• Quitter • Vote for equality and respect • Our furry friends • Just say no to Blood and Gore Quitter Dear editor: Your editorial about Congressman Neil Abercrombie was direct, to the point and brutal. (“Nobody likes a quitter,”
• Quitter • Vote for equality and respect • Our furry friends • Just say no to Blood and Gore
Quitter
Dear editor: Your editorial about Congressman Neil Abercrombie was direct, to the point and brutal. (“Nobody likes a quitter,” In Our Opinion, Jan. 24)
In his defense, it seems Congressman Neil Abercrombie admired Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to such an extent that he wanted to mimic her departure from elected office.
President Obama has adopted much of President Bush’s policies so Congressman Neil Abercrombie’s Sarah Palin imitation is not that far-fetched. Of course it’s that 22 percent approval rating of the job Congress is doing that he is escaping also.
Basically, he transfers his participation in Congressional bungling to Hawai‘i if elected.
Joel Whitley, Lihu‘e
Editor’s note: The following letter was submitted before the state House of Representatives voted Friday to indefinitely postpone HB 444.
Vote for equality and respect
From the budget cuts and furlough Fridays for our kids to Ag department cutbacks and human services reduced for the needy, our state is in such a state. Never has solid leadership been needed as much as today.
Critical issues surround us and your decisions affect our community in so many ways; Rep. James Tokioka’s leadership in the house and in the party is being called upon to act wisely, courageously and decisively on today’s challenges. The issue of granting equal rights to committed couples ranks on par with the greatest issues of our time.
I ask you, Rep. Tokioka, to vote in favor of HB 444 and insure equal rights for domestic partners and to gay and lesbian couples who would like affirm their commitment and dedication to each other and be acknowledged by our public civic institutions. These rights are afforded to me and my wife; why should they be denied to my brother and his lifelong partner ?
Please consider that this issue is front and center all over the good ol’ U.S. of A. You are poised to help usher in a new era of equal rights and justice here and abroad. By voting in favor HB 444 you will stand with those who have been persecuted, shamed and abused for loving someone: their partner.
This issue is beyond the often hypocritical view of the church, its members of the cloth and their congregation whose outmoded beliefs are similar to those who felt that second-class citizens exist solely to serve the elite and upper echelon or that women should not have the right to vote.
Fear and deceit are the tools of oppression and have been used to flame the wicked fires of ignorance, bigotry and hatred.
Rep. Tokioka, please stand with your brothers and sisters, your kupuna and island ‘ohana who recognize that history is before us and your support of HB 444 will be recorded as a time when you stepped up to the challenge of leadership and the burden of responsibility.
Let your vote of support for HB 444 be a statement of your belief in the human values of equal rights and justice for all. Somewhere it is written, “that all people are created equal and that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness…”
Rep. Tokioka, please, do the right thing.
James Trujillo, Kapa‘a
Our furry friends
I am absolutely appalled that the man who had nine emaciated dogs only has to spend a total of 30 days in jail. Is that supposed to teach this man a lesson? (“30 days in jail for man with 9 emaciated dogs,” The Garden Island, Jan. 29)
The Garden Island states that Blaine Jacintho has already been arrested eight times and some for abuse. I think it’s time for people to stand up for our four-legged furry friends and look around and see how mistreated they are all over the island, being left outside on chains in the wind, rain, and heat.
If one can say that dogs don’t have feelings or a soul then they are the ones themselves without a good soul.
Kailey Martin, Kilauea
Just say no to Blood and Gore
Al Gore (former vice president) and David Blood (former CEO of Goldman Sachs) want you to pay carbon taxes to them to fund their authoritarian, totalitarian agenda.
This is simply what the global warming scam is about, a carbon tax on breathing. I guess the Gore worshipers believe the sun has nothing to do with the climate of the planet.
The goal for this agenda is global governance and depopulation. One way to depopulate is starvation through carbon taxation. Sounds like genocide to me.
Thank God people are waking up and speaking out against the largest scientific fraud in history, taking action and standing up for the right of humanity to live free, and breath free.
Lori Patch, Kilauea
