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June 26, 2008
PISSED AT PEOPLE WHO DO THEIR JOB
The following letter is in response to the June 12 Restless Native "Here's to You Mr. Ticket Writer"
I found Starr Begley's infatuated commentary on "Mr. Ticket Writer" officer Keith Taguma to be unenlightened and repulsive. Anyone who visits or works in Wailuku town is acutely aware of Taguma's morbid dedication to his job which he performs with particular swagger. Ms. Begley's admiration and misplaced sympathies for Taguma displays an egregious disregard for his domestic violence victim, as well as an ignorance of the other well deserved monikers he hails by. Like other petty militants that used the poor excuse of "only doing my job," or "just following orders" to justify a sadistic discharge of their duties, Officer Taguma is also commonly referred to around Wailuku as the "Nazi." Unfortunately for the community (which does not deserve what it gets) and in spite of Ms. Begley's amorousness for him, this is a more apropos summation of Taguma. And, yes, there's nothing funny about that.
-Janet Riley, Wailuku
REMEMBERING PHILLIP PRAIS
The following letters are in response to the June 19 cover story by Starr Begley "Our Preacher Man." The family of Brother Phillip Prais invites you to join in a celebration of his life on Saturday, June 28, 2008, at 8:00 AM. We will gather at the Banyan Tree Park in Lahaina in the area on the Old Fort Wall side..
I have lived and worked in Lahaina for over 6 years and never went a day without seeing uncle phil under the tree. He was the true spirit of Lahaina. He knew the true meaning of Aloha and when he said God Bless you to me I felt like he meant it. It is said to think we will never see him again,yet his spirit is there...I can still hear him singing and playing his guitar and yelling out "God Bless You" to a passerby…
-Bonnie via Mauitime.com
I lived in Lahaina all of my life & the Lahaina Street Preacher NEVER bothered me. I felt humbled every time I passed him and received a smile or a simple "God Bless You". What troubles me now are the businesses that were bothered by the beautiful message he was sending. It makes me feel like those employees/business owners could not handle the simplicity and truth of his words.
As it is written: "If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you. Remember the word I spoke to you: 'A slave is not greater than his master.'If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will also keep yours. But they will do all these things o you on account of My name, because they don't know the One who sent me." John 15: 19-21
Aloha Uncle Phillip...a hui hou
-Kim Chang via Mauitime.com
I searched you out the day before you died. You prayed for my mom, and you laid hands on me and prayed for me and my Ohana. You put my spirit at ease with your words and the Lord's Prayer. Mahalo nui loa Braddah Phillip. May your spirit shine eternally with God. Aloha.
-Jami via Mauitime.com
Aloha bradda Phillip. You will be missed. I know you are in a better place now with the One you've longed to see. "See I am coming soon, and my reward is with me, to repay all according to their deeds. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End" Rev 22:12-13. Phillip we shall meet again.
aloha ke Akua via Mauitime.com
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