tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7440535585058130391.post1931026465701758030..comments2024-03-14T17:54:02.835-04:00Comments on OceanicDreams: Hawaii - Rep Riki Karamatsu in bed with the shark fin industry?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17124257574347025140noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7440535585058130391.post-81718448856441227502010-09-02T13:52:33.210-04:002010-09-02T13:52:33.210-04:00I wonder where the man's loyalty lies. We all ...I wonder where the man's loyalty lies. We all know that the Japanese are actively pursuing the total destruction of our ocean resources. Hawaii is a sort of portal to Japan from the US. Is it possible that we have a man - a public figure charged with the responsibility to act in the best interests of a US state utilizing his position and benefiting financially, in the quest by Japanese government and corporate fishing interests to gobble up all oceanic resources while they can. Japanese people are subservient as a nation to authority - government and corporations - they do not behave consciously outside the parameters of what the 'authorities' dictate believing that whatever the powers dictate is what is best for them.It may be that our garden state of Hawaii is /has fallen into a realm of unknowingly serving Japanese interests. <br />I know for sure that true Hawaiians would never allow the wholesale slaughter and abuse of sharks ... it would be a major insult to their ancestors and a direct violation of the 'mana' of their 'amakua'. Where are the true Hawaiians in this story and why are they allowing this to happen on the very doorstep of the culture that they are attempting to revive? Why would they allow a man who hates sharks to rule over them and over rule in an extreme way the very root of their culture? Where's the 'aloha'?blumonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13656044097116388512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7440535585058130391.post-30442251141481622532010-04-19T00:36:32.491-04:002010-04-19T00:36:32.491-04:00Because the mans name happens to the Riki Karamats...Because the mans name happens to the Riki Karamatsu does not mean he is owed anyone's "respect."<br /><br />Respect is "earned," both by good deeds and with good policy making.<br /><br />Being drunk at the wheel and a politician is a first strike that stays with you like a painful brand for the rest of your career, you never fully atone for it.<br /><br />His political opponent knows that.<br /><br />So it boggles the imagination that Riki Karamatsu would make such a stunningly bad political choice as to stand with businesses that make a living from the dismemberment of live animals.<br /><br />Seriously, you want to talk about respect for this man?<br /><br />He has attracted anger, ire, rage, disgust, and distaste from many in the conservation world and thanks be to the Internet will attract a lot more.<br /><br />That we would dare to mention the man was once recently so drunk he plowed his vehicle into the side of the highway median is an attempt to have people understand that this man makes critically bad decisions, both in life and now as a politician.<br /><br />Try and make a friend of him?<br /><br />This man has no friends in the conservation world at the moment but he does have a choice. Come over the the light and see how his support of shark finning is inherently flawed and wrong.<br /><br />By doing this Riki Karamatsu will discover he has all the green conservation minded friends in the world.<br /><br />Who knows, he might even "earn" some that respect you think he is owed.Horizon Charters Guadalupe Cage Divinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09624362913061595393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7440535585058130391.post-44659029638073874432010-04-18T21:44:06.995-04:002010-04-18T21:44:06.995-04:00You know, I have a lot of respect for what you guy...You know, I have a lot of respect for what you guys are working on for sure but sharks are incredibly powerful and beautiful animals and we should give Jon Riki Karamatsu the same respect that we hope he will give to the sharks. It's important that everyone tries to spread the word about this and contact his office but it's not okay to exploit something such as a drunk driving incident to make a gain over someone - he's publicly confessed to this and it's obviously brought some rain into his life. If we want to protect the sharks we need to be promoting positivity about their species, not negativity about other people. It will only give him something to be mad at all of us about - why not try to make a friend in him. <br /><br />Anyway guys, thanks for his contact info, keep it up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com