Posted on 07/13/2011 6:45:35 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Angry leftists stormed the Montana capitol on Tuesday demanding that Schweitzer end his support for the Alberta oil pipeline that will carry crude oil from the Alberta tar sands through Montana. He wouldn’t. They were arrested.
The Billings Gazette reported:
About 70 protesters thundered into the state Capitol on Tuesday, banging on plastic pails and chanting slogans in opposition to the planned Keystone XL pipeline — slated to carry crude oil from the Alberta tar sands through Montana — and the “megaloads” of oil drilling equipment destined for Alberta.
The group pushed its way into the outer offices of Gov. Brian Schweitzer and had a brief, loud discussion with him in the governor’s reception room.
Most of the protesters left the meeting and continued the demonstration outside Schweitzer’s offices in the hallway leading from the rotunda. Five of the protesters, linked together with makeshift devices of PVC pipe wrapped in chicken wire and other materials, refused to leave and were arrested after several warnings from law enforcement officers.
Arrested and cited for obstruction of justice (because of the pipe mechanism that police said hindered enforcement) and trespassing were Dolan; Johannes Pedersen, 22, of Eugene, Ore.; Erica Gwen Dossa, 24, of Missoula; Shelby Elizabeth Cunliffe, 25, of Missoula; and Sarah Ellen Stock, 25, of Missoula.
…Adrian Guerrero of San Francisco, who said he was with Rising Tide as well as the activist group Earth First, stood on a chair and earned several rounds of loud cheers denouncing the project as an attack on the environment, on indigenous peoples and on the working class.
“We came here to this country with the idea that America be the land of freedom and prosperity and all that b—s—, but what really happened is that people like my family get shoved to the bottom of the f— barrel and that people in those offices, and their corporate lobby, can continue to destroy the environment and throw us off our land, where my father came from, peasant along the side of the f— river in the Amazon, so that we could come here and be the slave class, and then ruin the Earth up here, too,” he said, to a loud round of cheering and drumming.
The new Luddites.
Somebody needs to investigate these idiots regarding the Yellowstone oil spill.
Somebody needs to investigate these idiots regarding the Yellowstone oil spill.
And idiots like these people want to borrow more money for our weak economy then keep it from producing at the same time. Idiots.
Missoula, it’s a place, sort of...
They are organized by someone ...
If they got beat up real good then ,there would not be so many of them.
I’m checking the surnames for the kids of some hippy-type friends who moved up there, LOL. Negative.
Yes...the same people who previously sent them to camp out in the Wisconsin State Capitol.
***“We came here to this country with the idea that America be the land of freedom and prosperity and all that b—s—,****
Typical rant from a lib. Curse laced incoherent nonsense.
These fools better not have damaged Charlie Russell’s painting of Lewis adn Clark meeting the Flathead Indians!
My grandfather rode horseback, to inspect an oil pipeline near the Big Horn Basin-Wyoming/Montana border, in the 1930s, for Marathon Oil.
I wish those mugs would try this sort of thing on where there is a very old judge, with no sense of humor about these things, who would lock them up “For a year less a day”, with no possibility of early release.
Just one judge like that and these radicals would detour a hundred miles around that city in the future.
I wish those mugs would try this sort of thing on where there is a very old judge, with no sense of humor about these things, who would lock them up “For a year less a day”, with no possibility of early release.
Just one judge like that and these radicals would detour a hundred miles around that city in the future.
Bummer...Montana has already allowed WAY too many people from California to settle there...now they’re showing their sickness.
And just what is 'PVC pipe' made from? Can you say 'petroleum'?
Idiots.
No one promised you squat, chief! Go back to the Amazon and defend your own land.
Schweitzer is one of the few democrats left that I like. He’s sensible.
Can you imagine if anyone even remotely connected to the Tea Party tried a stunt like this?
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