A Little Here A Little There

Terry appears like any other homeless person hanging out in at the KTA shopping center, Kailua Kona Hawaii. He sits at the food court with his assortment of plastic bags at times sleeping, at other times with his feet on top of the table (He is the only person allowed this privilege). When people approach him he will talk with most people unless they are homeless like himself. Often he will scheme with the shopping center employees to chase the other homeless people away. Terry finds work at a business doing odd jobs, Terry drags out the work hoping to get forty hours in (all the other Mormon's I have meet believe in giving honest output at work), the owners hire him out of charity, they don't need him. It is this work, provided out of pity that makes Terry in his esteem better than the other homeless people that he refuses to even recognize.

Terry threatens homeless people with his connections, telling other homeless people how he is going to make it rough for people who cross him. This is normal with homeless people, illusions of grandeur. Except Terry also Lords it over the other members of his church. These people show Terry extreme difference. It appears that Terry has some stature within the Mormon church. This stature certainly was not gained by being a exemplary example of His Faith.

In contrast is a homeless woman called Rainbow she works hard collecting cans that can be redeemed at five cents a pop, When the workers at the KTA shopping center see her coming they will rush to empty all the cans before Rainbow can collect any cans, At Terrys urging. Why do the people of the Mormon church treat each differently. All Rainbow is trying to do is collect some cans to exchange for food. She is one of the people that Terry schemes to make life difficult for. Terry gleams with delight at the thought of a bulldozer coming to demolish Her camp. Terry calls Rainbow a snail, she is one of the last holdouts from his harassment.

I have come to the conclusion that Terry is mentally ill, demonstrated by the meanness it takes to ignore people who are under his station, I can't understand the Mormon's enabling of this behavior from one of it's members, especially a member with higher standing. The only difference between Terry and Rainbow is that his work is provided by charity and Rainbows work is self gained, and she does put in a honest day's effert, she is a better person in that she doesn't harass those who can least fend for themselves. All this occurs under the gaze of the Mormon Angel on top of a Mormon Temple in Kailua Kona Hawaii..