Trump Is Blowing Up a National Monument in Arizona to Make Way for the Border Wall

[babylonsister]

Trump Is Blowing Up a National Monument in Arizona to Make Way for the Border Wall
Ryan Devereaux
February 6 2020, 2:24 p.m.


Contractors working for the Trump administration are blowing apart a mountain on protected lands in southern Arizona to make way for the president’s border wall. The blasting is happening on the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, a tract of Sonoran Desert wilderness long celebrated as one of the nation’s great ecological treasures, that holds profound spiritual significance to multiple Native American groups.

In a statement to The Intercept, U.S. Customs and Border Protection confirmed that the blasting began this week and will continue through the end of the month. “The construction contractor has begun controlled blasting, in preparation for new border wall system construction, within the Roosevelt Reservation at Monument Mountain in the U.S. Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector,” the statement said, referring to an area also known as Monument Hill. “The controlled blasting is targeted and will continue intermittently for the rest of the month.”

The agency added that it “will continue to have an environmental monitor present during these activities as well as on-going clearing activities.”

Rep. Raúl Grijalva, an Arizona Democrat and chair of the House Committee on Natural Resources, told The Intercept that he has zero faith that the Department of Homeland Security’s “environmental monitor will do anything to avoid, mitigate, or even point out some of the sacrilegious things that are occurring and will continue to occur, given the way they’re proceeding.”

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https://theintercept.com/2020/02/06/border-wall-construction-organ-pipe/?fbclid=IwAR09n4IJxku5pvJ94P8y17Tdr9bv6UEQLMLqSgQsL1f9jkZxs2oAZVg0qQA

[democrank]

1. Makes me sick

[Bettie]

2. Of course he is

because who cares about nature and stuff.

I'm thinking strip mining and oil drilling in the Grand Canyon by summer.

[dhill926]

9. certainly in Utah....

[Newest Reality]

3. The Pest!

One, bloated, orange locust plagues this land, his obese shadow spreading across the hills and valleys like a dark, ominous cloud.

The wave of utter destruction now continues unabated as the Trump Bulldozer razes democracy and everything else in its way in order to make way for a new, but chintzy, empty, facade of a country with his name on it. Poor taste will be the building style.

We ain't seen nothin' yet.

[Ms. Toad]

4. Remind you of anyone?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/07/30/what-mullah-omar-took-from-afghanistan-that-can-never-be-returned/

[Hermit-The-Prog]

11. Trump's cult is the U.S. equivalent of ISIS

[lapfog_1]

5. If you hike in the area and intentionally damage

a saguaro cactus... the fines are astronomical... $3000 back 20 years ago.

They are probably bulldozing hundreds to thousands of them.

[Initech]

6. Everything Trump touches dies!!

[panader0]

7. Only a very small amount of new wall has actually been built.

Some reporter fact checking rump's SOTU said only a mile was actually new.
The rest of the wall rump claimed was work on existing fence. The wall he posed
in front of last year with his name on a plaque was built under Obama.
On edit: There may be some clearing going on, also very damaging to the
environment.

https://www.snopes.com/ap/2019/04/05/a-look-at-the-state-of-the-wall-on-the-us-mexico-border/

[in2herbs]

8. If memory serves me right, it was reported that some of this wall will have to be

open at all times during the monsoon season to let the rains flow. So Grijalva needs to recheck the DHS environmental monitor and ask what the purpose is to the destruction and wall if it will be open almost half the year for rains.

[struggle4progress]

10. "We were inspired when the Taliban blew up the Buddhas of Bamyan"

[Ms. Toad]

12. GMTA

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212960352#post4

[struggle4progress]

14. I didn't noticed you beat me to it!

[Blue_Tires]

13. Aren't Devereaux and his Intercept buddies happy?

After all, they whored for Trump harder than any "liberal" publication in 2016, and they're doing the same now...

[sakabatou]

15. Good god....

[mahatmakanejeeves]

16. Video:

Taliban destroys Bamiyan Buddha statues in 2001
July 29, 2015 | 4:15 PM EDT
This footage, released by NATO, shows the moment that the Buddhas were exploded by the Taliban in March 2001. Before they were destroyed, the statues were the world’s largest standing Buddhas.

https://www.nbcnews.com/video/flashback-the-destruction-of-the-buddhas-of-bamiyan-409457219869

Afghanistan's destroyed Buddhas to return - BBC News
88,913 views•Apr 24, 2019

BBC News
6.19M subscribers

When the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in 1996, they imposed an extremist version of Islamic law across the country. They tried to erase all traces of a rich pre-Islamic past and ordered the destruction of ancient statues, including the world's tallest standing Buddhas.

Buddhas Of Bamiyan | Two Giant Statues Of Buddha | In Short | Episode 166
158 views•May 4, 2018

Global SciTech
4.52K subscribers
"Episode 166
Bamiyan
The Bamiyan Valley north west of the Afghan capital Kabul lies on the old silk trading route that ran from China to western Asia. It is known for its two giant statues of Buddha."


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