BREAKING:
Bill McKibben Locked Down at Keystone XL Southern Leg Construction
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April, 2014
NACOGDOCHES—Early
this morning, the world renowned environmentalist, “terrorist
sympathizer” and founder of 350.org locked himself to a bulldozer
in Eastern Texas in a last-ditch effort to stop construction of the
Southern Leg of TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline.
Contractors
have not been on site since January, when crude oil began flowing
through the Southern segment of the KXL pipeline.
However, McKibben
was discovered by local police around 10 AM, after being notified of
two tweets he sent out to his 117,000+ followers:
“The time for
symbolic civil disobedience is passed. If we don’t stop this
pipeline now, it’s game over for the environment. #FearlessSummer”;
and, minutes later: “Oh btw I’m locked down to a bulldozer in
Nacogdoches. #Winning.”
When local media arrived and asked why he’d
chosen to take action today, he said he was very, very tired. “Last
month, three hundred and fifty activists locked down to the White
House fence to protest this pipeline. Three fifty. That’s the name
of my website.”
When
extraction teams arrived on site, one reporter asked if he was
worried about pain compliance. “I’m worried about corporate
compliance,” McKibben smirked, before taking the pepper spray like
a champ.
What an ass. Instead of "locking" oneself to the bulldozer and going to jail in a symbolic protest, monkey wrench the machines so they are giant paper weights and stay out of jail to do it again and again. McKibben is a smoke and mirrors politician and not serious about any substantive action.
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