{"id":1670248,"date":"2022-10-03T13:35:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T17:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1670248"},"modified":"2022-10-03T13:35:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T17:35:54","slug":"remember-ridge-alkonis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/remember-ridge-alkonis\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember Ridge Alkonis"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">6<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fremember-ridge-alkonis%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1670248&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>There was a flurry of news coverage last year\u2014and again over the summer\u2014when the Japanese tossed United States Navy Lt. Ridge Alkonis behind bars for his role in a car crash that left two dead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Alkonis and his family had been hiking Mt. Fuji when, on the drive home, the sailor blacked out behind the wheel, plowing into parked cars and a pair of pedestrians. A Japanese court rejected a neurologist\u2019s diagnosis of altitude sickness, which can cause blackouts, and over the summer another Japanese judge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2022\/08\/27\/ridge-alkonis-japan-navy-lieutenant-crash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">upheld a conviction<\/a> of three years in prison for negligent driving.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Just 4 percent of those similarly charged in Japan ended up serving any prison time at all, according to the Washington Post, so it\u2019s a mystery why a stalwart American ally is treating one of our service members this way\u2014and why, in turn, President Joe Biden and his administration aren\u2019t rattling the cages to get Alkonis back.<\/p>\n<p>Traipsing across Capitol Hill a couple of weeks back, our colleague met Brittany Alkonis, Ridge\u2019s wife, and their three children. Their ordeal continues, and they were there calling attention to the case in the hope that Biden might step in as he has done for Brittney Griner, held in Russia, and most recently for a cadre of Citgo executives held unlawfully in Venezuela. In fact, Mrs. Alkonis has heard not one word from the administration since her husband was first detained\u2014not a phone call, not a note, nothing other than a perfunctory conversation with the U.S. ambassador to Japan Rahm Emmanuel at the start of this ordeal.<\/p>\n<p>Administration officials tell us that Vice President Kamala Harris raised the issue privately with Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida in Tokyo last month\u2014but that fact has for some reason not been conveyed to the Alkonis family. Nor was it conveyed to the traveling press pool, who, per the transcripts from Harris\u2019s trip, asked not a single question about Alkonis\u2019s detention. A patriot and family man who stands at attention for the national anthem, Alkonis won\u2019t elicit the kind of sympathy and concern from the press corps that Griner did.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a flurry of news coverage last year\u2014and again over the summer\u2014when the Japanese tossed United States Navy Lt. Ridge Alkonis behind bars for his role in a car crash that left two dead.\u00a0<br \/>\nThe post Remember Ridge Alkonis appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":1891481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1670248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1670248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1891481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1670248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1670248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1670248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}