Posted on 02/11/2013 1:08:45 PM PST by BradtotheBone
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Eight people were arrested Monday at a construction site for the Keystone XL oil pipeline in central Oklahoma, including one man who locked himself to a crane-like piece of machinery, authorities said.
The two women and six men were arrested on trespassing complaints at the site near the town of Schoolton, Seminole County sheriff's Chief Deputy Chris Conn said. On woman also was cited for resisting arrest. None of their names has been released.
"We had several individuals on private property who refused to leave, and they were arrested for trespassing," Conn said. "One individual was chained to some equipment ... his wrists were chained together."
The organizers, Protesters from the Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance, cited environmental concerns and the oil extraction's impact on indigenous people as the reason for their protest.
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Mace them first.
These are Enviro Terrorists maybe the next president will use Drones on them.
But you advocate killing them???
They should have just run the machine all day with the moron chained to it.
I would find it hilarious if they went before an Okie judge who was a real hard rump, who gave each of them six months.
Such individuals count on just a slap on the wrist, and spending six months holiday in a concrete box full of DUIs and meth heads would seriously realign their stuff.
Locked themselves to something? I never understood why a can of gas and a road flare aren’t used for this?
That might not be that bad a idea. /s
If they cant see past their noses, want to heat their homes, want to drive their cars while suffering Obama unemployment perhaps they are too stupid to live? That oil represents cheap energy and a healthier economy. It means jobs.
Also, less reliance on corn. If you note, Obama’s policies are driving up the cost of food as corn is pretty much the largest grain used in the overall economy.
Oklahoma? Are you freaking kidding me? Is there anyplace these maggot brained libs haven’t infected?
I’d like to see them try to show up at the North Dakota oil tent cities....
There’s protest, and then there’s preventing somebody from making an honest living, which IMO is a form of slavery. These guys are worse than union thugs blocking “scabs” from taking their jobs.
I’d say the first step is simply to leave them chained there and lock the site.
Yep!
If I peacefully protest against Ethanol production, am I a drone target.
If I peacefully protest against Wind "energy"..am I a drone target?
If I say something against the POTUS...am I a drone target?
ETC...........
You give FR a bad name........
The guy on the crane is a youth pastor. Probably just out of college where he received a thorough brainwashing. The Right needs to make a huge push to reclaim higher education. We haven’t a chance of reclaiming the nation as long as the Left owns our colleges.
***Locked themselves to something?***
I could get them free real quick with a chainsaw and not damage the chain or lock!
bring in the short buses
Arrest them...charge them. This kind of crap has been going on for years....
My point was....no one needs to be raining fire down on them....for basically "peacefully" protesting.
I’d say the first step is simply to leave them chained there and lock the site.”
I agree and think I would also post someone in a warm, comfortable vehicle at the site to make sure that no one tries to free him. It can get pretty nasty in parts of Oklahoma at times.
"Release the hounds."
>> If I peacefully protest bla bla bla yadda yadda
Uh, what part of PRIVATE PROPERTY don’t you get?
If you drag your smelly hippie ass onto MY property to protest ANYTHING, you’re risking a bullet in the head.
I don’t give a damn how self-righteous or “entitled” you perceive yourself or your cause to be.
>> I could get them free real quick with a chainsaw and not damage the chain or lock!
Then again, you may not want that chain and lock hanging from your equipment.
An acetylene cutting torch used as near as possible to the chained body part would do the trick.
The only folks I know here in the U.S.A. that have ARMED DRONES are the FEDS.
Calm down.
Damn shame that a writer for the major daily paper in the new oil capital of the world (Houston) doesn’t know what a sideboom Caterpillar tractor is and how it’s used in pipeline construction.
Apparently idiots are allows to cross state borders. Who knew?
>> You give FR a bad name........
I was about to say the same thing about you.
>> The poster I responded to...advocated DRONE strikes on the protesters.
Whatever works. I DESPISE eco-vermin.
>> Calm down.
GFY
[. . .Protesters from the Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance, cited environmental concerns and the oil extraction’s impact on indigenous people. . .]
Haven’t these indigenous people heard of casinos?
and what if I cart a gun for Obama in his building of the North African caliphate for the MB?
I’ll probably be exempt.
Even thought its against America’s interests.
Houston may be the oil capital but it sure isn’t oilfield. We have people in the business here now who have never seen the oilfield. Just city people in just another 8 to 5 job.
I love that on my drove home from Houston each day I pass about 2 dozen oil wells, about the same in horse and at least twice as many cows.
Much of the area is given over to concrete and buildings, but fortunately not all of it.
I'd like to see them try to take the huge lease and royalty checks away from the indigenous people who live in the Bakken.
I know decent ordinary enrolled tribal members who have a half-dozen wells. Worth tens of millions of dollars over the years...more power to 'em!
Not for long..........
With you on that one. You shut down work on MY property you are taking food from the mouth of MY family.
It is no different from or better than theft.
Steal from me and mine at your own peril.
Great, you are on record.
And I won't comment on your slur.........
That's what the poster I responded to said........
And you think that's just spiffy!
Context is everything....apparently you don't understand that.
With you on that one. You shut down work on MY property you are taking food from the mouth of MY family.
It is no different from or better than theft. Steal from me and mine at your own peril.
I understand the sentiment......but neither one of you is going to "put a bullet in the head" of someone protesting...unless they physically threaten you or your family. Period.
These sociopaths need a lesson that private property is still "no trespassing" in this country....at least till Obama and his crew go to work on private property during the next 24 months....which they will.
Leni
Okay, no fire.
Is water okay?
Funny thing here in Osage County, OK.....the Osage Tribe runs roughshod over all land owners here...and have standards below EPA standards.
Local land owners ( SURFACE ONLY) have near zero redress....and the Osage Tribe basically appears to not care about the land that they once owned...but about $$$$$$$$.
Depending on where you live the days for that are numbered.
NW loop of Grand Parkway is about to bust the whole NW sector out like an explosion. You won’t be able to stir them with a good sized stick all the way to College Station some day.
Best answer of all. Let that candy-ass ride the boom
of that crane for about 12 hours, and he’ll be crying for
his mommy!
>> I understand the sentiment
I don’t think you do. And I’m not sure you understand Texas castle doctrine and trespass law, and the ramifications thereof.
But since you’ve outed yourself as an “occupy” sympathizer, I don’t really care what you think.
So have a nice day, hippie sympathizer (You’re On Record!) — and for your health, it would be wise to stay off of my “lawn”. If you know what I mean (and I think you do).
If I am unwilling to shoot forewarned, unknown trespassers on my rural parcel of land, it isn’t out of respect for their personhood, their protest cause or their association with some self-appointed noble soul like you.
The only reason whatsoever is the sad fact of laws passed at the behest of sensitive ninnies like you, which would bring the heavy hand of the law to bear on ME, not on you or them.
Worse still you seem to be a lonely ninny looking for an argument in order to bolster a sense of moral superiority that no one else here recognizes, or even gives a crap about.
Go find a picket line to join or a petition to sign. Somebody of your sort will find you absolutely fascinating, I’m sure.
More associates of government-connected NIMBYs posing as environmentalists in their improper methods of competition. Disgusting. And as for “property values,” there are none. There won’t be any. Give it up, socialists.
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