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2017-11-27 Home Front: WoT

Eco-Terrorist Explains Why She Tried To Kill An Oil Pipeline ‐ Her Defense Is Disturbing

[Daily Caller] An eco-terrorist responsible for sabotaging an oil pipeline in North Dakota suggested Saturday that shutting down the multi-billion dollar line was necessary to defuse the ticking time bomb of man-made global warming.

Temporarily taking offline a pair of pipelines in Minnesota earlier this year was part of an effort to save the world from fossil fuels, Seattle activist and poet Emily Johnston wrote in an editorial for The Guardian. A judge is allowing her to use a "necessity defense" to justify her actions last year against the Enbridge pipeline.

"As recent months have made clear, climate change is not only an imminent threat; it is an existing catastrophe. It’s going to get worse, and tar sands oil‐the dirtiest oil on Earth‐is one of the reasons," Johnston wrote, referring to a spate of hurricanes that clobbered the U.S. earlier this summer.

Clearwater County District Judge Robert Tiffany gave Johnston ‐ and other activists from anti-oil group, Climate Direct Action ‐ the option of arguing the fear of cataclysmic climate change justifies any action taken to stymie oil production and transport. The judge’s decision allows the group to produce various climate experts to testify about the upcoming climate Armageddon.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-11-27 00:52|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 Man-made GW is an unproven concept. Even if it were proven, she would not have the right to harm others by trying to kill the pipeline. The judge is using the bench for a soapbox about GW instead of following the law.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-11-27 01:41|| 2017-11-27 01:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Ranks right up there with the privileged Affluenza Defense.

Posted by Glase Untervehr3547 2017-11-27 01:42|| 2017-11-27 01:42|| Front Page Top

#3 In the Middle Ages in Europe pogroms were launched against Jews because they were accused of poisoning wells and spreading the Black Death... The Judge seems to be endorsing the same form of lawless hysteria.

Posted by magpie 2017-11-27 02:29|| 2017-11-27 02:29|| Front Page Top

#4 I can reverse that by stating her actions are causing the imminent harm to the workers of the pipeline, the wildlife around it, the poor and fixed income people once prices rise, and my poor mutt that will have to go back to tainted dog food from China.

Makes a good case for rendering this twit carbon neutral and using her for something useful like plant food.

Posted by DarthVader 2017-11-27 09:22|| 2017-11-27 09:22|| Front Page Top

#5 all those climate activists who will testify will be flying to MSP airport then driving 200 miles to Hubbard County, some will be in limos

should make for some good footage

Posted by lord garth 2017-11-27 10:14|| 2017-11-27 10:14|| Front Page Top

#6 and when an abortion provider building is attacked they have the perfect case law.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-11-27 10:28|| 2017-11-27 10:28|| Front Page Top

#7 "Our conclusion is that the system is broken and it is up to us as individuals to take peaceful action and remedy it, and this we did, out of necessity," Montoya said...
Craig Stevens, a spokesman for the Grow America's Infrastructure Now Coalition, a pro-pipeline group which includes business and labor interests, called the two women's statements a "stunning admission of guilt." "Despite their repeated claims, in no way are the use of gasoline, motor oil, fire and welding torches to destroy construction equipment or pierce pipelines acts of 'peaceful' protest," Stevens said. "These are violent criminals hiding beneath the veneer of young women. They are lucky they were not seriously injured or killed.
Reznicek and Montoya are active in the Des Moines Catholic Worker community, which was founded in 1976 in response to the Gospel call for compassionate action as summarized by the Sermon on the Mount. The Catholic Worker community has four houses in Des Moines that focus on a nonviolent lifestyle while serving the poor.

Leftist logic defies me. Is a tax exempt nonprofit funding domestic terrorism?

Posted by Jeremiah Gleretle3997 2017-11-27 11:08|| 2017-11-27 11:08|| Front Page Top

#8 They are lucky and we're unlucky they were not seriously injured or killed.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-11-27 11:28|| 2017-11-27 11:28|| Front Page Top

#9 RICO. Take everything they have. Take everything the church groups that support them have. Take everything Tom Steyer and Al Gore have while they're at it.

They're the people who have been telling us that Property Is Theft for the last fifty years, make them live up to it.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2017-11-27 12:53|| 2017-11-27 12:53|| Front Page Top

#10 So, she trashes the environment in order to save it? I'd give her three years just for the misapplication of logic.

Posted by Raj 2017-11-27 13:44|| 2017-11-27 13:44|| Front Page Top

#11 Des Moines Catholic Worker community

Inside of each meek Catholic Worker,
A barking mad, well-read berserker,
Malicious and moody,
Unmissed by his Judy,
Who'd feed you entire to a shirker.

Possibly exaggerating just a hair.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2017-11-27 22:43|| 2017-11-27 22:43|| Front Page Top

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