Stop Helicopter Terrorism!

I moved to the jun­gle to live a peace­ful, quiet, con­tem­pla­tive life. Instead, I find myself in a war zone, a war declared by the fed­eral, state and local gov­ern­ments against the peo­ple of the Big Island. It’s called Green Har­vest and is intended to erad­i­cate cannabis grow­ing. Green Har­vest has been going on for years with dis­as­trous con­se­quences. The econ­omy has been dev­as­tated, the sup­ply of cannabis reduced with result­ing price increases, lead­ing pre­vi­ously happy, peace­ful cannabis smok­ers to turn to ice in epi­demic num­bers with ruinous social consequences.

In May, I watched from my back­yard as an unmarked, yel­low heli­copter low­ered two guys from ropes and picked them up again with my neighbor’s plants on the road behind me, 150’ from my home. They con­tinue to return reg­u­larly to harass, ter­ror­ize and raid the neigh­bor­hood. Their low fly­ing cir­cling of the neigh­bor­hood, along with all the other low fly­ing air traf­fic here makes it obvi­ous to me that I live in a war zone that is being oppressed by an alien, colo­nial­ist gov­ern­ment that has co-opted the local gov­ern­ment against the inter­ests of a major­ity of the population.

I, my wife and many of my neigh­bors all over the island have had enough. We held a meet­ing a cou­ple of weeks ago and planned a protest demon­stra­tion which we held Sat­ur­day morn­ing at the Hilo air­port inter­sec­tion on High­way 11. We had a good turnout for a first time, grass­roots effort. The response from pass­ing motorists was great. Dur­ing a level red ter­ror­ist alert at the air­port, we were protest­ing local heli­copter ter­ror­ism of our neigh­bor­hoods. The local paper fea­tured a front page arti­cle show­ing fright­ened ele­men­tary school chil­dren as a mock Green Har­vest raid occurred in their school yard. Think of the long range neg­a­tive con­se­quences for the chil­dren whose fam­ily income has been taken by Green Har­vest and par­ents jailed by this ille­gal war against our own people—what to speak of all the chil­dren whose par­ents are now ice addicts. These protests will continue.

The best news is that Roger Christie of The Hawai’i Cannabis (THC) Min­istry got the county to accept a bal­lot ini­tia­tive which would put an end to all cannabis erad­i­ca­tion efforts and redi­rect the man­power and funds to metham­phet­a­mine edu­ca­tion and treat­ment pro­grams. The County Coun­cil has included this ini­tia­tive on the agenda for their August 23, 9:00 am meet­ing at the Hilo County Build­ing. Any­one who wants may have three min­utes to give their tes­ti­mony on this issue. Please come and show your sup­port for this pos­i­tive solution.

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