Vineland & Operation Wipeout

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

"Zoyd had found a community living on borrowed time, as everyone watched 
the scope of CAMP crop-destruction effort growing without limit, season 
after season --- as more state and federal agencies came on board, as 
the grand jury in Eureka subpoenaed more and more citizens, as friendly 
deputies and secure towns one by one were neutralized, taken back under 
government control --- all wondering when it would be the turn of 
Holytail." (p. 220)

Since "Vineland" contains both, Hawaii & the Campaign Against Marijuana 
Planting (CAMP), I imagine that the islands must have been during 
Operation Wipeout a somehow privileged (though not necessarily 
comfortable) place for a first read. Anyone? //

*+ Operation Wipeout*was a cannabis eradication program by the United 
States'Drug Enforcement Agency 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_Enforcement_Agency>, begun in 1990 
and focused on destroying outdoor cannabis crops in Hawaii by aerial 
spraying ... +

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wipeout

"Each 747 in the Kahuna Airlines fleet had been gutted and refitted as a 
huge Hawaiian restaurant and bar, full of hanging island vegetation, 
nightclub chairs and tables instead of airplane seats, even a miniature 
waterfall. In-flight movies included HAWAII (1966), THE HAWAIIANS 
(1970), and GIDGET GOES HAWAIIAN (1961), among others. Zoyd was 
presented with a thick tattered fake book full of Hawaiian tunes, and on 
the lounge synthesizer, a Japanese make he'd heard of but never played, 
he found a ukulele option that would provide up to three orchestral 
sections of eight ukes each. It would take several flights across the 
Pacific Ocean and back before Zoyd felt easy with this by no means 
user-friendly instrument." (p. 62)