Posted on 05/01/2017 6:50:51 AM PDT by rktman
Let's imagine that an activist for a conservative cause supported committing physical violence up to and including murder against people doing things he or she sees as "immoral" in a letter to the editor at a local newspaper, and that this same person was behind a state ballot initiative designed to limit the activities of those "immoral" people.
No one would reasonably expect that the leading newspaper in the state involved would for all practical purposes ignore this person's activities. But from all appearances, the Denver Post has virtually ignored the violence-advocating Andrew O'Connor, as well as his co-sponsorship of a Colorado ballot initiative to double the severance tax on the "immoral" oil and gas industry, since April 19.
On April 19, a letter to the editor from O'Connor appeared in the Boulder Daily Camera. According to the Daily Caller, the original content of O'Connor's letter included the following text (bolds are mine throughout this post):
If the oil and gas industry puts fracking wells in our neighborhoods, threatening our lives and our children’s lives, then don’t we have a moral responsibility to blow up wells and eliminate fracking and workers?
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
NON print version:
When you walk around talking about how someone needs to be killed, don’t be surprised when they get the same idea about you.
Ping
Abortion threatens children’s lives by stopping their heartbeat... so. What does he think about that?
Spooky point of view.
Typical of erf savers of his ilk. Think ‘elf’ and probably some ‘antifa’ assclowns as well.
No doubt that sierra club or nrdc will front the legal reps.
Think of the movies HELLFIGHTERS (1968) and TULSA (1949, Kuwait after the US drove Saddam out.. Do they really want to set the oil fields on fire?
Great jobs for men like Red Adair.
It seems the leftist with their violence and threats are immune to prosecution. I don’t understand this.
It's gotten worse than that. The antifrackers have taken to derailing railroad shipments when they believe oil drilling equipment is aboard, even when the trains are passing through residential neighborhoods and other cars in the train contain hazardous materials. They're liable to kill more Americans than the 9/11 terrorists did with their airplane suicide bombs.
Early in the morning of April 20th we poured concrete on the train tracks that lead out of the Port of Olympia to block any trains from using the tracks. We took precautions to notify BNSF (the train company) – we called them and we used wires to send a signal that the tracks were blocked. We did this not to avoid damaging a train, nothing would bring bigger grins to our faces, but to avoid the risk of injuring railway workers.
This action was done to disrupt the movement of trains carrying proppants used in natural gas fracturing. These train tracks are part of a system of pipelines, fracking wells, mines, clearcuts, control centers, fiberoptics, dams, highways and factories that cover the planet and are physical manifestations of a process that is destroying the ecosystems, cultures, and inhabitants everywhere. Behind this network of infrastructure there are politicians, CEOs and bureaucrats who have private security, cops, prison guards, non-profit directors, PR consultants and the legacy of 500 years of colonization to back them up. We oppose all of these manifestations, infrastructural, personal and ideological. We blocked the train tracks because we want to blockade the entire web of domination that is slowly killing us.
We were inspired to take this action by acts of resistance taking place across turtle island and the world, particularly the fierce indigenous resistance of water protectors against the Dakota Access Pipe Line, the encampment blocking a train full of fracking material on these same tracks in Olympia this past November, and the clandestine attacks against pipelines in Florida, South Dakota and Iowa.
We also were emboldened by the spirit of all those who have risen against the white supremacist police in Furguson, Baltimore, Oakland and elsewhere, as well as by the riotous opposition that has characterized the first few months of Donald Trump’s reign.
Resistance to this many-tendriled death machine has and must take many forms. Some have set their goals narrow and try just to stop the port from shipping proppants. We are aiming beyond, for a liberation that destroys all vestiges of oppression and colonization leaving us free to experiment with ways of living in cooperation on our own terms. We want to unlearn the legacies of domination that we have inherited. We need a diverse and vibrant resistance composed of more forms of destruction, mutual aid and solidarity than we can yet imagine.
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