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[MarkP]

I haven't found the best way to express it but I have problems with some people saying that "It's not about the TMT". There is a huge list of concerns being pressed by the protesters that very explicitly about the TMT. Therefore, being told that I and others that share my views just don't "get it" really alienates me. Are the protesters spreading hysteria about the water table also not getting it? Are they as worthy of disdain as I apparently am? At what point do those purporting to use logic as a rational for their anti-TMT stance recognize that they are irrationally giving a pass to anyone who is anti-TMT, even those who don't get it? At what point do such people recognize that in an absolute sense they themselves are just as likely not getting it as someone screaming about endangered bugs or the water table?

I suspect that the scream-about-the-water-table/poison cloud people would back up the its-really-about-Hawaiian-Sovereignty people and that is good enough for the latter. It then becomes a point of dis-ingenuousness on the part of the its-really-about-Hawaiian-Sovereignty people in not owning up to some of the crap being spread by the poison-cloud folks, while still stringing me along with the line that "its-really-about-Hawaiian-Sovereignty".