Re: ATM - Bad News for Hawaii Telescopes

[Simon Fourstar <sfourstar@earthlink.net>]

>  As a person who has native blood, though you could not tell to look at
> me. This is getting a little out of hand. There is no doller amount you
> can give, that can compinsate for the land of your hearitage. How would
> you feel if another culture dug up the grave site of your grandmother, or
> greatgrandmother to build who cares? Or if the Vatican is bulldozed for a
> golf course? Or Jeroslume were to be developed in to a subdevision? Or if
> some one were to offer you money in return for what ever it may be you
> consider sacred (if there is any thing, besides money)? The people of
> Hawaii consider the whole of there land sacred. And a great deal of that
> land has been, defaced. As well as with the whole of the American
> continent. If the operaters and developers of the observatories can not
> be mindful, of the agreements that they have made. The observatories need
> to be removed and the land left to those for whom it belongs in the first
> place.

 The unfortunate truth is that will never happen. There is no respect for
anything in this culture, except of course money.

Simon