here or “grown” here, to join in opposition of any building project that compromises or disturbs human grave sites.
Let the ancestors rest where they belong. These are our grandparents. The lack of basic human dignity and respect is unbelievable — and yet it continues.
Please stop hurting people in order to fulfill your own selfish desires. Build somewhere else — or don’t build at all.
Ken Jannelli, Hanama‘ulu
