Trump is blowing up a national monument in Arizona for his damn wall

[IcyPeas]

https://theintercept.com/2020/02/06/border-wall-construction-organ-pipe/

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.

Celebrated as “a pristine example of an intact Sonoran Desert ecosystem,” Organ Pipe was designated as a UNESCO International Biosphere Reserve in 1976. Even before the explosions began, the construction there was already one of Trump’s most controversial border wall projects, unfolding on the homelands of the Tohono O’odham and in areas that are ostensibly safeguarded by the strictest public-land designations on the books.

Neither factor has stopped contractors from drilling into the ground and draining water from a rare desert aquifer in order to mix concrete to support a towering, 30-foot barrier along the U.S.-Mexico divide. In working to fulfill the president’s chief campaign promise, construction crews on Organ Pipe have uprooted saguaro cacti, slicing the iconic plants into chunks and bulldozed a wide roadway to make room for trucks, cranes, and other construction vehicles.

All this shit is going on while he goes about ranting and raving daily on the tv.

[rurallib]

1. That is horrible. Those cacti can ever be replaced.

[dhill926]

2. wishing for a creative monkeywrencher....

to make an appearance...

[llmart]

4. Ha!

Someone else who's read the book.

I loved that book.

[sakabatou]

3. He doesn't give a damn about nature

[meow2u3]

5. New Native American curse on Trump in 3...2...1...

When is this monster going to learn that you don't mess with Native American spirituality and live to tell about it? Just saying as a warning against disrespect.