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The Flying Calend Page 11 Karamazov ar Brothers PageB ·H O N O L U L U Letters-2 Hero-9 Life in Hell-10 Quintero's Volume 2, Number 41, October 7, 199 2 Cuisine�t5 lllelllking Island Festival celebratesart Ill DI storytelling ,; ,, Shortly after its founding in 1979, FEMA became the Reaganaut catchall for right wing kookery, part of a massive paranoid planning apparatus designed to pQt down urban insurgency. By James Ridgeway Page 3 Letters HONOL ULU Taking exception Bribeless band list with the experts Thanks forthe great music listing MajorB�tailer1s Half ..Year Sale column - so complete, and you don't Regarding Julia Steele's article on Vol. 41 the Honolulu Community-Media even have to pay "bribe money." 2, No. October 7, 199 2 Nov 5-8 $499 pp dbl. Council's evaluation of local Bruce Greenwood Inludes: Round trip Airfare television news ("And That's the Chuck's in Mililani Way It Is," HW,9/16): I must concur Publisher and Managing 3 nts. 1st class hotel Editor Laurie V. Carlson '* with Kent Baker's assessment of the Deluxe City Tour Senior Editor Julia Steele * self-professed Mainland experts - Arts & Calendar Editor *� Transfers, Tax who really cares what a bunch of Bad signs Derek Ferrar burned-outMainland news directors I understand that political Calendar: think of our localnewscasts anyway? candidates must find some way, Associate Editor: Matt Uiagalelei As a frequent traveler to the preferably cost-free, to advertise Contributing Editor: John W. White Film Critic: Bob Green Mainland, I have the opportunity to their names to potential voters. And Theater Critic: Karyn Koeur view many newscasts in various sign-waving is the way to go in Contributing Writers sized metropolitanareas. I can think Hawaii. But please, can't they stand Cecil Adams, Tom Keogh, Karyn Koeur, James Ridgeway, of no Mainland newscast I've seen back at least one footfrom the curb? Grady Timmons that is substantially better than what And not stick their heads out into CopyKathy Editor Luter Reimers we have here in Honolulu (though I traffic?Or wave in your face as you Art Director Bud Linschoten have seen worse). I think we are tryto make a right-hand turn?These Production fortunate to have television stations selfish idiots are blocking Isabella Forster, Sam Kim that produce a decidedly local-style crosswalks, sidewalks and major Cartoonists Matt Groening, Slug Signorino newscast that we, as local people, thoroughfares. They're lucky some Contributing Illustrator can relate to. I happen to appreciate madman doesn't finallysnap and go Peggy Chun and enjoy the unique, comfortable, ballistic by running them down. Contributing Photographer down home, accuratenews anchoring Maybe then they'd realize there are Brian Reed and sports reporting of Joe Moore, other people around, like Administrative Support Catharine Gregory Dan Cooke, Leslie Wilcox, Howard pedestrians, joggers, children and Advertising Dashefsky, Rob Fukuzaki, Robert drivers. Leo Geensen, Donovan Slack Kekaula and others. For sure they Most of them don't even pay A Member of!he Associationof may not be national material, but attention to the people they are e Alternative these are people who knowHawaii, supposed to connect with. They Newsweeklies 11/.2. lto1,1r1'!tstr1,1ctlo11 and we know them, and we like yawn, talk among themselves and ISSN #l057-414X them. sometimes give you dirty looks Entire contents © 1992 by � Honolulu Weekly, Inc. 1'!td1,1d!'!tg4 lto1,1r1,1se ofetJ,_.1,1!f ment. LarryHeim while they wave with limp-wristed, All rights reserved. lackluster apathy. One guy actually Manuscripts should be accompanied by had his head turned to his friend, a self-addressedstamped envelope: $55 for1 P1rao11 Honolulu Weeklyassumes no responsi and he was yawning as he stuck his bilityfor unsolicited material. $?:5 for 2 P61ple hand in front of my field of vision. Subscription rates: Six months $35. Twinkle, twinkle, One year $50. \ --d) little Weekly Then the hand passed in frontof the next victim behind me. It's all 1200 College Walk, Suite 212 155-A� Hamakua ---= � Drive • Kailua, Hawaii96734 While readingthrough your article Honolulu, Hawaii 96817 (808) 262-6068 • FAX(808) 263-9723 highlighting'The Arts of Pall" (HW, automatic, robotic, empty telephone: 808 528-1475 9/16), I once again had the movement ... like most of the opportunity to thank my lucky stars politicians themselves. for the Honolulu Weekly. While I Carol Banks Weber Wanna Hear A Secret? have been able to collect a fair percentage of issues over the past 15 months at my neighborhood Your employees know all about distribution point (also my favorite drugs, theft, vandalism and other ice cream parlor!), I have missed several. Honestly, I only picked it up thingsyou can't affordto ignore. thistime to double-checkthat Kapena The Honolulu Weekly welcomes You need a hotline that is confidential, was playing at Malia's on Sunday. your letters. Write to: Editor, Honolulu Weekly, 1200 College availabletoll free day or night, Imaginemy distressat having almost missed the preliminary note about Walk, Suite 212, Honolulu, HI ar;id provided by Hawaii's pre··. 'ev the Spin Doctors possibly coming to 96817. You must include your name, address and telephone number PlI,?lqyee m1sconduct investigatio, d�a.J/!S11Si town (please?)! Enclosed is a check. � Please sign me up. Your subscription (only your name will be printed). 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Giuffrida's SWAT was offi Selection Sate Federal Emergency cially baptizedlive on TV in 1978, MADRASP.,t:d- m $2.7�/�ft, • Management Agency that when it rained so many bullets into MWRA.S Gold- : lQt $2-7'5!:Jq�jt; • followed Hurricanes the Symbionese LiberationArmy's TIBETSand - bi:Qwns,& beiges $2.95/sqift. • Andrew and Iniki is noth suburbanL.A. hideout that the place BLACK CLOUD - black $3.40/sq.ft. • ing new to the arm of the Top management caughtfire, killing Patty He arst'skid • governmentin chargeof dis nappersand burningthe house to the • ground. 40 North School Street, Honoluu,l Hawaii 96817 • aster relief.Similar charges of incom- is regarded ... as • 533-2220 • petence were leveled at the agency Meese and Giuffrida engaged in •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• in 1989 after Hurricane Hugo and earlymban counterinsurgency efforts. the San Francisco earthquake and, a "turl,ey farm" One scheme, code-named Cable most recently, afterthe Los Angeles Splicer, was a strategyfor using the riots. If FEMA has been slow to militaryand NationalGuard to quell respond to the victims of Andrew for Bush-favored civil disturbances. Another of their and Iniki, that's in largepart because ideas, ProjectSafer California,sought under Reagan and Bush, the agency nincompoops to manage political protest by sus has become a slime pit of contract pending due process and authoriz cronyism. ing mass arrests, mass trials and Shortly afterits foundingin 1979, preventivedetention. Project Search FEMAbecame the Reaganaut catch some cases ... downright gossip and envisioned a national data bank of COFFEE MANOA all forright-wing kookery, partof a hallway speculation." arrest records. massive paranoid planning appara When Reagan was elected, Meese MANOA MARKETPLACE • HONOLULU , HAWAII tus designedto put down mbaninsur omestic counterinsurgency brought Giuffridato Washington to gency. While the staffof the agency was a long-standing preoc run FEMA.Once in office,Giuffrida A place to unwind ...relax ... CoIIect scattered thou�hts. is well respected, the top manage cupation of both Ronald rewrote executive orders to give ment is regarded,in the words of a Reagan and his top aide FEMAauthority over all other fed Visit with friends ...A place with �ood coffee and tea. House Appropriations Committee Edwin Meese fromtheir ear eral agencies in timesof nationalcri An espresso bar with sweet treats... The place to be. report released just two months ago, liest days of fightingantiwar sis -and, in theprocess, downgrading as a "turkey farm"for Bush-favored protestersin the late 1960s. concernfor hurricanes and earth Live music Tuesdays from 7 -9 pm. No cover. nincompoops. FEMAcurrently has The prospectof domesticprotest, not quakes in order to lay plans forhan Open 7 days a week.