[ExI] Update on the Hawaiian observatory shutdown

[Stuart LaForge]

Quoting Rafal Smigrodzki:
   
>  The astronomers most certainly need to leverage the 
> support of the 44% of native Hawaiians who are in favor of the TMT 
> against the 48% that oppose it. That's just a 4% margin and easily 
> within the sway of clever PR and marketing.
>
> ### I am not sure about the "easily" part.
> Going against passionate and hateful ethnics is not easy, unless you  
> can nuke them from orbit. But, short of that, we good people should  
> organize into a political pressure group, The Friends of Science,  
> with a direct action arm called The Friends of Scientists. Hulking  
> grad students, casually swinging their baseball bats, should  
> accompany scientists as they walk through enemy lines to man (or  
> woman) the telescopes. Make it into a show of force, don't pick  
> fights but finish them.
> Political success relies on PR and heavy boots, stomping on faces.

Funny the protesters don't look violent at all. They look like old  
people sitting in lawn chairs with their grand kids.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mauna-kea-protest-activists-block-road-in-protest-of-hawaii-telescope-location-2019-07-15/

It's going to take some hardened mafioso types to swing baseball bats  
through that crowd and stomp those faces.

Can you find a link to the alleged battery?

Stuart LaForge