Letter: Leaders of TMT protest out for own power gain

Maui Office of Hawaiian Affairs Trustee Carmen Hulu Lindsay’s TV news performance while being arrested for protesting the Thirty Meter Telescope was vile.

This Realtor who sells Hawaii to the highest bidder lives in a posh Kula neighborhood on Maui with more than 9,500 square feet of living space on two acres. I had ohana die on the Hawaiian Homes list who never got land.

OHA and the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands should be dismantled. Like the greedy fat cats who run them, I believe the “leaders” of the TMT protests, many of whom own land, are manipulating disenfranchised kanaka around a false narrative for their own power gain.

I do not feel sorry for a very tiny number who claim they can’t pray on the mauna, while I get on a plane once again, leaving my ohana, because I can’t afford a home. Step aside and let the TMT be built. Address substantive issues.

Kanani Stephens

Kahului

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