09-20-2017, 10:30 AM
I don't know what other people think of the hearing but it seems the strategy was to just go emotional. There were very few legal points made. Most were just "numerous violations" of a "wide variety of laws".
Vicente of course pointed out that no one living in Hawaii is a US citizen because they can't be naturalized.
Brandon carried on about unlined cesspools on mauna kea on the burial grounds, which there aren't. I couldn't even understand his points. "Area E is a type of ethnocide which is a type of genocide."
They also made veiled threats, "I would die for the mountain". "We will block you...Thousands!"
None of them proved they couldn't perform their new religious practices, in fact many talked about how over time they've done more and more ceremonies up there.
The only solid point that I think they made was that the rent was too low and that other telescopes should be re-assessed but that issues is unrelated to the TMT.
I think naleo.tv will put it up later for replaying if you missed it. At the very least you might enjoy the conch cell blowing after anti-tmt speeches.
Vicente of course pointed out that no one living in Hawaii is a US citizen because they can't be naturalized.
Brandon carried on about unlined cesspools on mauna kea on the burial grounds, which there aren't. I couldn't even understand his points. "Area E is a type of ethnocide which is a type of genocide."
They also made veiled threats, "I would die for the mountain". "We will block you...Thousands!"
None of them proved they couldn't perform their new religious practices, in fact many talked about how over time they've done more and more ceremonies up there.
The only solid point that I think they made was that the rent was too low and that other telescopes should be re-assessed but that issues is unrelated to the TMT.
I think naleo.tv will put it up later for replaying if you missed it. At the very least you might enjoy the conch cell blowing after anti-tmt speeches.