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Hawaii Protesters Block Access Road To Stop Construction Of Massive Telescope
About 300 demonstrators are trying to halt construction on the controversial Thirty Meter Telescope, developers of which are supposed to break ground on Hawaii's Big Island this week. Before the sun came up on the summit of Mauna Kea, the island's tallest mountain, a group of about half a dozen protesters chained themselves to a grate in the road at the base of the dormant volcano in an attempt to block workers from accessing the only paved road onto the what they say is a sacred site.
Imai Winchester, a teacher from Oahu who was among the protesters chained to the road, said he arrived at about 3 a.m. local time. "A handful of us committed ourselves to this action to bring light to the situation here," Winchester told KHON. The goal of the civil disobedience, he said, is to inform people about the "desecration of our lands, the failure of the state and its agencies to properly manage something that is important." He added that he expected to be arrested for the nonviolent protest but that it is the group's "burden as well as our privilege to show our children and the rest of the world how much we love our land."
Daniel Meisenzahl, a spokesman for the University of Hawaii, a member of the international partnership of scientists behind the telescope, said it is unclear if the protest has delayed construction convoys.
Previously: Divisive Giant Telescope Cleared for Construction on Hawaiian Peak
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 16 2019, @05:57PM
According to your citation, 50 people were killed in 2018 which were attributed to right wing extremists. Other than the Tree of Life murders, the others were tenuously attributable with the right wing. Let's look at the big picture, why don't we? In Chicago alone, six were murdered and 63 injured in shootings over the Fourth of July holiday weekend. There have been 271 murdered since the beginning of this year and 765 for all of 2018. That's over 15 times the total right wing extremist deaths for the entire US in 2018 in just one city. Chicago is also not a right wing sanctuary. Baltimore had 177 murders so far this year and 318 in all of 2018. Detroit scored 304 murders in 2018. That right wing terrorism bs the left loves to repeat is no more than a rounding error on blue state homicides.
If 50 deaths per year is the standard you want to use, my calculations say that we have another 42 years of zero muslim terrorist murders just to break even with all those murdered on 9-11.