• Improving school security • Regarding the Kilauea Gym • Why not sanction killing as a sport? • Support the USPS • No to arming teachers • Bye bye Gas Boy Improving school security Following are suggestions to improve school
• Improving school security • Regarding the Kilauea Gym • Why not sanction killing as a sport? • Support the USPS • No to arming teachers • Bye bye Gas Boy
Improving school security
Following are suggestions to improve school security and perhaps prevent copycat crimes.
1. City council to enact law immediately. Automatic Class A misdemeanor for trespass on school property. Any person must be: Either a teacher or staff, or a student. All others must have visible pass. Immediate arrest. Once trespass occurs, temporary restraining order goes into force automatically.
2. Local counselors who speak with trouble making students: Ascertain gun ownership accessible to student. Issue notice to gun owners. Situation dangerous. No access to your weapon can be allowed and you must maintain gun/ammo security. Once forewarned, security becomes owner’s responsibility.
3. Drug/alcohol use by student gets immediate letter to parents. Hide guns and ammo. Parents’ failure to certify that guns are not accessible to student is a misdemeanor. Certified mail makes gun owner civilly responsible for damages due to wrongful death, etc.
4. PRACTICE DRILLS for shooter in classroom. Aggressive action. Throw many objects to cause shooter to duck. Shooter cannot aim when ducking; gives chance for aggression and escape.
5. NEW DOOR LOCKS. Class starts, doors are locked from the inside. Egress available. But no person comes into class while class in session. Note also, window shades drawn on door windows. Use student door monitors. Drills. Like fire drills; gun on campus drills. Intercom installation from/to outside hallways.
6. Loudspeaker alert on trespass. Certain signal that all teachers will understand.
Don Paul
Kalaheo
Regarding the Kilauea Gym
With all due respect to Mr. Bill Troutman, who is an outstanding Kilauea community leader, there are still leaks occurring in the Kilauea Gym, which have been documented over the past three years.
The most recent leaking event occurred on Dec. 4, 2012.
It is imperative that we insure an appropriate repair is completed as soon as possible.
Please be assured that any future repairs will be timed so as to have minimal impact on users of the facility.
Lenny Rapozo
Director Department of Parks and Recreation
Lihu‘e
Why not sanction killing as a sport?
Rap Brown, a Black Panther, said, “Violence is as American as cherry pie.” That’s certainly true.
Americans are also innovative. Resourceful. We are entrepreneurs. We love to make money.
We have industrial parks, doggy parks, national and state parks. Why don’t we have killing parks?
Think of it. They’d be large wild and wooded areas. Fenced. Patrolled. Good jobs.
Just as in a ski resort, one with the killing instinct could rent a weapon — or weapons — ammo, armored vests, boots, camouflage suits, helmets, binoculars. The works.
You could buy time. A one-day killing spree? A week? You’d need tents and stuff. Food and water. Wow!
You hunt those who are hunting you.
Hey, you could sell tickets to those who would like to watch — in safety of course — the killers stalking.
Coffins. Funerals. Ribbons. Medals. Photos of the winners. Photos of the dead. Videos. YouTube. Facebook.
Sorry, I gotta run. I want in on this.
I’m writing my representative in Washington and asking for a franchise.
Peace and love,
Bettejo Dux
Kalaheo
Support the USPS
Well, it’s now 4 p.m. on Monday.
I’ve been waiting all day for a FedEx “overnight” delivery that I ordered last Thursday night.
Yeah, they have a nice Web page that tells me my package finally arrived in Lihu‘e this morning at 8:30, but if I’m not here when they get here, they’re not going to leave the package and they’ll take it back to Lihu‘e.
And if I don’t do some “magic thing,” the package may even be sent back to the vendor.
Had the package been delivered through the post office, it would have been here on Saturday.
And if I still had to personally sign for it, it would be in the office half mile down the road! I could get it right now.
FedEx is a scam to rip you off.
The Republicans are doing all they can to destroy the post office.
Call Congress, right now, and demand that the United States Post Office be supported!
John Zwiebel
Kalaheo
No to arming teachers
A new issue has come up in the gun control debate, and this one is indescribably ridiculous.
It appears that people want teachers to be armed in the classroom now.
I find it interesting that anyone would even suggest arming teachers.
Teaching has to be one of the most maligned and misunderstood professions in the country today.
We have people who think teachers are nothing but illiterate fools who can’t do anything else. You’ve heard the refrain of these people: “Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.”
Brilliant stuff, really.
We have people who think teachers are slackers working only nine months out of the year and making some exorbitant salary as a result.
We have people who think teachers are all potheads and want them to undergo mandatory drug testing. This one appears to be especially popular in Hawai‘i.
We have some who think all teachers are potential or closet pedophiles.
But if those beliefs weren’t crazy enough, now we want to arm these same people!
We actually want to have guns in the classroom, wielded by people that many in the country don’t even seem to trust with being near children.
And when some child gets a hold of that weapon and shoots someone … what then?
Apparently, although their parents can’t even control their own weapons in the relatively sedate environs of home, we expect these “idiot” druggie pedophiles to do the job in the frequently chaotic environs of a classroom.
Sounds like a plan!
I have a hard time believing that very many teachers would have anything to do with this nonsense.
So, are we going to make it mandatory?
We don’t have enough trouble finding teachers as it is — now we are going to force them to carry and care for a weapon all day?
Seems to me that will ensure we lose even more qualified teachers and end up with a bunch of completely unqualified oafs who only want the job so they can carry a gun.
This idea is one of the most brain-dead concepts I have ever heard.
If we aren’t the laughing stock of the world already for our inexcusable stance on substantive gun control, this plan will definitely put us there.
Michael Mann
Lihu‘e
Bye bye Gas Boy
Congratulations are in order for the administration’s successful contract award for a brand new electronic fuel control system.
Overcoming years of inertia, or concerted effort to avoid fiscal accountability, Kaua‘i is finally joining the 21st century loss prevention “best practices” of monitoring, controlling and managing fuel expenses.
However, many questions remain to be answered. Why did the Gas Boy system fail? What steps are being taken to protect the new Tag Master Unit system, a $68,000 investment?
Will it suffer the same fate as the Gas Boy system?
A new system serves no good purpose if the management failures, which allowed the appearance of waste, fraud and abuse, continue.
The mayor would be well advised to provide state procurement and property law training for all employees, supervisors and department heads.
If a mayor goes on vacation, do tax payers fund travel, meals and hotels because the mayor might talk to someone about Kaua‘i?
Our mayor’s labor contract does not require him to be available to the public 24/7, nor is the presence of the mayor a necessity for the prosecutor, police, civil defense, fire, or any other “on call” 24/7 entity to perform their duties.
If a mayor accepts “free” gas to commute or to go shopping in addition to his pay package, then he must pay income taxes on those defined benefits.
It is always illegal to use county assets for personal or political gain.
Bye bye Gas Boy, and ho‘okipa Tag Master Unit. Imua Kaua‘i.
Lonnie Sykos
Kapa‘a
