BP Now Asking Lousiana Police To Pull Over Activists?

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This is what happened last week in Houma, Louisiana when Drew Wheelan from the American Birding Association was shooting an amateur video across from the BP/Deepwater Horizon response command building, according to a Mother Jones blog post by Mac McClelland.

Don't take Mother Jones' word for it, though, or mine. Watch the video, which is a kind of a caught-on-camera Lindsey Lohan-type revelatory moment.

Wheelan was standing on public property across from the BP building when a state police officer tried to "strongly suggest" that Wheelan should stop filming "because BP doesn't want people filming." The officer is off-camera but clearly heard.

Despite Wheelan reminding the officer that BP doesn't control what people do if they're not on company property, the policeman repeats his warning and does a warrant check on Wheelan. When the policeman makes his strong suggestion to stop the camera because of BP's shyness, then asks if that makes sense, Wheelan says, "It doesn't really at all."

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The Mother Jones tale goes on to say that the same officer later stopped Wheelan when the birder was driving away, and had a BP security man with him. The private cop "interrogated Wheelan for 20 minutes" and "confiscated his Audubon volunteer badge." Those wild bird radicals....

The strange, 48 Hours duo let Wheelan go but tailed him for 20 miles.

Maybe they just should have tagged his leg.

Is BP putting extra money in the response fund to pay for Louisiana state police moonlighting for the company?

BP may be nervous, but so's the rest of the country. Let's at least pretend there's a public/private responsibility divide here.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/bronstein/detail?entry_id=66303

video at link

... stating, "There's nothing to see. Go home and watch TV and eat your pizza."

:mad:

BELIEVABLE

:wow: :wow:

:woohoo:

I was going to go back to the original Mother Jones blog and post it here but then thought it was news worthy that the SF Gate picked up Mother Jones' story.

Hearsay is hearsay.

As far as I am aware, harassment is not part of any officers job.

is another good example, just one more of many. Americans are asleep at the wheel, as usual.

dancing to BP's orders and doing BP's dirtywork.

Of course, in Houma, LA, the trip there may be much shorter.

citizens to Bp..a foreign oil corp!

from another Gulf resident who is fed up!

Where the fuck is our government protectig our rights???????

Oh yeah..golf anyone??