Reduce crime
Reduce crime
President Donald Trump’s proposed ban on Muslim countries entering the U.S. is reminiscent of what happened to the Japanese community in Hawaii after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
The Japanese were listed as “enemy aliens.” I can understand his concern for protecting America from terrorists, but if an act of terrorism was committed by people from places such as North Korea or other anti-American countries not listed on Trump’s current terrorism list, are we also going to start banning them, too?
We currently have enough terrorists in our own country who cause atrocities against their own fellow U.S. citizens. They are called criminals.
Let’s start with cleaning up America’s streets of robbers, carjackers, road-ragers, child abductors, gangsters, druggies, thieves, elderly abusers and scam artists. They definitely are the front-line terrorists here.
Make America safe again.
Rick LaMontagne
Hilo
A great idea
State Sen. Karl Rhoads and state Rep. Chris Lee would like to see presidential candidates release their tax returns, in the interest of transparency, and to look for possible conflicts of interest.
Excellent idea! Now, would they like to introduce a similar bill to extend this to all senators and representatives in the state of Hawaii, as well as the U.S. senators and representatives from Hawaii?
The corruption in our one-party state could then be exposed!
Be careful what you ask because it might come back to haunt you someday.
Pradeepta Chowdhury
Hilo
Insurgents? Really?
Last Friday’s article, “U.S. soldiers train for jungle warfare,” referred to the U.S. having battled “Filipino insurgents” after 1898.
An insurgent is a “person who revolts against civil authority or an established government” (Merriam-Webster).
In 1899, the U.S. was an invading military force, rather than an established government of the Philippines, our “purchase” of the Philippines from Spain notwithstanding.
More than 100 years later, the language of this article unwittingly reinforces colonialist and military presumption.
Katie Friday
Hilo