{"id":3010,"date":"2009-07-31T11:34:49","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T20:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=3010"},"modified":"2009-07-31T11:44:18","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T20:14:18","slug":"nuclear-attack-sub-an-affront-to-aloha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=3010","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear attack sub an affront to ‘aloha’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photo: Gregory Yamamoto, Honolulu Advertiser<\/em><\/p>\n

The arrival of the USS Hawaii was hyped by the media and marked with lots of pageantry, but the irony of a war machine being draped with a lei of aloha was not lost.<\/p>\n

Dr. Glenn Paige, a retired professor at U.H. Manoa wrote the following letter to the Honolulu Star-Bulletin:<\/p>\n

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(Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Tuesday, July 28, 2009)
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\nSub does not deserve ‘aloha’<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>I wonder how many readers were shocked by the Star-Bulletin’s July 24 welcome to the nuclear submarine USS Hawaii with the banner heading, “7,700 tons of Aloha.” According to the Pukui-Elbert dictionary, “aloha” means “love, affection, compassion, mercy, sympathy, pity, kindness” and more.<\/p>\n

By all accounts, the USS Hawaii, with sponsor Gov. Linda Lingle’s initials inscribed on a keel metal plate and a Hawaiian blessing by a member of the Hawaii Army National Guard, is the most murderous war machine yet devised by the lethal ingenuity of mankind.<\/p>\n

Its presence in Hawaii does not make the islands safer, but a target, as did the ships at Pearl Harbor in 1941.<\/p>\n

Much greater safety must be sought in developing the applied multidisciplinary science of nonkilling security in Hawaii, the Asia Pacific region and the world Furthermore, despite celebration of the boost to Hawaii’s economy, the cost of the $2.6 billion killer submarine constitutes what President Eisenhower in 1953 called “theft” by warships and guns from those who are hungry and poor.<\/p>\n

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Glenn D. Paige
\nAuthor of “Nonkilling Global Political Science,” Honolulu<\/span><\/p>\n

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In his weekly flyer, the 411th since September 11, 2001, Hawai’i Island activist Jim Albertini added these facts about nuclear-powered and armed submarines such as the USS Hawaii:<\/p>\n

Please note: The USS Hawaii is able to launch Tomahawk nuclear-armed missiles far more powerful than the atomic bombs which destroyed the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The USS Hawaii can also deliver comandoes in violation of other nations sovereignty. The Navy acknowledges discharging 4,843,000 gallons of radioactive liquid waste into Pearl Harbor from nuclear-powered submarines as of l973. Since then they have withheld data about such discharges. The Navy also admits to dumping over 2,000 fifty-five gallon steel drums of radioactive solid waste on the ocean floor off Hawaii’s shores. (Source: The Dark Side of Paradise, p.l8) What effects such pollution may have on marine life and, in turn the health and safety of Hawaii’s people is simply not clear. But it is commonly accepted that there is no safe level of radiation, and even low-level doses of radiation accelerate our aging process and may cause cancer. And let’s not forget the confirmed military radiation contamination in Hawaii from weapons training that has yet to be fully assessed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Photo: Gregory Yamamoto, Honolulu Advertiser The arrival of the USS Hawaii was hyped by the media and marked with lots of pageantry, but the irony of a war machine being draped with a lei of aloha was not lost. Dr. Glenn Paige, a retired professor at U.H. Manoa wrote the following letter to the Honolulu … <\/p>\n

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