WHY the Stryker Brigade must not stay in Hawaii!

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

DEPLETED URANIUM Outrage is Sweeping Hawai’i‏

Lindafaye Kroll The inhabitants and the land of the Marshall Islands and the Bikini Islands were poisoned in the forties due to nuclear testing. Look at Kaho’olawe, still polluted despite over $400 million in cleanup efforts.

“The Strykers and the legacy they would leave are not welcome on Hawai’i.” Krisztine Samu is an outraged Hawai’i resident and tells the Army so during public testimony at the U.S. Army Stryker Brigade Public Hearings in Waimea, on September 26, 2007. She is outraged by the military’s shameless and continued contamination of her home, Hawai’i Island… Please help us Protect Hawai’i. Write the Army before October 30, 2007. Army at: PublicComments@aec.apgea.army.mil No Stryker Brigade build-up in Hawai’i. Clean-up all live-fire artillery ranges. Cc comments to tenfingers10toes@protecthawaii.ws This statement written by Krisztine Samu and is reprinted with permission and submitted by Lindafaye Kroll RN BSN as follows… PLEASE accept my statement of OPPOSITION to the presence of the Stryker Brigade on the island of Hawai’i. Being familiar with the U.S. military’s legacy in the Pacific Islands, there is no reason to expect anything different this time. The inhabitants and the land of the Marshall Islands and the Bikini Islands were poisoned in the forties due to nuclear testing. Look at Kaho’olawe, still polluted despite over $400 million in cleanup efforts. Look at the Vieques Puerto Rico where the bombing practice resulted in a bomb being dropped on a civilian by mistake; the Navy was eventually forced to leave due to public opposition. DEPLETED URANIUM contamination is comfirmed at Schofield Barracks, Oahu and at Pohakuloa Training Area, Hawai’i Island. The Army has admitted the presence of this toxin, and further training/detonations will simply stir more of this dust into the air, blow it downwind into Kona with serious health implications for residents and soldiers alike. Kona already has higher than normal rates of cancer, diabetes and birth defects. We cannot allow the Strykers to aggravate the situation any further. We need cleanup, not buildup. Private citizens on the island of Hawai’i are independently monitoring airborne radioactivity spikes and this will continue in an even greater capacity if the Strykers are stationed here. If the radioactive spikes continue the citizens will surely not stand for it. We can guarantee a grave media backlash and local activism to stop the destruction. The Strykers and the legacy they would leave are not welcome on Hawai’i. Krisztina Samu Hawi, Hawai’i READ WHY the Stryker Brigade must not stay in Hawaii! Ten Reasons to Oppose the Stryker Brigade in Hawaii http://www.dmzhawaii.org/stop_stryker_hawaii.pdf Army Regulation AR 700-48 “Management of Equipment Contaminated With Depleted Uranium or Radioactive Commodities,” Headquarters, Department of the Army, Washington, D.C., September 2002, Section 2-4 of United States Army Regulation 700-48 dated Sept. 16, 2002, specifies these requirements. http://www.traprockpeace.org/du_pam_700-48.pdf Hawaiian Islands Are Radioactive http://www.indymedia.org/en/2007/10/893755.shtml Depleted Uranium Contamination By Strykers In Hawaii http://www.indymedia.org/it/2007/09/893176.shtml Death By Breath http://www.indymedia.org/en/2007/10/893823.shtml Hawaiian Islands Contaminated With Ballistic Uranium http://www.rense.com/general78/hawa.htm Army’s Environmental Impact Statement for the Stryker Brigade Invasion of Hawaii: http://www.sbct-seis.org/ Go to Demilitarize Hawaii website: http://www.dmzhawaii.org Go to Protect Hawaii website: http://www.protecthawaii.ws/