American Sun-Light News & Literature

We never asked to become a metropolis (which are many more pieces of the puzzle than the one we are focusing on in this essay) but Mayor Jim Ferrell and his sidekick, Pete von Reichbauer, the politician and King County Councilman who has a street named after him, are barreling Federal Way into a gigantic maelstrom of probable hooligans, misfits, malcontents, troublemakers, lawbreakers and riff-raff coming off of the light-rail train and causing no end of headaches and trouble for the city. There will likely be too many of these undesirables for the city to try to help turn their lives around into being productive citizens, if the lot of them are citizens at all, or arresting all those who will inevitably break the law. If King County’s handling of the buses are a portend of things to come, the last stop (Federal Way) on King County’s light rail will become a nightmare of crime, vandalism and a spreading thuggery on the streets of Federal Way. Constantine and Company have let freeloaders ride the buses for years, the very same people that have caused misery and havoc to the peaceful bus riders that are just trying to get from point A to point B. Even with the Sound Transit Security, we will need at least one cop on the beat for each of however many Light Rail Stations there will be in the city, 24/7, as well as making sure that any active lawbreakers who get or got off of the train are either jailed or given an option to “Get out of Dodge”, probably via the Light Rail from whence they came.