Really Ron?! ADVERTISING Really Ron?! Let’s put TMT on the fast track and sacrifice one of Hawaii Nei’s most sacred sites (if not the most sacred site). Really? It is good that you recognize the “non-negotiable ” position taken by
Really Ron?!
Let’s put TMT on the fast track and sacrifice one of Hawaii Nei’s most sacred sites (if not the most sacred site). Really? It is good that you recognize the “non-negotiable ” position taken by the “minority” (which is actually the remaining sacred, conscious, native occupants of these sacred lands).
Let’s try to get you to recognize something else, the sacredness of Mauna Kea is non-negotiable! Just like the article about the elephants slowly being brought to extinction as the result of greedy poacher’s and unconscious individuals (opposite page of your column). Sacred sites of Hawaii Nei are the same. Once they are desecrated and destroyed, they are gone forever!
So let’s weigh this one out here, high-tech jobs, gazing further into the universe (which is fabulous and a worthy endeavor, once we get our environmental “ducks in a row” down here on Earth), and of course money (it is always money at the core of all desecration of spiritual matters) versus recognizing that all things manifest from spirit and Mauna Kea is the focal point. The “piko,” if you will, of the planet that needs to be recognized, honored and protected for what it truly is. It is where Akua’s spiritual umbilical cord is connected to the planet for the well-being of all. Yes, I actually went there.
But people who cannot fathom the depth of the spiritual value of this sacred place and have contempt for sacred beliefs of native peoples just take things like I just stated and simply “make them wrong” and poo-poo them. So let me try to balance this out for you Ron, and all those that think this is superstitious native (or should i say, savage) poo-poo.
What has been proposed, attempted, and hurried through manipulation to get this telescope project pushed through and put front and center is as perverse and desecrating as this example. Not that I wish this to be done but for example sake: Let us tear down the Lincoln Monument in Washington, D.C. so that we can build a mosque or let us dig up Arlington Cemetery so we can frack for oil.
Now do you get how disgusting and spiritually perverted this is to Aloha Aina?! Oh yeah, while you’re at it, yes, we want all war games and bombings of our sacred land immediately stopped. Get the military off Mauna Kea and stop playing doctor GMO Frankenstein with our sacred, already naturally perfect, kalo plant.
Mahalo and truly I say to you malama pono and Malama Aloha Aina.
Kendall Bintliff is a resident of Waimea
