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Th, Jun 30, 2011, 9:30 a.m. - Land Use Commission hearing for approval of Ho'opili residential project, permanently destroying prime agricultural land. At State Office Building on Beretania St., across from St. Andrew's Cathedral.

Sa, Jul 23, 2011, 11 a.m.-12 noon - Waialua Public Library, 67-068 Kealohanui St., Waialua (Oahu north shore). Lorrin Pang, M.D., on risks of our mono crop diets & present agricultural methods in Hawaii. More info.

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If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all; and a martial government, under whatever charming phrases, will engulf the democratic world.

Will & Ariel Durant, The Lessons of History, pp. 79-80.

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A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.

Will Durant, historian, on why Rome fell

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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others

Socrates, who was sentenced to death by drinking hemlock by an Athenian court

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I am the governor. I'm not your pal.

Hawaii governor Neil Abercrombie, in a soundbite that has reverberated around the state.

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Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.

Ronald Reagan Click for audio

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In a war, while one side may ultimately be able to claim victory, both sides lose.

Anonymous

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We are not going to war over a bunch of dead [American] sailors.

Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, ordering Admiral Lawrence Geis to recall Sixth Fleet aircraft that were on their way to drive off Israeli military forces who were attempting to murder the entire crew of the minimally armed surveillance ship USS Liberty in the Mediterranean Sea during the 1967 Six-Day War.

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America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.

John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848), 6th President of the United States

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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

George Bernard Shaw

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Send an email, make a call, write a letter. We [Hawaii state legislators] need to know what you think and the system works much better if you are involved.

Hawaii state representative Karl Rhoads, District 28 (Palama, Downtown, Chinatown, Sheridan)

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I'd rather be in jail in America than free anywhere else.

Former communist & Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver shortly after he voluntarily returned to the U.S. as a prisoner from seven years as a free man, but an exile, abroad

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Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. . . . They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

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Opponents of Homosexual Marriage Gather at State Capitol

Submitted by Kawika Young on Mon, 01/18/2010 - 16:05

Opponents of same-sex civil unions rallied yesterday at the Hawaii state capitol. The measure, HB 444, came close to passing last year with a strong push by Democratic legislators, spearheaded by Rep. Blake Oshiro, Democrat, District 33 (Aiea, Halawa Valley, Halawa Heights, Aiea Heights). It is expected to be reconsidered by the state legislature this year. The measure would give homosexual partners the same status as heterosexual married couples, with the main difference being the name to make it more palatable. It is expected that if passed, substituting "marriage" for "civil union" at a later date would be a relatively simple name adjustment. It will be difficult to look intelligent when arguing that one does not want a one-word adjustment for a fait accompli, especially if one was acquiescent or proactive in the passage of this bill.

There was a large turnout of the largely Christian group with cars driving by honking their approval.

As the rally wound up, ralliers were asked by an excellent speaker, Caroline, "How many of us will make a commitment today to read the newspaper, to read the testimony, to come down to the legislature. Not to depend on some radio person to tell us how to vote. How many are going to be informed voters?"

Many raised their hands, with some whooping and hollering.

"And one last thing. How many will make the commitment to love our brothers and sisters who are on the other side of a vote?"

This got the most enthusiastic positive response of all.

Separately, a much smaller group of supporters of homosexual marriage held services at an Episcopalian church, St. Clement's, located on Wilder Avenue in Honolulu.

Links:

Scores attend civil-union rally [Honolulu Star-Bulletin]

Thousands rally in Hawaii against same-sex civil unions bill [The Honolulu Advertiser]

Councilman Okino Testimony on Same-Sex Marriage [HPI]

The transsexual agenda for Hawai`i schools [Hawaii Free Press]

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