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Hundreds of kids arrested at White House in Keystone Pipeline protest
American Thinker ^ | 03/03/2013 | Rick Moran

Posted on 03/03/2014 1:07:00 PM PST by SeekAndFind

About 300 people were arrested at the White House - most of them students - in a protest against approval of the Keystone pipeline.

The reasons they oppose the project are so far out in left field, they aren't even in the ballpark.

Politico:

More than 300 anti-Keystone XL protesters were arrested Sunday afternoon outside the White House in the latest push by environmentalists to convince the Obama administration to reject the Canadian oil pipeline.

The student-led protest, organized by XL Dissent, started with a rally at Georgetown University. The students marched from there to the White House — with a stop at Secretary of State John Kerry’s house along the way.

Students from 80 colleges participated in Sunday’s event, and another protest will be held on Monday in San Francisco, said Aly Johnson-Kurts, a freshman at Smith College and one of the organizers of the event.

“The youth really understand the traditional methods of creating change are not sufficient … so we needed to escalate,” said Johnson, shortly before she was arrested at the White House.

An organizer estimated the crowd at about 1,200 people. U.S. Park Police could not immediately provide a count of those arrested Sunday afternoon.

Organizers held civil disobedience training on Saturday to ensure that the demonstration went peacefully.


(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: energy; keystone; keystonexl; pipeline; protest; whitehouse
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To: SeekAndFind

My three boys all went through college, 3 different ones, I’ve met zillions of college kids and I have never met any that were that stupid and uninformed.....but marching on Washington to protest a private company building a pipeline borders on idiocy....


41 posted on 03/03/2014 2:24:54 PM PST by terycarl (common sense prevails over all else)
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To: SeekAndFind

Re your post 13, there’s not enough mustard in the world to cover those hot dogs.

I pride myself in knowing that at that age I would never done anything like that.


42 posted on 03/03/2014 2:28:31 PM PST by OldPossum ("It's" is the contraction of "it" and "is"; think about ITS implications.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

to the girl in the foreground from U.W. Madison

your sign should read KPL.....not KXL.......pipe is spelled p-i-p-e-, remember 2nd grade??


43 posted on 03/03/2014 2:30:48 PM PST by terycarl (common sense prevails over all else)
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To: terycarl

lets blame the marihuana...


44 posted on 03/03/2014 2:34:19 PM PST by MeshugeMikey (Jesus came to Save not Entertain / Ground John Kerry Now!)
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To: SeekAndFind
“The youth really understand the traditional methods of creating change are not sufficient … so we needed to escalate,” said Johnson, shortly before she was arrested at the White House.

Yes, you kids are blindingly original protesting at the White House and getting arrested. No one ever thought of doing that to create change. Nope. You guys rule. Wow. I'm awed. Completely.
45 posted on 03/03/2014 2:41:00 PM PST by Dahoser (Separation of church and state? No, we need separation of media and state.)
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To: terycarl

your sign should read KPL.....not KXL.......pipe is spelled p-i-p-e-, remember 2nd grade??

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Not defending the protester but the section of the Keystone project they are protesting
is the Keystone XL section of the Keystone Pipeline. This the the 4th section.
Sections 1, 2 and 3 have been completed.


46 posted on 03/03/2014 2:45:03 PM PST by deport
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To: SeekAndFind

Hmm, I wonder why the press isn’t covering the protest where all the concerned environmentalist are suspending driving cars, boycotting petroleum based products (including all the fancy bottled water), house paints, polyester, etc.... (/s)


47 posted on 03/03/2014 2:59:53 PM PST by 11th Commandment ("THOSE WHO TIRE LOSE")
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To: SeekAndFind

How many of these nitwits liven even within 500 miles of the proposed route of the Keystone pipeline?


48 posted on 03/03/2014 3:02:18 PM PST by The Great RJ
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To: SeekAndFind

Does the sign the chick in black is holding actually read “No Dirty Foss Fools”???


49 posted on 03/03/2014 3:17:55 PM PST by Moltke (Sapere aude!)
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To: MeshugeMikey

No one is even fracking the tar sands. They mine them and process the sand to remove the bitumen.


50 posted on 03/03/2014 3:23:52 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

More and more is SAGD over mining.


51 posted on 03/03/2014 3:27:55 PM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Who told these pukes that the world would end if fracking continues??

There professor types? yes

Consensus reality....particularly amongst the young... keeps going further and further far afield from the REAL world doesn’t it.

many appear to have been fracked by their water pipe Hookah,,usage


52 posted on 03/03/2014 3:29:46 PM PST by MeshugeMikey (Jesus came to Save not Entertain / Ground John Kerry Now!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Truly ‘useful idiots’


53 posted on 03/03/2014 3:30:43 PM PST by Fledermaus (If we here in TN can't get rid of the worthless Lamar, it's over.)
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To: SeekAndFind

If I saw one of mine there, they could kiss their tuition and any other financial support good-bye. I’m not paying for them to skip class, act foolish and get a rap sheet.


54 posted on 03/03/2014 3:42:05 PM PST by bgill
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To: SeekAndFind

There is some serious distortion going on in that photo. Look at the legs of the people laying down.


55 posted on 03/04/2014 4:42:55 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The Texas judge's decision was to pave the way for same sex divorce for two Massachusetts women.)
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To: dfwgator
“White Punks on Dope.”

White Dopes On Punk.


56 posted on 03/04/2014 11:41:43 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The Texas judge's decision was to pave the way for same sex divorce for two Massachusetts women.)
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