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pretty much any appeal to ethics would have bite against the crew currently acting in violation of them.
And I imagine reading any form of political philosophy would make an improvement too. I remember finding Kant very dogmatic and, well, difficult, and therefore didn't read much beyond our A-level texts.
William.
As ever with Kant, you have to be a little more careful than with most other writers when talking about his philosophy in terms of 'subjective' or 'objective'. Most people ignore the first and third Critiques when talking about his ethics, but they shouldn't be ignored. (For the record, I don't think Kant satisfactorily resolved the issues around these concepts even as his thought developed.)
Regardless, I'd suspect that the reference the sign-maker had in mind probably was to aspects of Kant's political philosophy rather than his ethics, although, that said, pretty much any appeal to ethics would have bite against the crew currently acting in violation of them.