The (unofficial) Mililani aerial fireworks display on New Year’s Eve was unprecedented — and I saw it all starting in my neighborhood. It was more intense than the Waikiki authorized display, and was more than seven hours long.

I’m glad I had a breathing device. Illegal as they are, the aerial displays won’t be stopped with empty, unenforceable legislation from our lawmakers (fluff). No intelligent police officer would go into a crowd to try and enforce the ban.

The solution is more container inspections (only 2% of inbound containers are inspected — we could easily miss a nuke). The answer, in my opinion as a former weapons of mass destruction consequence management trainer (Hawaii, Alaska and Japan), is random inspections, along with a significant increase in inspections.

This requires the executive and legislative branches to do something, not just write and hope.

James Amos

Mililani

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