text: Respectfully, I disagree.  The true and abiding issue in both battles, DAPL and TMT, has to do with the protection of what is sacred to a culture from desecration. All other issues are secondary, very secondary, to this one.  Those opposed to the building of 'just one more telescope' on Mauna Kea have clearly stated over and over they do not oppose the telescope or the scientific value of its work.  They vehemently and rightfully oppose the building of it on an extremely sacred site to the Hawaiian culture, Mauna Kea. It is well documented that Mauna Kea was sacred to the Hawaiian people pre-contact and remained sacred to the Hawaiian culture post-contact. This is not a new battle. It is just one battle of many in an ongoing war for keeping the summit of Mauna Kea sacred which started when the first telescope on the sacred summit was proposed in the 1960s. Each and every telescope built on the summit of Mauna Kea is a desecration of a sacred site. Enough!