2025-01-09 Ken Honma Testimony - Laserfiche WebLink

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From: Ken Honma To: WPCtestimonv; LPCtestimonv Cc: Stand Toaether Hawaii Subject: Comments to Hawaii County General Plan 2045 Date: Thursday,January 9,2025 4:35:51 AM January 9, 2024 Dear Hawaii County Planning Commission members, Michelle Melendez and her associates have more than adequately critiqued the General Plan 2045. They have spent countless uncompensated hours in studying the words and concepts in the Plan. I concur with their conclusion that this plan must not be forwarded to the Hawaii County Council without a severely needed re-write. Otherwise it should just be declined. The main problem is that there appears to be a lack of sound and proven scientifically based hypotheses, and, much less scientific laws, on which the recommendations made throughout this document are based on. As a substitute for this lack, an attempt at the use of mind-control language, similar to a technique called a hypnotic jump, described in some neurolinguistics programming training, is used. I will cite one example of a hypnotic jump so that you can see how it works. For example, making policy decisions based on ideas rather than proven scientific facts; such as the idea that man-made carbon dioxide is the cause of global warming; is a hypnotic jump. Here the idea that man-made green-house gas ( co2 ) causes climate change, is an idea only, not a proven fact! But because of mind control, the mind jumps over and ignores this critical fact and goes to and focuses on the provided solutions such as; we need electric cars, or we need to control how many miles you can drive your car, or cluster planning for people so that they do not move around so much, or incentivizing people rezoning their land to conservation so no people can live there. This is just one example, but as Michelle's written edits show, there are many such hypnotic jumps. They are everywhere in this document, especially pay attention to where there is a lack of data, or lack of detailed citations of proven scientific facts. If you read carefully, you will see that associated with an idea without facts, there is also a hypnotic jump that proposes what the mind interprets as a reasonable response to ameliorate each issue. The language in this general plan is actually hypnotic language. In essence, a "spell" is cast on the people who read this document and who may not be able to identify these jumps, and believe that the proposed solutions are actually solving the implied problem, while the goals of the authors are something else completely. My concern is that the commissioners are not recognizing that they are being put under a spell and therefore are not able to objectively assess this proposed general plan accurately. Now that you know this technique is being used, look carefully at the edits and recommendations that Michelle and her associates have provided to you and you will see that the hypnotic jumps are there. Michelle and her associates have also provided citations and links to credible scientific sources to help the commissioners conduct the necessary discussions in order to get the facts straightened out and to help the commissioners understand how misleading this document is. This document should not be sent to the County Council for approval without a severely needed rewrite, or if a rewrite is not timely, then, you must decline to approve it. Sincerely,