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Reminder that the events leading to the Red Hill fuel contamination crisis flows directly through the history of the @cochawaii Military Affairs Council’s stonewalling in the state legislature.#ShutDownRedHill #ShutDownChamberofCommerce
More on the history of the @cochawaii’s history of complicity in making the the Red Hill fuel contamination crisis all but inevitable here:
The @BWSHonolulu should cancel this @cochawaii-hosted “informational briefing”. The Chamber of Commerce should have nothing to do with informing people on the crisis, and they should have nothing to do with how we as a community proceed with respect to the Red Hill fuel facility.
Yup. And there will be more on this later, but one of the Presidents of the @cochawaii was none other than Lorrin P. Thurston: son of the Lorrin A. Thurston, leader of the Annexation Club and architect of the Overthrow of the Sovereign Nation of Hawai‘i.
Lorrin P. Thurston was, like his father, a virulent racist who inherited daddy's newspaper (the influential anti-labor, anti-Asian Pacific Commercial Advertiser) along with his considerable wealth.
Despite all of his influence, honorary positions and titles, unearned wealth, and even after serving as Chairman on the Commission for Statehood, Lorrin P. Thurston mused that he never felt more powerful than when he was President of the Hawai‘i Chamber of Commerce.
