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DeVera, Ashley <br /> From: Akuakea < <br /> Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2024 12:07 PM <br /> To: Planning General Plan <br /> Subject: Kevin Hill Testimony <br /> 1. I, and many of my friends living in this county object strongly to being force fed things we did not write or <br /> have meaningful input into. This plan does not represent my values and goals, not that of any of the friends <br /> that I have discussed it with. <br /> 2. Who wrote this plan? Where did it come from? I want to know who the author is who starts a valid <br /> discussion off with a radically different value system for individual liberty, personal choice, and the role that <br /> individuals have in solving their own problems, meeting their own needs and that of their <br /> communities. Show us the genesis of the authorship and lets have a talk! <br /> "A government or an administration,who means and acts honestly, has nothing to fear, and <br /> consequently has nothing to conceal;" <br /> —Thomas Paine,The Writings of Thomas Paine 1 1774-79 <br /> 4. This general plan is eerily similar to other plans in Texas, Washington State, Idaho and Montana. Why is <br /> that? Again, who authored it? I reject it outright. I don't even want to edit it. I want a document authored <br /> here, by real people dealing with all the issued that have been created over the last decades here - housing, <br /> agriculture, economics including tourism. I will participate in drafting such a plan that serves us. <br /> 5. I resent the prolific use of the term 'sustainability' that means more control from outside "Stakeholders" <br /> (??!!!) who get to decide how we take care of our own and where and when? Sustainability means to me <br /> something vastly different than whoever is promoting this document. Sustainability is about stewarding the <br /> environment for the purpose of self-sufficiency and caring for the needs of this island population in a way <br /> that honors the unalienable rights enumerated in our constitution both of the Kingdom of Hawaii and of <br /> America. Any plan that violates those rights is unlawful on its face no matter how nicely the unlawfulness is <br /> couched in words like 'sustainability'. <br /> 6. Climate changes are the core justification for this document from beginning to end. We, the occupants of <br /> the county will determine how we will be prepared for and respond to changes in our climate or other living <br /> conditions. We do not all see things the same, this topic is the object of much debate and it is not <br /> acceptable to assume we all agree on the choices and decisions incumbent on us regarding the data. <br /> "There are stages in the business of serious life in which to assume is cruel,but to deceive is to destroy; <br /> and it is of little consequence, in the conclusion,whether men deceive themselves, or submit,by a kind <br /> of mutual consent, to the impositions of each other." <br /> —Thomas Paine,The Crisis <br /> This document is intended to deceive; and its assumptions and its deception will destroy liberty, destroy private <br /> property, tax and fine in an attempt to control and coerce. The core thoughts are anathema to our governing laws <br /> and must be rejected in favor of a document created here with public input and sincere and truthful intent. "The Life <br /> of the Land is Perpetuated in Righteousness" and the death of it is perpetuated by deception. <br /> Start over. We want to write our own general plan. <br /> Sincerely, <br /> Kevin Hill <br />