04-13-2018, 05:38 PM
Kahele on Hawaii News Now early today:
1) When I hear Kahele say he's for the TMT, while submitting his gut and replace bill to prevent the observatory from being built - - it reminds me of the general in Vietnam who said we had to destroy the village to save it.
2) After watching the slow motion protests and hearings held over construction of the TMT the past few years, with emotional pleas that every i be dotted, every t crossed, and the need to take our time in getting it right & follow every rule, it's pretty disingenuous to hear Kahele now claim he had to use a procedural tool so he could move fast and get it right, quoting Martin Luther King's comment "the fierce urgency of now." So in this case we're in such a hurry we must gut every dotted i, and each crossed t? Or replace them when no one is looking, that's fine too? Really?
3) He claims he's doing what the public asked him to do, but can't be bothered with public hearings?
The entire interview was riddled with doublespeak.
“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
1) When I hear Kahele say he's for the TMT, while submitting his gut and replace bill to prevent the observatory from being built - - it reminds me of the general in Vietnam who said we had to destroy the village to save it.
2) After watching the slow motion protests and hearings held over construction of the TMT the past few years, with emotional pleas that every i be dotted, every t crossed, and the need to take our time in getting it right & follow every rule, it's pretty disingenuous to hear Kahele now claim he had to use a procedural tool so he could move fast and get it right, quoting Martin Luther King's comment "the fierce urgency of now." So in this case we're in such a hurry we must gut every dotted i, and each crossed t? Or replace them when no one is looking, that's fine too? Really?
3) He claims he's doing what the public asked him to do, but can't be bothered with public hearings?
The entire interview was riddled with doublespeak.
“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I'm at that stage in life where I stay out of discussions. Even if you say 1+1=5, you're right - have fun." - Keanu Reeves