29 Reasons .........

http://starbulletin.com/2007/10/19/news/story01.html You have to read the 29 conditions that Isaac Hall and the Dirty Dozen are suggesting be adopted by the Legislature and applied to the Superferry. You can read them at the above link. The entire list is pure garbage and it smacks of Gestapo tactics.

For example, they want Superferry to wash and vacuum each vehicle . They want inspections of engine compartments, trunks, vehicle interiors. They want every cooler, container, purses, pockets and all luggage to be opened and thoroughly inspected. They want drug sniffing dogs and dogs that sniff out agricultural products. You have to read the "rules" to see the ruse. Oh, and they (the Dirty Dozen) want to be able to observe this process whenever they want to without notice. Just think, you could have Dick Meyer rummaging through your suitcases because he is an environmentalist. Gimmmmmmmeeeee a break!!!!

By comparison, right across the fence in the Kahului Harbor, Young Brothers unloads dirty vehicles--500+ at a time as well as construction equipment--big dozers, backhoes, etc dirty with seeds and insects from working open land. We have coqui frogs, stinging caterpillars, invasive alien species here courtesy of Young Brothers. Drugs come in in less than container loads--safe because YB is without requirements for drug sniffing dogs. Just those scary Christmas trees and some fresh flowers are eligible for inspection. "Olly, Olly oxen free" for the rest!

Why hasn't Isaac Hall sent the same list to Young Brothers? YB has created a HUGE problem here and yet are never challenged. Tomorrow YB will initiate a new rate increase--15% increase for less than container load--our farmers use that service to get their products to market. The Superferry would give them cheaper and faster methods to get their crops to market. But I digress---Young Brothers has been left alone because all signs point to the fact that they are bankrolling this effort by the Dirty Dozen.

Bottom line: If Maui Tomorrow, Sierra Club and those two little twerps that call themselves the Kahului Harbor Coalition really cared about Maui, they would have sued the daylights out of Young Brothers years ago for being Maui's Typhoid Mary. We wouldn't be faced with all the invasive crap that they have been paid handsomely to haul in. They didn't and that makes them frauds!

How much longer are those "guardians" of the aina going to ignore the elephant on the front porch?