Shady land deal? ADVERTISING Shady land deal? The County Council wants to build its first church. Members already formed a religion called “The Host Culture.” Now, they have an opportunity to buy some land from an ex-council staffer, James Weatherford,
Shady land deal?
The County Council wants to build its first church. Members already formed a religion called “The Host Culture.” Now, they have an opportunity to buy some land from an ex-council staffer, James Weatherford, Ph.D.
The council wants to use the open space fund to buy Weatherford’s 13-acre property in Naalehu. This will be their new church yard. Then, they will use the council’s annual relief fund to operate the Church of the Host Culture and to get votes.
This proves we still have public-funded elections. However, our tax money only is available to incumbents. Council members will use that money to hire their friends to put on pagan festivals. In turn, the friends will buy tickets for their council member’s campaign fundraisers.
Since voters will get free goodies at the Church of Host Culture and free goodies at the campaign fundraising events, they will re-elect the incumbents. The whole process will start over again next year in another council district.
The second Church of the Host Culture could be built in Kona. Kona council members have a long history of putting the host culture above our American culture. A friend of the government in Kona could get the next big check from the mayor.
It’s easy. Even a Ph.D can do it.
Jerry Warren
Naalehu
Strong accusations
Remember some months ago when a staff member from one of the telescopes on Mauna Kea told police a bullet was shot through its door? We, protectors of the mauna, who practice kapu aloha, were accused of this act.
Then it was learned it was not a bullet hole at all, but a puka caused from a protruding bolt that kamakani (the wind) slammed into the door attached to the facility.
Other workers at the telescope were well aware of this situation. One asks: Why were there immediate allegations made of a nonexistent bullet hole before consulting with fellow co-workers who knew better at the time?
More recently, there was a news release that a fiber optic cable serving all telescopes on the mauna was severed in June — on the same day we blocked the road in waves of bodies and boulders. After 5 1/2 hours, 11 protectors were arrested. The inference in the news release was clearly that we, the protectors, severed the fiber optic cable.
From that inference, I and other mauna protectors maliciously were slandered and accused by stubborn malihini Tribune-Herald reader Adrianne Dey of cutting that optic cable. Dey constantly has denigrated her host Hawaiian culture in her defense of the Thirty Meter Telescope and all things scientific.
One has to ask: Why did it take four long months for the police and the public to be notified by the science wizards about the severed cable?
The alleged “bullet hole” was reported immediately without even consulting co-workers. Why wait four long months to place the date of the severed cable on the June day of the massive roadblock?
It sounds pretty fishy to me. Could it be this is a ploy to build up resentment against the protectors as we await the state Supreme Court’s decision? I am in agreement with Ted Hong’s letter of Oct. 23 (Tribune-Herald, Your Views).
Moanike‘ala Akaka
Hilo
