•Police chief has numbers wrong •Stand up for ‘traditional’ marriage •‘Never give up’ •Congratulations Police chief has numbers wrong After reading Kaua‘i Police Chief Darryl Perry’s letter to the Forum on Saturday, I strongly disagree with his statement that 98
•Police chief has numbers wrong
•Stand up for ‘traditional’ marriage
•‘Never give up’
•Congratulations
Police chief has numbers wrong
After reading Kaua‘i Police Chief Darryl Perry’s letter to the Forum on Saturday, I strongly disagree with his statement that 98 percent of our community strongly believes in what our police force and new police chief are doing.
I believe that the number is closer to 99 percent or even 99.9 percent of support. Some may disagree, but I do not take the opinions of visitors who spend one week here very strongly over residents who live here full time.
Over the recent history, I have heard comments from many that drug dealers and drug houses that have been left alone forever are finally getting busted and making our communities better places to live.
After over 30 years on Kaua‘i, I am one resident who really appreciates our police force enough to wave at every police car I see. I cannot imagine going to work wearing a bullet proof vest and having to wear a gun then being sent to handle a “domestic” or who knows what and then be criticized by some simpleton that doesn’t take the time to realize that if there is a problem, it’s nothing they have any control over.
Our new police chief is taking us in the right direction and should be supported.
I would like to thank everyone in our Police Department for their dedicated, caring efforts and service to our communities over and beyond the call of duty, it is not only commendable but saintly.
Thank you Police Chief Darryl Perry for your support for the Kaua‘i Police Activities League, which is a great mentoring program for our youth. Last year you took your personal time to help with our North Shore basketball program, even refereeing our Kilauea seniors playing with kindergartners.
We have had many positive comments about your personal involvement spending all day with our youth, I hope you can find time to come around again this year — if you’re not too busy defending our great police force from people who “are angry with the wrong people.”
Bill Troutman, Kilauea
Stand up for ‘traditional’ marriage
How does gay marriage or civil unions harm your marriage?
One might as well ask, “How does my printing counterfeit $20 bills hurt your wallet?” Or to use another example, can you imagine a building where every carpenter defined his own standard of measurement?
A man and a woman joined together in holy matrimony is the time-tested “yardstick” for marriage. One cannot alter the definition of marriage without throwing society into confusion any more than one can change the definition of a yardstick.
The way a family is continued is within the male and female relationship that comes from a marriage. It takes a mother and a father to child bare.
Civil unions are an empty pretense that lacks the fundamental sexual complementariness of male and female.
And like all counterfeits, it cheapens and degrades the real thing. The destructive effects may not be immediately apparent, but the cumulative damage is inescapable.
Take a look at the Scandinavian countries that embraced de-facto gay marriage back in the ‘90s. The vast majority of couples there are choosing to simply live together instead of getting married, figuring that if marriage means anything then marriage really means nothing.
It is time to stand up for traditional marriage. Our families deserve it.
Chris Metcalf, Lihu‘e
‘Never give up’
In our children’s lives, we have a hard time dealing with their everyday what, where, how, can I, what if, I can’t.
We can’t give up and turn our backs on them. We have to keep on trying unconditionally through love and faith.
There will come a time when things will turn around. Sometimes, they do make the wrong turns and take the wrong path.
They can change if we give them the chance and never give up. How would you feel if what you do unto other’s they do unto you?
We are not all the same. Our children go in the wrong direction but believing in our Lord Jesus Christ they can be reborn again and walk the right path if we never give up.
I want to share this with some of our neighbors, Proverbs 28:13 — He that covereth his sins shall not prosper, but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
Gayle Medeiros, Kapa‘a
Congratulations
Those who opposed the Superferry should feel really feel proud of yourselves for stopping the hideous monster that would have brought cars, people and tourism dollars to Kaua‘i.
We don’t have that already via the airlines, inter-island barges and the cruise ships so we must keep Kaua‘i pristine and free of these things that would produce jobs and transportation that Kaua‘i people could use to visit family and events on neighbor islands.
John Glover, Kalaheo
