11-28-2018, 08:11 AM
A new commentary in Civil Beat on the opposition to TMT. Excerpt:
"...it’s worth pointing out to Hawaii taxpayers that attempts to build the TMT will cost much more than the $1.4 billion we keep hearing. That project will bleed money, just like the Honolulu rail, only worse. The TMT Corp won’t be digging any ordinary hole in that mountain. There will be, in astronomy’s vernacular, a black hole.
Why?
The most obvious expense will be a militarized police force sent to arrest hundreds, maybe thousands of Hawaiians spread out over many months, possibly years. Then there’s the cost to process and incarcerate a steady flow of Hawaiians who will make every inch of that project a miserable venture by blocking it physically, even if we have to do so at the pointy end of a gun...."
https://www.civilbeat.org/2018/11/there-...PhxzE2fr_Q
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Too bad we can't get those thousands of Hawaiians to march on Hawaiian Homelands and occupy their land (land that rightfully should be in the hands of native Hawaiians now.)
"...it’s worth pointing out to Hawaii taxpayers that attempts to build the TMT will cost much more than the $1.4 billion we keep hearing. That project will bleed money, just like the Honolulu rail, only worse. The TMT Corp won’t be digging any ordinary hole in that mountain. There will be, in astronomy’s vernacular, a black hole.
Why?
The most obvious expense will be a militarized police force sent to arrest hundreds, maybe thousands of Hawaiians spread out over many months, possibly years. Then there’s the cost to process and incarcerate a steady flow of Hawaiians who will make every inch of that project a miserable venture by blocking it physically, even if we have to do so at the pointy end of a gun...."
https://www.civilbeat.org/2018/11/there-...PhxzE2fr_Q
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Too bad we can't get those thousands of Hawaiians to march on Hawaiian Homelands and occupy their land (land that rightfully should be in the hands of native Hawaiians now.)