SURF AND TURF MANEUVERS

...That growing awareness goes far in explaining the judiciary's resort to the techniques of Gulag...

...America faces the future looking toward Asia, not Europe," said the U.S...

...Finally, he was forced to admit, "Maybe the harsh reality will come out that the U.S...

...designs on the raw materials, investment, and trade potential of the Asian-Pacific nations...

...It goes something like this: If the military are not given free rein in the state—zoning variances and nominal leasing arrangements, for example—they will be forced to pack up and go elsewhere...

...The most feared weapon in the propaganda arsenal is the "job threat...

...Albertini's obsession, one now shared by a majority of Americans if recent opinion surveys are any guide, is the specter of a nuclear war that could be neither limited nor survived...

...Children turned assault amphibian personnel carriers into jungle gyms, straddled torpedoes as if they were bucking broncos, blasted one another with fifty-caliber machine guns and sat in the cockpit of a jet that zooms faster than Mach 2." Navy Commander Earl Greathouse, director of CINCPAC community relations, freely admits to the critical role played by cheerleading media and the boosterism of such big business groups as the Honolulu Chamber of Commerce Armed Services Committee and the U.S...

...On the face of it, the charge would seem absurd and, well, paranoid coming in a state where the military enjoy virtual shogun status...

...A Bank of Hawaii report estimated that only 6 per cent of the state's civilian work force is dependent on the armed forces for their jobs...

...If the marijuana growers' failure to employ many people is self-evident, the military's is not so widely recognized...

...Similar accusations of mental instability, signaling a new wave of clinical McCarthy ism, entered into the recent trials of the Berrigan brothers and anti-nuclear activist Jim Douglass...

...According to Major General Alexander Weyand, the picnic for local bigwigs grew out of "the Army's desire to maintain good relations with the community...

...On populous Oahu, site of the capital city of Honolulu, one-quarter of the island is under the military thumb...

...This certainty—that Government policy and the survival of life on the planet are on a collision course—is Albertini's message...

...If accidents did not pose danger enough, such an arsenal makes Hawaii a prime first-strike target in a nuclear showdown...

...A closer look at Hawaii, the most militarized state in the most militarized nation in the world, should shed some light on the subject...

...An example is the Honolulu Advertiser's news coverage of the Hickam weapons orgy the day of Albertini's arrest: "Some kids just love to play war and yesterday at Hickam Air Force Base and Pearl Harbor there were enough airplanes, artillery, and ships to keep an army of children happy...

...PACOM employs eighty to ninety "public affairs and community relations" specialists, whose duty it is to provide a steady diet of bread and circuses, courtesy of the military...

...Thus, the ratio of jobs to dollars is on the decline, and as is the case for conversion nationwide, the same money spent in medical services, education, and low-income housing construction would create more jobs in Hawaii...

...The Army blithely ignored requests for a written report, instead satisfying officials with oral assurances that all reasonable precautions would be taken during Operation Thunderbolt and all future exercises...

...relations with the South Pacific...

...retirement, he was called a "crazy old man...

...Accordingly, "repression at home . . . becomes a necessity of governance if security is to be premised, directly or indirectly, on the logic of exterminism...

...While little more than bluff, this thinly veiled threat to decamp permanently for new bases in the Pacific Trust Territories is no small concern in a state whose economy might be appropriately dubbed "the periphery of the core...

...Other encouraging signs of the popular awakening to the threat of militarism are the waves of counter-occupations by native Hawaiian groups protesting the bombing of Kaho'olawe, an island now thoroughly scarred by continual shelling despite its religious and archaeological significance...

...What has happened in Hawaii mirrors the global condition in a nutshell—people are coming to see that, in the name of defense and security, they are being held hostage by their own militarized governments...

...Currently the U.S...

...Nor is it clear that President Reagan's massive new outlays for the Pentagon will change the picture...

...Rather than respond with a full accounting of this and other plans, the Army gave a party for the local business, political, and media elites...

...Trust Territories are being told by Washington that their future security can best be guaranteed by permitting the United States to turn their island nations into nuclear test sites, dump sites, and storage depots for nuclear weapons...

...As clumsy as it all may sound, the snow job worked—the Council reversed its earlier stance...

...Along with this niggling carrot, General Weyand wielded the traditional big stick, warning ominously: "If you take Pohakuloa away from the Army, you're taking the Army from the state...

...An estimated 3,100 nuclear weapons are stockpiled on crowded Oahu...

...Concerns expressed included the Army's growing impact on Hawaii's land, fresh water supply, and roads...

...As the Pentagon of the Pacific, responsible for policing 70 per cent of the world's oceans, PACOM holds sway in Hawaii: The military presence in the islands, by percentage of land under armed forces control, is greater than in any other state...

...designs on the region, Bodde's remarks are well taken...

...Government is definitely not prepared to protect the civilian population...

...When opposition does arise, the military employ a carrot-and-stick strategy to dampen down discontent before it becomes widespread...

...Pacific Command (PACOM) whose purview extends over half the Earth's surface, from the west coast of North America to the east coast of Africa...

...The Nuclear Free Pacific Movement is gaining strength from island to island, a prospect that frightens the former U.S...

...The prosecution successfully argued that "Albertini scares the military commanders . .. who do not want him on the base...

...In the spirit of the New Federalism, a quarter million people would be evacuated from Honolulu to neighboring islands, 190,000 to be absorbed by the Big Island alone (over twice its present population...

...Studies of the subject have, however, reached surprising conclusions about the impact of military spending...

...Finally, in a precedent-setting step for the nation, the Hawaii County Council, at the urging of local activists, passed a measure prohibiting the storage of nuclear materials on the Big Island...

...Admiral Robert Long, CINCPAC's current chief, echoed a familiar theme when he observed recently, "The Pacific is really the number one trading area for the United States...

...The latter's legislative goals in 1980, for example, were college tuition assistance for island reservists and a return to Junior ROTC in public high schools...

...There was a bit of gruesome irony in the timing of this boondoggle, occurring as it did the same day a half million schoolchildren across the nation learned they would have to tighten their belts because free school lunches had been declared a frill in the new moral logic of Reaganomics...

...Not only across the Atlantic but throughout the Pacific there is a growing outcry against the march toward a global Jonestown...

...Living conditions...

...Back in the heart of the PACOM monster, the people of Hawaii were told by the U.S...

...Ambassador to Fiji, William Bodde Jr., who calls the movement "the most potentially disruptive development for U.S...

...Supporters of the ban were promptly informed that the Government had the authority to overrule and nullify such expressions of the popular will...

...Even when it comes to Oahu's heralded beaches, many remain the exclusive preserve of the military elite...

...Army Western Command's Civilian Advisory Group...

...One need not turn to the work of George Orwell to contemplate where this will take us—Alexander Solzhenitsyn's social history will suffice...

...When Admiral Hyman Rickover confessed to similar views on the occasion of his recent Jerry Sanders is a senior associate at the Institute for World Order in New York and author of "Peddlers of Crisis," a book on the Committee on the Present Danger and the Cold War revival, to be published by South End Press...

...Headlined High Noon at Pohakuloa, what was supposed to be a light-hearted human interest piece proved quite revealing...

...Even granting the pervasive abuse of psychiatric terms, Judge King's utterance crossed a semantic barrier frightening in its implications for civil liberties and free expression...

...For instance," Foster writes, "Fort Shafter occupies 1,341 acres of prime business and residential property near the heart of Honolulu...

...Supreme Court last December that they did not have a "right to know" the facts of nuclear weapons storage—not numbers, locations, nor potential hazards...

...SURF AND TURF MANEUVERS ALOHA The military stake out a beachhead in Hawaii BY JERRY SANDERS ASiberian chill swept across the Hawaiian archipelago one day in February when the chief judge of the Federal district court in Honolulu took up the language of psychiatry to condemn peace activist Jim Albertini...

...Moreover, such a changeover would serve to relieve the state of its present psychological dependency on military capitalism, a critical first step toward true home rule and a healthy economy...

...Such opinions are invariably followed by upbeat prognostications about Hawaii's banking future as the Manhattan of the Pacific, and a curtsy toward the military as guardians of the Open Door...

...The Department of Commerce corroborated these findings with a study showing that only 7.6 per cent of Hawaiians' personal income could be attributed to military spending...

...In light of the military's success in mesmerizing official Hawaii, we must ask again why it is that Jim Albertini "scares the military commanders" and poses such a threat to a judge's sense of order that he resorts to the label of "psychopath" to descredit Albertini and his opposition to the war machine...

...The] use of this acreage creates development pressure on the downtown area and keeps much-needed housing space off the market...

...Finally, citing a report which revealed that 5 per cent of the state's corporations won 62 per cent of all military contracts, The Dark Side of Paradise concludes that among this "small elite of corporations," even these companies— much less the state economy in general— are too large to be dependent on military business...

...Its message read, Stop the Carnival of Death: End the Arms Race...

...From the overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani and the Hawaiian monarchy in 1893, the U.S...

...The Army's cavalier response was to unveil Operation Thunderbolt, a training exercise that would soon bring an invasion force of 4,200 troops to the island...

...Hawaii and the Pacific are rife with illustrations of security turned into its opposite...

...Given U.S...

...In Hawaii itself, the military buildup has left the state defenseless...

...Complete with a caption of those it called "the movers and shakers of East and West Hawaii" gleefully exchanging blank rounds of ammunition , the story told of a Disneyland fete held at Pohakuloa Training Area, a sprawling 108,000-acre firing range in the heart of Hawaii's Big Island...

...From his current post as diplomat-in-residence at Hawaii's East-West Center, he recommended that the United States "do everything possible to counter" the Nuclear Free Pacific surge, noting with alarm that "many influential intellectuals and other community leaders support the concept...

...While all this has led to some resentment, especially from native Hawaiians who have lost the most to the military's land grab, the wonder is that the outcry has been so modest...

...As Falk has written, "There is no way for a democratic political leadership to retain its legitimacy in the eyes of its citizenry for very long if a sustained campaign around the legal and moral status of nuclear weapons is mounted...

...Recent training missions have taken troops from Hawaii to South Korea, the Philippines, New Guinea, and the Marshall Islands in modern-day shows of gunboat diplomacy to underscore U.S...

...As Princeton University legal scholar Richard Falk has said, "citizens would never knowingly give their assent to such a suicidal arrangement" as the buildup of nuclear arms...

...While residents scheme for accommodations at the state's forty-four vacation cabins," Foster points out, "military families enjoy access to six times that number...

...The Honolulu Star-Bulletin's military specialist says, *You can color Oahu red-meaning horror9 The bitter absurdity of national security thinking reached new depths when the Reagan civil defense plan was translated down to the state level...

...Just how brazen the military's "community relations" tactics have become was apparent for all who cared to see last fall in a front-page feature story in the Advertiser, Hawaii's largest-circulation daily...

...The real story behind Pohakuloa Fun Day dated back to the summer of 1981, when the Hawaii County Council, at the urging of island residents, asked the military to report on its plans for the Big Island...

...Moreover, what happened in his courtroom cannot be easily dismissed as an idiosyncratic outburst by one member of the judiciary isolated in the middle of the Pacific Ocean...

...The message is getting through...

...Payment for increasingly costly essentials must be squeezed from the faltering tourist trade and a fading sugar industry whose multinational overlords have already begun to phase out in favor of more lucrative ventures...

...So presumably would Jim Albertini have remained a fit and sound citizen in Judge King's eyes if he had surrendered his taxes to the military Moloch and waited in dumb silence for the day of reckoning...

...Albertini is free, pending an appeal of his case...

...In a further reflection of dependency, almost all energy and food are imported...

...If you're a bear, it's all right, I guess...

...As the Honolulu Star-Bulletin's military specialist reported, "You can color Oahu red—meaning horror...

...This despite the fact, confirmed by military authorities, that nerve gas agent GB and incapacitating agent BZ had been tested only fourteen miles from Hilo, Hawaii's second-largest city...

...Well over $1 billion a year flows into Hawaii from the Pentagon, making militarism second only to tourism with the possible exception of pakalolo— marijuana—as a source of income...

...On the protective shelters themselves, Kim added, "They're basically lava tubes...

...Government to keep its nuclear-powered ships and submarines out of the Pacific...

...Under these circumstances, Ronald Reagan's military budget is touted as a life-giving shot in the arms to the ailing state economy...

...the adverse effect of military firing on visibility at the astronomical observatories, and rumors of an expanded role for Pohakuloa in the training of the intervention-oriented Rapid Deployment Force...

...As an industry, however, pakalolo has the same disadvantages as militarism: It encroaches upon the land but yields no revenue, provides few jobs, and brings much violence to the traditional land of Aloha...

...the hazards of ammunition storage on Hawaii...

...As ^Nelson Foster makes clear in The Dark Side of Paradise: Hawaii in a Nuclear World (a primer on Hawaiian militarism put together by four peace researchers, among them Albertini, and available for $3 from Catholic Action, 1918 University Avenue, Honolulu, HI 96822), such a monopoly of land on a small island has a major impact on civilian lives...

...Despite the high court setback, the issue became a cause celebre that shattered for many the picture-postcard illusion of life in Hawaii...

...Reminiscent of a Third World nation, Hawaii's economy is over-specialized and lacking in a diversified industrial base...

...As one Honolulu planning chief put it, PACOM operates like a "separate fiefdom...

...He formerly taught sociology at the University of Hawaii at Hilo...

...From Honolulu, the Commander-in-Chief Pacific (CINCPAC), under the authority of PACOM, directs all U.S...

...So long as the Admiral participated in stockpiling an arsenal long ago capable of dealing death to every man, woman, and child in the Soviet Union several times over, he was deemed eminently sane and rational...

...Called upon to plan the unplannable, County Civil Defense Director Harry Kim responded, "The logistics problems are overwhelming—the feeding, clothing, housing, and security of large numbers of people...

...See "Jaws III," by Robert C. Aldridge, in the May issue...

...Those who would like to break off the bad marriage between Hawaii and the Pentagon face a formidable military-civilian lobby dedicated to suppressing brushfires of dissatisfaction in the relationship...

...The coordinator of Catholic Action, an organization that witnesses against Hawaii's role in global militarism, the thirty-five-year-old Albertini was "nothing more than a psychopath" in the view of Judge Samuel King, who sentenced the defendant to a ninety-day jail term for trespass...

...As the leaflet distributed by Catholic Action at Hickam exhorted, "If world leaders do not take the initiative to declare the use and mere possession of nuclear weapons as criminal behavior, then the people must do so for them...

...The festive affair featured businessmen and government officials— "many of them middle-aged and plump," according to the news account—playing with guns, setting off explosives, and shuttling around in "a convoy of UH-1 helicopters...

...Acting on the conviction that such a catastrophe must be averted, Albertini unfurled a banner at an open-house arms bazaar held at Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu...

...Not long thereafter, the Pacific Conference of Churches hammered out a resolution calling on the U.S...

...Ambassador to Japan, James Day Hodgson, in a recent Honolulu address...

...Hardly a week goes by without a major feature in the local newspapers noting that the United States now does more business with its Pacific trading partners than with the European Economic Community...

...He went on to predict that "the pendulum of world economic activity" will continue to swing toward Asia and the Pacific...

...Official Hawaii falls all over itself to cooperate in the promotion of the happy-family image...

...The immediate question is why this particularly ugly tactic of repression, characteristic of regime weakness rather than strength, has appeared at a time when the manufacturers of everything from toys to ideology are dusting off old lines of merchandise in celebration of the end of the "Vietnam syndrome...

...military have never loosened their hold on island politics...

...In the Trust Territories, the people of the Republic of Belau ratified with overwhelming popular support a constitution proscribing all military use of their lands, despite economic and political pressure from the United States...

...Since 1970, military expenditures increased 9 per cent per year above inflation, even as the number of civilian jobs lost during this same period averaged 500 annually...

...The public was assured by the commander of the 25th Infantry Division that what would appear to be tomfoolery at taxpayers' expense did have a serious purpose...

...armed forces throughout Asia and the Pacific...

...Today, Hawaii is headquarters for the U.S...

...and the limited time we'd be operating in should this crisis ever occur...

...With a battalion of corporate friends, the president of the University of Hawaii, the provost of the state's community college system, and the Superintendent of Education as members of the Advisory Group, the legislation passed with little trouble...