Environmental Protestors Kept from RNC is Constitutionally Wrong
As someone with a daily environmental blog, I’m more than interested in Sarah Palin. Environmentalists have known about Palin for quite some time. And it’s those environmental groups that were targeted first for attempting to protest at the RNC.
There is much footage out there of the emptied EarthJustice bus of protestors left by the side of the road by the Minneapolis police. It appears to be overkill and ridiculous with at least 10 police cars surrounding the bus as if it carried felons escaping prison. What a display of force to stop protestors for the environment. From many accounts, the Republicans had plants inside of these types of groups to report what, when, and how they would be going about protesting at the convention in order to stop them from reaching their destination. http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/31/raids/.
This is frightening for the U.S.A. More news has shown up on video on websites of outright abuse. One article stated that 3 homes where protestors were staying were entered by police SWAT teams. Citizens banned for peacefully assembling in protest, especially before they do so is a direct hit on our constitutional rights and perpetrated by our own federal government. SWAT teams? Just a tad bit of overkill. Obama’s bigger convention didn’t utilize SWAT teams or infiltrators. When I saw a GOP rep head butt, yes, head butt an ABC reporter, well, how juvenile, not to mention mean.
It’s not right. Without protestors, many citizens are being denied, albeit short term, the facts of Palin’s horrible environmental decisions and her ruthless record of predator management, which is the aerial killing of wolves. Besides that, the state of Alaska under Palin sued the USFWS to keep the polar bear off the endangered list stating that their numbers have increased and they are a stable population.
I’ve already given the definition of endangered in another blog. The meaning should resonate with Palin since she has a BA in journalism and knows well that it means: “exposed to danger.” If anything could be more exposed to danger it would be the wildlife of Alaska under Palin and her buddies (SCI) Safari Club International who believe it’s their right to hunt any animal, endangered or not. SCI still pushes to allow hunting polar bears.
Palin stands strong against lobbyists, maybe, but only the lobbyists of her choice, because on the other hand she sought millions in earmarks for Wasilla, Alaska. Environmentalists have known that she’s bad news for our environmental future with a script right out of the mouths of big oil—drill more.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/09/01/Palin_making_use_of_hated_earmarks/UPI-34181220275668/.
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=6c588f46-da6e-4816-a4be-789a4836b478
September 10th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
DRILL, DRILL, DRILL any where and every where!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Let’s do it CLEANLY.
Also lets find new sources of energy, solar, wind, etc. Lets build more
nuclear plants as it’s the cheapest and safest….lets conserve as much as we can…lets do it all!!!!!!!
Oil is the fuel that runs capitalisium and WE NEED IT!!!!!!!!! Lets get as
much of ours as we can and then some.
September 11th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Oil doesn’t run capitalism, it runs our country instead, like a king that is not at all concerned with the citizenry, or the air they breath, or water they drink. And oil is filthy so clean production seeks to mislead. There are many times the oil spills than the ones that we hear about. You don’t really think they alert us of all of them do you?
As far as relief at the pumps via drilling immediately, read the govt. report:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/servicerpt/anwr/results.html. We wouldn’t see that oil until 2018. In ten years we could be off of oil completely. I just did a blog about that. The oil comes from plentiful algae of all places.
You’re uninformed. There is more opportunity, and more work offered in a changing society not one that is bogged down in the past with FOSSIL fuel. It’s an old way of thinking that seeks to keep us in the past and under control by big oil. Stay a slave to it.