R.I.P. Scout26
Apparently this is what the cool kids are doing now: shutting off valves along oil pipelines as a means of protest. They are even finding sympathetic judges. I guess we'll see how things go when they shut off the wrong valve and something explodes and hurts or kills somebody. Otherwise, you'd think an oil company could sue them for loss of income.https://www.wired.com/story/monkeywrenching-vandals-are-reinventing-climate-activism/
With any luck, they'll push hard enough that the oil companies will start installing armed security at valve locations on a 24/7 basis.Morons.
Maybe better to treat them like criminals instead of performing artists. That includes - unlike in the article - handcuffing them, then prosecuting them. It doesn't help that LE and judges are treating them like pals.
Ya know, the older I get, the more "Just shoot the SOBs" seems the reasonable course of action...
"They are even finding sympathetic judges."Come onnnnnn, President Trump ! Appoint, appoint, appoint! Change the philosophy of the judicial system from the ground up and from the top down. Go, Donald !
This is how you go from caribou using the pipeline as a heat source through the winter to survive and thrive (good), to animals suffocating in oil and contaminated water supplies (bad)
Unfortunately, Trump only gets to appoint federal judges. If these incidents of industrial sabotage (that's what I consider them to be) are not covered by some federal law, they'll have to be charged and prosecuted under state law. At the state level, many lower court judges are elected, and others are appointed by governors. My state's judges (other than probate court) are all appointed, and I don't think we have had a conservative judge here for more than forty years.
With it being critical infrastructure it wouldn’t be a big stretch for the Fed.gov to get involved. I cannot believe that there’s not a federal law being broken regarding the sabotaging of critical infrastructure like gas lines, water supplies etc.
And the leak from the pipeline sabotaged by environmental terrorist would be touted as an example of why pipelines are bad.Just declare that tampering with a pipeline that crosses state lines is an act of terrorism and ship em off to Gitmo.
Other than that, the "necessity defense" and other crap in that article make it sounds like this issue hasn't been in the public debate so they had no choice. It should all be thrown out since legislatures and Congress have debated it endlessly for decades and it has been rejected (so far).