04-04-2017, 02:50 AM
I expected that by this morning the vast forces of the Protectors would be gathering, 60,000+ Facebook "likes" arriving from parts unknown to disembark at Hilo International for "all out WAR!". Protectors had previously tried comparing the TMT to the pollution possible should the oil pipeline at Standing Rock spring a leak, and what could be more directly analogous to a broken oil pipeline than a damaged, gushing, sewage pipeline?
The Wailuku River is sacred in Hawaiian legend, and I would think dumping 10,000+ gallons of raw sewage into the home of the goddess is as great a desecration possible:
By the side of this river (Wailuku) Hina's son, Maui had his lands. In the very bed of the river, in a cave under one of the largest falls, Hina made her own home, concealed from the world by the silver veil of falling water and lulled to sleep by the continual roar of the flood falling into the deep pool below. By the side of this river, the legends say, she pounded her tapa and prepared her food. Here were the small, graceful mamake and the coarser wauke trees, from which the bark was stripped with which she made tapa cloth.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/pac/maui/maui15.htm
You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.
The Wailuku River is sacred in Hawaiian legend, and I would think dumping 10,000+ gallons of raw sewage into the home of the goddess is as great a desecration possible:
By the side of this river (Wailuku) Hina's son, Maui had his lands. In the very bed of the river, in a cave under one of the largest falls, Hina made her own home, concealed from the world by the silver veil of falling water and lulled to sleep by the continual roar of the flood falling into the deep pool below. By the side of this river, the legends say, she pounded her tapa and prepared her food. Here were the small, graceful mamake and the coarser wauke trees, from which the bark was stripped with which she made tapa cloth.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/pac/maui/maui15.htm
You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.
"I'm at that stage in life where I stay out of discussions. Even if you say 1+1=5, you're right - have fun." - Keanu Reeves