Teanderthals join forces with Occupy Dallas against the Keystone XL Pipeline

[wtmusic]

I guess no one wants this effin' thing.

"As Congressional Republicans and Big Oil allies allies in Washington try to resuscitate the massive Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, people on the frontlines have opened a new campaign to stop the massive $7 billion project. In Texas, landowners are locking arms to fight would-be pipeline builder TransCanada over eminent domain cases that may determine where the 1700-mile project will be built.

On Friday, protesters gathered in Paris, TX, and in Austin to voice their support for Lamar County farm manager Julia Trigg Crawford, who runs a 600-acre farms that grows corn, soybeans and wheat along the Red River near Paris, TX. More than 50 protesters traveled from nearby counties to wave flags and signs on the Lamar County courthouse steps, shouting slogans like “Don’t mess with Texas” and “This is what democracy looks like.


The raucous protest included an unusual mix of tea party supporters, independents, Democrats, Republicans and even Occupy Dallas protesters. They were all there to support Crawford’s eminent domain court fight with TransCanada, which wants to run the Keystone XL pipeline through her property."

http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/02/19/428692/protesters-to-keystone-xl-pipeline-dont-mess-with-texas/

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Politics makes for strange bedfellows!

This is a prime example of that.

[starroute]

3. Not that strange in this case

Occupiers and Tea Partiers often agree when it comes to government overreach.

Tea Partiers are generally more pro-business, but at least some of them will agree with the Occupiers when it comes to the most blatant corporate abuses -- or when NIMBYism strikes, as is the case here.

Something I read the other day -- I forget just where, but it may have been from one of the Occupiers who went to protest CPAC and then got into substantive discussions with the attendees (just before Breitbart began his freakout) -- had the occupier concluding, "We pretty much agreed on the problems, though we disagreed on the solutions."

So I expect to see more of these sorts of situations, whenever the issues are aligned just right.

[brewens]

2. Teanderthals! I love it! Too bad that goes right over the head of most of them. n/t

[madokie]

4. Yeah but we know :-)

most everything goes over their heads as it is anyway
Teanderthals, gotta remember this. Just added it to my dictionary

[AlecBGreen]

5. why all the hub-bub?

an oil pipeline along the Red River? What could possibly go wrong? Quit yer bellyachin you lazy bunch of Luddites!

[Kolesar]

6. They surveyed Crawford's ranch without her prior permission