• Save the sonar Save the whales! • Support net neutrality • Fact-finding mission • Most recognizable • Views well known • Reader says so long Save the sonar Save the whales! Never mind that the government has spent millions
• Save the sonar Save the whales!
• Support net neutrality
• Fact-finding mission
• Most recognizable
• Views well known
• Reader says so long
Save the sonar Save the whales!
Never mind that the government has spent millions studying sonar for negative economic externalities with narry a problem in sight, er, sound.
Never mind the (important) fact that active sonar is ulimately the best way to catch a diesel-powered submarine.
Forget the fact that almost every country in the world has diesel submarines, including our buddy, Iran.
Never mind the relative lack of peer-reviewed studies supporting anti-sonar sentiment.
Oh, and let’s not fail to point out that the Navy has been using sonar for over half a century and there has yet to be a mass extinction of marine mammals.
If you take the environmentalists’ current logic and apply it to, say, San Diego, Calif., and Norfolk, Va., the obvious assumption would be massive marine mammal deaths in those areas.
Guess what?
It hasn’t happened, and Flipper is still out there chasing shrimp.
Before you wave me off as an animal-hater, I was a featured activist for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. I think it is awesome that we have taken precautions to protect our aquatic neighbors, and I find men like Paul Watson and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society positive social forces.
However, there are many more important issues to concern ourselves with. People need to reorient their priorities and go protest something more important, like, say, the enslavement of 6-year-old girls as prostitutes in Cambodia or famine and AIDS orphans in Africa.
Support net neutrality
Our Senator, Daniel Inouye will play a key role in the vote this month to preserve “Net Neutrality,” the policy in place since the Internet began, which prevents Internet providers from discriminating between Web sites.
The Internet Preservation Act (S.2917) will keep a level playing field for all Internet content. A free Internet has given us a new form of democratic process, has spurred economic innovation, and given us all new eyes to view the world around us.
Without this bill, companies like AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and others will force content providers to pay for access to us. This means those who pay the most will get through to us the fastest — based on what the providers want us to know, not on what information we seek. This will commercialize the Internet as never before, and sideline small non-profit content providers who can now reach us without paying huge access fees.
If you don’t like what has happened to television, you will not like this even more.
Please urge Senator Inouye to support Senate Bill 2917 for “Net Neutrality.”
Fact-finding mission
I am encouraging anyone who has a bit of free time and access to the online newspaper to join me in a little “fact-finding.” I am getting exceedingly tired of hearing about this “liberal media bias,” especially in regards to The Garden Island newspaper.
The idea that the newspaper is actively censoring the views of those on the right is the product of an unbalanced mind. I don’t know about others, but I have had many, many articles not printed by the newspaper, and I don’t take it as some kind of conspiracy to censor my views; I just realize that the paper probably can not possibly publish all the articles they get. I also know that I have read plenty of right-wing writings in the Opinion section, so the mere suggestion that those views are not being given their fair share of time is galling to me.
The fact-finding mission: let’s go back over the opinion pieces printed in the past year and simply count how many “right-wing” and “non-right-wing” articles were printed. Focus on the war debate if you want (but let us know what you focused on, if you had a focus). If you are so inclined, you could also count how many times any particular author got a letter published. We’ll then compare the results and see, once and for all, what this liberal media conspiracy amounts to.
As for The Garden Island editing articles into oblivion by removing URLs to Web sites, all I can say is that this is either a lie or it indicates one needs to write more coherent letters. Unfortunately, we can’t verify or discredit the claim as we don’t have access to what the person actually submitted.
Most recognizable
names censored?
Amazing to me that the two gentlemen who feel their political points of view are not being represented in the letters column are two of the most recognizable and frequent names I see when I read the The Garden Island forum. And that they want to “take their ball and go home,” ie. unsubscribe to the newpaper, because they cannot have as much access as they believe they deserve in the paper. Well, I say, grow up guys.
As a daily reader, I am fully aware of these gentlemen’s views , as well as the opinions of their often very vocal counterparts to the left. Seems to me The Garden Island does a pretty good job of splitting the middle.
Views well known
I can’t speak for other The Garden Island readers but this subscriber thinks Peter Saker has had more than his fair share of proselytizing print space.
We get it, Peter, everybody knows your conservative views of exclusion, blame, and condemnation.
I know you and Ann Coulter would like to instruct us all how to live correctly but some readers believe in a more merciful God than yours. One who doesn’t judge but accepts even sinners as worthy of his love and forgiveness. A lot of us are pretty appalled at the suffering radical conservatives have wrought in this world. Talk about negative consequences.
Reader says so long
Hurray!
A time to celebrate is surely upon us when we will soon no longer have to endure Peter Saker’s (and Kent Gibboney’s for that matter) hateful, neo-conservative, anti-Christian rhetoric.
The Jesus Christ I believe in would never tolerate your hatred of your fellow man.
Thank you, thank you for not renewing your subscription to The Garden Island.
