Oh how I implore and actually dare you to prove me wrong here! Show me you will do the right thing by Hawaii and get the Military the blazes out of all the Hawaii training sites.
You make decisions based not on sustaining life and keeping all living things healthy, but rather, on how to best train soldiers to become effective killers in their various brigades, light and not-so-light, using tanks, Strykers, humvees or whatever is needed to get the job done. You must smile when you consider how you make the bellicose, imperialist invaders in the five-sided building quite proud of your decisions.
Getting troops to work in Hawaii is an easy sell. Of course this is common sense, but someone in the military has also confirmed this. Again, you know all this. Hawaii is a slam-dunk in your book. Or, so you may think…
The decision was made before the 2004 EIS ever came out to bring the Strykers to Hawaii and keep them stationed there permanently. This new Draft EIS is merely a formality because the US Federal Court of Appeals said you had to at least consider other alternatives. So you did what was required by law, but you went ahead with as many other projects as you could in the meanwhile. I am sure that this delay must have put a serious crimp in your plans!
I won’t bore you with tragically sad tales about countless indigent, sickly islanders who live near your bases on both Hawaii and Oahu and are quite ill - dead and dying - from your various poisons. I know you don’t care. No doubt you consider all the people you sicken and kill with your military toxics around your military bases to be merely unfortunate casualties of war who happen to live at the wrong place at the right time.
I won’t bore you with stories about the desecration of culture, spirituality, Hawaiians’ deep and sacred love of the land, nor the decimation of the sensitive and fragile unique Hawaiian Island ecosystems. You know all about these factors already. They apparently mean nothing to you.
You are not, after all, in the position of having to make a decision about how to preserve life… You are tasked with merely the decision about how to go about destroying it.
Why am I writing if I believe you will not do the right thing by the beautiful people, environment, and all living creatures within the formerly unspoiled Paradise of the Pacific? Why am I spending my time penning this letter in order to remind you what you already know - that the US Military does not care about preserving life, liberty, nor the pursuit of happiness for Hawaiian citizens, the wildlife, and the environment you have permanently and irrevocably radioactively contaminated?
Why do I believe for a moment that you have a shred of respect or reverence for people or for any living things for that matter, since the military first took over Hawaii as its personal playground and conveniently-placed war-dispatch location in the Pacific way, way back in the 19th century?
I am writing to tell you that if you make the decision to station the 2/25th SBCT inside Hawaii, life will become a nightmare for the Military public affairs people and legal departments. You will be faced with lawsuits the likes of which you have not yet seen.
Please know that the people of Hawaii are angry. They are fed up. They are no longer hospitable to the armed invaders and occupiers who took over their pristine sovereign lands beginning back in the 1890s.
We, the United States, did wrong by taking over Hawaii in the first place. Uncle Sam, the gig is up. Get out of Hawaii now! You have done the unthinkable and if you’re not ashamed, then the rest of us are ashamed enough for you, too!
Our own government has raped, plundered, and irreparably ruined paradise and now you want to wreck it some more! I would ask if you have no shame but all of us in the know already received our answer long ago. All we have to do is look at the extensive history of Hawaii on the EPA Superfund list to know all we need to know about how a military can wreck what was formerly nothing less than heaven on earth.
If you station the Strykers in Hawaii you will be faced with more of a public relations nightmare than you probably even realize. I have done the research and gotten a good “pulse” on the spirit of the Hawaiian Islanders. All thinking, feeling people inside Hawaii who know what is going on are more than outraged. On top of that, some of them have a good deal of money to put up quite a decent ruckus. We are not talking about outraged people living in grass shacks who have no resources to put up a good fight. The well-heeled professionals of Hawaii are fed up, too.
You have violated Hawaiian’s gorgeous, precious land, their health, their natural resources, and the very environment upon which they depend on to make their living and feed their babies. You have poisoned and polluted their air, their water, and their lands - and they know it! Hawaiians may be gracious – but only up to a point. That point is now past. Do not for a moment mistake these once-welcoming, gracious and kind-hearted people for fools.
What is any different now? Well, eventually the US mainland discovered what was happening in the Aloha state and it did not, as they say, “sit well” with many throughout the US as well as many who do not even live in the US. The Hawaiian people are American citizens and the US military has taken a toxic and radioactive DUMP all over that beautiful state!
You make decisions based not on sustaining life and keeping all living things healthy, but rather, on how to best train soldiers to become effective killers in their various brigades, light and not-so-light, using tanks, Strykers, humvees or whatever is needed to get the job done. You must smile when you consider how you make the bellicose, imperialist invaders in the five-sided building quite proud of your decisions.
Getting troops to work in Hawaii is an easy sell. Of course this is common sense, but someone in the military has also confirmed this. Again, you know all this. Hawaii is a slam-dunk in your book. Or, so you may think…
The decision was made before the 2004 EIS ever came out to bring the Strykers to Hawaii and keep them stationed there permanently. This new Draft EIS is merely a formality because the US Federal Court of Appeals said you had to at least consider other alternatives. So you did what was required by law, but you went ahead with as many other projects as you could in the meanwhile. I am sure that this delay must have put a serious crimp in your plans!
I won’t bore you with stories about the desecration of culture, spirituality, Hawaiians’ deep and sacred love of the land, nor the decimation of the sensitive and fragile unique Hawaiian Island ecosystems. You know all about these factors already. They apparently mean nothing to you.
You are not, after all, in the position of having to make a decision about how to preserve life… You are tasked with merely the decision about how to go about destroying it.
Why am I writing if I believe you will not do the right thing by the beautiful people, environment, and all living creatures within the formerly unspoiled Paradise of the Pacific? Why am I spending my time penning this letter in order to remind you what you already know - that the US Military does not care about preserving life, liberty, nor the pursuit of happiness for Hawaiian citizens, the wildlife, and the environment you have permanently and irrevocably radioactively contaminated?
Why do I believe for a moment that you have a shred of respect or reverence for people or for any living things for that matter, since the military first took over Hawaii as its personal playground and conveniently-placed war-dispatch location in the Pacific way, way back in the 19th century?
I am writing to tell you that if you make the decision to station the 2/25th SBCT inside Hawaii, life will become a nightmare for the Military public affairs people and legal departments. You will be faced with lawsuits the likes of which you have not yet seen.
Please know that the people of Hawaii are angry. They are fed up. They are no longer hospitable to the armed invaders and occupiers who took over their pristine sovereign lands beginning back in the 1890s.
We, the United States, did wrong by taking over Hawaii in the first place. Uncle Sam, the gig is up. Get out of Hawaii now! You have done the unthinkable and if you’re not ashamed, then the rest of us are ashamed enough for you, too!
Our own government has raped, plundered, and irreparably ruined paradise and now you want to wreck it some more! I would ask if you have no shame but all of us in the know already received our answer long ago. All we have to do is look at the extensive history of Hawaii on the EPA Superfund list to know all we need to know about how a military can wreck what was formerly nothing less than heaven on earth.
If you station the Strykers in Hawaii you will be faced with more of a public relations nightmare than you probably even realize. I have done the research and gotten a good “pulse” on the spirit of the Hawaiian Islanders. All thinking, feeling people inside Hawaii who know what is going on are more than outraged. On top of that, some of them have a good deal of money to put up quite a decent ruckus. We are not talking about outraged people living in grass shacks who have no resources to put up a good fight. The well-heeled professionals of Hawaii are fed up, too.
You have violated Hawaiian’s gorgeous, precious land, their health, their natural resources, and the very environment upon which they depend on to make their living and feed their babies. You have poisoned and polluted their air, their water, and their lands - and they know it! Hawaiians may be gracious – but only up to a point. That point is now past. Do not for a moment mistake these once-welcoming, gracious and kind-hearted people for fools.
What is any different now? Well, eventually the US mainland discovered what was happening in the Aloha state and it did not, as they say, “sit well” with many throughout the US as well as many who do not even live in the US. The Hawaiian people are American citizens and the US military has taken a toxic and radioactive DUMP all over that beautiful state!
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