Your Nov. 6 headline, “Federal agents arrest 44 people on Kauai,” made it clear that Hawaii is squarely in the sights of our overreaching federal government. NOW is the time for a special session to protect we the people. Immediate history instructs that we cannot foolishly hope that these ravenous forces can be appeased.

We need a battery of laws to shield us from the warrantless seizing of persons for noncriminal behavior based on arbitrarily perceived status and to curb any lawlessness perpetrated in these efforts. Words from Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1941 State of the Union apply to those currently attempting to appease our lawless president: “We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.”

To those who capitulate—selected legislators, law firms, businessmen, academics, justices—when injustice becomes law, resistance, not appeasement, becomes duty.

—Jo-Ann Adams, Waikiki

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