[samtheman]

I know I don’t have a vote on this but I’m voting here anyway:

I vote for the telescope and for the construction to continue.

[DesertRhino]

Their creation story. We are stopping a science project. A telescope. A quiet telescope, exploring the universe, because a bunch of ignorant savages have a fictional story about a mountain.
Did a big bear chase them to the top? And can you still see the claw marks in the stone?
Lunacy.

[cripplecreek]

"You can't even get to the discussion point until they stop construction, put more zeroes on the check."

[Poison Pill]

Native Hawaiians, who believe the telescope site is sacred because it is where their creation story begins

Volcano craters are pretty large. The telescope can't have that big a footprint. Does Pele hate telescopes or something? Can't they do their hocus pokus juju crap down the road and still be on "sacred" ground?

[Vinnie]

30 meters? I’m guessing numerous smaller apertures adding up to 30 meters.

[Moonman62]

Project opponents question whether land appraisals were done correctly and whether Native Hawaiian groups were consulted, so they have tried to prevent construction of the $1.4 billion Thirty Meter Telescope.

...

Let me guess. This is actually a shakedown and the real dispute is over money.

[dfwgator]

Why is it so sacred, King Kamehameha once took a dump there?

[IronJack]

The grass skirt crowd will be defended as simple natives trying to preserve their way of life, while Christians trying to avoid homosexuality are cast as self-righteous bigots.

And climate change deniers are accused of being “anti-science.”

Liberalism: When Lies Collide.

[CodeToad]

I don’t think there are any native Hawaiian’s anymore. they are all Asian infused.

[smokingfrog]

If they build the telescope and the volcano suddenly becomes no longer dormant, then the gods will have spoken.

[Joe 6-pack]

Declaring it a gay telescope should trump any religious objections.

[Let's Roll]

Construction stopped, uh, until the, uh, right “fees” have been paid to the right people.

[jobim]

This is happening in my backyard - the Big Island's handsupdon'tshoot. This miniscule group of Alinski activists gets its inspiration from the same script that directs the activities of lawless progressives everywhere. One of them is veteran street-theater-rabble-rouser Jim Albertini, who found his fame 30 years ago jumping in the harbor to prevent a nuclear sub from docking in Hilo.

But I can inform you all that people here want this telescope and all that comes with it. It's the media, our local reporters, who themselves are like "journalists" everywhere, liberal mouthpieces, who pump up this controversy.

[rockrr]

Can’t they just think of it as a nose ring or something?

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

The return to the stone age is what these people want. Some groups are UNABLE to advance technologically; and now that they have a hearing they flex their ignorant muscles.

[RedStateRocker]

As with ANYONE who stands in the way of science: FOAD.

[onedoug]

Seems like the same primitive mentality that murdered Captain James Cook.