Letters | 3-9-15

Our justice system is questionable

What is the country coming to?

I just read two stories today, one on the West Hawaii Today website and the other on the Yahoo News site. And I must say, the Democrat politicians, lawmakers and judges of the world are losing their minds. I mean really, think about the following.

You have a diver who is committing no crime whatsoever. By fishing for yellow tang fish in the ocean, which he has every right to do, no matter what the reason he was fishing for them. And out of nowhere comes an intruder from another island to harass him for supposedly endangering the yellow tang fish. Really? Have these tree hugging morons noticed how many of these fish there are out there? Obviously not.

Now back to the injustice. The fisherman, not knowing the other two divers’ intent, attempts to defend himself by pulling the mask off of the real assailant. And he ends up being charged with second-degree terroristic threatening? And is actually found guilty and sentenced for it. Are you kidding me? I think we need to rewrite the Homeland Security Act, so it would only allow the federal government to be able to file a terrorist charge against someone. Because as you can see, the Democrats of the county took this law and ran with it, by creating bogus statutes that allow a man defending himself to be charged as if he were a terrorist, which, allowing the powers that be to do so, is a crime in itself. And the really sad part about this entire issue, these “lawmakers” wouldn’t know a terrorist if he jumped up and gave them a “Gibbs Slap” on the back of the head.

The second story I read goes right along the same lines: injustice. This article was about a 15-year-old boy who, yes I will admit, gave in for whatever reason, and did something not too smart, but was the crime he was charged with justified? No. His crime? He got caught streaking through his high school football game last September, and was not intending to commit a sex crime or thinking of being convicted of a sex crime. Not to mention becoming a registered sex offender. So tragically, not being able to understand why he was being subjected to such serious punishment for something that had no criminal intent, committed suicide. And for what? Because the Democrat, yes, I looked it up, he’s a Democrat, prosecutor wanted to do two things. Make a name for himself and make an example of the 15-year-old boy, who had no criminal intent whatsoever, and he died because of it. So, the next time you see someone urinating outside and in public view, you might just say something to them instead of calling the police. Because he may end up in prison for 30 years for a sex crime.

Richard Saunders

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