• Don’t add fear and hate to debate • Planes welcome over big boat • Good riddance to RIMPAC Don’t add fear and hate to debate As I read with disgust the developments in Missouri, and the tragedy that spawned it, and understand
• Don’t add fear and hate to debate • Planes welcome over big boat • Good riddance to RIMPAC
Don’t add fear and hate to debate
As I read with disgust the developments in Missouri, and the tragedy that spawned it, and understand the grief of parents who have lost a child to a tragedy, as have I, and see the underlying issues of hatred and race boiling to the surface, I feel I must write this to address an equally appalling situation here, where race baiting seems to be the order of the day.
Some people are spewing racial division, and attempting to instigate something akin to race war on Kauai. Those who push relentlessly the insane fallacy that the GMO issue is a white versus brown issue are hate and fear mongers and should be ashamed of themselves. How dare you use race and ethnic tensions to make your case. We have enough of that already without you trying to fuel it. Shame on you.
I know of what I speak. As a mixed race person, I have experienced racism and prejudice from white, brown, and everything in between. I am sick and tired of people using race to support their control of the people of Kauai. We are all mixed on Kauai. Mixed with white, brown and everything in between. We must learn to start treating each other as humans first.
Using race and local divisions such as Westside versus North Shore, bringing race and skin color into it, you are fueling hate.
Anne Punohu
Kapaa
Planes welcome over big boat
Aloha Kauai,
I hear some folks talking about the superferry. Yuck! I wish they would bring back the old sea flight with no cars, just people, but lots of folks would like that.
Daniel Renaud
Kapaa
Good riddance to RIMPAC
And so, the war ships of the 40 nations participating in the war games of RIMPAC are steaming toward home.
And we, who are left behind, who live on the remote island of Kauai, are asking them, “How does it feel to you when you go home to your places you call beautiful and sacred to have been a part of the 25,000 who contributed to fracturing the sounds of our ocean here?”
How does it feel to use active warfare with sound and munitions unnatural to our cetaceans and sea life, our reefs and the very waters we truly all do share, playing “games,” as you call them, in an environment that is fragile? And have you simply come here for the kill then turned your backs and sailed away?
The fabric of our universe has been intentionally fractured with sound.
Why must it take the message of a dead whale washed ashore and not one, but two, hurricanes to cleanse us after you leave?
Please, seek your own personal wisdoms then email www.whaleanddolphinwatch.com, sign the petition to stop the U.S. Navy sound testing in all waters.
Peggy Watson
Kapaa
