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CONSENT of the GOVERNED PROJECT

to change the county charter  and restore sovereignty to every citizen.

Recent quotes from three of our own county council members on their positions as elected officials are revealing as to how they view their proper roles : 

“it sometimes takes a law to change people's behavior”

 "Sometimes I have to be forced to do things that are right and I don't want to.”

 (I need) “to take charge, to lead our County, to define policy in the best interests of the people of our island. “

Frightening, isn't it !


Our county government lately has taken on 3 roles:

  • Administrative (such as determining how many police to hire, or where a road should go, or how to process garbage). This is an appropriate level of authority and responsibility for them to play.
  • Telling us what things we CAN NOT do i.e.:restricting our rights, more so every year
  • Taking our money: i.e.: taxes and fees

We the people have delegated out elected officials the power to be administrators, but we have NOT delegated them the power to restrict our lives and take our money without our permission.

The Consent of the Governed acts will restore forever this authority and sovereignty to the people of the Big Island.

 

 

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Tuesday
Aug212012

Energy costs: It took long enough




http://www.staradvertiser.com/editorialspremium/letterspremium/20120823_letters_to_the_editor.html?id=167149655&c=n
Letters to the Editor  For Thursday, August 23, 2012

Put efforts behind cheaper energy

Letters 8-21-2012

http://www.westhawaiitoday.com/sections/opinion/letters/letters-8-21-2012.html

Energy costs: It took long enough

“We’re not interested in more renewable energy. We’re interested in cheaper renewable energy. Unless it has lower rates, we will not support it,” Mayor Billy Kenoi, August 2012

We are glad to see an elected official finally doing the math. It took long enough.

Expensive energy is not sustainable.

Our energy policy should be CHEAP ENERGY.

That is sustainable.

On the Big Island, geothermal is the cheapest source available and it is both renewable and local. We need to go there, and nowhere else, as soon as possible for the entire island.

Everything else is more expensive and makes folks suffer as a result.

It is time to end the crony PUC-protected energy industry and its patrons who benefit at any cost, while everyone else has to pay for their inefficiencies.

“I can tell you that life without energy is brutal and short,” Dr. John Christy, Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama, testifying to Congress March 2011.

Edward Gutteling

Vice President of the Conservative Forum for Hawaii

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