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."
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IOW, REAP IT UNION SCUM!
who is paying the enviro terrorists?
Hmm, looks like I was wrong about how the miners voted - see post #57.
Wonder if all those donk voters in the big cities realize what their life will become if their obamessiah gets his way? Hint: Cold, hungry, and probably violent and short.
In the long run, it may be better for the nation if the coalminers are shut out.
That can ignite a modern day version of the 1921 Battle of Blair Mountainway.
If I understand history, these mountain people were a key, pivital, part of our Revolutionary War, and they can be the ignition for another revolution.
I wish the miners Godspeed.
I don’t disagree with your view of some environmentalists. I disagree with your BS-bluster suggesting that they need to be killed for the purpose of self defense.
You base this on a single news article? Posts like yours are the FR version of the DU. We should be doing better than that because we are better than that.
LOL, see my #63, which I posted before yours made it to me...
The thing that ticks me off about the Virginia returns is that those tiny little deep blue enclaves were able to override the rest of the Commonwealth’s overwhelming preference for the GOP ticket.
Who are "these people"? Hillbillies?
Coal mining is a tough, filthy, dangerous job that pays middle class wages. It's a job that deserves respect. I've been down in those WV deep mines and in the strip and pit mines. "Those people" have all my respect.
If an envirof***head chains himself (or herself) to a bulldozer, run the bulldozer anyways.
If an envirof***heads stage sit-ins, run over them with earthmoving equipment.
Just kill them. I’m done with ‘nice’.
They have mine as well.
Its a tough living up in them hills.
They dont complain. Asshats in DC complain that it is a difficult life and THEY take their life away.
I would rather coal mine than be on the dole
I admit it’s an inelegant continuation of your sentence but it makes sense. And the rest of my post should have helped you to figure it out, even if I’m not meeting scoring Strunk and White style points.
Oh, stuff it. Environmental terrorists have been destroying jobs and industries in the US for the past half century, along with stealing land rights, water rights, mining rights, and on and on.
Theft is murder by increments. Using corrupt lawyers, courts, legislators, and bureaucrats to further their causes does not diminish their crimes, but rather aggrevates them.
I saw that movie and it was creepy! LOL!
good!
A man would sooner forgive the killing of his father than making him impoverished- Niko Machiavelli
Interesting.
It used to be the miners/unions against the mining companies at these sites.
Now it’s the miners united with the mining companies against the leftist environmentalists. Given the history of violence the miners and the mining companies are capable of, I don’t think the environmentalist wackos realize what they could be in for.
Believe it or not, these miners did not vote for obambi. They heard his declaration that he was going to close down the coal industry. WV voted for Palin.
Here we are. Turned from a nation that actually produces something, to a service based nation.
What few jobs and industries that are left in logging, mining, commercial fishing, manufacture, farming and ranching are quietly being put to rest by a militant agenda. Radical environmentalists not only stage protests many are infiltrated into government U.S.F.S., EPA etc...
We have our liberal colleges to thank in part.
As I have said, I am taking names and in the day of reckoning, I will approach those who have worshipped the creation over the creator and ask them what the hell were they thinking?! I will confront those who have valued a “darter-snail” over human life and say WTF?! My constraint shall be less than it is now...
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