• Imagine • Don’t forget to vote • Beach view blocked in Hanalei • A reflection on the last 10 years • On crime Imagine Imagine today’s contrarians, hippies and yuppies contemplating over developments back in the early 1900s. Imagine
• Imagine • Don’t forget to vote • Beach view blocked in Hanalei • A reflection on the last 10 years • On crime
Imagine
Imagine today’s contrarians, hippies and yuppies contemplating over developments back in the early 1900s.
Imagine the time is many years ago and Kaua‘i is about to construct the Kuhio Highway, imagine the anti-development people of today living back then?
They would say “no” to a highway, because they hear cars cause cancer from the exhaust and prefer to stay in their horse and buggy.
Imagine the time comes to build an airport and the people are concerned with noise pollution and the potential of birds crashing into airplanes?
Imagine when telephones became popular and telephone poles need to be erected, what about eye pollution, what about the radiation put off by the wires?
Imagine any of the modern conveniences of today having to be approved by environmental impact studies back when they were first introduced into society? I am thankful the people of today did not live back then, otherwise I am sure we would still be using the Pony Express! Not that’s there anything wrong with that.
James “Kimo” Rosen
Kapa‘a
Don’t forget to vote
Aloha Kaua‘i.
I am writing this letter to the island to express my deepest and humble gratitude to everyone involved in the 2013 KIUC Board of Director elections:
• All the candidates who chose to run.
• Everyone who helped create, attended or listened to the several KIUC forums broadcast by KKCR and organized on different parts of the island.
• Everyone who helped spread the word or voted at all in the KIUC election.
• All my supporters.
I have never run a political campaign before, so this has been quite a learning experience. In this election, I discovered electricity effects everyone on this island, and to the extent that people get involved with the co-op, it will evolve and become more attuned to the needs of the membership and community. Sometimes change happens slowly, but if we are akamai and resolutely push, progress can be made.
By the way, if you have not yet voted, please do! The deadline is this Saturday tat noon. After all, it’s your co-op.
Whether I win lose or draw in the vote count, I feel my words have been heard in a conversation that is vital to the future of Kaua‘i.
I could not have run the race I did without all of the support and elevation from the community. I feel truly blessed.
I thank you all from the bottom of my heart. Mahalo and aloha nui loa.
Jonathan Jay
Kapa‘a
Beach view blocked in Hanalei
“Blocking” a beach view is happening at Hanalei Bay where the ugly portable urinals are repositioned near grills, picnic tables and obstructing Kaua‘i’s treasured Mt. Makana.
There has to be a better spot on Black Pot for relief.
Sandra J. Abrajano
Chicago, Ill.
A reflection on the last 10 years
Well, Tuesday was the 10th anniversary of the George W. Bush invasion of Iraq. Note that I did not say “U.S. invasion.”
It is clear now, even to the most rabid Republican, that Bush and Cheney lied to us about Saddam’s responsibility for the 9/11 attack.
Those lies give credibility to the 9/11 conspiracy theories (such as why did WTC fall?).
But if Bush lied about Saddam, what else did he lie about?
We now have three choices: we can ignore these lies (which will lead to war with Iran and the further destruction of the American Dream); we can follow Dennis Kucinich’s suggestion of a “Truth and Reconciliation” court; or do as Vincent Bugliosi suggests in his book “The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder.”
We MUST take a stand and it MUST be now.
John Zwiebel
Kalaheo
On crime
I lived in Iceland (it means island) for over a year. It is a matriarchy.
Their word for “criminal” means mentally ill. When a person breaks the law, he or she is considered mentally unbalanced and treated accordingly.
If the disorder is serious, that person is placed on an island with family members and medical staff to take care of them.
They cannot return to the main island until they are mentally, socially, and labor-skiled enough to do so.
If you get behind the wheel of a car in Iceland, after drinking or leaving a bar, you will lose your license to drive for the rest of your life.
Their democratic form of government is 5,000 years old.
In addition, it is OK to be naked in public pools and spas.
Geothermal power heats all their buildings.
They love nature, dancing, singing and sex.
Everyone’s last name ends in their word for daughter or son. Iceland is on the same latitude as Alaska.
They live and practice aloha.
We can certainly learn from their way of life.
Tashi Maclaine
Kapa‘a
