06-04-2018, 04:45 AM
Justin: "I understood Mark to be making the point that its hypocritical to be closing off a subdivision to people who own/rent homes there because of "danger", yet putting smiling faces on TV in that closed-off area without any safety equipment."
That was my 3rd point.
My 1st point is that there is a deep history of people traveling far to see one of nature's most awe inspiring sites: a volcanic eruption. Some comments from Samuel Clemens visiting Halemaumau in 1866.
"The greater part of the vast floor of the desert under us was as black as ink, and apparently smooth and level; but over a mile square of it was ringed and streaked and striped with a thousand branching streams of liquid and gorgeously brilliant fire! It looked like a colossal railroad map of the State of Massachusetts done in chain lightning on a midnight sky. Imagine it - imagine a coal-black sky shivered into a tangled network of angry fire!"
"A colossal column of cloud towered to a great height in the air immediately above the crater, and the outer swell of every one of its vast folds was dyed with a rich crimson luster...I thought it just possible that its like had not been seen since the children of Israel wandered on their long march through the desert so many centuries ago over a path illuminated by the mysterious "pillar of fire." And I was sure that I now had a vivid conception of what the majestic "pillar of fire" was like, which almost amounted to a revelation."
http://www.instanthawaii.com/cgi-bin/hi?Volcano.twain
Not the slightest surprise in my mind that lava vista seekers--derisively called "loiterers"--are seeking entry to the lava area, and will risk fines and arrest to see this natural event.
Sorry if my statements might egg these criminals on, but my observations pale to the matter of CD allowing journalists to do their newscasts right next to streaming lava, or barely 1/2 mile away from a giant fountain (in background). Most of the journalists can be observed to be spellbound by what they see.
And that's not egging people on to want the same lava access? And that's point #2.
That was my 3rd point.
My 1st point is that there is a deep history of people traveling far to see one of nature's most awe inspiring sites: a volcanic eruption. Some comments from Samuel Clemens visiting Halemaumau in 1866.
"The greater part of the vast floor of the desert under us was as black as ink, and apparently smooth and level; but over a mile square of it was ringed and streaked and striped with a thousand branching streams of liquid and gorgeously brilliant fire! It looked like a colossal railroad map of the State of Massachusetts done in chain lightning on a midnight sky. Imagine it - imagine a coal-black sky shivered into a tangled network of angry fire!"
"A colossal column of cloud towered to a great height in the air immediately above the crater, and the outer swell of every one of its vast folds was dyed with a rich crimson luster...I thought it just possible that its like had not been seen since the children of Israel wandered on their long march through the desert so many centuries ago over a path illuminated by the mysterious "pillar of fire." And I was sure that I now had a vivid conception of what the majestic "pillar of fire" was like, which almost amounted to a revelation."
http://www.instanthawaii.com/cgi-bin/hi?Volcano.twain
Not the slightest surprise in my mind that lava vista seekers--derisively called "loiterers"--are seeking entry to the lava area, and will risk fines and arrest to see this natural event.
Sorry if my statements might egg these criminals on, but my observations pale to the matter of CD allowing journalists to do their newscasts right next to streaming lava, or barely 1/2 mile away from a giant fountain (in background). Most of the journalists can be observed to be spellbound by what they see.
And that's not egging people on to want the same lava access? And that's point #2.