With 13 International Telescopes Currently Atop Hawaii’s Mauna Kea, Adding Another Is A “Desecration?”

Telescopes atop Hawaii Island's Mauna Kea and Maui Island's Haleakala are tasked with early detection of asteroids with earth-crossing trajectories.

To claim that Mauna Kea belongs to a small group of imperious Pacific Islanders, some of whom are interlopers not from Hawaii, is preposterous, not just because they don’t get to decide such things for other Hawaiians or kama`aina, but they don’t get to decide anything for anyone. 

I live on Hawaii Island and I pay taxes, and those hard-earned taxes paid the cost of building and maintaining the roads on Mauna Kea and those that lead to it, and yet the eunuchs that compose our island government are allowing a group of primitive tribalists to commandeer and block the roads—and delegate who gets to drive on them and who do not.

It doesn’t help that entitled millionaire movie star assholes like Duane Johnson and Jason Mamoa claiming to be concerned about the environment whilst flying across the Pacific Ocean on their luxury private jet planes profess to be in solidarity with this tribe of primitive renegades for their own selfish Hollywood PR photo-op purposes. What phonies these two have shown themselves to be.

Everyone has a culture—you and me and everyone else on this earth. We all have beliefs. No one else’s culture trumps yours, or mine, or theirs. We are all equal—or so we’re told, that is, until a band of primeval misfits shows up and suddenly decides they’re in charge.

Shame on cowardly local TV stations KITV, KGMB, KHNL and KHON for providing virtually no publicity whatsoever to those lettered native Hawaiians who support science and the telescope and the benefits it brings to Hawaii and to the world, which includes early detection of earth-bound asteroids. It’s as simple an equation as formally educated Hawaiians vs. the uneducated.

Many of us have to make the 3-hour drive across the island to receive medical care, and the protesters have virtually shut down that main highway, only adding to the stress and fatigue and additional time it requires to make the arduous trip.

Try having skin cancer surgery sometime, then having to drive an exhausting 3+ hours to get back home without pain pills—and then coming upon a roadblock.