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Eddie Haskell

(1,628 posts)
Mon Jul 8, 2013, 10:15 AM Jul 2013

Mercenaries in Wisconsin?

The mercenaries stand with automatic rifles, a few short miles from the Harvest Camp. They stand behind black masks, soldiers on patrol with automatic rifles, guarding the mud roads to the drill holes. They stand at attention with automatic rifles, facing the approach of people, of citizens, of ordinary folks who live there and care about the woods and water and animals and birds and fish and tadpoles and water striders and kingfishers and summer warblers. They stand with hands on their automatic rifles, waiting for something, maybe for the kids who went all civil disobedience on the drill site a month ago, adorned with their own black masks, stopping a bulldozer for a few hours, seizing a cell phone and throwing it into the bush. The medium is the message, and the message was lost. They were predictably excoriated as eco-terrorists in the press, foreshadowing, perhaps, a new level of State in the eternity of our State of Emergency.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/07/1221885/-Mercenaries-in-Northwoods-Wisconsin-Protecting-Destruction

Any Northwoods DUers know if this is true?

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Mercenaries in Wisconsin? (Original Post) Eddie Haskell Jul 2013 OP
Are they actual mercenaries The Velveteen Ocelot Jul 2013 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author Brickbat Jul 2013 #2
There is a mining Jenoch Jul 2013 #3
Pic of one of the guards mokawanis Jul 2013 #4
Pretty scary, looks like a scene from Africa or some third world movie set.. Eddie Haskell Jul 2013 #5
This is what the entire US will look like in the years ahead gopiscrap Jul 2013 #6
Mutiny is our only salvation! Eddie Haskell Jul 2013 #7
Thank you!!! gopiscrap Jul 2013 #10
Private security guards. nt hack89 Jul 2013 #8
Monsanto just bought Blackwater. reusrename Jul 2013 #9

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,806 posts)
1. Are they actual mercenaries
Mon Jul 8, 2013, 10:18 AM
Jul 2013

- that is, people hired by somebody - or self-appointed "militia" types? WI has had wannabe militia goons playing soldier out in the woods for years.

Response to Eddie Haskell (Original post)

 

Jenoch

(7,720 posts)
3. There is a mining
Mon Jul 8, 2013, 10:43 AM
Jul 2013

company drilling bore holes in the Ashland, Wisconsin area for samples. They are drilling to confirm (or not) whether there is taconite at that location.

The local Ojibwe tribe, along with others are camped near the drilling site protesting.

I am sure the armed guards are hired by the mining company. I am also sure they are not armed with automatic weapons. My question is, at what point would they fire those weapons? I sure hope it does not come to that.

gopiscrap

(23,763 posts)
6. This is what the entire US will look like in the years ahead
Mon Jul 8, 2013, 11:50 AM
Jul 2013

unless we take to the streets and make life as difficult as possible for TPTB

Eddie Haskell

(1,628 posts)
7. Mutiny is our only salvation!
Mon Jul 8, 2013, 11:56 AM
Jul 2013

"And so we plunge forward in our doomed quest to master the forces that will finally smite us. Those who see where we are going lack the fortitude to rebel. Mutiny was the only salvation for the Pequod’s crew. It is our only salvation. But moral cowardice turns us into hostages."

Chris Hedges

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/we_are_all_aboard_the_pequod_20130707/

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