Arrest dogs’ owners
Three kupuna attacked by vicious dogs in Hawaiian Paradise Park (Tribune-Herald, Aug. 17), and Capt. Scott Amaral wants to hear the dogs’ side of the story?
Given the age of the victims and their injuries, sounds like attempted murder by the dogs’ owner. Dogs do not become vicious, aggressive people-attackers overnight. The owner knew the dogs are dangerous and did not confine them.
Loose dogs that attack people are the same as loaded guns left lying around.
Talk to the people who live in the area. Many times, there have been previous aggressive incidents involving the same dogs that were not reported because the victims are afraid of the owner as well as the dogs.
The owner needs to be arrested and the dogs destroyed. Anything less is criminal neglect by the police who are supposed to be protecting us.
L. E. Goldstein
Keaau
‘Such hypocrisy’
“I’ll be signing an executive order that will limit social gatherings, effective immediately,” Gov. David Ige said in a recent tweet.
Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, George Clooney, Jennifer Hudson, Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Bradley Cooper, Don Cheadle, Gabrielle Union, Dwyane Wade, Bruce Springsteen, Erykah Badu, Steven Colbert (who claims he wasn’t even there but showed up in pictures) and John Kerry, who make up Obama’s closest friends, right? All in attendance without masks or social distancing at President Obama’s birthday bash Aug. 7.
Doesn’t sound like they were concerned about COVID.
But we peons have to wear a mask and social distance everywhere we go — and it is about to get worse.
How do you explain such hypocrisy?
It also happened with Lollapalooza and Sturgis. For the uninformed, Lollapalooza in Chicago — with over 100,000 in attendance, was a small blip on the radar in the “news,” but the Sturgis event — with over 1,000 participants, was blasted as a super-spreader event.
How do you explain such hypocrisy?
I could go on with multiple examples of this hypocrisy, but I’ll save the verbiage for the question of why journalists ignore this hypocrisy and continue to push a narrative?
My guess is that it has to do with people wanting to hang on to their jobs rather than standing for ethics and integrity. You’ll also find this in the science and research community, who push the narrative rather than break rank.
When someone breaks rank and dares question the hypocrisy, their careers can be ruined. This has happened to many including Dolores Cahill, Kary Mullis and Joseph Arthur.
These are legitimate concerns that should be aired — but no. Will this editorial be printed in an upcoming edition? If not, this will further my points made here. Here’s hoping it gets published.
Chris Santos
Pahoa