Quote:How detrimental is it to allow far-left ideologues into bureaucratic public works positions? The state of Hawaii just found out this week with a blaze that engulfed the Island of Maui and killed at least 110 people. A series of management blunders are being blamed for the deadly wildfire, but one incident in particular has frightening implications.

With wildfires ripping across West Maui on Aug. 8, a state water official delayed the release of water that landowners requested to help protect their property from damage and stop the spread. The water standoff played out over much of the day and the water didn’t come until too late. The dispute involved the Department of Land and Natural Resources’ water resource management division and West Maui Land Co., which manages agricultural and residential subdivisions in West Maui.

According to accounts of four people with knowledge of the situation, M. Kaleo Manuel, a Native Hawaiian cultural practitioner and DLNR’s deputy director for water resource management, initially refused West Maui Land Co.’s requests for additional water to help prevent fires from spreading to properties managed by the company. Manuel eventually released water but not until after the fire had run its course.

His office has not yet commented on the delay of water resources.

How much damage could have been prevented with the extra water is not yet known. However, the question of "Why?" needs to be addressed in the wake of one of the worst natural disasters in Hawaii's history. Though bureaucratic red tape might be the most obvious suggestion, a recent interview with M. Kaleo Manual offers some interesting and disturbing insight. Manuel waxes philosophical on "water equity" ("equity" being a pervasive woke buzzword) and an ancient "reverence" of water as god-like. He uses these beliefs to support his rationale for keeping tight controls over Hawaiian water supplies; not as a resource to be used, but as a holistic privilege offered by the government.

His sentiments represent a now familiar far-left cultism and propensity to place Earth worship and climate ideology over the the lives of average people. It is also a rather common trope of the far-left to depict indigenous peoples as environmental sages "one with the planet," leaving it unaltered for thousands of years - This is not historically accurate but it certainly serves the purposes of the progressive narrative. Upon arrival on the islands, Polynesians introduced their own transported landscapes and alien species of animals. The population grew, cleared vegetation, and established an intricate agricultural system by the 1300s. Hawaii was indelibly altered by the Polynesians long before the Europeans ever arrived.

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy summed up the disgusting farce in a tweet:

There’s a dark but hard TRUTH to the Maui catastrophe that has led to over 110 tragic deaths.

As wildfires raged, desperate residents petitioned state officials to send more water for firefighting & to help protect their properties from fire.

That request went unanswered for hours, withholding critical aid to islanders. Now we’re learning that the official who delayed the approval is an Obama Foundation "Asia Pacific Leader" & a climate activist who believes water should be “revered” first and foremost.

The DEI agenda is literally costing people their lives.

Hawaii’s Democrat governor, Josh Green, says there are people “fighting against the release of water to fight fires” & that it needs to be explored further. The No. 1 responsibility of government is to protect its citizens. The victims and their families deserve the TRUTH.

One might argue that fresh water in an island state requires more careful planning in terms of day-to-day applications. One cannot argue, though, that water should be withheld in emergencies due to one's personal and meaningless belief in tribal superstition, nor can a person argue that properties and people should burn because of "water equity," whatever that means.

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Yet another liberal genius. I'll bet he still wears a mask.

Hawai'i is surrounded by water and yet they did not have any to fight the fires. That tells me that the Demons have no common sense and are detrimental to life in a crisis. Hey Hawai'ians how do you like them apples now? Keep voting for the Demons. Stupid people.

Keep voting for "Hawaii studies" majors for what is now seen as an important post that requires some level of understanding of what is important to protect citizens actual lives.

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This part of Maui will be covered in Resorts within 10 years. They had to get the "Hawaiians" out of the way.

Hawaii tapping outside investigator as wildfire response scrutiny grows

Pressure is mounting on the leadership of Hawaii after the fires. They are emphasizing that this is not a criminal investigation but just trying to find out what went wrong.

Quote:Hawaii will hire an independent investigator to look into how state and local agencies responded to catastrophic wildfires that have left more than 100 people dead, the state attorney general said Thursday.

"This will be an impartial, independent review," said Attorney General Anne Lopez in a statement. The investigator will be from a third-party, private organization with experience in emergency management, according to the attorney general's office.

The decision to tap an outside investigator comes as questions mount over whether emergency management officials did enough to warn residents as wildfires rapidly spread in West Maui last week, leaving the historic town of Lahaina in ashes.

Hawaii Gov. Josh Green said during a press conference Wednesday that it is not a criminal investigation.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/08/17/hawa...grows.html

Quote:Lahaina Maui residents are questioning the government's failure to issue fire alarms, delayed water supply during fires, and the power company's long-standing disregard for fire warnings.

Despite fires scorching over 100,000 acres on Maui from 2016 to 2020:

•Maui's Emergency Management Agency didn't activate Lahaina's emergency sirens.

•Hawaii's Department of Land and Natural Resources took hours to approve diverting water from Upcountry Maui to help Lahaina firefighters.

•Hawaiian Electric ignored fire risks, powerline upgrades, and grid improvements, focusing on shifting to 100% renewable energy by 2045 as mandated by the State.

Lahaina, Maui, witnessed the destruction of over 2,700 structures valued at around $5.6 billion.

Despite the Federal government allocating $115 billion to Ukraine, they offered only $1.9 million ($700 per household) to Lahaina.

FEMA, with a yearly budget of $30 billion and 12,000 employees, is being outperformed in food and supply distribution by Maui citizens, according to local reports.

Lahaina, Maui, serves as a stark illustration of the adage, "Government isn't the solution to our problems; government is the problem."

(08-17-2023 03:57 PM)Eagleaidaholic Wrote:  This part of Maui will be covered in Resorts within 10 years. They had to get the "Hawaiians" out of the way.

THIS.

Some networks are showing how none of the millionaires homes along the coast were impacted at all by the firestorm. Yet right across the 2 lane road....complete devastation.





The real mindblowing act was the Maui Power Co. actually having their employees trying to rebuild power lines/poles DURING the firestorm; this effectively blocked the one escape route for Maui citizens trying to escape the fires. Lines of desperate Maui residents sitting in their cars trying to get around the Maui Power Co. work trucks....

Things are worse in Maui than we've been led to believe. Locals and a morgue worker have said that 480 people have been confirmed dead but that info has not been given out. Morgues ran out of body bags the first or second day. One said that people are having to do the recoveries of relatives themselves. Only about 13% of properties have been checked.

Quote:She added: '100 percent not enough is being done so people are doing it themselves. The Government, relief organizations – they're not doing anything.'

She added: 'We have the right to know what's going on. FEMA came here to help with the recovery [process] but we don't see them.

'We're only 100 miles from Oahu which has several military bases. Why is the response so lacking? Why are they doing so little? Why is nothing else being done?'

Allisen also hit out at emergency services boss Herman Andaya who made the decision not to sound Maui's emergency sirens – telling a press conference that they are associated with tsunamis and not fires.

She said: 'Why didn't they turn on the sirens? They're not just for tsunamis – go to their website and it says they're for fires, other disasters, everything.

'What he said is so disgusting and disrespectful – does he really think people would run towards fire, that they wouldn't have looked out and seen it?'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...pdate.html

Leftist response: Trump, MAGA and Republicans are evil. They don't want people to have clean water.

God, I hate leftists so much.

If I were a republican running for president, I would have been there right after it happened and pointed out all of the bureaucratic screw-ups that brought it about.

This will be celebrated and spinned by the left as climate change. Yet it was their attempt at "climate control" that caused the deaths of 110 innocent people. Their policies have murdered so many people. Sad.

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(08-20-2023 03:53 PM)hburg Wrote:  This will be celebrated and spinned by the left as climate change. Yet it was their attempt at "climate control" that caused the deaths of 110 innocent people. Their policies have murdered so many people. Sad.

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I think human error amplified the cost of human error in Lahaina. As far as his asserton about global warming, my follow-up question would be, "How so?"