10-05-2019, 08:14 AM
I've contemplated this disturbing debacle for hours on end: a governor and mayor who allow millions of taxpayer dollars spent on babysitting the fringe criminals whose collective myopic perspective assumes the world owes them everything because they "think or feel" their ancestors were compromised. Fringe criminals who don't have the capacity or inner tools to realize life is about growth and building character and that all of history is wrought with inequities. These are the people of Hawaii who don't value travel or getting off the island even temporarily for a better life for themselves or their children with not much to offer here in the form of education and employment. I remember when Kim was first term campaigning and he boasted of never living off island. Many of the fringe have relied on generational welfare and have simply not become contributing constructive members of society.
Then I realized why I moved here almost 40 yrs ago before the advent of the internet...the nepotism and corruption was so pervasive on the island and throw into that muck an active volcano, it was the reason I was able to purchase coastal properties in my 20's with chump change. It was a different type of danger and wild then, the government and police could care less about us few, forget any police protection whatsoever, but the marijuana wars were brutal, you learned to be invisible and stand to the side or take covert action. All welcome challenges to a young adventurer, the price we paid to own homes and surf in paradise with autonomy, not governed.
As a senior citizen at this point I'm shocked that the corruption appears to have morphed but not diminished even though the population of the island has grown significantly at least tripled, but is still a culture on the decline. Since the observatories are international on most every level, I'm bewildered why the feds have not cleaned up this mess already. Where are you?
Then I realized why I moved here almost 40 yrs ago before the advent of the internet...the nepotism and corruption was so pervasive on the island and throw into that muck an active volcano, it was the reason I was able to purchase coastal properties in my 20's with chump change. It was a different type of danger and wild then, the government and police could care less about us few, forget any police protection whatsoever, but the marijuana wars were brutal, you learned to be invisible and stand to the side or take covert action. All welcome challenges to a young adventurer, the price we paid to own homes and surf in paradise with autonomy, not governed.
As a senior citizen at this point I'm shocked that the corruption appears to have morphed but not diminished even though the population of the island has grown significantly at least tripled, but is still a culture on the decline. Since the observatories are international on most every level, I'm bewildered why the feds have not cleaned up this mess already. Where are you?
