07-03-2015, 08:51 AM
Protestor quote: "The safety of the mountain is of utmost importance...
TomK replied: You know, there are just so many things wrong with this.
Yes, that's what I thought too. It doesn't make any sense. The protestors bring in their own porta-potties and claim it's some kind of aloha for the tourists? In the meantime they roam about the sacred mountain defiling it with their waste when they are too far away to walk miles back to the plastic outhouses.
Do the newspapers and TV stations not see the hypocrisy in this act? Yes, you can dress it up as a gift of fertility to the sacred Mauna as one person tried to do, but let's just tell it like it is, they are crapping and pissing their way across the mountain which they claimed was sacred.
Would authentic Hawaiian practitioners find this acceptable? What punishment would a Hawaiian chief or king impose on his subjects for this action? Subjects who were not even allowed to step foot on the mountain, much less defecate all over it.
There should be editorials across the state calling for this desecration to stop, which would at least require the protestors to answer for their lawless actions in the management area. But instead, no one wants to talk about something that's uncomfortable, something not to be brought up in decent company.
What's more indecent though, allowing them to continue, or bringing their actions into a public forum and asking that they explain themselves?
Now I am not squeamish about humans "going direct" and skipping the septic field or cesspool. But I think it's disingenuous for any protestor to claim they are on a quest to perform their sacred duty in protecting the mountain on the one hand, then, when they think no one is looking, doing just the opposite and hope no one is the wiser.
Seeing may be believing, but you don't have to see or even imagine this is happening ever day. If protestors are going to use any means necessary to justify their end goals, then they have certainly found the lowest possible way to both go about their business, while they follow the call of nature on Mauna a Wakea.
TomK replied: You know, there are just so many things wrong with this.
Yes, that's what I thought too. It doesn't make any sense. The protestors bring in their own porta-potties and claim it's some kind of aloha for the tourists? In the meantime they roam about the sacred mountain defiling it with their waste when they are too far away to walk miles back to the plastic outhouses.
Do the newspapers and TV stations not see the hypocrisy in this act? Yes, you can dress it up as a gift of fertility to the sacred Mauna as one person tried to do, but let's just tell it like it is, they are crapping and pissing their way across the mountain which they claimed was sacred.
Would authentic Hawaiian practitioners find this acceptable? What punishment would a Hawaiian chief or king impose on his subjects for this action? Subjects who were not even allowed to step foot on the mountain, much less defecate all over it.
There should be editorials across the state calling for this desecration to stop, which would at least require the protestors to answer for their lawless actions in the management area. But instead, no one wants to talk about something that's uncomfortable, something not to be brought up in decent company.
What's more indecent though, allowing them to continue, or bringing their actions into a public forum and asking that they explain themselves?
Now I am not squeamish about humans "going direct" and skipping the septic field or cesspool. But I think it's disingenuous for any protestor to claim they are on a quest to perform their sacred duty in protecting the mountain on the one hand, then, when they think no one is looking, doing just the opposite and hope no one is the wiser.
Seeing may be believing, but you don't have to see or even imagine this is happening ever day. If protestors are going to use any means necessary to justify their end goals, then they have certainly found the lowest possible way to both go about their business, while they follow the call of nature on Mauna a Wakea.
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