• Mahalo Kauai • Rave reviews for ‘Miss Saigon’ • Right to know about PMRF • Stereotypes and prejudice are alive Mahalo Kauai To the people of Kauai: The family of Richie Basulto wishes to thank all of the people
• Mahalo Kauai • Rave reviews for ‘Miss Saigon’ • Right to know about PMRF • Stereotypes and prejudice are alive
Mahalo Kauai
To the people of Kauai:
The family of Richie Basulto wishes to thank all of the people of Kauai for coming out to the memorial and paying tribute to our brother, Richie Basulto.
We also wish to thank Eric, (and the committee), Tina, Conrad, Art, Dawson, Charlene, Tony, the musicians and Roger, the people who cooked and smoked the pig and served the food. We appreciate how much time and work went into this event. It’s not possible to name everyone but we felt the love from all of you. Thanks so much to everyone.
The outpouring of love for Richie was so overwhelming, the Basulto family cannot express how much we appreciate all of the work that all of you put into this wonderful event.
Mahalo with love from Richie’s Family
Teresa Lopez
Rosemead, Calif.
Rave reviews for ‘Miss Saigon’
On Monday night I had the opportunity to enjoy a truly professional local performance of “Miss Saigon.”
Great singing, dancing, costumes.
Wonderful cast and show.
However, there were only 75 people in the audience. We need to support our local theater. It is on Mondays at 7 p.m. for the next several Mondays (maybe more). Go see it — you will be glad.
Hal Goldberg
Kalaheo
Right to know about PMRF
At Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai’s Westside dummy warheads are launched so Aegis destroyers parked offshore can try to intercept them with their Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) missiles. This system is a key element in the U.S. first strike program. After the first strike on China’s nuclear launch sites these SM-3’s will theoretically intercept the remaining Chinese retaliatory ICBM’s. This is routinely reported in the industry journal Aviation Week & Space Technology. Ground based Aegis launch platforms are intended for deployment in Romania as part of the encirclement of Russia as well as China.
Does the Navy intend to activate the Aegis Ashore launcher on Kauai as a tactical missile defense site to defend Oahu? Why else would they build a giant launch complex to test an already proven system? It happened once before with a THAAD missile defense launcher in response to one of the recurring bubbles of hysteria over North Korea.
The effect of this military force projection, besides enriching the arms industry, has been to destabilize relations with China and Russia on several fronts, not least of which has been a freeze in nuclear weapons reduction negotiations with Russia.
Maybe the new base commander Captain Bruce W. Hay can explain at a pre-announced public forum what is going on. Just as they need to know if they are endangered by open air GMO testing, the people of Kauai have a right to know if they must decide if they want to be a target.
Kip Goodwin
Kapaa
Stereotypes and prejudice are alive
I can accept the jury verdict acquitting George Zimmerman of murdering Trayvon Martin. It may seem unjust, but as Mr. Rice pointed out in his letter, many details were considered.
Nevertheless, it bothers me that an unarmed African American teenager dressed in a hoodie doing nothing more than walking home from the store in an “upscale” neighborhood can attract the attention of an armed neighborhood champion who, after calling police and being instructed to wait for them, follows the boy and ultimately shoots him dead. I wonder what role stereotypes and associated prejudice may have played.
After ticking off the technicalities of the trial, Mr. Rice then surmises that Caucasian Americans, Asian Americans and Mexican Americans, apparently unlike African Americans, don’t protest after attacks and seemingly unjust verdicts because they are too busy earning a living and paying taxes.
That reminds me that stereotypes, and likely their second cousin prejudice, are alive and well, even in the Land of Aloha.
Jim Lang
Princeville and Charlotte, N.C.
