• Time for action against high airfares • Sentencings don’t make sense Time for action against high airfares I’m happy the cost of Kauai interisland flights is now getting its due attention. If anyone remembers, I brought this up months ago and
• Time for action against high airfares • Sentencings don’t make sense
Time for action against high airfares
I’m happy the cost of Kauai interisland flights is now getting its due attention. If anyone remembers, I brought this up months ago and didn’t even a single response.
While I admire the efforts of the County Council and the community waking up around this issue, I think we have to consider what will make the fastest impact on our interisland rates. I again heartily recommend that residents take action by filing an “antitrust violation” at www.ftc.gov. You can do the same at www.justice.gov/atr.
The threat of being managed as a monopoly will most likely make our rates competitive again much more quickly than the slow legislative process. If you still have fire after doing this, a letter to Tulsi Gabbard, Mazie Hirono and Brian Schatz wouldn’t hurt either. Beyond that, a letter to Hawaii Attorney General Douglas Chin might also help. An election year is coming, we should make our voices heard.
Talk is cheap unless we step up and take action. Hawaiian Airlines reported a profit of nearly $50 million in Q2 2015. How much of that did your family or business pay?
Jason Blake, Lihue
Sentencings don’t make sense
In the Nov. 10 issue of The Garden Island, there were two articles about two different cases of criminal offenses and ongoing prosecutions here on Kauai.
One defendant had the following charges: One count robbery first degree, two counts kidnapping, one count bail jumping, one count contempt of court, one count assault of law enforcement officer, one count escape and two counts resisting arrest. His bail is set at $10,000.
The other defendant had two counts of first-degree burglary, which somehow occurred during his masturbating in front of four women in a room at a hostel. His bail is set at $50,000.
On one hand, we have serious and violent criminal charges. He’s already jumped bail once, and he gets hubcap stealing bail while the other, who obviously is in need of mental help, gets violent crime bail.
There is something wrong here! Oh wait, the one defendant had a well-known family name here, the other did not. Guess which is which. Unfortunately we see this happening over and over.
Are there any rules or oversight about bail or is it at the sole discretion of the judges, and more about your name than the actual charges and your history?
Something ain’t right here.
John Humphrey, Hanalei
