• Rev. King was pro-life • Gun owners are not the problem • A self-sufficient Kaua‘i Telecom • The Chamber has other motives • Whole Foods is not needed • Rev. King was pro-life Last year, I wrote a letter
• Rev. King was pro-life • Gun owners are not the problem • A self-sufficient Kaua‘i Telecom • The Chamber has other motives • Whole Foods is not needed •
Rev. King was pro-life
Last year, I wrote a letter about using the Reverend King’s proper title as minister as a sign of respect. Last year, a headline in a newspaper read, “Marching on MLK Day”
The politicians making the speeches also used the Rev. King’s name, but not his pro-life ideals. They even embraced abortion on Rev. King’s day.
That is like embracing slavery on Lincoln’s birthday.
Rev. King’s pro-life message has been deleted except for his family.
His niece, Loretta Scott King, is carrying on the family pro-life values and is one of the few original freedom fighters that keeps the Rev.’s pro-life message and is a national spokesperson for life issues.
Ed Smetana
Arlington Hts, Ill.
Gun owners are not the problem
Gun owners are being asked to provide a solution to the problem of gun crimes but in almost all situations there is a mental disorder that the gunman is suffering from. If he didn’t have a gun he would likely find other, just as horrible ways, to achieve his goal — that of screaming out for help.
I believe we need to take a really hard look at the use and side-effects of psychotherapy drugs and the way we “care” for those who are under great psychological distress. Just as knives are not outlawed when people are killed with them, it is the person we need to be evaluating, not the weapon of choice they use.
This is an emotionally-charged topic with a lot of fresh wounds but we need to be looking at the real problem not just a superficial solution, that of taking away a Constitutional right.
Kelly Sato
Kilauea
A self-sufficient Kaua‘i Telecom
The Jan. 15 telecommunications cable outage on Honolulu that disrupted local telephone landline and mobile services on Kaua‘i, in my view, reveals a major flaw in our island infrastructure. We need Kaua‘i telecommunications self-sufficiency.
A phone call on Kaua‘i to another local number on Kaua‘i should not be routed through O‘ahu. Damage to a “telecom” cable on another island should not disrupt phone and Internet services for us here.
Let’s be grateful for the dedicated telecom industry executives and staff who work hard every day to ensure we have reliable telephone and Internet services on Kaua‘i. That said, now we need to “go back to the drawing board” on this critical network reliability issue, so telecom services on Kaua‘i are not harmed by network problems elsewhere.
Speaking technically, Hawaiian Telecom (in cooperation with AT&T plus other analog and digital carriers serving our Garden Island) needs to develop and implement proven designs for a robust self-sufficient and redundant telecommunications infrastructure on Kaua‘i.
Local calls should be switched at a self-sustaining local Kaua‘i “central office,” and local-only signals should not need to leave our island. In the lingo of the telecom industry, local call “origination” and “termination” should remain on Kaua‘i.
The communication disruptions suffered by Kaua‘i County and Police Department on Jan. 15 only begin to hint at the challenges and dangers we’d all face in the event of some major inter-island emergency, such as a hurricane or tsunami. We cannot afford to be cut off from one another on Kaua‘i. We need to be prepared.
Kaua‘i telecom self-sufficiency may be costly, but the lives saved in an emergency may make the investment worthwhile. Let’s build for the future today.
Judah Freed
Kapa‘a
The Chamber has other motives
The Chamber of Commerce is complaining about crime? Please! If you haven’t watched the documentary “Hot Coffee” and aren’t aware of the real agenda of “The Chamber of Commerce” let me share some knowledge. The Chamber is a right-wing, pro-business group funded by such two-legged worms like Karl Rove.
They have massive funding from shady sources to essentially buy judges and politicians across America in every place that officials have to run for election.
The most representative display of the “real” agenda of the Chamber in the movie “Hot Coffee” was a judicial election in Louisiana where the Chamber funded the campaign of a judicial candidate who was nothing more than a corporate hack.
A factory that wanted to spew massive amounts of pollution to the detriment of the locals in the community needed a judge in place that would ignore the legal challenges of the local community.
The Chamber made sure the pro-pollution judge won election by massively outspending the judge who would have sided with the community.
This is what they do all across the country. Let me be clear that I am not for crime involving theft from schools and attacking tourists, and I support law enforcement and politicians who are doing all that they can to stop all crime of that nature.
I just wish they would also focus on the ultimate criminals who have embedded themselves in our society. Peter Tosh said it best, “Everyone’s talkin’ about crime crime, tell me who are the criminals.”
Jason Nichols
Koloa
Whole Foods is not needed
Back in California, they call them “Whole Paycheck Market” since almost everything is much more costly. We also know employees in one store my family shops at who swear they are stocking ordinary (i.e. Foster Farms, etc.) and selling them as organic to the max.
We have plenty good markets here on Kaua’i, and no purpose is served by “recruiting” them.
I’d just like to see some action on the Super Safeway shopping center in Lihu‘e. Any news there?
Tom Rice
Princeville
