After leaving health and social services as a means for gainful
income in 2006, Yukie Yamada lived and worked in rural areas
of Maui on properties designated "ag" properties.
A few of the property owners were able to establish a life apart
from the usual material trappings associated with land ownership.
Some of these property owners are absolutely of sound mind in
this choice, however, life in the jungle is hardly life in paradise.
With hostile policy enforcement tactics by the County of Maui
and speculation by the sort of folks who like to raise property
value because they are the only ones who could afford them,
these rural areas are the target of many drug/terror crimes.
Yukie found living and working on these lands a life of health
and spirit. Yet cultivating food on such properties was even
more harrowing to her safety than working in health and social
services where fraud, waste and abuse are a normalized way
of being. There is far too much profit for attorneys, property
owners, criminal defendants to cover-up crimes against those
who are committed to living drug-free.
