Posted on 03/07/2014 10:14:38 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Academy Award-winning actor Jared Leto and 13 other young activists, including the grandson of Robert F. Kennedy, are calling on Secretary of State John Kerry to reject the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
After speaking with top State Department officials on Thursday, the activists sent a letter to Kerry, digging deep into the secretary's past when he testified in Congress against the Vietnam War.
"In 1971, when you were roughly our age, you asked ‘How can you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?’ " the letter states. “We stand at such a point today, with respect to an even greater challenge, an even bigger mistake — the imminent threat of catastrophic climate disruption."
"We dare to believe that it’s not just an accident of history that this recommendation falls to you," the letter said.
Among the co-signers was Leto, who won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar a week ago for his performance in "Dallas Buyer's Club."
Other co-signers included Guster guitarist Adam Gardner and Connor Kennedy, who was arrested a last year with his father at an anti-pipeline protest.
Ben Gosthall, leader of the Bold Nebraska campaign against Keystone XL, also joined in signing the request, which made the rounds before the final day the State Department would accept public comments on the $5.4 billion oil-sands pipeline.
Over 1 million comments are being sent to State on Friday, urging Kerry to say no to the pipeline, which will carry crude from oil sands in Alberta to refineries in the Gulf.
Another million will be sent from Keystone advocates. State's national interest review of the pipeline won't wrap up for another 60 days, at which point Kerry will be left to make his recommendation to President Obama.
Let’s get the damned pipe built do jerry can inaugurate it by throwing his medals in it.
Building a pipeline to carry oil from Canada to Texas will cause the temperature of the earth to increase. Building a pipeline to carry oil from Canada to the Pacific Ocean, to ship oil to China, will not.
These people are really too stupid to be allowed in public.
The Hollywood tykes got it wrong again. Kerry was Fullbright’s tool in the 70s just as he’s Putin’s tool now. Kerry is himself the pipeline.
Exactly. I can’t figure it out how actors know so much about what is esentually a pipe buried in the ground.
Nearly all homes in the USA have a natural gas pipe buried in the street outside there house.
Kerry biggest mistake ever!
Dumb youth, such a waste, but they were brainwashed by the Socialist Public Schools and they think America is bad.
It might hurt the one forced to come up with an answer though.
Not that I think that is a problem. ;)
How does he “feel” about South Korea ?
Shipping the oil by tanker, rail and truck in so much safer. /s
Keystone worse than Vietnam?!
What are they smoking?
Someone needs to bitch slap these idiots a time or two.
I remember hearing President Nixon talk about this Keystone pipeline back in 1968. Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
I am relived we have a new name for the scam. Catastrophic climate disruption is much more menacing than global warming. That will scare the children.
Who apparently don't know that their very lives depend upon petro chemicals.
5.56mm
Plus, the last two generations of Kennedys haven't exactly been the best and the brightest ...
and just as stupid.
Wait! Kerry was in Vietnam?
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