Homeland Security says the Pope is a terrorist

[Scuba]

http://www.texassharon.com/2013/11/15/fracking-executive-confirms-homeland-security-thinks-fracktivists-are-terrorists/


Fracking executive confirms: Homeland Security thinks fracktivists are terrorists

According to comments made by Mark Grawe, Chief Operating Officer at EagleRidge Energy (EagleRidge), Denton, Texas residents who object to his company’s reckless operations way too close to their homes, schools and parks are terrorists worthy of inclusion on the Department of Homeland Security’s watch list. Wednesday night Grawe attended a Home Owners Association meeting in Mansfield where EagleRidge has drilled and fracked several wells very close to a neighborhood, schools and playgrounds.

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Grawe went on to tell the Mansfield residents that some people in Denton are “preaching” civil disobedience and that they are on “the watch list” but not his watch list. When another resident asked whose watch list, Grawe said “Homeland Security.”

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At the center of the controversy is an e-mail written by the director of the state Homeland Security Office that seemed to take sides in the Marcellus Shale gas-drilling debate.

“We want to continue providing this support to the Marcellus Shale Formation natural gas stakeholders while not feeding those groups fomenting dissent against those same companies,” James F. Powers Jr. wrote in a Sept. 5 e-mail to Virginia Cody, an antidrilling activist in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Philly.com, Rendell’s office releases content of all bulletins on planned protests..."

[hobbit709]

1. Well, I think the 21st century Gestapo is a terrorist organization.

[KG]

2. the reality is, in the eyes of out gov't we are all suspect. hence the need for the NSA.

[sendero]

3. Wow..

... the fascism, it burns. A few short years ago I used to laugh at and dismiss those who were claiming we would soon be living in a fascist country.

Well, I was spectacularly wrong. It's here, and I wonder if it is already too late to stop it.

[LuvNewcastle]

6. I'm wondering the same thing. n/t

[IrishAyes]

4. Revolting!

And I mean that in every sense of the word.

[LuvNewcastle]

5. If somebody in power doesn't like what you do or is irritated by it,

you get called a terrorist. These people practicing nonviolent civil disobedience are terrorists now. If MLK, Jr. was alive today, he'd likely be on a DHS terrorist list. Disgusting.

[eomer]

7. MLK Jr was on the list, they just call it something different now.

This isn't really new - it's been true at least since the early sixties that there was a state/private apparatus that carries on a war against American citizens on behalf of the corporations and their wealthy owners. They used to label people as Communists, now it's Terrorists but there's no real difference - what it really means is anyone opposed to their fascist system.

[dickthegrouch]

8. People getting in the way of profit

What could be more terrorizing than that?
The 1% are terrified that their entitlements might be assaulted by their victims.

If I were a 1%er, I'd much rather see the 99% content than becoming more and more discontent every day. The only way the 1% can keep us content is to feed us lies in the 'news' and continue to desensitize us to what's really going on.

They will lose out in the end along with vast swaths of more victims.