Posted on 02/13/2018 8:19:57 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
On Oct. 11, 2016, Michael Foster and two companions rose before dawn, left their budget hotel in Grand Forks, N.D., and drove a white rental sedan toward the Canadian border, diligently minding the speed limit. As the driver, Sam Jessup, and a documentary filmmaker, Deia Schlosberg, recorded events from the back seat.
For months, he’d imagined his next actions: He would snip the padlock that secured the gate and approach the blunt length of vertical pipe in the center of the enclosure — the stem of a shut-off valve for the 2,700-mile-long Keystone Pipeline.
What neither the sheriff’s department nor TransCanada knew, however, was that while Foster was closing off the Keystone Pipeline, four other cross-border pipelines — in Washington, Montana and Minnesota — were being shut down, too. Together, the pipelines carry nearly 70 percent of the crude oil imported to the United States from Canada.
Foster, who is 53, was charged with criminal trespass and criminal mischief, conspiracy to commit criminal mischief and reckless endangerment. At his bond hearing in Cavalier, N.D., he learned that he faced a maximum sentence of more than 26 years. When prosecutors requested that his bail be set at $100,000, Foster asked for a chance to speak. “Your Honor,” he said, “one of the main reasons for this action is to appear here and see justice done for our children, and to protect the air and land and water that they will require to survive. So it’s very important for me to be here in this courtroom, and I wouldn’t miss it for the world. I’m — it’s terrifying — but I am not going to miss it.”
Judge Laurie Fontaine set his bail at $75,000.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Twenty years? Dream on. Skip to the end, where it says 1 year in jail and 2 yrs supervised parole.
These are the types of kooks that accuse President Trump of being mentally unstable.
A good University education and a lot of practice.
“The modern environmental movement was born around the time Thoreau adjourned to his cabin on Walden Pond in 1845, but the climate movement — the part of the environmental movement concerned primarily with reducing greenhouse-gas emissions and easing the effects of climate change — is barely 10 years old.”
When lies like this are in an article, the entire article must be dismissed. I was reading, in Popular Science I think, in the late 60s or early 70s how climate was changing dangerously...to colder.
Just wait until his fellow inmate’s show him how they check his temperature in prison.
I checked the story for pics and yep, every one of them a pasty faced liberal.
While it’s doubtful, I hope this guy gets the maximum sentence.
I would be willing to slip the prison a little cash to see this snowflake celled with the biggest, baddest, most racist black dude so he can make “reparations” for the entirety of his sentence.
Twould be a fitting end to his jackassery.
Gore has an a/c handler big enough to run in a shopping mall
Climate Change isn’t going to make your farts like a gentle spring breeze through an open window...
“””””I have a friend who is pretty conservative that told me the other day....I believe in climate change, don’t you?””””
I agree with your friend. The climate is changing, just like it has for billions of years.
Actually the man acts like a brainwashed religious cultist, with his own life, and all that he say or does or does not determined by how he thinks (based on sky-is-falling liberals), it will affect the Climate and ecology, as if it were God. If only we Christians were as committed to Christ and His cause.
His older child, now a cleareyed 16-year-old, says that both siblings were initially happy to participate — in part because it gave them a chance to spend time with their father, whom they saw less and less of as his activism increased. But before long, they felt pressured. “When we would try to refuse, when we would say, ‘Hey, I’m tired,’ or ‘Hey, I have homework,’ or ‘Hey, I have school today,’ it would be: ‘Don’t you care about the planet? Don’t you care about the future?’ ” the older child explains. “That felt awful, because of course we cared, of course we wanted to do our part. But it felt like he was using our voices to spread his message.”
. “Everything I do and don’t do today, to pollute or stop polluting, changes what lives and dies on the planet for the next 300 years — in a very specific, particular way,” he told me. “I can’t let myself off the hook.” He couldn’t let his family off the hook either, and resentments deepened. “When people asked me how things were going, how I was doing, I’d say, ‘He’s doing important stuff, and it matters,’ ” says his ex-wife, Malinda, who asked that her last name and her children’s names not be used to protect her family’s privacy. “I’d also say, ‘I really respect Gandhi, but I wouldn’t want to be married to him.’ ”
Both Malinda and her older child say they felt constantly judged, and frustrated, by Foster’s inflexibility. In 2014, Malinda filed for divorce, and his children said they no longer wanted to be part of his activism — or part of his life.
Malinda says the emotional scars Foster left are profound. “I think he believes he is doing what’s right, and he would be the first to say he’s doing this to protect his kids,” Malinda told me. “What’s tragic is that he’s traumatizing his kids’ present, and what good is the kids’ future without their present?”
While low-carbon living affords him some peace of mind, he can’t entirely eliminate his own impact on the climate, and he sometimes stands in the grocery store, wondering what he can possibly justify eating. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/13/magazine/afraid-climate-change-prison-valve-turners-global-warming.html
At LEAST he wasn’t trying to get Jodie Foster’s attention!
.........very interesting, thanks!
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