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A quick taste:
Certain legislators’ eagerness to circumvent or skirt legal requisites in order to fast-track development projects, without first considering inevitable impacts on the overall environment and public participation, show an alarming lack of understanding in core democratic principles. No entity should be above or exempted from the laws that protect us all.
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I want to say Tar & Feather them but this is 2012.
The next best thing is expose the CERTAIN LEGISLATORS and all who vote AYE to cut us off.
Thank goodness for You-tube and the internet. Time to get busy.
Watch out!!! Almost 200 signatures since yesterday.
The natives are getting restless!!!!!
I looked at the petition. It’s now 432. The natives ARE GETTING RESTLESS.
I have no problem with the sentiment of the petition but I do have gripes about participating in a MoveOn.org project. I’ll send my howls of protest directly to my representatives.
By the way, one reason I growl about MoveOn is their privacy policy in which you basically sign up with the group by using the petition form. Read for yourselves:
“Privacy Policy (the basics): We do not share the information you’ve given us with unaffiliated groups without your explicit permission. For petitions, letters to the editor, and surveys youâ??ve signed or completed, we treat your name, city, state, and comments as public information, which means anyone can access and view it. We will not make your street address publicly available, but we may transmit it to your state legislators, governor, members of Congress, or the President as part of a petition. SignOn.org and MoveOn.org will send you updates on this and other important campaigns by email. “
I get you but I’m not worried because you can UNSUBSCRIBE.
I just wanted to sign and push that message.
Lehua
Thanks for kindly explaining how citizens can sign this important petition without having to feel paranoid, threatened, intimidated, compromised or otherwise be inconvenienced.
And thanks for encouraging others to sign.
Hey Dick
Just wondering if you invoke the same juvenile pseudonym when you “communicate” with your representatives ?
Touched a nerve, eh Larry?
OIP has had 24 years to adopt rules to hear and decide true appeals, not issue advisory opinons. OIP has created the legal fiction that is advisory opinions are rulings. They are not. The opinions were intended to educate agencies and the public during its infancy. Bev Keever is right. OIP does not need new legislation. It just needs to exercise it current robust legal powers. I could see an agency having a right to appeal from an administrative ruling, but such an appeal would be to the Circuit Court and be a review only if OIP abused its discretion or if its decision was clearly erroneous, per chapter 91, HRS.
If Cliff Slater and Laura Thielen have both signed the petition, then it must be good!
I wonder if Cliff Slater has truly changed his spots as he has mellowed or if he is simply trying to strengthen his ties with the environmentalists out of a desire to win them over on rail.
I seem to remember an earlier, militant libertarian Cliff Slater being extremely hostile to environmental laws. Laura Thielen may be sincere (or not). But she is running for elective office and is likely prepositioning herself to her greatest advantage.
Kolea — I would appreciate receiving any material you have supporting your contention of my opposition to environmental impact statements.