Hypocrisy?
What are our representatives up to? Consider that Richard Creagan, along with two other representatives, considered that no one under 100 years of age should be able to purchase cigarettes. We, as freedom-loving individuals, should be pleased that it never made it into law.
As much as I am against smoking, and would never consider partaking of smoking anything, how, under what reasoning, can anyone dictate how another adult conducts their lives? If I am against sugar, perhaps we should also make the same argument pertaining to the purchase (and use) of this sweet product.
Maybe the Libertarian candidate in the last state election is correct when he proclaimed that as adults, you can do whatever you wish with your own person or property, provided you don’t infringe on the person or property of another nonconsenting adult.
What a hypocrite Creagan is. He even admitted to smoking during his younger days. Would he have been in favor of giving up his smokes then?
Creagan, as a politician — oops, doctor — knows firsthand the negative effects of excess consumption of certain pharmaceuticals. Yet, he doesn’t propose a certain age to purchase them. But, like every other politician, he believes that a law is good for everyone, except them.
Why not also require a person to be in the same age group (at least 100) to purchase alcohol? We take away their driver’s license if they are caught driving impaired. The impact of that law is utterly ridiculous; it just makes it harder to cash a check!
We as adults must take responsibility for our own actions. But does Rep. Creagan think that’s a good solution? Not when we can legislate an alternative.
Michael L. Last
Na‘alehu
‘One good guy’
It was with great sadness to learn that Elroy Osorio Sr. has died.
I met Elroy when I served on the Hawaii County Council with him. He was a true gentleman, with that awesome smile.
He never had a bad thing to say about anybody. I don’t think he had ever met a person he did not like. He was a good listener and genuinely wanted to help people.
He won and lost many elections, but never harbored any ill will to his opponents. Once you met Elroy, you felt like he was always your friend for years. We locals would say: “Elroy, he was one good guy; we going miss him.”
Jimmy Arakaki
Hilo