Aborigines and Hawaiians
“Their link to the land is a birthright.”
There are parallels between the Aborigines and the Hawaiian culture. The government of Australia is now acknowledging “the righting of an historic wrong” by banning the climbing of Ayers Rock, known as Uluru. The Anangu people consider it the place they came from and the place they will return.
The Hawaiians consider Maunakea their piko — sounds like the place they came from. Why not respect that?
Patricia Sims
Keaau
My ‘sacred mountain’
I declare Termite Hill sacred.
I’m going to find some people with nothing better to do to blockade the access road and be the Termite Hill Protectors.
They will stay as long as they can eat, drink and party for free. Then I’ll get mirrored sunglasses and a cool hat, start posing, and dictate my demands to the media.
When people want to go to the medical centers there, I won’t let them through. High-tech western medicine won’t be allowed on my sacred mountain. Any new medical facility will have to be built in the Canary Islands.
State courts will eventually rule against me, but what does that matter?
The governor is too weak to govern, and the police are too afraid to enforce the law.
So, everybody who wants a piece of Hawaii, grab it now! You can make the sky any color you want it to be on your sacred mountain.
Elizabeth Novak
Pahoa
They are traitors
State government officials that support and encourage secessionists are committing treason against the United States.
The last time U.S. elected officials supported secessionists was in 1861 in Charleston, South Carolina.
Hawaii is going to be sued for over $1 billion by the Thirty Meter Telescope consortium if Gov. David Ige, Lt. Gov. Josh Green and Mayor Harry Kim kill this thing to pander to secessionists.
Their words and inaction are not merely craven, they are unconstitutional and illegal.
You either have the rule of law or you don’t. The rule of law says the time has come to build this thing.
If there is no longer the rule of law, then elected officials need to be removed from office and sent to prison with their secessionist friends on the mauna.
If this cannot be done by single-party rule in Hawaii, then it needs to be done by the U.S. Marines.
Nearly 1 million Americans died in a war against secession in 1861-‘65. I guess they do not teach that in the schools here.
There exists no higher crime for an elected U.S. official than to openly support and encourage secessionists. The traitors Ige, Green and Kim stand knee-deep in blood while they make their absurd statements about nonviolence and peace, even at the cost of supporting secession from the United States.
John Powers
Pahoa