selective enforcement and prosecution of the law used to be a crime...
Posted on 09/12/2014 2:54:06 AM PDT by Libloather
FALL RIVER, Mass. – In May 2013, two environmental activists piloted a lobster boat close to the vast pile of coal at the Brayton Point Power Station, the hulking plant that overlooks this industrial inlet near the border between Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
With the tiny boat, the two men – Jay O’Hara, 32, and Ken Ward, 57 – dropped anchor and for a day blocked a freighter with a 40,000-ton shipment of coal, and they were arrested and charged with conspiracy, disturbing the peace and other violations.
The two were scheduled to be tried on Monday, and they planned to deploy an old legal argument called the necessity defence: They had no choice but to act because the consequences of climate change are so dire. But instead of a jury trial, the major charges were dropped or downgraded by the district attorney, who said, in effect, that he was sympathetic to the defendants’ point of view on climate change.
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The hoax denying goofballs are in charge.
Yup. Absolutely no rule of law. Unless you’re a conservative, white, Christian male. Then you get 10 to life.
This winter when it is ten degrees outside and the coal fired power plants on the east coast shut down because they don’t have any coal to burn and the power goes off in his neighborhood I wonder how grave a crises Global Warming will be in this idiot’s mind.
Shut down New England coal fired generating plants, and stop delivery of home heating oil. Enjoy a green winter.
Oh, and don't emigrate to FL, we have more than enough imported Leftist loonies.
Disgraceful. Ruled by the current whims of men.
But, this DA will now be rewarded and win his election by a landslide in the liberal looney bin of Massachusetts.
Try blocking the entrance to an abortion mill and see how sympathetic the DA is. There is now no rule of law. There is only political whim of those in power.
Disbar the DA.
There is a crisis of corrupt lawless DAs who need to be removed from office by whatever means needed. Does the DA have a problem with someone removing the threat he poses?
Wait, wouldn’t we have wanted one of the “hoax denying goofballs” in charge here? Looks like everybody involved is a true believer.
Massachusetts must be purged from the Union. It is no longer America
You want to be exclusively green despite having an abundance of potential energy underfoot? Be my guest. That's what federalism is all about - 50 separate experiments, based on what the people of the state want. Or, as the Left would say, karma is karma.
The power company should immediately file a RICO civil case against these environmental terrorists.
A DA who is “sympathetic to the defendants” has no business on the case. He should have recused himself. Given his lack of professionalism he should be thrown out of office.
selective enforcement and prosecution of the law used to be a crime...
When DA’s take sides like this instead of doing their jobs, they need to be fired.
Freighter should have run them down. “Oops, we didn’t see the boat.”
Re: The defendants’ claim of a “Necessity Defense.”
We had no choice, Your Honor. Illegal aliens with infectious diseases, cartel members trafficking drugs and humans, and Islamic terrorists bent on our destruction were streaming over the U.S.-Mexico border into our communities. It was a necessity to block that border! We’re not guilty.
Yeah, that’ll work for us. /s
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