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Activist disrupts BLM auction by running up bids
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This is really the final stain on the Bush Administration. This really shows poor on Utah's leaders as well who didn't step up and fight this more.
Let's all hope that Obama's team can step in and reverse these leases and keep these sensitive areas as quite sacred places. There is not very many places people in this world can go for pure peace, these lands are some of them.
Bravo to this guy and the protestors. Hopefully we can look past our greed as a nation and look to a better way. Our governments destroyed our rails in the 1920's and 1920's in one of the biggest and most covered up scandals in the last century.
Don't support big oil. Support clean renewable energy resources that don't require lands to be torn up and skies to be polluted.
Walk, Bike, Train, and finally if you have to... take your car on occasion. Does anyone enjoy the gray cloud over SLC?
You reap what you sow.
You pull this on the state of Utah at the last minute, unethically, and people will respond unethically.
This act is a lot of things, but cowardly it is not. And I fail to see what basis would exist for civil actions by other bidders. Finally, the article says the guy is a student, so you're right he probably hasn't ever worked an honest day in his life. Still, it sounds like you are angry and just lashing out in any way you can. Might want to consider thinking it through a little.
How DARE that Bush (who never met a payroll and wrecked every business he was ever involved in) despoil America's natural beauty on his way out the door?
Glad SOMEBODY found a way to fight back!
My guess is that after Obama becomes President, the next scheduled sale in February won't occur, and those parcels areound Arches and Canyonlands that he "won" won't be sold at all.
Bravo Tim. You have my admiration.
it was not a last minute rush by the Bush administration, but part of the mandated quarterly sale by the BLM, merely business as usual.
1. That land has been mined and re-mined for decades. Helloooo ignoramuses! It's been the object of extractve activities like uranium prospecting, seismic testing, and yes previous drilling.
2. Yet the enviros call that land pristine and of wilderness quality. What does that tell you? It tells you that the prior extractive activities did not destroy the land, bur rather it was all reclaimed. They shoot themselves in the foot, their own claims of pristineness proves that the land can be developed and later reclaimed. Hellooo ignoramuses!
3. The land is not so "near" as the enviro liars claim. Drilling activities on the land in question would only be visible as a remote small item in the far distance, and then only from the most extreme corners of the Park, where virtually no visitor ventures. Not from Delicate Arch, nor from any other main attraction of the Park. Again, Helloooo ignoramuses.
Ignorance is something to behold. Oh the blochheaded ignorance of it all! Mankind is sooo ignorant!
He needs to be in real world 101, and I happen to know that the economic professors there are Marxist, so maybe they should contribute to that fine.
Yes, evidence. The thing intelligent people consider before they decide whether someone is guilty or not.
News media: print the truth from now on! Stop putting sugar on stink!
Saddle up you horse! Pull the plug on you computer and cook with wood the turkey you shot in the woods!
Join the 21st century, please!
Back to the SUWA, you have to play hardball..
This guy committed fraud and hope they hold him to the 1.7 million. Obviously he must not be a very good economics student!
There are several things I would love to see him sued for by every other winning bidder and the losing bidders on the ones he won. For staters, I think it will be pretty easy to show fraud and intentional interference with business relations. Damages on fraud would be the extra amount they had to pay because of his bidding and punitive damages for purposefully causing problems.
I really hope he is also tried criminally.
This is the equivalent of a religious fundamentalist disrputing gay union ceremonies. How many of you would think THAT was a good, courageous, and laudable act.
The bottom line is that civil disruption based on principles is ALWAYS based on beliefs. The only question is wheter nor not you agree with the beliefs. Maybe I'll find the next gay union ceremony I can... I hope you will all come to my defense.
Hmmm, let's see who got more attention on the problem: Tim DeChristopher's "effective" stopping of some sales, or Steven Bloch's boring protest outside. I think Bloch is wrong. DeChristopher was MUCH more effective in actually DOING something instead of TALKING about it.
Thank you Tim for showing us all how to be "effective".
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Kristine
I do not agree with the lease option offered up by the president but I also do not like SUWA and all the other environmentalists either. Remember these folks would have us on bicycles and walking. They would not stop until we were living in eco-friendly hovels and dug outs (oopps sorry digging a hole would disturb the sage brush...my bad) at the expense of human life and quality of life around the world.
No drop the hammer on him, toss out the environmentalists...all of them... and start over with people who can actually find balance and be willing sacrifice. By the way has anyone actually looked at the lands being leased? Where is the pristine?
The Medal of Honor is given to a serviceman or woman who, at severe risk of his own life, under enemey fire, commits acts of heroism above and beyond the 'call of duty' saving the lives of his fellow servicemen.
You MAY call this man a hero to your cause if you want, but don't mar the mark of true courage and bravery that obviously you know little, if anything about.
I get tired of people pretending their personal little pet causes are somehow equivalent to the risk/committment/honor our service men and women stand up for everyday of their lives.
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