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Tree Blockade Standing Strong Despite Repression (Day 13)

October 6, 2012

October 6, 2012

UPDATE 9:45PM – BREAKING VIDEO: “Police Officers” Use Ladder to Climb into Tree Blockade 

Two “police officers” climbed a timber scaffolding on a ladder to “chat” with our tree blockaders. When asked for their badge numbers they refused to identify themselves. There are three possible scenarios here:

A. Police officers are illegally refusing to identify themselves and provide badge numbers.

B. Civilians are illegally impersonating a police officer and need to be arrested.
C. They are police officers outside of their jurisdiction operating in Wood County.

These two unidentified individuals were using a ladder stolen from a nearby landowners private property to climb up the timber scaffolding.

Call the Wood County Sheriff Department now and demand some action be taken against these two unidentified individuals: 903-763-2201

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UPDATE 6:00PM – Police Have Stolen a Ladder From a Nearby Landowners Private Property

UPDATE 5:00PM – TransCanada Has Removed All Heavy Machinery From the Site

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Despite police repression and TransCanada’s heavy surveillance the tree blockade has held strong for 13 days. Here’s a video compilation of some of the last few weeks.

Permanent link to this article: http://www.tarsandsblockade.org/day13/

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  1. Crash

    October 7, 2012 at 12:11 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment

    Way to go kids. You are amazing.

  2. Mr Arthur E Coates

    October 7, 2012 at 4:01 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment

    Two unidentified individuals were using a ladder stolen from a nearby landowners private property to climb up the timber scaffolding into the Tree Blockade.
    When asked for their badge numbers they refused to identify themselves. There are two possible scenarios here:
    A. Police officers are illegally refusing to identify themselves and provide badge numbers.
    B. Civilians are illegally impersonating police officers and need to be arrested.
    Action needs to be taken against these two unidentified individuals.

  3. Connie Nelson

    October 7, 2012 at 4:12 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment

    thanks to all of you for trying to save our Earth, water & air…

  4. Anon

    October 7, 2012 at 4:18 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment

    keep up the good fight

  5. Lainie

    October 7, 2012 at 4:19 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment

    Wait…aren’t ladders criminal instruments? :P

  6. Dave Kisor

    October 7, 2012 at 5:05 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment

    American citizens are being terrorized by a multinational corporation and American public servants are aidind and abetting the enemy. Those two were probably Keystone employee or hired by them. When asked about this, the feral gooberment sat on its hands, picked its nose andsent back the most meaningless drivel from the White House, I thanked them for their meaningless drivel and concluded they are no longer our gooberment and are probably Keystone investors. Its high
    time the UN intervened.

  7. Madge

    October 7, 2012 at 5:22 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment

    The police are saying they are unaware of the problem. The police say the protestors are on Trans-Canada’s land and that the protestors should call the sheriff. They took my name and number and said a supervisor would call me on Tuesday.

    1. Beverly

      October 7, 2012 at 1:23 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment

      how did TransCanada get eminent domain on this property? I just watched Gasland for the 1st time.

      1. Beverly

        October 7, 2012 at 1:25 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment

        we don’t need more oil or gas we need wind turbines and solar. http://qdsciences.com

  8. Fannie Bates

    October 7, 2012 at 1:14 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment

    There was a group from Oklahoma planning to come to show their support for the tree blockade this weekend and they decided not to come because it seems that the local law enforcement is taking its orders from TransCanada, a Canadian company, and they were afraid they would be pepper sprayed and tazed like these nonviolent American patriots have been.

  9. anonymous

    October 7, 2012 at 3:48 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment

    The landowners do not want you causing more legal problems for them. Your continued presence, despite your self-congratulatory proclamations of solidarity with landowners, is doing nothing but causing a legal headache that landowners will have to contend with long after you return to wherever you came from. Please leave the landowners to grieve on their own.

    1. Kym Arnold

      October 7, 2012 at 4:28 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment

      To Anonymous, the land owners are workng with the blockaders and appreciative of thier assistance ! Pay attention and you would know this. We as a people do not just roll over and grieve when something is stolen from us, maybe you would, but most of us do not. Someone walks up to you and says I wll be taking your car not and you just go along with it, my God there is something very wrong with you ! Not to mention the compete devistation to our environment, NASA has said, if the pipeline goes in it will be game over for ur environment, guess you are alright with that as well. I’m sorry for you. These people are hero’s !!

  10. autumn

    October 7, 2012 at 6:17 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment

    People, please look at the pics of the swath of devastation that has already been wrought. Ask yourself, would you want your home and land to be ripped out from under you by a proclamation? And have no one who gives a rat’s ass? What would our world be like if no one spoke up about injustices and atrocities?? I commend the time and effort that these few “Davids” are taking to challenge “Goliath”. What is being done is an OUTRAGE the consequences of which are outrageously sad, and all for profit and greed — destroying land, water and life for greed and profit. These companies could easily take a portion of their profits and a portion of the expense of building this and create a world of alternative energy. The know-how and technology is there — HERE AND NOW!!

  11. Amy Christiansen

    October 7, 2012 at 9:11 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment

    I called the sherif department 4 xs now. She is very polite states things like, “i was unaware of that…” “i will pass your message on.” I demanded that the Sherif Department start protecting the protesters and that the sherifs stop working for the corporation.

  12. Amy Christiansen

    October 7, 2012 at 9:12 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment

    Hang in there you guys! Word is spreading. You are my hero’s!

  13. Jane Sorensen

    October 8, 2012 at 7:52 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment

    I live in Ontario Canada, and I’m so against the tar sands and the pipe line. You guys are amazing. Keep up the good fight.

  14. Dawn Cooke

    October 13, 2012 at 10:45 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment

    Thank you so much. I am so thrilled to see that real people do care enough to stand up for the masses, who are blind to the fact that large corporations do not care about their welfare. Many people are too content to realize that the world as they know it, can’t last much longer. You are true heroes.

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