12-21-2017, 06:49 AM
(And they are signaling: Next time we complain about something, you better pay attention.)
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the immortality required for the waiting list).
After construction of the TMT begins, and the current leaders of "The Protectors" become tired of standing with their back against the wall for mug shots (now, turn to your left), perhaps they'll gather for a followup Future of Mauna Kea meeting. And perhaps they'll refocus their attention on the agencies (OHA, DHHL) who could do so much more for their cause with homesteads and education.
I recently read a photo essay in The Atlantic Magazine about residents in remote Tierra del Fuego. There is a large group of people who cannot afford to live in the expensive town of Ushuaia, located at the far southern tip of the world, so they've set up their own accommodations in the hills a few miles away. Many of the photo captions refer to an "informal mountainside community."
It might be time, soon, for Native Hawaiians who are tired of waiting for a homestead, and who realize there are no telescopes keeping them from the homesteads they've been promised, to take matters into their own hands. Take matters, take DHHL land, and construct their own informal mountainside communities on the flanks of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa.
"Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm." -James Madison, The Federalist Papers, 1787
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the immortality required for the waiting list).
After construction of the TMT begins, and the current leaders of "The Protectors" become tired of standing with their back against the wall for mug shots (now, turn to your left), perhaps they'll gather for a followup Future of Mauna Kea meeting. And perhaps they'll refocus their attention on the agencies (OHA, DHHL) who could do so much more for their cause with homesteads and education.
I recently read a photo essay in The Atlantic Magazine about residents in remote Tierra del Fuego. There is a large group of people who cannot afford to live in the expensive town of Ushuaia, located at the far southern tip of the world, so they've set up their own accommodations in the hills a few miles away. Many of the photo captions refer to an "informal mountainside community."
It might be time, soon, for Native Hawaiians who are tired of waiting for a homestead, and who realize there are no telescopes keeping them from the homesteads they've been promised, to take matters into their own hands. Take matters, take DHHL land, and construct their own informal mountainside communities on the flanks of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa.
"Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm." -James Madison, The Federalist Papers, 1787
“We do this thing not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy.”