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Group says coal protesters unable to make bail
WCHS ^ | May 24, 2009 | Staff

Posted on 05/25/2009 3:55:38 AM PDT by csvset

BEAVER, W.Va. Environmental group Mountain Justice says six people arrested on trespassing charges during a coal mining protest are still jailed.

The group said Sunday the six have been unable to raise $2,000 cash apiece to make bail.

All six were arrested a day earlier at Richmond, Va.-based Massey Energy Co.'s Marfork Coal mining complex in Pettus. Mountain Justice says they were protesting Richmond, Va.-based Massey's plan to blast at the mine.

Mountain Justice and a group called Climate Ground Zero say blasting could cause a coal slurry dam at the site to collapse.

The arrests are the latest in a string of approximately a half dozen trespassing incidents at Massey mines in West Virginia this year.

Massey operates mines in West Virginia, Kentucky and Virginia.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: coal; massey; protest; wv
Have a nice weekend !
1 posted on 05/25/2009 3:55:38 AM PDT by csvset
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To: csvset

Are they going to arrest Barry when he starts shutting down coal mines?


2 posted on 05/25/2009 4:03:17 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: csvset
Actions have consequences..............Hmmmm, strange concept/s

do they teach that in college?

3 posted on 05/25/2009 4:05:00 AM PDT by MrPiper
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hoisted by their own retards?

not to offend anyone hopefully


4 posted on 05/25/2009 4:14:40 AM PDT by GeronL
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Imagine the phone call;

Michael? .... Yeah, it's me Thomas

Thomas Smith ... we met before you sent us out ... remember?

OK, never mind ... anyway, we've been arrested and you said if that happened to give you a call ....

Yeah .... ya ... right ....... $2000

No, each.

But it's Memoriol Day weekend!

My parents are expecting me in Connecticut!

Michael, YOU said ....

NO man! ... you said you'd ...

MY F***IN' CAR WILL COST THAT MUCH TO GET IT BACK BY THEN!!

LISTEN .. YOU SAID ......

Michael? ... Mike?

Hello?


(Not far from a true story from the archives of knarf)

5 posted on 05/25/2009 4:33:43 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: knarf

his cellmate calls him Little Slappy


6 posted on 05/25/2009 4:39:17 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: csvset

LOL! Couldn’t happen to a better crowd. Maybe they’ll meet some new ‘friends’ in jail...


7 posted on 05/25/2009 5:14:52 AM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2013: Change we can look forward to.)
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“Maybe they’ll meet some new ‘friends’ in jail...”

And those new “friends” will likely be WV coal miners that were picked up in a bar brawl or some such thing.

8 posted on 05/25/2009 5:28:41 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: csvset

“The group said Sunday the six have been unable to raise $2,000 cash apiece to make bail.” That’s a Shame.


9 posted on 05/25/2009 6:05:09 AM PDT by jhroberts
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To: csvset

I guess the mountains couldn’t come up with any cash in appreciation. Maybe they can take it out in coal.


10 posted on 05/25/2009 6:09:19 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Beagle8U

Now, that’s a video for YouTube...


11 posted on 05/25/2009 6:15:21 AM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2013: Change we can look forward to.)
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To: knarf
Operator: George Soros? I'm sorry , we don't have a number for a George Soros.

Left Wing Crackpot: There must be some mistake. We were told that George had our back.

Operator: He probably said he'd use your a**, not that he had your back. There's a difference.

12 posted on 05/25/2009 6:49:51 AM PDT by csvset
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Mountain Justice and a group called Climate Ground Zero say blasting could cause a coal slurry dam at the site to collapse.

No doubt the coal mining companies had to come up with reams of stats to show the EPA boys, so it is a simple request to tell those bozos to back up their claims that the blast "could" cause a collapse - I mean something other than their "feelings".

Hopefully they'll come out of jail with knicknames like "Sweet Cheeks", "Cuddles", etc.

13 posted on 05/25/2009 9:21:07 AM PDT by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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