07-02-2019, 06:36 PM
From Tuesday's Honolulu Civil Beat:
https://www.civilbeat.org/2019/07/a-tipp...a-a-wakea/
"For one of many examples, the project’s highly toxic construction — whose footprint equals that of the Eiffel Tower — threatens to contaminate the water aquifer below. The state of Hawaii, however, often peering through a colonialist perspective, continues to push for the 18-story monstrosity.
Its disregard for legal, environmental and cultural protocol has made appearances throughout this decade-old conflict, then reappeared on June 20. In the middle of the night Hale Ku Kiai Mauna (a traditional Hawaiian prayer hut), two ahu (small stone shrines), and Hale Kuhio were all destroyed.
Though the structures were not unsafe, illegal or environmentally destructive like the TMT, the state insisted they were “unauthorized” and had to be “dismantled.” To say that the ahu did not “constitute a traditional or customary right or practice” is a bald-faced lie in clear violation of First Amendment rights."
Is it worth playing the game of spot the lie? I see at least seven in those three paragraphs alone.
https://www.civilbeat.org/2019/07/a-tipp...a-a-wakea/
"For one of many examples, the project’s highly toxic construction — whose footprint equals that of the Eiffel Tower — threatens to contaminate the water aquifer below. The state of Hawaii, however, often peering through a colonialist perspective, continues to push for the 18-story monstrosity.
Its disregard for legal, environmental and cultural protocol has made appearances throughout this decade-old conflict, then reappeared on June 20. In the middle of the night Hale Ku Kiai Mauna (a traditional Hawaiian prayer hut), two ahu (small stone shrines), and Hale Kuhio were all destroyed.
Though the structures were not unsafe, illegal or environmentally destructive like the TMT, the state insisted they were “unauthorized” and had to be “dismantled.” To say that the ahu did not “constitute a traditional or customary right or practice” is a bald-faced lie in clear violation of First Amendment rights."
Is it worth playing the game of spot the lie? I see at least seven in those three paragraphs alone.