Canada Ping!
Posted on 01/24/2013 7:03:15 PM PST by george76
The Sierra Club has announced its approval for a "one-time" use of civil disobedience. The civil disobedience is intended to step up their efforts to oppose the Keystone pipeline.
Many of the other groups opposing Keystone have been engaging in civil disobedience as a tactic, including arson-based ecoterrorism. This will be the first time in the Sierra Club's history that they have approved violating the law.
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>>The Sierra Club has announced its approval for a “one-time” use of civil disobedience. <<
I think a “one-time” use of disobedience to laws governing the discharge of weapons may be in order to keep these yahoos fromm blocking this important project.
Well, from personal experience actually Sierra Club does do this, but what they do is form other front “community activist” groups that then go out and do the civil disobedience. But Sierra Club always has plausible deniability, and when it gets into litigation you can never find out who the actual members of these community activist groups are.
“Community activists groups” = Rent-A-Mobs
I like the way you think.
These idiots and their “cause celeb” don’t seem to realize that there are already oil pipelines all over the United States.
Sierra Club = Soros ?
Seems to me that they’ve opened themselves to prosecution with this announcement that they have approved illegal activities in pursuit of their goals.
another once beneficial organization that has been taken over by extremists who want control rather than conservation.
Actually it was ALWAYS about control. They just wrapped it in a feelgood package.
Once, long ago, I was on the Florida Executive Committee FLEXCOM)of Sierra Club - sort of makes me a real ex-FLEXCOMmie, doesn’t it.
Do not under-estimate your enviro enemies. Those are not merely granola chompers with delusions of grandeur. They really do believe that in order to save the environment, American capitalism must be destroyed. They also act on their beliefs and help those who are equally dangerous and terrorism inclined.
Yes, they really are small ‘c’ commies.
Only when eco-terrorists are summarily executed will such tactics drop in number. Note I said drop in number, not cease, as enviro true believers are similar to Muslims in that death for the cause is acceptable.
However, if the Sierra Club, and its Board members, were to be prosecuted as a terrorist organization for this latest statement, then such outrageous statements and acts would decline immediately.
“These idiots and their “cause celeb” don’t seem to realize that there are already oil pipelines all over the United States.”
Yeah, but if all the hydrocarbons there, if released will cause the temperature of the earth to rise than just a little bit less than one hundred and eleventy billion degrees, which would kill off at least 90% of all humans currently living, which is a good thing, oh wait, why is this bad again?
They certainly have. And Holder will get right on it! (he's a tad busy just at this moment with F&F and the new black panthers)
No point in allowing them to change the subject.
I’m sure if we used “one time civil disobedience” to punch them in the mouth, they’d lose their enthusiasm.
Just make sure everyone else is Armed and a Member of a Labor Union, then they would have the Blessing of the Supreme Court and Congress to USE VIOLENCE TO FURTHER THEIR CAUSE.
They can break the law...ergo, we can break bones...right?
Just think in’.
Shove them up their own smelly Obamas.
One of the directors on the board of the Sierra Club is “Captain Coco Puffs”, Paul Watson, of Sea Shepherd. That is an eco-terroist organization.
Let the bast***s freeze together in the dark.
They were likely funded by Large 'C' Commies, about the same time as Greenpeace got a gob of funding from the KGB, for the express purpose of interfering with Western Industry. Best money the Soviets ever spent, as far as that goes (for them), the gift that keeps on giving.
But they have made an error here, if they have proposed violent acts to damage and/or interfere with the construction of critical infrastructure.
That makes them "Domestic Terrorists".
Yeah ! Targets of opportunity !
I stand corrected. CocoPuffs leaft the Sierra Club abck in 2006. He is still a kindred spirit (demon?) to that organization.
They were formed in the 50s by 40 jet setter playboy cross country skiers from rich families.
Their only purpose was preserving the back country for cross country skiing in the high sierra, I happened to know one of them, now dead.
They were formed in the 50s by 40 jet setter playboy cross country skiers from rich families.
Their only purpose was preserving the back country for cross country skiing in the high sierra, I happened to know one of them, now dead.
It’s just the dying gasps of the global warming fraud movement. They know that the Keystone Pipeline is a death knell for any physical limitations on the amount of fossil fuel energy we can produce in North America, and they were counting on “Peak Oil” and “energy independence” to help in their crusade to shut down our energy infrastructure. Fracking and oil sands and Canada have put the lie to all of that, and they’re stressed as hell.
The Sierra Club has always been careful to insulate themselves (and their substantial assets) by forming front groups, as I had indicated in my prior email.
However, environmental activism and protests are Big Business. In the case I was involved in, the “protestors” had their own professional video crew to film them, and most of them were flown in from other parts of the country and given hotel rooms so they could participate in the “protest.” Several who tried to provoke a violent confrontation with us and workers on the job site were miked and had hidden video cameras—if they could get a reaction on tape, they could then doctor it up to make it look like we were the aggressors and bad guys. So they swung shovels and pickaxes at us, and taunted and swore at us, and threatened to destroy construction equipment. Fortunately, one of the undercover policemen who was with us leaned over and said, “be careful, they’re wired.”
It turned out later this was all part of a coordinated national fundraising campaign, using our project as something the enviros were “saving.”
This is why I rooted for the Japanese whalers in “Whale Wars.” I’ve seen it firsthand and know it is all a scam, the enviros really don’t care about the whales, they are just out to make money through publicity and public outrage.
Here’s just one story exposing a part of the Sea Shepherd Society scam:
Any criminal violation of the law should open the Sierra Club to losing any 501C3 or 504 tax-exempt status with the IRS.
If the state(s) where the civil disobedience takes place charges them with criminal trespass, destruction of private property, interference with commerce, etc., then they will loss their tax exempt status upon conviction.
The state(s) might also be able to ban them from operating within their state upon conviction, labelling them a “criminal organization” or a “violent organization.”
A good prosecutor should know what to do. Just the legal fees to defend against such charges would be enormous, and if they lose, all this legal defense money (if funnelled through as tax-exempt), would be taxable.
Bring it on!
Canada Ping!
Prosecuted? By whom? That's the problem -- they can do this because they know they'll get away with it.
Many of the other groups opposing Keystone have been engaging in civil disobedience as a tactic, including arson-based ecoterrorism. This will be the first time in the Sierra Club's history that they have approved violating the lawFor the first time in my personal history, I approve civil disobedience in pursuit of the dismantling of the Sierra Club.
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The organization was founded by author Bill McKibben an American environmentalist and writer who frequently writes about global warming, alternative energy, and the need for more localised economies. McKibben promotes the organisation, for instance by writing articles about it for many major newspapers and media, such as the Los Angeles Times and The Guardian.
In 2011 and 2012 he led the massive environmental fight against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline project and spent three days in jail in Washington D.C. as leader of one of the largest civil disobedience actions in America for decades.
350.org
The organization was founded by author Bill McKibben an American environmentalist and writer who frequently writes about global warming, alternative energy, and the need for more localised economies. McKibben promotes the organisation, for instance by writing articles about it for many major newspapers and media, such as the Los Angeles Times and The Guardian.
In 2011 and 2012 he led the massive environmental fight against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline project and spent three days in jail in Washington D.C. as leader of one of the largest civil disobedience actions in America for decades.
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