OBAMA-BACKED HAWAII OFFICIAL REFUSED TO RELEASE MAUI WATER TO HELP FIGHT WILDFIRE BECAUSE OF HIS ENVIRONMENTAL VIEWS

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An Obama-supported Hawaiian state official has been “reassigned” after
allegedly refusing to transfer water resources that would have helped
firefighters battle the Maui wildfires.

His reason?

He’s an environmentalist and believes that water should only be used in
certain situations. Yes, that’s right – in recent years there’s been a
debate in Hawaii about whether additional water resources should be
used – even to fight wildfires.

If it sounds crazy, it is. But welcome to 2023 where nothing makes
sense. Agendas take precedence over any and all logic. Meanwhile,
innocent people literally die.

According to CivilBeat, Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources
(DLNR) deputy director M. Kaleo Manuel balked at Maui firefighters and
various entities’ requests to open up reservoirs and streams as
wildfires raged out of control. Firefighters pleaded to the DLNR that
they had used all the on-hand water and were desperate for any help
whatsoever.

Manuel, who is in charge of water resources for the Hawaiian islands,
delayed their request.

Hawaiian official M. Kaleo Manuel refused to release water in
Maui as the fire ragedManuel is deputy director of the
Department of Land and Natural Resources

Here he is explaining that water should be revered,
not used:
pic.twitter.com/iZ6PvghwqN

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FIREFIGHTERS WERE DESPERATE FOR ANY AND ALL WATER
Instead, Manuel wanted a formal request given to one of the land owners
that used it for agricultural purposes. And this, my friends, is
exactly why governmental bureaucracy is the absolute worst. As
firefighters are fighting for their and their neighbors’ lives, this
bureaucrat hack wanted a written proposal. I wouldn’t be shocked if he
wanted it in Times New Roman, size 12 font, double spaced just to
really assert his governmental authority.

The request eventually went through, but by then it was too late. Over
100 people have perished, with hundreds still missing and Maui will
never be the same.

But the more we learn about Kaleo Manuel, the more we find out just
_why_ he was so stubborn in his refusal.

MANUEL CHOSE THE ENVIRONMENT OVER LIVES
As more reports came out regarding Manuel’s absurd denial of Maui
residents water request, a previous video interview he did discussing
DNLR’s position regarding water rights started to be shared across
social media.

According to his own words, Manuel believes that “water should be
revered, not used…” The way I interpret it, that means Manuel believes
the environment is more important than individual lives. And this is
the guy that was not only backed by former President Barack Obama, but
was given a role as a deputy director!

“We’ve become used to looking at water as something that we use, and
not something that we revere…We can reconnect to that traditional value
set,” he continued.

“I think that where water has shifted to today and over time is that
we’ve become used to looking at water as ‘something in which we use,’
and not something that we revere in that thing that gives us life,”
Manuel said during the interview.

“To me, it’s a shift in value set. And ya know, if we can start to look
at how we as humans on an island can reconnect to the traditional value
set… let water connect us, not divide us.”

Talk about an Old Takes Exposed quote.

MAUI RESIDENTS STILL MISSING
As of this morning, Manuel has been “reassigned” from his role as
deputy director. How he has not stepped down out of sheer embarrassment
is just wild to me. It reminds me of the refusal of the Uvalde Police
Chief who refused to give the order to enter the classroom waiting
months to resign.

On Monday, Hawaii Governor Josh Green didn’t call out Manuel by name
but did encourage the media to look into the water rights fight that is
happening across the Hawaiian islands and the environmentalist, climate
change arguments about it and what effect that had on why the wildfires
were able to burn out of control.

Meanwhile, many Maui residents are downright angry at the delay in
water and can you really blame them? When you have something as massive
and as dangerous as a wildfire, it should be all hands on deck. Leave
the politics and your personal activist agendas out of the way, and do
what needs to be done. There’s plenty of time afterwards to deal with
governmental procedure.

Unfortunately, once again it appears the government failed us. Only
this time it led to a historically horrible disaster.

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Let's go Brandon!