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Fear of violence grows in mountaintop mining fight (enviro-goons vs. coal miners)
AP via Yahoo! ^ | December 19, 2009 | VICKI SMITH

Posted on 12/20/2009 4:51:08 PM PST by AAABEST

It was the slap heard 'round the coalfields: Cordelia Ruth Tucker, wearing the fluorescent-striped shirt of a miner, strode past West Virginia state troopers and into a stream of marchers protesting mountaintop removal mining to deliver an audible smack.

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There have been nearly 100 arrests in 20 protests, most involving trespassing. Led by a new group called Climate Ground Zero, the activists have chained themselves to giant dump trucks, scaled 80-foot trees to stop blasting and paddled into a 9 million-gallon sludge pond. They've blocked roads, hung banners and staged sit-ins.

Virginia-based Massey Energy claims a single 3 1/2-hour occupation at Progress Coal Co. in Twilight cost the company $300,000.

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Massey equates anti-coal with anti-American. Pittsburgh-based Consol Energy blames the planned layoffs of 482 miners on a lawsuit by the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition.

Activist Chuck Nelson, a former underground miner from Glen Daniel, said the longer surface miners face uncertainty, the more the danger grows: The federal government must act soon, one way or the other.

And if the EPA comes down on the environmentalists' side?

"Well," Nelson said, "there's a possibility it might not be safe to live in the Coal River Valley."

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: coal; cwii; envirogoons; miners; watermelons; westvirginia; wva
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Enviro-goons are destroyers of wealth, jobs and entire communities. They'll destroy your way of life without a second thought. I know because I've seen it first-hand.

Not that I condone it, but I'd be dishonest if I were to say that I'd be the least bit upset if some of them wound up taking dirt nap for what they're doing to these miners.

1 posted on 12/20/2009 4:51:09 PM PST by AAABEST
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To: AAABEST

“Not that I condone it, but I’d be dishonest if I were to say that I’d be the least bit upset if some of them wound up taking dirt nap for what they’re doing to these miners.”

I’m curious why you wouldn’t “condone it”?


2 posted on 12/20/2009 4:53:34 PM PST by snoringbear (Government is the Pimp,)
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To: AAABEST

482 miners is a small army.


3 posted on 12/20/2009 4:53:45 PM PST by pray4liberty (Luke 21:17 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake.)
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To: AAABEST

Coal mining is no way to live but whats the alternative for these people? The Gov dole?


4 posted on 12/20/2009 4:53:47 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of the Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: AAABEST

These enviros should read a good history of the region,
miners don’t mess around.


5 posted on 12/20/2009 4:53:58 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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I'd be the least bit upset if some of them wound up taking dirt nap for what they're doing to these miners.

Maybe its time to start sending a message to the enviro wacos everywhere...........

6 posted on 12/20/2009 4:54:28 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (I want a hoochie-mama for Christmas, only a hoochie-mama will do............)
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To: AAABEST

Maybe they would feel better about it if illegals from Mexico did the mining?


7 posted on 12/20/2009 4:56:08 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of the Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: AAABEST

Dear miners...shoot ‘em.

I no longer have patience with liberals. They are not subject to slimy “laws”...those are for idiot conservatives.

Enough. Can up, slice ‘em, hang ‘em...anything but let these idiots vote.

Seriously, it’s war now...


8 posted on 12/20/2009 4:56:41 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: AAABEST

I spent a large part of my childhood exploring these old mines.

Things are way safer today.


9 posted on 12/20/2009 4:57:42 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of the Masses Could Be Farts)
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Maybe its time to start sending a message to the enviro wacos everywhere...........

Walter Reuther style.....

10 posted on 12/20/2009 4:58:55 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (I want a hoochie-mama for Christmas, only a hoochie-mama will do............)
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I’m curious why you wouldn’t “condone it”?

Did you misunderstand the post, or are you suggesting that murder is acceptable?

11 posted on 12/20/2009 5:00:55 PM PST by 70times7 (Serving Free Republics' warped and obscure humor needs since 1999!)
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To: AAABEST

That Climate Ground Zero has been going on since 2007. There’s a web site.

I also found a Ruckus.org manual for ‘non-violent’ agitation.

http://www.ruckus.org/section.php?id=17

Is this all Soros funded?


12 posted on 12/20/2009 5:01:51 PM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah."Our middle regiment, Gloria Patri, Filio et Spirito Sancto.)
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To: Da Coyote

“I no longer have patience with liberals.”

They’re not liberals. They’re communist revolutionary scu&bags.

IMHO


13 posted on 12/20/2009 5:02:42 PM PST by ripley
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To: Hot Tabasco
I'd be surprised if a few don't disappear..

Don't want to mess with miners..

14 posted on 12/20/2009 5:03:42 PM PST by maddog55 (Socialism is communism with fewer re-education camps)
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To: AAABEST

Coming from a family of coal miners, I safely predict that the coal miners will beat the tar out of the enviro-weenies, if not worse.


15 posted on 12/20/2009 5:04:11 PM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: tet68

bttt


16 posted on 12/20/2009 5:04:19 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: AAABEST

what I could never understand I why other people don’t chain those who have chained themselves to vehicles, trees, fences, etc., to remove the option of unchaining themselves?


17 posted on 12/20/2009 5:07:43 PM PST by j.argese
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To: Hot Tabasco

and congressmen for the same reasons !!


18 posted on 12/20/2009 5:08:59 PM PST by Senormechanico
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To: AAABEST

United Mine Workers of America.. “Hails Historic Obama Victory” Nov 5 2008

UMWA, under the bus.

Elections, consequences


19 posted on 12/20/2009 5:10:05 PM PST by Cold Heart
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Sooner or later someones going to die. These things get pushed and pushed and someone always does. I wonder what the reaction will be in the mining community after it happens.


20 posted on 12/20/2009 5:13:02 PM PST by MontaniSemperLiberi
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