{"id":2011046,"date":"2023-08-24T16:20:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T20:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-lot-of-government-officials-should-be-going-to-prison-for-the-hawaii-fires\/"},"modified":"2023-08-24T16:23:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T20:23:17","slug":"a-lot-of-government-officials-should-be-going-to-prison-for-the-hawaii-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-lot-of-government-officials-should-be-going-to-prison-for-the-hawaii-fires\/","title":{"rendered":"Many government officials should be imprisoned for the Hawaii fires."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fa-lot-of-government-officials-should-be-going-to-prison-for-the-hawaii-fires%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2011046&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>If we had a functioning\u200c news media&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p>If we had a functioning news media, there\u2019s\u200d a video that would be leading every newscast right now. It has nothing to do with a plane \u200ccrash in Russia, a GOP primary debate, or even the indictment of every lawyer who\u2019s ever given Donald Trump \u2063legal advice, as important as all those topics may be. This video is about Americans \u2014 including children \u2014 who died horribly this\u2064 month. It\u2019s about how their deaths could have been prevented if \u200btheir government was even remotely competent.<\/p>\n<h3>The shocking truth about the \u2063fires in Maui<\/h3>\n<p>The footage I\u2019m talking about is an interview with a survivor of the fires \u2062in Maui. This interview was conducted not by \u2063CNN or NPR but by a real estate agent\u200c who moonlights as a citizen journalist. He spoke with a man who\u2064 goes by \u201cFish\u201d and survived the blaze in\u200d Lahaina. Here\u2019s what that man saw:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>He says, \u201cAll the\u200b cars were lined up, but none of them were moving. \u2026 And I was wondering what was stopping \u2064the\u2063 traffic. It was a policeman.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As incredible as that account may seem, it\u2019s clear now that it\u2019s accurate. \u2064There are now multiple witnesses saying the \u2062same thing. The Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hawaii-fires-timeline-maui-lahaina-road-block-c8522222f6de587bd14b2da0020c40e9\">reports<\/a> that, as residents of \u200done West Maui neighborhood\u2063 tried to\u200c flee using the only paved road in town, \u201ccar \u2063after car was turned back toward the rapidly spreading wildfire by\u200b a barricade blocking access to Highway 30.\u201d Supposedly, authorities were worried about downed power lines.\u2063 And there certainly were downed power lines. But the problem is that the other option \u2014 rather than navigating around that \u2064hazard \u2014 was to stay and\u2064 die in the blaze. It seems obvious which was the better choice, and\u2063 yet police tried to force the residents to stay put. Many people who listened and turned back ended up burning\u2063 to death in their cars. Others were forced to jump over\u200b the seawall and tread water while inhaling \u2063smoke. The\u200b people \u200dwho obeyed the authorities \u2063ended up dead, in many cases.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the \u200cpeople\u200b who ignored the authorities fared a lot better. \u200cAround 3 p.m., for example, a man named Nate \u200bBaird and his family tried to drive south out of town but found that \u2064the road was blocked\u200d by cones and crews \u201cworking on downed electric \u2064poles,\u201d\u200c according to the AP. That\u2019s when Baird decided to ignore what the work \u200ccrews told him. He drove around the cones, and his family traveled for about an hour until they reached safety.<\/p>\n<p>The article lists several other examples of \u2064people who are alive today because they ignored barricades and authorities\u2019\u200d instructions. One 38-year-old woman, Kim Cuevas-Reyes, ignored authorities\u2019 instructions to turn \u200ctowards the local \u2062civic center, which became an ad hoc shelter\u200c for refugees. Instead of doing that, the AP reported, \u201cshe takes a \u200cleft, \u200bdriving in the wrong lane\u2064 to pass\u200b a stack of cars heading in the other direction.\u201d That decision saved her life. \u201cThe gridlock would have left \u2062us there when the firestorm came,\u201d \u2063the woman said. \u201cI would have \u200bhad to tell my children to jump into the ocean as well and be \u200dboiled alive by the flames, or we would have just died from smoke inhalation\u2063 and roasted in the car.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t until several hours later that authorities announced\u200b that the road out of Lahaina was open for traffic. By that point, indeed, \u2063many\u2064 people on that\u2064 road, called Front Street,\u200c had burned to death in their cars or died of smoke inhalation.<\/p>\n<h3>Authorities&#8217; failure to plan and respond<\/h3>\n<p>How is it possible that authorities blocked off one of the only usable routes to safety during a \u2062wildfire? Given that \u2062officials in Hawaii were aware of the risk of wildfire \u2063for a long time, that\u2019s an excellent question. Last summer,\u200d in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaiianelectric.com\/documents\/about_us\/our_vision_and_commitment\/resilience\/20220630_resilience_EPRM_application.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">regulatory filings<\/a>, Hawaiian Electric made it clear that\u2062 the risk of deadly\u200d wildfires was real, especially during high winds. And yet, apparently, the plan for dealing with this\u200d kind \u200cof disaster didn\u2019t preclude\u200c sealing all the roads and trapping people in the middle of a wildfire.<\/p>\n<h4>WATCH: \u2064The Matt Walsh Show<\/h4>\n<p>If you \u200cthink back to Hurricane Katrina, one \u200cof the biggest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/blog\/hurricane-katrina-remembering-federal-failures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">failures<\/a> of FEMA was a lack of planning. The government ran evacuation simulations but didn\u2019t implement the necessary improvements after those \u200dsimulations. So,\u200b when the \u2064hurricane struck, there was chaos. A\u2064 lot of people died as a result. \u2063We\u2019re seeing that again. All these years later,\u2062 the same lack of preparation is causing people to die.<\/p>\n<p>The difference \u2062is that we aren\u2019t hearing much about FEMA in the aftermath of the catastrophe in Maui. Why is that? Deanne Criswell is the administrator of FEMA, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mauis-emergency-sirens-failed-to-alert-residents\/\" title=\"Maui's sirens failed to warn residents.\">federal\u2062 emergency management agency<\/a>. She\u200c has the same job Michael Brown did in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans. Brown,\u200b you might remember, became a household name in the wake of that disaster \u2014 and not in a good way. When George Bush told\u2062 Brown he was doing\u200d a \u201checkuva job,\u201d it instantly became a national scandal. Brown was\u200c so radioactive that no one was allowed to say anything nice about him.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Michael Brown, Deanne Criswell is not well-known. You probably haven\u2019t even heard her name. I\u200d didn\u2019t know it until I looked it up. Despite \u2063the ongoing disaster in Maui, the\u200d national news media and the major political parties \u2064in\u2063 Washington \u2063still hold her\u200b in high regard. Just the other day, she\u200c sat for a friendly interview on \u201cFace the Nation\u201d:<\/p>\n<p>The burned-out cars were the most shocking \u200cthing, \u200bsays the FEMA \u2062director. It was \u201clike an apocalyptic movie.\u201d There\u2019s no scrutiny from \u201cFace the Nation\u201d or any\u2063 media outlet about why those cars were stranded there in the first\u200c place. There wasn\u2019t a single question in that segment about\u200b why FEMA didn\u2019t have evacuation plans that might have ensured the \u2063survival of \u2063all those people.<\/p>\n<p>We <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/08\/23\/hawaiis-top-emergency-officials-were-on-another-island-while-maui-burned\/\">learned<\/a> yesterday that Hawaii\u2019s top emergency response officials were on another \u200bisland, supposedly learning how to\u2063 respond to wildfires, on the \u2064day the blaze began in Maui.\u200b And some key federal disaster officials were apparently busy at some\u200d FEMA meetings. What explains that? Again, we have no idea because no one is\u200b asking. Reporters are busy talking to Deanne Criswell, the FEMA director, like she\u2019s some bystander visiting Maui for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>This is the opposite of how the press treated Michael Brown\u2062 decades ago. It\u2019s not \u2062hard to see why \u200cthis might be. Deanne Criswell, unlike Michael Brown, is working for Democrats. She\u2019s also the first woman to run FEMA, \u2062so she\u2063 has the whole identity politics thing going for her. It \u2062would look very bad if the first woman to run FEMA is\u2064 also responsible\u2064 for bungling the response to one of the worst disasters in American history. Of course, no matter how it looks, that\u2019s exactly what happened. But the media has decided \u200bto plug its ears and close its eyes\u2062 and pretend it\u2019s not happening.<\/p>\n<p>But if you do what no major media outlet is interested in doing \u2014 if you look into Criswell\u2019s past \u2014 there\u2019s a lot to discuss. As \u2064investigative journalist Nick Sortor <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nicksortor\/status\/1694440357776535562\">pointed out<\/a> the other day, Criswell\u2019s government biography states that \u201cone\u2062 of her most significant accomplishments was leading the coordination of [New York City\u2019s] \u2064 response to the COVID-19\u200b pandemic\u201d\u200c when she served as \u2062the Commissioner \u200cof the New York City Emergency Management Department.<\/p>\n<p>New York\u2019s handling of COVID led to more than 10,000 deaths in nursing homes \u2014 deaths that were <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/new-york-nursing-home-coronavirus-deaths-a6c214f4467976efdfca9ba75f8adaef\">undercounted<\/a> for several months until <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-lot-of-government-officials-should-be-going-to-prison-for-the-hawaii-fires\/\" title=\"Many government officials should be imprisoned for the Hawaii fires.\">investigative reporters noticed discrepancies<\/a> in the government\u2019s data.\u200c In most countries, everyone overseeing a response like that would never\u2064 work\u200d again \u2063in any capacity, much less in disaster relief. They\u2019d go to prison for life, if anything. But Deanne Criswell was never even criticized. \u2063In fact, she got \u2064a promotion. Ten thousand deaths in nursing\u200d homes, and she gets promoted. And then, overseeing yet \u2064another failed disaster response, she gets softball questions from every news outlet.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s astonishing, really. We\u2019ve seen our public \u2064health authorities and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/facebook-ceo-zuckerberg-praised-bidens-executive-orders-leaked-video\/\" title=\"Facebook CEO Zuckerberg Praised Biden\u2019s Executive Orders: Leaked Video\">political leaders lead<\/a> us\u2062 into one disaster\u200b after another. And they\u2019re not slowing down. Right now, because it\u2019s an election\u200c year and Pfizer stock is in trouble, the media is gearing up for COVID 2.0. Several major corporations\u200b and some universities are already implementing mask\u2062 mandates again. Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Along these lines, CNN just\u2063 published an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/08\/23\/health\/masks-covid-surge-wellness\/index.html\">article<\/a> entitled, \u201cIt may\u200d be time to break out the masks against Covid, some experts say.\u201d The report scolds Americans\u2063 for not being \u200dsufficiently deferential to people with advanced degrees and positions of power. \u201cDespite \u2064the \u200dconcern among experts and some institutions, Americans don\u2019t appear to\u2064 be worried enough about the recent rise in cases to change their behavior. Covid-19 was at the bottom of their list of key public health threats, according to the latest\u200d Axios [poll].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not hard to see why Americans are reacting that way. The first time around,\u2062 more than three years ago, the conventional wisdom was that if you wanted to survive, your best bet was to trust the experts. \u2064Then \u200cthe experts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2020\/06\/04\/public-health-protests-301534\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> \u200dyou could protest \u200bfor BLM but couldn\u2019t protest against lockdowns. They <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2020\/12\/25\/fauci-goalposts-herd-immunity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">admitted<\/a> they were\u2062 lying about \u2063herd immunity. They <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/changing-america\/well-being\/546234-cdc-reverses-statement-by-director-that-vaccinated-people-are-no\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">misled everyone<\/a> on the effectiveness of \u200cthe COVID shot. No \u200done really trusts \u200cthese \u2062experts anymore, for good reason.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s encouraging, but the truth is, it\u2019s not enough. A lot of people just died in Maui\u2063 because officials \u2063forcibly\u2062 blockaded them. The\u200b government and the \u201cexperts\u201d prevented these American citizens from leaving their neighborhood as\u200d a wildfire approached \u200dthem. The only way to survive was not simply to doubt but to disobey.\u200c When the next lockdown comes, whether the pretext is a COVID variant, a climate emergency, or something else \u2014 that\u2019s the correct response. Do what Nate Baird did on Maui. Ignore the \u200dliars calling themselves experts. Do what you think is \u2064best for yourself and your\u2063 family, and do it fast. Otherwise, quicker than you might think, you\u2019ll be trapped. By that point, like \u2064the people of Maui, you\u2062 will have no way out. Because the fact is that, increasingly, we live in a country where only those who disobey will \u200bsurvive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\">CLICK HERE TO \u2064GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video of utmost importance would dominate news headlines if our media was effective. 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