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Murashige, Laura COMM. 746 PubI1G litarin5
From: Kaleopono [kaleopono @hawaii.rr.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 5:16 PM ,y.
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To: counciltestimony @co.hawaii.hi.us
Subject: Bill 266 Draft 3 (regarding ag and tourism)
Aloha. I and my partner Janice M. Bovard operate a small (7-acre) macadamia nut and avocado farm on
Kamehameha Schools leasehold land in Keauhou Mauka, Holualoa, HI 96725. I have read the testimony
submitted by Deborah Ward in opposition to this bill in its present wording(Bill 266 Draft 3), and wish to
record my agreement with her view. This bill should not be passed in its present form. Rather, it needs
further revision so it is structured to affirmatively rule out any end runs around current ag land
zoning. Struggling small farmers need all the help they can get to keep capital and operating costs low while
they produce food that can compete in the marketplace with subsidized, imported products produced on a
huge scale by multinational corporations that are larger in their economic power than most countries.
Kaleopono
Anti-public intellectuals create what William Black has called a "criminogenic
environment" that spreads disease and fraud in the interest of bolstering the interests,
profits and values of the super wealthy. There is more at work here than carpet
bombing the culture with lies, deceptions and euphemisms. Language in this case does
more than obfuscate or promote propaganda. It creates framing mechanisms, cultural
ecosystems and cultures of cruelty, while closing down the spaces for dialogue, critique
and thoughtfulness. At its worst, it engages in the dual processes of demonization and
distraction. The rhetoric of demonization takes many forms: for example, calling
firefighters, teachers, and other public servants greedy because they want to hold onto
their paltry benefits. It labels students as irresponsible because of the large debts they
are forced to incur as states cut back funding to higher education (this, too, is part of a
broader effort by conservatives to hollow out the social state). Poor people are insulted
and humiliated because they are forced to live on food stamps, lack decent health care
and collect unemployment benefits because there are no decent jobs available. Poor
minorities are now subject to overt racism in the right-wing media and outright violence
in the larger society. - Henry A. Giroux
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Ref. Date SEP 04 2012
8/28/2012