• Canyon road boulders very unsafe • Bill of Rights more than merely a suggestion • Required permits strangling stream Canyon road boulders very unsafe Our county road and state highway to KoKee State Park and Waimea Canyon is very narrow.
• Canyon road boulders very unsafe • Bill of Rights more than merely a suggestion • Required permits strangling stream
Canyon road boulders very unsafe
Our county road and state highway to KoKee State Park and Waimea Canyon is very narrow. On both Kokee Road/Route 552 and the state highway there is one boulder each on the shoulder of the northbound lanes. How long will it take to remove them off the shoulder?
Tour buses (like us) use both routes to travel and they have to cross the yellow line to avoid these boulders.
DOT or county transportation personnel after a heavy rainfall should take a ride around these areas and check for obstacles that may pose an accident on the road/highway.
Remember, “safety first!”
Howard Tolbe, Eleele
Bill of Rights more than merely a suggestion
I guess we have to be thankful that for the last 235 years we the people have enjoyed the greatest liberty, freedom and prosperity of any civilization in the history of the world. It is not by chance that America has been the one country on the planet where anyone, through a little hard work and patience, could realize his dream, it was by design. Our founders at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 get the credit.
It appears that President Obama and his progressive inner circle, along with a complicit media, and a large percentage of Americans have decided to dump the Constitution. They have chosen instead to be governed by a new document: Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals”
Each day this administration has shown total disregard for the Bill of Rights and is literally doing away with our Constitutional rights one Amendment after another. Most recently, in particular the 1st, 2nd, 4th amendments are under full-blown assault. Get ready for the 22nd Amendment (term limits) to be next on the chopping block. Heaven help us.
Kelly Sato’s June 7 letter (along with others she has written to the GI) was wake up call to those that have chosen to drink the Kool-aid. An antidote is available, it’s called reason and logic. Wake up America before it’s too late.
By the way, did anyone else notice how yet another D-Day anniversary (June 6) has passed without a word of thanks/recognition from our President to those few surviving heroes that saved Europe and, in my opinion, the world only 69 years ago. If it had not been for the sacrifice those American and Allied troops made on the beaches of Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944, my parents would have most certainly starved to death under the Nazi’s brutal occupation of Holland.
Now that our phone calls, emails, Google searches, prayers, contacts, campaign contributions, party affiliation etc. … are all being scrutinized by the Feds, in particular the new fourth branch of government, the IRS, would it be a stretch to imagine that re-education camps (internment camps for conservatives only) are being constructed as we speak? So much for home of the free and the brave.
Bernard Verkaaik, Kapaa
Required permits strangling stream
Referring to The Garden Island article on June 7, 2013, entitled “Koloa Camp Remnants”…. Is it just me, or did anyone else read that article and say to themselves, “We are drowning in regulation.”
Grove Farm says the issue of the trash is “complicated.” The Department of Health says it would require a “permit” from the Army Corps of Engineers to remove the trash, and that could require a water quality “permit” from the DoH.
The DoH says to have the county issue an “emergency stream cleaning permit.” The county says we can’t issue that “permit.” The county says we don’t know if the state would allow us to clean a stream without a “permit,” but the governor could order the appropriate (?) State agency to expedite “permits.”
“Permits” to clean some rubbish from a stream? This is a perfect example of government gridlock and over-regulation!
And people wonder why nothing gets done in Washington! We can’t even get “permits” to clean three pick-up truck-loads of rubbish from a stream on Kauai!
I would get in my truck and go over there and clean it up myself, but I would probably be arrested for “disturbing the trash.”
Kris Van Dahm, Wailua Homesteads
