Letter to the Editor: Good or bad, right or wrong

Dear Editor:

Let’s ponder what’s good or bad.

1. If destroying 45 drug boats and killing 157 people is good, then wouldn’t pardoning over 100 drug dealers, including the “Silk Road” dealer (over $200 million in sales, mostly fentanyl) be bad? He at least got a jury trial.

2. If going after 90 Somalis for Medicare fraud and hopefully $20 million-plus in restitution is good, then isn’t pardoning at least six homegrown fraudsters to the tune of at least $2 billion in commuted restitution bad?

3. Is arresting 62 veterans for peacefully protesting the war in Iran at the capitol good? Was pardoning 1,200 or so people, a lot of whom were not peaceful, and did $2.7-3 million dollars in damages, and assaulted capital police, bad? Thirty-three of them have been re-arrested for crimes unrelated to January 6 (six of them for child sex crimes) and now a $1.7 billion slush fund to pay them for their actions, bad?

4. Is defunding and dissolving USAID good? Is an estimated one million-plus dead so far because of that action bad?

5. Saving people on fixed incomes money on their property taxes, good; yet not backfilling for the loss of revenue, resulting in closing libraries and cutting the budgets of search and rescue, EMTs, fair boards, sheriff’s departments, county offices, town cops and city governments, along with all the boards and special districts, bad.

Is it a question of priorities, money or fairness, optics or justice? Right or wrong?

Mart Hinckley 

Shell