{"id":85709,"date":"2023-08-14T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85709"},"modified":"2023-08-13T22:33:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T03:33:03","slug":"life-and-death-in-a-blue-sinecure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85709","title":{"rendered":"Life And Death In A Blue Sinecure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Even the mainland media is covering the complaints about Hawaii’s government’s response to the wildfires that, as this is written, have killed nearly 100 people<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Residents of Lahaina, the historic former Hawaiian capital<\/a> that became an inferno, criticized what they called inadequate warnings of the sudden firestorm and said they are now being left to fend for themselves in its wake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI feel like the citizens of this island have been called upon, maybe by a higher power, to actually help because no one else is helping,\u201d said Kai Lenny, a professional surfer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hawaii Attorney General Anne Lopez (D) said her department will launch \u201ca comprehensive review of critical decision-making and standing policies leading up to, during and after the wildfires.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

One thing government did <\/em>do was prevent people from deterring the worst among us<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While rescue crews make their way across the island with water, food, and first aid, locals told Insider supply drops are being diverted and anguished residents are taking matters into their own hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s some police presence. There\u2019s some small military presence, but at night people are being robbed at gunpoint,\u201d Matt Robb, co-owner of a Lahaina bar called The Dirty Monkey, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPeople are raped and pillaged. I mean, they\u2019re going through houses \u2013 and then by day it\u2019s hunky dory. So where is the support? I don\u2019t think our government and our leaders, at this point, know how to handle this or what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Reports of gunpoint robberies and supplies being hijacked are filtering out – which just can not be, as Hawaii has “comprehensive gun safety laws”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Even the mainland media is covering the complaints about Hawaii’s government’s response to the wildfires that, as this is written, have killed nearly 100 people: Residents of Lahaina, the historic former Hawaiian capital that became an inferno, criticized what they called inadequate warnings of the sudden firestorm and said they are now being left to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85710,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85709\/revisions\/85710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}