• Coco Palms must go • Stop trying to push the monk seal on Hawaiians • A good cop would be investigating burglaries • Use your lolo po‘o Coco Palms must go Let’s review: Iniki over 20 years ago destroyed
• Coco Palms must go • Stop trying to push the monk seal on Hawaiians • A good cop would be investigating burglaries • Use your lolo po‘o
Coco Palms must go
Let’s review: Iniki over 20 years ago destroyed much of Kauai, including the Coco Palms. 2) Lots of feel good articles have been published (my own mother stayed there in the 50s and had a great time), and accolades for the Guslanders, Larry Rivera, Elvis, and so on. 3) There have been at least 3 “developers’ who have tried in vain to find investors in these 20-plus years to rebuild, and none have been found. 4) Coco Palms is the last visible reminder of Iniki and a humiliating eyesore beyond belief. 5) Vandalism has stripped the rotting hulk of its goodies. 7) Soon we will read that adventurous keiki have been injured or killed as they explore the rotting structure; then we will have lawsuits fly like the Ka Loko Dam disaster, still unresolved after years of suits and countersuits. 8) The Mayor and County Council have, to the best of my knowledge, never taken a firm stance and taken action (hello, county staff) to level the thing, and make it a park, or whatever – anything but what it is now.
So, this editorial is a call for True Action, not talk, talk, talk: a long-needed wake-up call to county and possibly state officials to sound the charge and level the beast. How about the same company that “vanished” the rotting Lihue sugar mill? Not rocket science.
Here’s a chance for these officials to do something badly needed versus wasting time on who controls the KPD, catching the folks illegally renting, and debating endlessly about “permits” to clean trash out of streams.
Tom Rice
Princeville
Stop trying to push the monk seal on Hawaiians
Aloha. It seems to me the seal situation is really a mess. The people who released the male seals broke the Endanger Species Act by translocating a main non-native predator in to our waters without the native Hawaiian kanaka community input. I hear some misinformed locals believe it’s native, Not true. Where’s the hula, chant, and not of a rat that swims, pohaku, burn pit petroglyph, geneology story.
The problem is the whole seal story is based on lies. Some think all us kanaka Hawaiians are dumb and stupid, but far from it. We have a way of life the world wants, but can’t understand.
The reason most of us are against the seals is simple. It’s from outsiders, non-natives, pushing control of our waters in the disguise of so-called Aloha kahakai, which is really Kukai.
I say put all the seals they want to Palmyra Island, no people there. Second, don’t try to take anything more from us, it was never yours to take. I for one am sick of your so-called Manifest Destiny over my homeland Hawaii. You need to fix your own country first before you even try to fix my peoples’ oceans. Your track record sucks, so stop and listen to us.
Coexist is like living with a hippie who has ukus, and every time he’s near one jumps on you. The seals should live but not here, and compete with our traditions. Palmyra is a good place to translocate the seal and its supporters.
Kawika Cutcher
Anahola
A good cop would be investigating burglaries
Mr. Rodrigues (“Who really are the bad cops?” June 6), do you have a better example of wrongdoing in the police department than a conflict about an officer and her hairdo?
That officer is wasting my tax dollars on an insignificant issue.
That’s not what I would call a good cop.
I would prefer my tax dollars go toward finding and arresting the person or persons who is behind the 43 burglaries that have occurred in Kalaheo since Jan 1.
Karen Young
Lihue
Use your lolo po‘o
The remedy to a bureaucratic stranglehold is a good dosage of plain, old-fashioned “common sense.”
In a disaster mode, common sense prevails to address the needs of those requiring aid and assistance; to establish priorities; to be compassionate and collaborative in our endeavors; to patiently wait our turn when we must; to be appreciative of the acts of kindnesses rendered when received, reminding us of the essence of “living aloha.”
Most people, I would imagine, already know that “We can’t please ALL of the people ALL of the time,” so why try?
Let’s stop painting ourselves into corners of helplessness, hopelessness, frustration and despair by using COMMON SENSE at the right time and for the appropriate reasons!
Jose Bulatao, Jr.
Kekaha
