General Wiercinski’s Big Lie!

Lt. General Francis J. Wiercinski, Commanding General U.S. Army Pacific, was quoted in an Associated Press news story on June 19, 2011 as saying:

“… I don’t think anybody does it better than us when it comes to protecting the environment and being cognizant and protective of cultural sites.”

Adolf Hitler coined the phrase “The Big Lie” in 1925 for a lie so “colossal” that no one would believe that someone “could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.”  Sixteen years later, on Jan. 12, 1941 Hitler’s propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels,  wrote: “When one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it … even at the risk of looking ridiculous.”

Someone needs to tell General Wiercinski that he looks ridiculous. A few examples:
1.  In Hawaii, the Army secretively tested chemical and biological weapons, including deadly Sarin nerve gas) in Hilo’s watershed, and other sites in Hawaii.  The Army did this on State land in the Waiakea Forest Reserve, with a lease to do “weather” testing.  The Army Lied.
2.  The Army secretly used Depleted Uranium (DU) weapons in Hawaii and contaminated the land with radiation.  For years the Army denied using such weapons in Hawaii.  How much DU was used, and the extent of radiation contamination in Hawaii, is still in question.  The Army has been stonewalling community concerns on DU.
3.  More than 14 million live-rounds are fired annually at the Pohakuloa Training Area  (PTA) according to an Army EIS report of several years ago.  The live rounds include everything from small arms fire, to cannons, fighter jets, bombers, etc. And recent news reports talk of doubling the training at PTA. How many live rounds fired annually are planned for PTA?  Where is the bonding of funds for clean-up when the base is shut down? And General, please explain how bombing the land and waging wars for oil is protecting the environment.

General Wiercinski, if you want to be taken seriously, our organization challenges you to support and fund comprehensive, independent testing and monitoring with citizen oversight lead by Dr. Lorrin Pang, MD (retired Army Medical Corps) to determine the full extent of radiation contamination at PTA, Makua Valley, and Schofield Barracks.

Finally, our organization does not appreciate your attempt to pit one island’s opposition against another.  We are opposed to pushing U.S. desecration and contamination from one site to another in Hawaii or anywhere.  We want an end to U.S. occupation in Hawaii and the restoration of the Hawaii nation.  We want the U.S. to stop bombing Hawaii and clean up its opala.  We want to put an end to U.S. desecration and contamination of all sacred cultural sites.  We do not want the U.S. training anywhere to do to others what the U.S. has already done to Hawaii: overthrow and occupy its government and nation, desecrate its sacred sites, and contaminate its air, land, water, people, plants, and animals with military toxins.

The truth is the U.S. military, (Army included) is the world’s largest polluter and destroyer (not protector) of the environment and culture the world has ever seen.
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Jim Albertini

Malu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action

Press Release June 19, 2011

Hawaii residents aboard “The Audacity of Hope” ship sailing into Gaza as part of 2nd Freedom Flotilla

further Hawaii contact: Jim Albertini 966-7622, email ja@interpac.net
Also VISIT WWW.USTOGAZA.ORG

Honolulu residents, Ret. Army Colonel and State Dept. diplomat, Ann Wright, and Carol Murry, a public health doctor, will be part of the upcoming 2nd Freedom Flotilla,  due to sail in late June for Gaza on the U.S. flagged ship –The Audacity of Hope.  People from 22 nations, with a clear commitment to non-violence, will be setting sail to Gaza challenging the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza.  The flotilla will be attempting to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza.
Among the scheduled 50 passengers on The Audacity of Hope is internationally celebrated author, Alice Walker, who has likened the flotilla to the “Freedom rides” into the segregated south of the U.S. in the 1950s and 60s.

Puna, Hawaii Island, citizen radiological monitoring station up and running

Thanks to Tom Burnett,  volunteering his time in setting things up, and the use of his computer and radiation monitor, we now have a 24/7 online radiological monitoring station in Puna, Hawaii which reports automatically to the Mineralabs national network on software Malu Aina purchased.  The network reports real time readings in counts per minute (CPM).

See http://www.radiationnetwork.com/AlaskaHawaii.htm
for other U.S. readings on the continent see http://www.radiationnetwork.com

Please pass the word to others.  Mahalo.

Jim

“Love your enemies!”

Don’t execute anyone!

We must end the cycle of violence now!

1. Mourn all victims of violence. 2. Reject war as a solution. 3. Defend civil liberties. 4. Oppose all discrimination, anti-Islamic, anti-Semitic, etc.
5. Seek peace through justice in Hawai`i and around the world.
Contact: Malu `Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action P.O. Box AB Kurtistown, Hawai`i 96760.
Phone (808) 966-7622. Email ja@interpac.net http://www.malu-aina.org
Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet (June 17, 2011, – 509th week) – Friday 3:30-5PM downtown Post Office

God Bless America And its Bombs?

When they bombed Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, El Salvador and Nicaragua I said nothing because I wasn’t a communist.
When they bombed China, Guatemala, Indonesia, Cuba, and the Congo I said nothing because I didn’t know about it.
When they bombed Lebanon and Grenada I said nothing because I didn’t understand it.
When they bombed Panama I said nothing because I wasn’t a drug dealer.
When they bombed Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen I said nothing because I wasn’t a terrorist.
When they bombed Yugoslavia and Libya for “humanitarian” reasons I said nothing because it sounded so honorable.
Then they bombed my house and there was no one left to speak out for me. But it didn’t really matter. I was dead.

The above is a modern poetic interpretation by William Blum of the famous quote below by German Pastor Martin Niemoeller following WW II about the failure of Germans to speak out against the Nazis. Niemoeller spent seven years in a Nazi concentration camp.

“First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist; then they came for the Socialists,
and I did not speak out because I was not a Socialist; then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist; then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew; then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak out for me.”

The U.S. bombing list since World War II:
Korea and China 1950-53 (Korean War), Guatemala 1954, Indonesia 1958, Cuba 1959-1961, Guatemala 1960, Congo 1964, Laos 1964-73, Vietnam 1961-73, Cambodia 1969-70, Guatemala 1967-69, Grenada 1983, Lebanon 1983, 1984 (both Lebanese and Syrian targets), Libya 1986, El Salvador 1980s, Nicaragua 1980s, Iran 1987, Panama 1989, Iraq 1991 (Persian Gulf War), Kuwait 1991, Somalia 1993, Bosnia 1994, 1995, Sudan 1998, Afghanistan 1998, Yugoslavia 1999, Yemen 2002, Iraq 1991-2003 (US/UK on regular basis), Iraq 2003-present, Afghanistan 2001-present, Pakistan 2007-present, Somalia 2007-8, Yemen 2009, Libya 2011 ( Is a terrorist only someone who has a bomb but doesn’t have an Air Force?)
See http://killinghope.org/bblum6/aer94.html The Anti-Empire Report by William Blum www.killinghope.org

When Will We Speak Out Against U.S. Bombing?
Bring the Troops &
War Dollars Home NOW!

1. Mourn all victims of violence. 2. Reject war as a solution. 3. Defend civil liberties. 4. Oppose all discrimination, anti-Islamic, anti-Semitic, etc. 5. Seek peace through justice in Hawai`i and around the world.
Contact: Malu `Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action P.O. Box AB Kurtistown, Hawai`i 96760.
Phone (808) 966-7622. Email ja@interpac.net http://www.malu-aina.org
Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet (June 10, 2011, – 508th week) – Friday 3:30-5PM downtown Post Office