Huge tent city takes root in Hawaii

[zeitgeist]

 OBAMA-VILLE 

Huge tent city takes root
Homeless camps cover 50 acres, from Waipio Point, around Middle Loch to Pearl City

By Dan Nakaso


POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Jun 27, 2010

WAIPAHU » Pastor Joe Hunkin picked his way around rusted car axles, propane tanks and two-by-fours studded with bent nails to find a homeless encampment where people have been cooking and sleeping directly behind Waipahu High School, in an area that received unwanted national attention this month.
Hunkin walked past a pit bull puppy and peered over a makeshift shelter of tents and tarp hidden by koa haole and elephant grass, then pointed toward the high school's athletic complex barely a football field away.
"The school is right over there," Hunkin said last week. "This isn't right."
The strip of land is bounded by Waipahu High School on one side and the calming waters of Pearl Harbor's Middle Loch on the other, where the Navy's mothball fleet sits idle. It's the most visible portion of an enormous homeless encampment that stretches five miles over approximately 50 acres of city, Navy and state land that serpentines around Waipio Point Access Road, the Ted Makalena Golf Course and the city's Waipio Soccer Complex and back down to Pearl City in the opposite direction, said Beth Chapman, who uncharacteristically lost a suspect in the swampy brush last year after five straight days of searching the area with her husband, Duane "Dog" Chapman, and their bounty hunting family.
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Herbert Obama?   

[vesta111]

OBAMA-VILLE 


Herbert Obama?   

Say Zeit, do you mean as in Hoover Villas ????  Camping on the White House lawn demanding their promised Bonus money, on the shore of NYC living in the city dumps.?

It is difficult to imagine the the changes that have taken place in the last 35 years to that neck of the woods .

This is history repeating itself on a different level.  Back in the early 1970's the big Island had much the same problem Oahu has today.

The poor folk on the Main Land saved their nickles and dimes and by hook or crook got up the airfair for one way tickets for them and family and headed for the Big Island.

They traveled light bringing little clothing just tools they would need to survive in the Jungle.  Way back in the Jungle it was difficult for the police to find them, they built shelters from the rainy season with bamboo poles and banana leaves for a roof.

They planted their cash crop that in a few years became Hawaii Wowie, made the horrid concoxion from coconut milk, one gulp and out you went They made those Pukka necklaces so popular at the time from shells found on the beaches---sold them on the side of the road to tourists.

Nights they foraged around the towns like bears at a city dump, a few learned to carve driftwood with tiki symbols and the tourists went wild over them.  These young artists were able to eventually move into town and start their own business

The only fear they had was the chance of becoming ill, getting an infection and needing medical for themselves or their family.

Quite the life back then for the hippies, but eventually greed drove them out and back home to Daddy, collage and the very life they had despised and ran from.

I would think these new settlements are not quite like the old ones, few go there by choice,  this must be the end of the road for most of them.

However if one must be homeless, I can think of no where else on earth I would want to go to then the Islands.

[mamacags]

From the pictures it looks like the illegals camps near the Mexico boarder.  Just a big pile of shit someone else is going to have to get every vaccine known to mankind to clean up.

[Chris_]

I thought this was a story about Tent City, like Sheriff Joe has in Maricopa County.

[zeitgeist]

I thought this was a story about Tent City, like Sheriff Joe has in Maricopa County.

Maybe Obie will pull a little something out of his stash to help the homeless in his second home, you think?

Wait, maybe this is a plot by Boosh and KKKarl to make America's first Bi-racial President look bad??  Homeless in the Hawaii hood?  How bad is that?? 

Vesta, I knew you would get a kick out of this seeing you have always had a Peter Pan about being homeless in Hawaii.  Wonder how many of them are Howlies??

Does Bobo the hobo know about this? 

[vesta111]

From the pictures it looks like the illegals camps near the Mexico boarder.  Just a big pile of shit someone else is going to have to get every vaccine known to mankind to clean up.

We had this problem before I moved to Hawaii in 1970,   When a ship or boat changes home port the dependents are sent free to to the new home port.  For Hawaii the dependents needed inoculations up the Ying Yang.

I however married my Hubby after the home port had been changed so all moving expenses were placed on us.   My 4 year old daughter contacted impetigo after 3 months and instead of breaking out on the skin went inward to make her look like she had mumps. [ or so the Navy doctors told me ]


I had never seen this disease before I hit the Islands and the kids that contactacted it had this purple stuff on their face.  I called my Mom and she told me that that disease was common when she was a kid but she had not seen it in 35 years.   She had never heard of the disease going inward and told me not to let my daughter go barefoot into mud puddles or the Apt. complex swimming pool.

To make matters worse on the outskirts of Pearl City there was a leper's
conclave that I thought was a public park and visited every week or so.  

A year after landing on Oahu I gave birth to a baby boy,  we were due to come back to the Main Land in 4 months and I asked the Navy Doctors about the chances of us contacting Leprosy from being around the colony.  The laughed at me and said that disease takes 20 years to incubate and not to worry.

If this tent city is filled with native Islanders, no problem, the problem will come from outsiders that may carry diseases that are foreign to to the population.

[vesta111]

Maybe Obie will pull a little something out of his stash to help the homeless in his second home, you think?

Wait, maybe this is a plot by Boosh and KKKarl to make America's first Bi-racial President look bad??  Homeless in the Hawaii hood?  How bad is that?? 

Vesta, I knew you would get a kick out of this seeing you have always had a Peter Pan about being homeless in Hawaii.  Wonder how many of them are Howlies??

Does Bobo the hobo know about this? 

When I first got there they schools still had a " Kill a Howlie Day"


I just have one child who is a blond, blue eyed Kanaka, Island born.

I do remember this children's program that had this huge Man that spoke the broken English of  the time.  I also remember that 3 Chanel's on the TV were from Japan.

 Oh yes, the days before satellite TV everything from the Main Land was one week too late.  Frustrating to watch the Thanksgiving Parade 7 days after it had happend.

Then the constant sound of planes taking off from Hickem flying overhead day and night.

My most impression of Hawaii was the smoke rising from the burning of the cane fields, and the security that Dole had at that time to protect their Pinapple fields.