Q: Mr. Federal Way, so the city was planning on installing a playground at Town Square Park but tabled that plan, according to a story that was recently published in the Mirror. What do you think about the plan?

A: To be honest, the park’s all right. It’s not phenomenal. There’s a little lawn, a pea patch and a bunch of painted pavement meant to be exciting, but let’s be honest, it’s painted pavement.

The basketball courts are a good asset, even though there was some fear they would bring a bad crowd — whatever that means. Mr. Federal Way agrees with the City Council that it’s not best to spend a lot of money on something that doesn’t generate money if it can in the potential future.

But Town Square Park could probably benefit from some playground equipment. Mr. Federal Way doesn’t doubt that it would bring more people to the park and while officials said in that story that they were pleased with the energy the park has brought to downtown, Mr. Federal Way is befuddled because upon taking a stroll to the park one weekday during lunchtime, all Mr. Federal Way saw was an old person eating lunch at a table and someone sitting in their car in the parking lot eating lunch or something maybe more scandalous. Mr. Federal Way didn’t stare long enough to form a concrete opinion.

Q: Mr. Federal Way, what was with the crazies out in front of Decatur High School all day on Tuesday yelling through loud speakers?

Signed, Agnostic

A: Dear Agnostic, Mr. Federal Way has never heard of crazies out in front of Decatur High School, except for a couple of times when Mr. Federal Way nearly hit a couple of students darting across the street outside of a crosswalk.

Nevertheless, Mirror staff contacted Federal Way Public Schools officials. District spokeswoman Debra Stenberg said the district is familiar with this group. They have protested in front of Decatur before and in front of a couple of our other schools last year.

She said the district’s security director said the group also protests in front of schools in other districts and in various public places. The director thinks they may be from Bellevue but does not know if they are affiliated with a particular religious group or church.

Stenberg said the sidewalks in front of schools are part of the public right-of-way.

“For that reason, while we can ask them to stay off of our campus, we cannot keep them off of the sidewalk,” Stenberg wrote in an email. “The school resource officer asked the protestors to move to the other side of 320th, but they refused to do so and were within their rights to stay on the sidewalk.”

She noted a significant number of students who walk to and from the Decatur campus use the sidewalk in front of the school. This put them in close proximity to the protestors on Tuesday. The school’s principal and assistant principal, David Brower and Rex Tucker, as well as the school resource officer and district security officer went out during dismissal time to escort students through, she added.

Call Mr. Federal Way bias, but Mr. Federal Way is all for people’s right to peacefully assemble. Mr. Federal Way is part of the media, after all.

However, Mr. Federal Way thinks people yelling through loud speakers is hardly peaceful. Go ahead, exercise your first amendment rights, but can’t you move 100 feet up the sidewalk so you don’t disturb students? This week was fairly warm and Mr. Federal Way bets that some teachers had their windows open during instruction.

This demonstration most likely distracted students from learning. While distracting students is not addressed in the Constitution, Mr. Federal Way thinks these protestors were discourteous at best. And doesn’t the Bible mention somewhere that you should do unto others?

Q: Mr. Federal Way, boxers or briefs?

A: None of your business.