Alternative parties ADVERTISING Alternative parties The media tend to only cover the two larger political parties, and even then they dote over certain candidates while ignoring others, all the while ignoring entire political parties, such as the Libertarian, Green and
Alternative parties
The media tend to only cover the two larger political parties, and even then they dote over certain candidates while ignoring others, all the while ignoring entire political parties, such as the Libertarian, Green and Peace and Justice, to name a few.
(For a no longer updated list to see what political parties actually exist, although many in name only, visit www.politics1.com/parties.htm.)
With three or more parties in various levels of the Legislature, it could prove a somewhat more difficult task to hijack a government, which is essentially what is happening now.
Close to home, things got a little bit farther away from us, as senators who supported the general public, which obviously wasn’t the overall viewpoint of the Senate leadership, were overthrown from their chair positions in a bloodless coup d’etat, laughingly referred to as a reorganization.
Dave Kisor
Pahoa
Help this veteran
My very good friend is a retired veteran Air Force fighter pilot in his 80s. He has lived in Leilani Estates for more than 25 years. His car, an older Volkswagen Passat, was hijacked from him about a year ago.
He was at the Black Rock Cafe conversing with good mates, when a man approached him and asked for a lift home as he, too, “lived in Leilani.” He abused my friend’s trust by also lying he was a good friend of his son, by naming his son. As they got closer to my friend’s home, the con man asked if they could stop to say hello to his son. My friend went in to notify his son, and the culprit drove off with his car.
My friend, after notifying the police and digesting the betrayal, accepted the loss. What he misses is his aviation sunglasses he’s had for more than 40 years that were in the car! Hindsight suggests the heist was premeditated.
The driver conveniently vanished into probably a familiar dwelling in Leilani, and the car was mined for VW parts if not Passat parts.
I wonder if anyone in Leilani with a neighbor with an older Passat would put a copy of this letter in the mailbox of such, and ask they forward and/or return the aviation sunglasses to the police, the Veterans of Foreign Wars office in Hilo (biggest little post in the world) or the Black Rock Cafe. All these venues know my friend well.
‘Tis a long shot, and no one should feel affronted in their innocence if this letter should end up in their mailbox. Return the aviation sunglasses please, no questions asked.
Gerard Shea
Carmel Valley, Calif.
