by Rebecca Simons
Tone deaf “Wrong Door” anti-fracking activist group East Boulder County United (EBCU) teamed up with the Boulder County Protectors (BCP) for a staged “Die-in” at the Boulder County Commissioners (BCC) meeting earlier this week. If you haven’t heard of a “Die-in” before, as strange is it seems – this is actually a common protest tactic used by “Keep It in the Ground”groups.
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Many of the protesters donned their “anti-fracking” hazmat suits, a wardrobe repeat from the infamous “Wrong Door” protest, while others held grave markers while sprawled out all across the floor of the BCC hearing room. The “faux Elise Jones” who made her debut at the “Wrong Door” protest in September, made an encore appearance as the opening act before the anti-fracking activists put on their “Die-in” performance inside of the BCC hearing space.
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Following the “Die-in” protest, the anti-fracking groups highlighted some of the more grotesque details of their Tuesday night theatrics in a press release:
“In order to visually illustrate the lethal nature of fracking and to emphasize the critical nature of the immediate fracking crisis, community members staged a ‘die-in’ form of protest. People simulated the deaths caused by fracking pollution and oil/gas explosions by lying on the hearing room floor with cardboard tombstones. The tombstones were painted with anti-fracking messages including: R.I.P. Open Space, Fracking Killed Me, Died so Oil + Gas Execs Could Get Rich, R.I.P. Clean Air, COGCC Killed Me, R.I.P. Clean Water, Here Lies Polluted Open Space, Fracking Kills, Greedy Frackers Killed Me, etc.”
Source: East Boulder County United Facebook Page
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Later, EBCU used an image of the protesters lying on the ground of the BCC meeting, holding up grave markers, to promote and solicit donations to their efforts with the caption:
Source: East Boulder County United Facebook Page
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I’ll wager each and every protester drove to this in an air-conditioned automobile straight from their air-conditioned/heated home.
If they didn’t stop at the mall first and Starbucks.(air-conditioned, of course.)
Hippocrates.
Well actually temperatures through out the Intermountain West have been running 10 or more degrees F below normal for the last few weeks. Nonetheless, in fossil fuel heated cars no doubt.
Same stupidity. Different decade.
I saw this same lame crap at University of Wisconsin – Madison, back in the mid 80s.
Anti-nuclear, anti-men, anti-oil, anti-yadda yadda yadda…..
There are frightening parallels between the violent or passionate demonstrations of today and those of Germany in the 1920s and 1930s and of the anarchists in the early 1900s. There is too much hate and anger in the world. I pray we do not need another world war to dampen emotions.
Many of the demonstrating groups have good intentions. It is past time for the schools and Universities to teach the students to argue their cases with logic and to pursue their objectives through the democratic process.
I watched the film clips of recent protest encounters and all I could hear is repetition of slogans.
It is all emotion and no logic. How can we turn that around?
They couldn’t logically support their positions, so they dismissed logic as oppressive and patriarchal. In the same vein, democracy is working when their platform is being pushed and failing when saner people have the temerity to not vote for it.
Equally stupid and just as wrong, we have this ‘gem’ from our Community Activist In Chief:
“We can’t just drill our way to lower gas prices!”
https://youtu.be/Z96ZiaQbwqw
This was/is not a spontaneous, genuine, or grass-roots organization or operation. It was/is a creation of, was/is directed by, and was/is funded by others for the specific purposes of disruption and inflated promotion of an agenda. Follow the money, and choke it off – and/or out-spend it.
These idiots all need professional psychiatric help.
More likely their “therapy” finished what their “education” had started.
The anti-fracking campaign is fact-free, like the Salem witch trials.
If the authorities started arresting, jailing and fining those who disrupt meetings, then maybe there would be fewer meetings disrupted.
Hope they make the news so everyone can see what idiots they are.
They’re the antifra.
I believe this tactic started with the anti-gun loons who actually have the benefit of some bodies they can point to as the “casualties” they’re mimicking. For the enviro-loons, it doesn’t even make any sense.
Come on guys, put the names of some actual victims on your tombstones.
Given the death rate the gun “loons have a point. The constitution gave the right to own a muzzle loading single shot weapon not an automatic rifle. Only the clever legal teams employed by the gun companies has managed to stop that being spelled out in law. The gun loons could not put names on the tombstone as no tombstone would be big enough.
So many people die annually from gunfire in the US that the death toll between 1968 and 2011 eclipses all wars ever fought by the country. I am surprised the Americans do not find this scary.
One of the more egregious constitutional arguments ever. So, by that analogy, freedom of the press is limited to what can be produced on a manually operated hand press, and distributed at the speed of horse carriages and sailing ships?
And the 4th amendment protection from unwarranted search and seizure only applies if you live in a colonial-era home with no electricity or running water?
What they don’t tell you is that 1/2 of those 33,000 firearms deaths are suicides. Does a motor vehicle cause the operator to kill someone? Does any weapon or machine that can kill cause the operator to use it for that purpose? Of course not.
To be pedantic, two thirds are suicides, and about 10% or the remainder are justifiable homicides.
“So many people die annually from gunfire in the US that the death toll between 1968 and 2011 eclipses all wars ever fought by the country. I am surprised the Americans do not find this scary.”
A figure which pales into insignificance compared to the number killed in road accidents, of course…
Oh how people forget. Mortal man doomed to die, with a maximum span of 120 years. Trauma has always been a major cause of death. As a I recall it from a paper that I presented as a personal communication at a grand rounds about 35 years ago, traumatic deaths have been 100,000 or more per year in the USA since the turn of the century. The turn of the 19th to 20th century. Now think of the population increase since 1900/1901. Remember that the USA didn’t get to 200,000,000 people until around the 1980 census and 300,000,000 around the 2000 census.
Could we just give them their own planet, so that they stop attacking ours????
Not whining, just asking. My electric bill is considerably lower this month than last month. Some of the electricity is generated by a company that uses natural gas as a fuel.
I’m a happy camper. and I still don’t have any idea what those nutballs are going on about. But a good idea might be to shut off their electricity and heat/cooking gas (if they use that) for the winter just to see how long they last without it.
On the other hand, sending them to another planet sounds nice.
Just another day in the People’s Republic of Boulder.
“R.I.P. Open Space”
How odd that they would put that on one of the fake tombstones.
They are the ones who would fill every open space with wind generation, and destroy the open space.
Odd.
I think this is a better image of the ‘die in’
http://i66.tinypic.com/2sba4uc.jpg
That effort deserves a +1
We’ve been fracing and acidizing wells in Boulder Co Colorado for about 50+ years, no problems. The industry has, however, done an outstanding job of capturing stray hydrocarbon gases from their wells and facilities which has significantly cleaned up the air in the Boulder area. Boulder is in what geologists call the Denver-Julesburg Basin-just about the largest and cleanest gas/oil producing area in Colorado!
The problem with these ‘die ins’ is that after a while they all get up and go pack to their parents house. They never carry out there convictions.
It would be more interesting if the girls didn’t wear anything made using evil petroleum products
“Die in”, “Die out”…
…you shake it all about. You do the hokey-cokey and turn around, and that’s what it’s all about.
LOL
It’s a bit worrying that these protest groups are increasing so fast. The one thing they have in common is that they are protesting a non existent fantasy. In the old days we used to protest real injustice, but now they protest things that don’t exist except in their addled minds. Are they in fact the same individuals who turn up at every protest, no what it is, and are they in fact paid by George Soros as is rumoured?
This is just a visible first step towards complete anarchy and armed insurrection.
The worst part is that this thing is happening in many places in the same time frame.
It will continue with increased violence and eventually more than a few deaths.
Ultimately martial law will be declared first in the major cities and then in the surrounding areas.
The reasons behind all this are beyond my pay grade, but I do know evil when I see it.
Be aware and ready and god help us all.
Perhaps it is time that at these protest they were issued a notice saying that either they leave or they will be compulsorily fitted with smart meters and when wind energy failed to deliver its theoretical quota of energy they will be switched off. Also any energy company will have the right to refuse to supply them or any company they work for.
i am fed up with going cold to economise just to pay to have my view blighted by wind turbines with the excessive amount of money I pay on subsidies thanks to these morons.
Sad to see. But these are just a bunch of (dangerous)fruit cakes sponsored by the likes of Soros.
Here in this little pretend country called Scotland, we had our ‘leaders’ decide last week to ban all hydraulic fracturing , now and forever. The lunatics have the keys to the asylum over here.
Please cease your maligning of fruit cakes! Fruit cakes are far more intelligent and likable than the retrograde Luddites featured in the article above…..
Fruit cakes have an excuse for being nutty. These dolts, not so much.
LOL! Like I would give any money to those idiots!