Paumalu Press vs. Forbes Magazine

I got my copy of the Paumalu Press in the mail. Much like her friends who feel the same, Karen Gallagher wants to stop private entities from the rights that they have with the property they have purchased within our Capitalist system. A month or so ago, a friend sent me an editorial that was in Forbes Magazine. It equated radical environmentalism with Communism and Socialism. It reminded me of the rabid anti everything people right here on our North Shore. Here is the link to the entire editorial - Forbes Editorial - Green-Colored Communism, I picked out some of the passages that just sounded like our neighbors and friends who seem to forget that private property owners have rights.

Good for Karen for putting out a magazine that pushes her beliefs. It is my belief that Karen has done great to raise her family, while doing all of those odd jobs and being a business owner here on the North Shore. The irony of her stance is that the very things she opposes have provided the means for the children of the North Shore to be able to get their educations paid for by their employed parents. It will eventually lead to those educated children coming home to careers that will enable them to live and commute on the North Shore.

Why are the Communist/Socialist/North Shore Environmentalists so blinded by their unyielding stances that they can not see that?

Karen, loved the Waikiki picture but you should read the real statistics in my Waikiki Post - Will Turtle Bay Become Another Waikiki?. You can see how distorted your inference is.

Without further ado, a word from Forbes.

...Environmentalists portray the ANWR dispute as a big-oil plot to desecrate a beautiful, pristine area. This image is preposterous. That 2,000-acre lot is bleak, even in summer. The size of the drilling area would be about the equivalent of a sugar cube in a football stadium. And the technology exists to do the job in an absolutely environmentally sound way. This is not theory. Oil and/or gas drilling already takes place in more than 30 wildlife refuges in the U.S.

,,,Environmentalists are mute about the fact that last summer's devastating hurricanes, including Katrina, which literally blew away offshore platforms, did not lead to oil spills like that of the Exxon Valdez...

...Sadly, environmental extremists are not using the green movement to give us cleaner air and a higher standard of living as we grow and expand economically but to halt economic progress altogether. Socialism and communism are dead, discredited by the ghastly experiences of the 20th century. But the socialist agenda lives on in this perversion of environmentalism.

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