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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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Big Brother's Voyeurs and Sexual Molesters

Submitted by HPI on Tue, 10/26/2010 - 21:45

The invasion of the traveling public's privacy with full-body scanners at airports continues to escalate.

Constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead writes that Congress "actually assisted the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in its ongoing efforts to install these scanners in every airport in the country."

Whitehead says that people have shared their feelings of violation with him, such as one mother who said that her 17-year-old daughter was subjected to a full pat-down when flying from Boston Logan due to the new scanner malfunctioning. "Even when she began to cry, the TSA agent continued the pat down," said the mother, adding that she felt helpless to do anything to stop it.

This writer remembers an elderly English couple in Waikiki a few years ago who told of their ordeal of a body search at an American airport on their way here. They couldn't bring themselves to give the details, but were obviously shocked and revolted at the hands-on procedure. A dignified, white-haired, typically English-looking couple, they looked as likely to be terrorists as the man in the moon, but common sense in this country has been replaced by political correctness years ago. Their Hawaiian vacation irrevocably spoiled by an experience that weighed deeply on them, the violated couple vowed never to come to Amerika again.
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LewRockwell.com

by John W. Whitehead

"I don’t know why everybody is running to buy these expensive and useless machines. I can overcome the body scanners with enough explosives to bring down a Boeing 747. That’s why we haven’t put them in our airport."
~ Rafi Sela, leading Israeli airport security expert, referring to Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport, which has some of the toughest security in the world

Michael Roberts, a 35-year-old airline pilot from Memphis, Tennessee, is putting everything on the line for freedom. Concerned about the world his children will grow up in, this father of six young children ranging in age from 10-months to 8-years-old has pitted himself against the American surveillance state as it encroaches upon personal privacy and our constitutional freedoms.

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