Dangerous conservatives
Dangerous conservatives
What is the greatest danger to peace and prosperity in our time?
If you look at some of the countries in the world with the most issues, you realize they have one common denominator.
The Ayatollahs in Iran are conservative. North Korea’s supreme leaders are conservative. The Taliban members are conservative. Al-Qaida members are conservative. ISIL members are conservative. Terrorists are conservative. Osama bin Laden was conservative.
George W. Bush was conservative; he ignored six warnings in the months leading up to 9/11, then let bin Laden run free for his whole presidency — until he was killed by a tree-hugging liberal.
March 2002: Bush (about bin Laden): “He’s just a person who’s been marginalized … I don’t know where he is. I really just don’t spend that much time on him, to be honest with you.”
Conservatives are a danger to every country in which they reside. They prove it every day, by their actions and by what they support. America will not prosper when we have a people whose ideology is more important than actual facts, common sense, ethics and progress toward civility for all.
We are being trained to look at Islam as being murderous, but the facts are that the Catholic Church was responsible for 20 to 60 million deaths throughout history. So, which is worse?
But they do have one thing in common: Both have been mostly run by conservatives.
They pretend to do one thing, but end up doing something else entirely.
When all the talking is finished, look at the results. That’s reality.
Dennis Chaquette
Keaau
Event will grow
The Hawaii Island Portuguese Chamber of Commerce would like to thank the many people who came out to enjoy their sharing of the Portuguese culture Sunday, Feb. 15, at Gilbert Carvalho Park.
Thanks to the tremendous coverage by the media and the “coconut wireless,” Portuguese Day in the Park was a tremendous success. Everyone was able to enjoy the Hawaii County Band’s Portuguese and other tunes, some got to search the ship manifests to see where and on what ship their ancestors came from, and bread fresh from the stone oven, along with Portuguese bean soup, was served to more than 500 people who stayed for the noon serving.
Last year, we went home with many food items that did not sell. The year, our members went home empty-handed but with full hearts. All goods sold out by 10:45 a.m.
Next year promises to be even better because there is a resurgence in our efforts to share our culture, even with a Portuguese cultural center on the horizon.
Stay tuned. There is much more to come.
Marlene Hapai
Vice president,
Hawaii Island Portuguese Chamber of Commerce