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Message Yage I of 3 From: Roy R. Thompson [mailto:royt@hawaii.edu] - Sent; Wednesday, October 17, 2007 11:55 AM Ta: kapilago@co.hawaii.hi.us; ~jaco@co.hawaii.hi.us Subject: FW: Superstore legislation ----Uriginal Message----- From: Roy R. Thompson [mailto:royt@hawaii.edu] Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 11:29 AM Ta: 'kpilago@co.hawaii.hi.us'; 'shiga@co:hawaii.hi _us'; 'jjacoC~co:hawaii _hi .us' Ce: 'psur@hawaiitribune-heraki.com'; 'sandys.asato@hawaii.gov'; 'Melia@haw_ aiirepoRer.com' Subject: FW: Superstore legislation To our county council members: I am forwarding to you an email I sent to the planning department several months back that explains my feelings about the superstore issue, and also, about a faceless and nameless organization that is conducting mass mailings to the Hawaiian members of our community about the superstore issue. These unidentified individuals continue to provide misleading and erroneous statements and innuendo in regards to the function and spending of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands organization. 1 tried to view both of the websites to find out who these members of the "Kanaka Council" might be, but one website was inoperable and the other contains absotuteiy nu iniouuation on who is involved whir lire organizauon or where its opereIiny funds wore from. I smelt a rat. The new mailing also has nn return address, nor are there any email addresses at the website to enquire further about the organization. The latest flyer is disrespectful, slanderous and racially inappropriate. Those are not Hawaiian values. 1 Think we should ask the Attorney heneral for the Slate of Hawaii to investigate the origin o1 these mailings and tell us who is orchestrating this program, and what their true agenda is. !f ycu dart interfering with fhe ability of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to acquire and r_onsummate leases with major national and international businesses you will be taking us backwards, towards the days when you could only get your Toyota parts at Servco Pacific, and your General Electric appliances at Amfac. I remember those days, and dealing with insolent sales people peddling overpriced merchandise, secure in the knowledge 4hey had a monopory on Yheir goods. Hawair Eras already gone through a period when the businesses were virtually all locally owned, and many of those businesses abused their relationship with the people of Hawaii, which is why national discount stores have become so popular here in such a short period of time. Your efforts to restrict free trade in Hawaii are helpful to special interests and harmful to the Hawaiian people. If you see members of the Hawaiiar community in your meetings supportive of anti-Wal-mart or anti-big business legislation, as it regards use of Hawaiian Home Lands property, they likely don't understand the ramifications of what they are asking and have been mislead by persons such as those who have mailed out these flyers and whose motives aiKi ideutiiiea are unkiown. Oiueis may have a tridden ayertda. A vote to restrict DHHL from making 4he best deals it can on its prime commercial lands is anti-Hawaiian. S X Rey Thmm~s~n E?~ .-r -----Original Message----- N From: Roy R. Thompson [maifto:royt@hawaii.edu] ~ Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 12:23 PM ~ o To: 'planning@co.hawaii.hi.us' ~ g e Subject: FW: Superstore legislation ~ r' G K h T'o Whom tt May Concern: Someone who lacks the moral courage to put a return address on their correspondence has sent my wife (and probably thousands of other Hawaiians) a misleading fryer that intends to inflame emotions over the pending superstore tHlls. Many who lack suffident skepticism or factual background will probably be taken in by this. literature and you may have seen some of them at the latest meeting. In the brochure it outlines that 30,000+ Hawaiians are on the waiting list while stores like Wal-Mart are moving onto prime lands. tt neglects to point out http://us.mg2.mail.yahoo.corn/dcllaunch?.rand=fdae92165dvui~ - t0/17/2007