A Military General as President of University of Hawaii?
Retired Army General Francis J. Wiercinski, is one of two finalists for the job of President of the University of Hawaii system. He will be speaking at a UH Hilo public forum on Friday, May 9th from 5-7PM in Room UCB 100. Come and let your voice be heard. Below is some background on General Wiercinski from a leaflet in June 2011.
The Military Big Lie
“(Pohakuloa Training Area) PTA expansion crucial to sacred valley preservation”
(Sunday, June 19, 2011 Hawaii Tribune-Herald front page)
“…I don’t think anybody does it better than us when it comes to protecting the environment and being cognizant and protective of culture sites.”
“Once a military man, always a military man.”
–Lt. Gen. Francis J. Wiercinski Commanding General U.S. Army Pacific
General Wiercinski knows the art of propaganda very well: “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. In truth, the U.S. military is the world’s largest polluter and destroyer of the environment and culture the world has ever seen. The U.S. military has littered hundreds of thousands of acres in Hawaii with live explosives, and secretly tested chemical and biological weapons at various sites, including deadly Sarin nerve gas in Hilo’s watershed. 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 led 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 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 a wide range of military toxins. We want the U.S. to stop bombing Hawaii and clean up its opala (rubbish). Justice demands an end to U.S. occupation and the restoration of the Hawaii nation.
(General Wiercinski has said, “Once a military man, always a military man.” If we can’t end the U.S. military occupation of Hawaii in the next few weeks, let’s at least prevent the military occupation of the president’s chair at University of Hawaii.)
Aloha ‘Aina! — Stop the Bombing!
1. Mourn all victims of violence. 2. Reject war as a solution. 3. Defend civil liberties. 4. Oppose all discrimination, anti-Islamic, anti-Semitic, anti-Hawaiian, 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 489 Kurtistown, Hawai`i 96760.
Phone (808) 966-7622. Email:ja@malu-aina.org http://www.malu-aina.org
Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet (May 9, 2014 – 659th week) – Friday 3:30-5PM downtown Post Office
