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Letter: Enact curbs now on lawless policies

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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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Letter: Democratic socialism often misunderstood

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Wow, I hardly recognized myself in the hyper-alarmist diatribe Kala’e Kong lobbed at Zohran Mamdani (“Mamdani represents existential threat,” Star-Advertiser, Raise Your Hand, Nov. 2).

When I lived, studied and worked in New York City, I trekked downtown monthly to attend DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) gatherings. The most “radical” discussions we had involved disagreements about the latest art house films we had seen. All grass-roots activists, we campaigned for planting more trees in heat-belts of the boroughs and testified and marched for living wages for municipal workers.

I have the feeling Mr. Kong is unaware of the principles that drive DSA. If he finds social justice, workers’ rights, diversity, affordable housing and mutual respect to be “communism,” I recommend he Google the difference.

The real existential threats to our people come from the degradation of public morality and the enrichment of the 1%.

Nancie Caraway
Manoa

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Letter: Ohtani brings spirit of sumo to the diamond

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Shohei Ohtani is not a saint, but he has the welfare and well-being of baseball in his heart and soul. From what I know, I believe that Shohei views baseball through sumo lenses. There is something special and sacred about sumo, as seen in the traditional sumo rituals. For example, in sumo, both the victor and loser bow to each other after each bout. That is something Shohei would like to see in baseball, or so I believe.

After all, baseball has always honored both the victor and the defeated, embodying the dignity that the sport espouses. In the World Series, I hope all who love baseball will maintain the dignity and, yes, even sacredness that baseball champions. Charity in victory, dignity in defeat.

*Choo Lak Yeow Maili*

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