Where is the justice after dog attack?
This is a plea. My ex-husband was killed by a pack of dogs in Ocean View while walking down the street on Aug. 1 of this year.
His two daughters and myself are still waiting for justice.
Yes, the dogs were killed. I sure hope the owners haven’t moved next to you and started raising more attack dogs.
Why do they get to be anonymous? Did these same dogs attack other people and the people who were supposed to deal with the dogs at that time not do their jobs?
I have been told if they are the ones responsible, we only have six months to sue them. Is that why no one will take this case? No one wants to sue the state? Is this case being stalled deliberately?
Right now, I am furious at everyone — definitely the owners, but also the people we pay to enforce laws. It must be OK for dogs to kill people in Hawaii.
Please, somebody take some action.
Stephanie Northrop
Kailua-Kona
China’s aggression definitely a threat
Honolulu Civil Beat has an excellent record of journalistic achievement. Its investigative reporters are among Hawaii’s best. That said, it also publishes commentaries which I sometimes disagree with.
Naka Nathaniel’s (Dec. 13) bit on the U.S. military not paying their fair share to Hawaii is one. He writes the threat of Chinese aggression is no justification for any Pearl Harbor expansion.
He goes on to point out David Daokui Li’s claim, “China simply does not appear to have the global ambition, institutional capacity, historical tradition or ideological clarity to replace and behave like the United States of today.” Li is a Chinese economist and a professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Daily threats against Taiwan and the Philippines and extending their territorial claims to nearly the entire South China Sea tells a different story.
While this behavior may not be a direct danger to the U.S., industrial espionage and the clandestine export of fentanyl precursors to the U.S. definitely are.
China’s Belt and Road Initiative’s purpose is more than just facilitating trade. There are also military implications.
China now has naval bases in Cambodia and Djibouti. The Chinese-built commercial seaport of Gwandar in Pakistan will also be made available to the Chinese navy.
Chinese hacking of U.S. infrastructure is on the rise, with reports of a Hawaii utility company being a recent target.
So, to imply Chinese aggression is not a threat to Hawaii is bogus.
Don Baker
Volcano