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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?
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,806 posts)- 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.
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Jenoch
(7,720 posts)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.
mokawanis
(4,450 posts)Pic from the above link:
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Eddie Haskell
(1,628 posts)gopiscrap
(23,763 posts)unless we take to the streets and make life as difficult as possible for TPTB
Eddie Haskell
(1,628 posts)"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 Pequods 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/