I don’t want to feed ridiculous conspiracies but all I can do is tell you the truth. I just spoke to a videographer from Lahaina. Davin Phelps. He’s a licensed drone pilot. He’s been flying over Lahaina for the past week. And he has stunning and haunting images of Lahaina.
Davin says he was hired by an attorney to fly his drone over the suspected area where the fire started. There is a no fly zone over Lahaina. But as you can see from the footage that hasn’t stopped him from getting images of Lahaina Town. But it was a different experience at the fires origin.
Apparently licensed drone pilots fly through an app coordinated with the FAA. That app can deny you permission to fly and remotely ground your drone. It’s very rare. But when Phelps got to the suspected fire origin area he was denied flight and grounded.
Then he says two government officials (he doesn’t remember what agency) quickly visited him, asking for his license, and ran him off the Lahaina Intermediate School parking lot where he attempted to launch.
So why the secrecy in this area? Liability? Accountability? Why no clarity on the origins and cause of the fire?
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I’m in West Maui. Service is rough. Hard to post. But we’re putting together stories of incredible citizens stepping up where the government has failed. And at Napili Plaza someone from the Mayor Richard Bissen’s office tries to shut me down saying West Maui is a media free zone. No sir, this is America.
Right now I am nowhere near search and rescue. I’m twelve miles from Lahaina. How is the entire West Side a media free zone? Is it no longer America? Constitution has been suspended?
Everyone here is confused. Mixed messages. Just like those that led to no sirens during the fire. Is the water good or bad? How do you get in or out of West Maui? Chaos and confusion. I’ll tell you this, citizens are happy we are here. They have stories. And they are unhappy with leadership.
Fentanyl isn’t an overdose issue. The gall of Mexico’s President saying “not our problem.”
Mexico is not free. It’s a corrupt narco state, which means this guy, is complicit in poisoning Americans with fentanyl. And he stand here saying…”your fault”.
You don’t understand fentanyl. This isn’t an OVERDOSE issue. It’s POISONING.
Dear lord this is possibly the dumbest column ever written. The author @mikefreemanNFL either has no ability to marshal reason and logic or believes that you, the reader, are impossibly dumb.
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Let’s start with this. The claim is that it’s now a conspiracy NOT to believe an evidence free claim.
It’s not only a conspiracy to wonder why a stadium full of cameras, mics, and cell phones wouldn’t pick up repeated use of the n-word…
It’s a conspiracy to notice that none of the thousands of students - including fellow black athletes - didn’t hear the crime.
That’s letting the question be decided by the sentiments of TODAY.
The constitution is a set of limitations on the government. It protects certain rights from majority democracy rule.
But you simply cannot find abortion in the Constitution.
If you don’t want to be limited by the Constitution, but you also don’t want to embrace democracy, but you also don’t want to be ruled by nine justices, or at least these nine justices…what do you want?