11-01-2016, 04:43 AM
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Originally posted by Obie
After reading the following statement by one of the head protesters I had to Google La Palma and then I had to chuckle !
“I’m glad they’re looking at alternative sites,” Kealoha Pisciotta, one of the leaders challenging the telescope, said during a break in the hearings. “I have to say if they do go with the alternative site, I hope they don’t do there what they’re doing to Native Hawaiians and the people of Hawaii.”
From Google
After the Spanish occupation of La Palma, the native Canarians vanished by either being killed, sold into slavery or by assimilating into the Spanish population.
It is ironic that Kealoha is guilty of the same behavior that she accuses the TMT supporters have. The Canary islands has a similar history as Hawaii, but much more brutal, so it's ok, it's not my mountain.