09-19-2016, 07:10 AM
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Originally posted by kalakoa
Did the self-appointed protectors follow those procedures or not?
...so we come full circle to "did they follow the procedures".
comfortable in the knowledge that they won't be challenged because they are "special".
...which sounds similar to "won't be challenged because they're spending $1.4B".
Maybe it's time for both sides to admit they're playing the same game?
Point taken Kalakoa. However, I would respond with a couple of my own: the question is whether Palikapu Dedman will be prosecuted or not for his actions. He clearly believes that, as a (part) native Hawaiian, he is above the law that the rest of us must comply with. (If I had relocated burial remains and SHPD or the Burial Council got wind of it, I'm sure I'd find myself standing in front of a judge pretty quick.) The protectors are insisting, and have succeeded in, having the TMT application remanded back to BLNR to conduct the contested case hearing before issuing the permit, as BLNR should have done in the first place.
Which brings me to the second point: TMT did nothing wrong, BLNR and their Deputy AG screwed up, but TMT gets to pay the consequences in lost time and resources. Even when you do everything the State (or County) tells you to do, you can still get sandbagged. Doesn't encourage anything in the way of economic investment in Hawaii, by anyone...