I was disgusted to read Councilwoman Penny Sweet’s column in the Kirkland Reporter on June 7 advocating for fireworks because to me they evoke war and death.

I don’t feel “warm and cozy” about fireworks. They are a symbol – a communication.

Is this city policy or what? I have been busting my butt trying to get kids to stop shooting fireworks on the 4th of July and New Year’s Eve in the play fields at Mark Twain Elementary. We used to get so much explosives set off there in the 1990s when big aluminum rocket casings landed on the roof of our house.

A few years ago I confronted a bunch of teenagers to stop shooting off fireworks in front of my house and they flat ignored me. So I called the cops. That was the last time I ever saw about four of my son’s friends. They don’t trust me anymore.

The fireworks are nothing but subliminal war worship.

Knock it off. Why don’t you invite victims of bombs, IEDs, artillery, B52s and ask how they feel about your stupid fireworks?

Did you know 40 percent of King County’s population is made up of non-white, mostly Asian people? And we are the whitest of the white areas of the country. How do those Cambodians, Vietnamese, Chinese and Koreans feel about fireworks?

The U.S. killed some two million Koreans and Chinese in the early ‘50s in a bombing.

Obviously we also killed at least two million people, directly by the American bombing of Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam who never attacked us, whatsoever.

We did it again in Iraq. And now we are halfway through the cold, interwar period.

The U.S. will again soon kill another million innocent people. The 2016 president will preside over this because people have not been constrained to war, whatsoever.

Todd Boyle, Kirkland