Kurt Butler's Plea to Hawaii State Legislators
September 25, 2022 Dear Senator ………… The issue I address in this letter should be one of the most important for the 2023 legislative session. If the incidents recounted here don’t make your blood boil, ask your doctor if you still have a heart. I learned the hard way that Hawaii law does not adequately protect, defend and advocate for crime victims. Here I illustrate the problem with real cases in which I was the victim. Case #1 . I was lawfully demonstrating (holding a sign, offering flyers), peacefully and quietly, on a public sidewalk next to the parking lot of a “health food” store in Kahului. My sign and my flyers objected to the store owners’ claims, in radio infomercials, that their pills can cure and prevent essentially all diseases, including advanced cancers and HIV/AIDS. They also rail against all vaccinations. As a retired professional nutritionist (MS from UH), I felt an obligation to blow the whistle on the scammers since the state health department refused to r