Are you opposed to fracking? Then you might just be a terrorist

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/21/are-you-opposed-to-fracking-then-you-might-just-be-a-terrorist/



Are you opposed to fracking? Then you might just be a terrorist
By Nafeez Ahmed, The Guardian
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 16:08 EST

Over the last year, a mass of shocking evidence has emerged on the close ties between Western government spy agencies and giant energy companies, and their mutual interests in criminalising anti-fracking activists.

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Investigative journalist Steve Horn reports that TransCanada has also worked closely with American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies in attempting to criminalise US citizens opposed to the pipeline. Files obtained under freedom of information last summer showed that in training documents for the FBI and US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), TransCanada suggested that non-violent Keystone XL protestors could be deterred using criminal and anti-terror statutes:

“… the language in some of the documents is so vague that it could also ensnare journalists, researchers and academics, as well.”

According to the Earth Island Journal, official documents show that TransCanada “has established close ties with state and federal law enforcement agencies along the proposed pipeline route.” But TransCanada is only one example of “the revolving door between state law enforcement agencies and the private sector, especially in areas where fracking and pipeline construction have become big business.”

[truebrit71]

1. Good thing we live in the land of the free*

* actual freedom may vary depending upon skin color/sexual preference/location/whether you are being a 'good' American