RE: "da shack" and that poor flag.
First of all, those idiots deliberately attached wood pieces over the flag to make it difficult to remove.
The cop with the saw was trying to cut the wood off the flag, not destroy the flag.
How respectful is it to nail or screw wood over a flag?
Secondly, da shack was disapproved by the elders or whomever is leading the protest movement.
The reason was that "they" (the leaders) WANTED TO MINIMIZE THE FOOTPRINT left behind by the protest activity.
The end result was that the aina was disturbed MUCH MORE than necessary by constructing the illegal shack because the state had to bring in heavy equipment to remove all that crap.
And by the way, everybody knows that da shack, AKA "keiki learning center library" was bullshit. They knew it, the news reporters knew it.
What parent in their right mind would let their child go into a makeshift structure like that?
So now what you have up there on the mountain are rebel factions forming with conflicting ideas on what should or should-not be done.
And idiots on Oahu who really just want to attract attention to their shiny F150's, Tacomas and Silverados by obstructing traffic on a lovely Sunday morning.
--end of rant--