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 Pipeline Protesters Jailed Outside White HousePosted on Aug 21, 2011
Author, activist and founder of the global environmental movement 350.org Bill McKibben was arrested outside the White House on Saturday along with 64 others protesting the construction of a pipeline from Canada’s tar sands sites to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico. Vermont Law School professor and former White House official Gus Speth and gay rights activist Lt. Dan Choi were among those arrested. All face fines of up to $600 and two nights in jail. Though the destructiveness of tar sand extraction and refinement has been well documented, the Obama administration is expected to approve the pipeline’s construction. More than 2,000 people from all 50 states were expected to join the protest through early September. —ARK
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By Robert H Warren, August 22, 2011 at 10:07 am Link to this comment
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disingenuous reasonings of those who cannot distinguish news from propaganda.
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By grokker, August 21, 2011 at 8:22 pm Link to this comment
In all the history of the absurd, silly human race, tar sands extraction has to be in the top five as a demonstration of human insanity.
Report thisBy The NavigatorBR, August 21, 2011 at 2:49 pm Link to this comment
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Report thisWhat was the justification for arresting them!?
By OzarkMichael, August 21, 2011 at 2:09 pm Link to this comment
The truth in a Truthdig article is a squirrelly thing.
People got arrested, yes. Why? For what?
And were they actually jailed outside the Whitehouse? Its such a public humiliation. Are they in the stocks? the gibbet?
The title of the article doesnt make it clear. Its almost as if merely being against the pipeline will bring the heat on you, and they will jail you “outside the Whitehouse”.
Truthdig is rather insidious with its anti-establishment propaganda.
Truthdig’s redeeming quality is that they allow dissenters like me to point it out.
Report thisBy PatrickHenry, August 21, 2011 at 2:08 pm Link to this comment
We need to build some new EPA compliant refineries farther north.
Try Michigan or Nevada, they can use the work.
Report thisBy Jim, August 21, 2011 at 12:55 pm Link to this comment
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How can a US citizen possibly trespass on federal
Report thisproperty when his taxes pay for said property? Sounds
like the Gestapo are marching on the first amendment
again.
By John Sullivan, August 21, 2011 at 11:21 am Link to this comment
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I thought they used the police to harrass protesters only in Syria. Boy, am I grateful for our brave men and women in uniform who are fighting overseas for our “freedoms.” Buck Ofama—and his Republican friends, too.
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