{"id":4741,"date":"2009-11-11T00:23:55","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T08:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=4741"},"modified":"2009-11-11T00:23:55","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T08:53:55","slug":"homeland-security-hawaii-style-above-all-protect-our-visitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=4741","title":{"rendered":"Homeland Security Hawai&#8217;i style: &#8220;above all, protect our visitors&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaiinewsnow.com\/global\/story.asp?s=11482673\">Asia Pacific Homeland Security Summit<\/a> is taking place in Honolulu.\u00a0\u00a0 It is one of the venues through which the homeland security-military-industrial complex has tried to exploit emerging markets for military\/intelligence\/security technologies and services.\u00a0\u00a0 Ed Texeira, head of Hawai&#8217;i Civil Defense, was quoted in the news report as saying &#8220;We&#8217;ve never said Hawaii was really a safe place, but in Hawaii we are doing all we can with taxpayer investments and Homeland Security funding to shore up our capabilities to protect Hawaii and, above all, protect our visitors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Above all, protect our visitors?!\u00a0\u00a0 It figures.\u00a0 The greatest attention and latest technological gadgetry have always gone to protecting visitors and the military &#8220;above all&#8221;, meaning above Native Hawaiians, the residents or the <em>&#8216;aina<\/em> (land).\u00a0 But then again, we always knew that Hawai&#8217;i was a <em>mohai <\/em>(sacrifice) for empire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Asia Pacific Homeland Security Summit is taking place in Honolulu.\u00a0\u00a0 It is one of the venues through which the homeland security-military-industrial complex has tried to exploit emerging markets for military\/intelligence\/security technologies and services.\u00a0\u00a0 Ed Texeira, head of Hawai&#8217;i Civil Defense, was quoted in the news report as saying &#8220;We&#8217;ve never said Hawaii was really &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=4741\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Homeland Security Hawai&#8217;i style: &#8220;above all, protect our visitors&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4741"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4743,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741\/revisions\/4743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}