rharwell

In the end he lost the war as the oil barons did not change their behavior or were interested in negotiation. The armed response of the state and the country was rolled out to protect the corporate profits. This may get me banned or a visit from some outfit, Big Oil (like so many vampires bent on resource rape and pillage) is no longer interested in talks, conference tables, bitches and peeves, but going after the infrastructure seems a waste of time when the ones doing the crimes are the ones who should be targeted--The CEOs, stock holders, etc. They are doing the crimes so they should pay severe penalties. The ones doing the repair to blown up pipelines, derailed trains, etc are trying to make a living and should not be collateral damage. I admire this warrior and what he attempted to do but he won nothing in the end and his farm was still not habitable. In fact, the toxicity all around him may have been a factor in his death. There is no place left on the planet to get away from this insanity. This is tragic for all of us. However, I also do not believe in passive resistance. There are some places where the people have won these battles, but they went against the entire company (as well as being killed).

Big Oil has a horrible record for human rights violations, resource stealing, record spills and failing to cleanup. They seem to have developed the attitude that this is the end days, the planet is dying, people are being sickened and killed, but we need that oil and gas before time runs out. As I have stated elsewhere, for these people, it is never enough, no matter how much they have.Gaham Wilson had a cartoon in Playboy many years ago where this white hunter, with his local guide, was telling him that had he had just killed the last of the species. That cartoon has stayed fresh in my head all these years later. That is who these people are, and that is how they think. So what if 100 million people have to die for that last gallon of oil? It's worth it. And we need to get it before someone else does. They don't care about the butterflies, the bees, the birds, us humans, or the planet. The drive is to get it all no matter the cost. They don't care about their own children or the legacy they are leaving behind.

and Bill McKibben has been far more effective at battling the industry than this guy wiebo.

I read this article closely and like so much of what Hedges' writes, I found discrepancies and a lack of evidence for his claims- I find that really irritating.

Hedges is trying too hard to make this guy into some monkey wrench gang type of hero. He minimizes a pretty despicable incident: the murder of a 16 year old girl. Just the way that Hedges characterizes this event is maddening- almost as if the "sons and daughters of oil workers roaring through the compound" was a justification for murder. fuck that.

and he makes claims such as Wiebo presenting the skull of horse who purportedly died from sour gas. He presents it as fact that the horse died of such, without presenting any evidence.

then, after extolling Wiebo and writing admiringly about these saboteurs, he informs us that Wiebo turned away from violence.

Hedges has a creepy old testament quality to him that I can't get beyond.

In fact, I believe that was the point of the article.

These companies are very scary!

and pointing out the discrepancies and flaws in Hedges' fan article about weibo, is hardly lauding these corporations.

And stating the obvious doesn't contribute to finding a solution or build awareness in helping resist this deadly serious assault against us.

Cheers

that got picked up by the Whigs against James II and then George III when he gets grabby

S.J. Barnett studied all the Enlightenment's theological influences in "Idol Temples and Crafty Priests"--mostly Calvinist-based Deism and Jansenism that get picked up by Anglophile abbés and Voltaire--but even Confucius got into the mix!