Environmentalists Go To Jail in DC

Update: NASA climate scientist, Dr. James Hansen, who has warned that burning the Alberta tar sands oil will be "game over" for arresting climate change was himself arrested outside the White House. He was participating in the protests against the Keystone XL pipeline. As of Monday, 521 activists have been hauled to jail for exercising the right to assemble and petition their government. The State Department's environmental impact study concluded the pipeline would have a minimal effect on the environment. But Dr. Hansen called the pipeline a "dirty needle" that if Obama chooses will prove he was just "green-washing all along, like the other well-oiled, coal-fired politicians". Walk the walk, Dr. Hansen.


{24.8.11}Protesters outside the White House urging the Chief Tool to disapprove the Keystone XL Pipeline {"Keystone"}have been arrested including the known activist Bill McKibben of 350.org Protests continue during a planned two week sit-in against the building of a pipeline from Alberta across the US midwest to transport highly corrosive bitumen for processing on the Gulf Coast. Arrested protestors were held 48 hours over the weekend by the Park Service Police to discourage the activists and possibly research their backgrounds against the "potential terrorist" database now in existence thanks to the fascist overreaction to the real terror attacks of ten years ago. Protesters made it clear to Obamatron that they expect him to block the pipeline or face a lack of enthusiasm for his re-election by green voters. Fifty-six more protesters went to jail today, and 2,000 insane people have signed up to exercise their First Admendment rights and risk jail. The Transport Workers Union and the Amalgamated Transit Union also oppose the pipeline's construction on grounds of environmental damage and human health. A leading climate expert says burning the Alberta tar sands as fuel would release enough carbon dioxide to make it "game over" for avoiding disastrous climate impacts.