[Sopater]

As long as they're "asking", I'd say "No."

[Sopater]

Photographs of armed guards dressed in military-style camouflage and combat gear have appeared on anti-mining blogs in recent days. In one photo, one of the guards, armed with an assault-style rifle, appears to be masked. The photographer, Rob Ganson, said this was taken at a Gogebic Taconite drill site on Saturday.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

They can do whatever they want on private property, which is why Liberals hate private property.

[MrB]

Several photographs of armed guards dressed in military-style camouflage and combat gear...one of the guards, armed with an assault-style rifle, appears to be masked.

What are these people thinking? Only gov't "law enforcement" are allowed to dress this way.

[null and void]

We’ll remove one full time security guard for every full time cop you place at our facility.

Any day your cops aren’t there full time, we’ll provide our own security thankyouverymuchokbyebye...

[cripplecreek]

The lawmakers called the photos “horrifying” and the action by the company to hire the high-security Arizona firm “appalling.”

Well tough noogies. Maybe banks should lose those snoopy cameras and tough locks too. LOL

[wideawake]

"No one in their right mind can justify the excessive force."

Carrying a legal weapon on private property is "excessive force" apparently.

[RadiationRomeo]

I hope the guards are highly trained and aren’t trigger happy. If they shoot any protester it will be on the MSM 24/7, no matter if it was necessary or not. Hopefully someone will enlighten me about what kind of force the guards can use in Wisconsin.

[Hardraade]

What mineral is Gogebic Taconite?

[rockrr]

The lawmakers called the photos “horrifying” and the action by the company to hire the high-security Arizona firm “appalling.”

No, having "teams of mining opponents “dressed in black and wearing masks violently attack(ing) our drill site” is horrifying and needs to be dealt with swiftly and with determination.

Private industry protecting itself doesn't bother me as long as they conform to the law.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

“These kinds of security forces are common in Third World countries but they don’t belong in northern Wisconsin,” Jauch and Bewley said in a press release.

Maybe they do.

[kevkrom]

“These kinds of security forces are common in Third World countries but they don’t belong in northern Wisconsin,” Jauch and Bewley said

Since you guys seem so determined to turn us into a third-world country, what do you expect?

[BenLurkin]

I’d say these “lawmakers” have outed themselves as being in league with the eco-terrorists.

[Cuttnhorse]

Bob Seitz, Gogebic Taconite spokesman, told the News Tribune that the company began employing private security guards after teams of mining opponents “dressed in black and wearing masks violently attacked our drill site” in June

Geez, must be some pretty wimpy drillers...in my 30+ years of dealing with drillers, this would normally result in multiple visits to the local hospital.

[Jack Hammer]

‘“These kinds of security forces are common in Third World countries but they don’t belong in northern Wisconsin,” Jauch and Bewley said...’

Well, maybe if you’d enforce the law and protect the site yourself, they wouldn’t need to hire their own guards, huh?

[Secret Agent Man]

I’d hire security people if others were illegally on my business property damaging equipment. If they are scary looking it may stop others from coming onto the property without incident. works for LEOs.

[Safetgiver]

“These kinds of security forces are common in Third World countries...And what difference are these assholes drawing? WE ARE a Thirld World Country now. I worked for a diamond mine in RHODESIA for the same reason. Keeping the assholes out.

[henkster]

This story can be summed up with a Bismarck quote:

“The great questions of the day will not be decided by speeches and the resolutions of majorities...but by blood and iron.”

Gogebic will provide the iron. The environazis can provide the blood.

[YHAOS]

“These kinds of security forces are common in Third World countries but they don’t belong in northern Wisconsin,” Jauch and Bewley said in a press release.

Can't have any restriction on the right of Labor Goons to riot.

[CodeToad]

“they can’t arrest anyone”

Yes, they can. Private property.