I completely agree earlier would have been much better.
This is yet one more case where the rule of law is ignored and celebrated. We are watching the end. The end of our republic.
Without rule of law we cannot continue and then the next step of “they’re coming for you next” is just a matter of course.

Thanks Bob.

Chris: The problem with what you propose, as legal as it might be, is that we have become a society that honors protesters, no matter what, especially if they are willing to endure such treatment. The ordinary civilized citizen, who goes about his or her business and lives peaceably, is ignored, even if they are big majority.

Should the Hawaiian state government take the action you propose, the protesters will be touted then as martyrs by the press and other politicians, and will get even more power.

The time to have prevented this was at the beginning. The Democratic governor, David Ige, knew when construction was scheduled to begin. He could have put a strong police presence on the mountain then, before the situation was out of control. Had he done so, construction would have proceeded and the protesters’ power games would have been blocked.

But then, Ige is a Democrat. He has done exactly what I predicted. He mouths support for the law, but it is to this mob that his loyalties really lie.

“Essentially the protesters now run Mauna Kea, and have the right to ban anyone they don’t like from going there. This is essentially mob rule, since the law does not give them that right, and in fact has always given access rights to everyone.”

Exactly. The State of Hawaii is setting a terrible judicial precedent in which mob rule obviates the rule of law and the rights of individuals, but this is the whole “point” of the progressives’ Gramscian march through our established institutions. And, once the inconvenient rule of law has been effectively set aside — and the sheeple demonstrate that they will happily go along with this — anything is possible. Tulsi Gabbard, in particular, ought to be asked about this at her next debate / speaking engagement, but no one in the presstitute media would dare ask her such a “loaded” question.

Question: If the State of Hawaii continues to refuse to enforce the rule of law in such cases, and it fails to protect the legal rights of everyone who works at the observatories on Mauna Kea, can the federal Department of Justice intervene on their behalf in such a case? THAT would be an interesting confrontation.