Sunday, May 25, 2008

Don't Democrats Trust People to Rewrite the Constitution?

"Don't the Democrats trust the ordinary people of Hawai'i to rewrite the Constitution?"

Democratics don’t trust lobbiests and corporate agents to make good decisions…With good reason!

“Ordinary people” are out-spent and out maneuvered by these ruthless special interests who have nothing but their own greed powering them

That is not to say that there aren’t good-intentioned folks who have the best interests of our state at heart in favor of the ConCon. I’ve just seen what has happened in the U.S. lately and it hasn't gotten better, it has gotten much worse. Because honest and open people have no chance against the nonstop PR , pressure and double-dealing of the corporate interests.

And the only thing standing between these corporate forces and the total rape of Hawaii is our constitution.

We’re fighting a rearguard action just to hold on to those few protections we have.

An example of the double-dealing and deceptive practices of those who want to take away our constitutional protections is blatantly obvious if you visit Ed Case & Peter Kay’s so-called “neutral” site. They both favor the ConCon. They try hard to shush people who bring up inconvenient subjects like removing the section guaranteeing Hawaiian rights, putting in a Protection of Marriage clause (e.g. anti-gay marriage), removing the right of government workers to unionize. But that and removing the ban on nuclear plants is about all the specific suggestions that have come up on their site.

Everything else is all feel-good stuff about “improving education”, “streamlining government” but no one actually says what they want to change in the Constitution to accomplish these nebulous wishes.

Remember what they say about the “grass is greener”. If you have not read the constitution and see a specific section you want removed, modified or inserted, then asking for a ConCon is basically handing the process to those who have very STRONG ideas of what they want including making Hawaii a “right to work” state (anti-union), taking away our water and giving it to the big landowners, removing environmental protections, taking away Hawaiian entitlements, and just generally opening up the state to corporate looting.