Trump a danger to freedoms and rights

On page 5A of West Hawaii Today on July 2 was an article that was easy to miss and extremely important for people to see.

Donald Trump is calling for jail for elected officials, including president Joe Biden, by using military tribunals. He calls Liz Cheney a traitor and treasonous.

Why? Because she called Trump a criminal and insurrectionist.

Are you MAGA people seeing this? This is right out of Mussolini’s play book.

Trump can demand his right to free speech, but anyone who has the gall to criticize Trump is a traitor. Excuse me, but what you are seeing is a dictator getting rid of his critics by using military tribunals. Not the usual courts. Not allowing constitutional protections. Nope.

Trump is just warming up. If you do not see that this man is dangerous to our freedoms and rights, then you are blind. Please read some history instead of watching Fox News or Truth Social.

We are headed toward a dictatorship. If this man does what he said he plans to do, there will be blood in the streets. There will be a civil war. Civil wars are very nasty and cause a lot of deaths and destruction.

For those of you who have seen war up close and personal, you know how bad things can get.

Please, do not enable Trump to trample our Constitution and our nation of laws. Wake up, people! Our greatest danger is not from Russia or China or North Korea. It is from within.

That is how great empires fall. From within.

Tom Beach

Waimea

Now is the time to support Biden

This would be a good time to help President Biden.

Otherwise, we’re not going to have a planet worth living on (unless you have a fondness for breathing smoke).

Jesse Crawford

Hilo

A friendly reminder about intersections

Dear motorists, when you’re at a traffic light at an intersection, intending to make a left turn, and you are the first car in line to make that turn, you are allowed to drive into the intersection and wait for the on-coming traffic to pass before you make your turn.

When you have the green light but are waiting for the opposite traffic to pass before making your turn, please do not wait at the stop line to do so. Many motorists wait at the stop line while the next car or two behind you want to make the same turn as you.

When the way is clear and the light turns yellow, and a driver is at the stop line, many drivers are hesitant to proceed and then end up waiting for the traffic lights to recycle again.

By moving up into the intersection and waiting to make your turn, this would also free up some cars behind you in the intersection wanting to make the same turn.

This often occurs at such intersections as the makai- and mauka-bound lanes on Puainako Street at Kanoelehua Avenue.

However, keep in mind that is not allowed at “left on green arrow only” type of intersections.

Rick LaMontagne

Hilo