[Vision2020] Megaload Monitors Arrested Saturday for Obstruction

[Shirley Ringo]

Relevant part of Idaho code:

49-673. Safety restraint use. (1) Except as provided in section 49-672, 
Idaho Code, and subsection (2) of this section, each occupant of a motor 
vehicle which has a gross vehicle weight of not more than eight thousand 
(8,000) pounds, and which was manufactured with safety restraints in 
compliance with federal motor vehicle safety standard no. 208, shall have a 
safety restraint properly fastened about his body at all times when the 
vehicle is in motion.

(2)  The provisions of this section shall not apply to:



5)  Enforcement of this section by law enforcement officers may be 
accomplished only as a secondary action when the operator of the motor 
vehicle has been detained for a suspected violation of another law.

Shirley

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
To: "Moscow Vision 2020" <Vision2020 at moscow.com>
Cc: "Jane Kauzlarich" <indigo3239 at msn.com>; "Kathy Judson" 
<ponysnpups at gmail.com>; "Borg Hendrickson" <chicory at wildblue.net>; "Friends 
of the Clearwater" <foc at friendsoftheclearwater.org>; "Fritz Knorr" 
<fritzknorr at gmail.com>; "Jeanne McHale" <jeannemchale at hotmail.com>; 
"Fiddlin' Big Al Chidester" <alchidester at juno.com>; "Brett Haverstick" 
<bhaverstick at yahoo.com>; "Marilyn Beckett" <marilynbeckett at gmail.com>; "Lin 
Laughy" <lin at wildblue.net>; "Lois Blackburn" <LoisB at q.com>; "Friends of the 
Palouse Ranger District" <fprd09 at gmail.com>; "Wild Idaho Rising Tide" 
<wild.idaho.rising.tide at gmail.com>; "Helen Yost" 
<helen.yost at vandals.uidaho.edu>; "Dinah Zeiger" <dzeiger at uidaho.edu>; "Sally 
Perrine" <sperrine at potlatch.com>
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 8:52 AM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Megaload Monitors Arrested Saturday for 
Obstruction


> The Idaho State Police may be onto something here, V-peeps.
>
> If ANY of you know, or even suspect, anyone who may have sat in their 
> vehicle . . . while parked . . . NOT wearing their seat belts . . . 
> contact local authorities IMMEDIATELY . . . Before this becomes a criminal 
> epidemic.
>
> At first these offenders will hide behind the excuse, "But, officer, we 
> were just parked here.". The next thing you hear about them is they are 
> strapped in a gurney . . . with IVs in their arms . . . praying for a call 
> from the governor.
>
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
> "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change 
> and the Realist adjusts his sails."
>
> - Unknown
>
>
> On Aug 29, 2011, at 7:35, "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
>
>> Courtesy of today's (August 29, 2011) Moscow-Pullman Daily News.
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Megaload monitors arrested Saturday for obstruction outside Coeur d'Alene
>>
>> Wild Idaho Rising Tide community organizer, fellow opposition member
>> refused to give ID to state trooper
>>
>> Two protesters of the Imperial Oil/ExxonMobil megaload that began its 
>> trip
>> from Lewiston late Thursday were arrested outside Coeur d'Alene on U.S.
>> Highway 95 while monitoring the shipment's progress early Saturday
>> morning.
>>
>> Helen Yost said she and another woman had been part of a group that was
>> monitoring the load early Saturday when they were arrested by an Idaho
>> State Police trooper.
>>
>> They were later charged with obstruction and failure to wear seatbelts.
>>
>> Yost is community organizer for Wild Idaho Rising Tide, the environmental
>> action group that has been leading the fight against Imperial
>> Oil/ExxonMobil's plans to move oil refinery equipment through Idaho on 
>> its
>> way to the Kearl Oil Sands Project in Alberta, Canada,
>>
>> As the shipment made one of its scheduled stops, Yost said the SUV she 
>> was
>> a passenger in pulled over to the side of the road ahead of the shipment
>> to wait to get back behind it.
>>
>> An ISP vehicle parked in front of them on the side of the road, Yost 
>> said,
>> and a trooper approached them. He told them they were not wearing their
>> seatbelts and asked for their identification. Yost said she told the
>> trooper their seatbelts were off because they were parked at the time and
>> refused to give the trooper her license as she was a passenger, while the
>> other woman, who goes by Cici, did not have identification to give.
>>
>> Yost and Cici were arrested and placed in separate ISP vehicles, Yost
>> said, and taken to the Kootenai County Jail.
>>
>> Yost said there had been talk of a protest in Coeur d'Alene that never
>> picked up momentum.
>>
>> The driver of the SUV, Sharon Cousins of Viola, ended monitoring of the
>> shipment and went to support the two women at the jail.
>>
>> "Nobody continued monitoring at that point that we know of," said Cici.
>>
>> Yost said while they spent about 18 hours in jail, supporters came up 
>> with
>> funds for their bonds, which were set at $300 each.
>>
>> "It was an attempt to intimidate people who are here to monitor these
>> loads," Yost said of the arrests. "They didn't have any reason to arrest
>> us and bring us to jail like they did."
>>
>> Cici said they were not read their Miranda rights or allowed to make a
>> phone call until they had been incarcerated for about 12 hours at the
>> jail, and she only gave her information to police when she was told she
>> could be held for an indefinite length of time.
>>
>> "Interestingly, they referred to us at the jail as the Highway 95
>> protesters," she said.
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Not wearing seat belts?  The horrors!!
>>
>> Book 'em, Dano!
>>
>> Obstruction?!?!?  WHAT OBSTRUCTION?
>>
>> Seeya round town, Moscow.
>>
>> Tom Hansen
>> Moscow, Idaho
>>
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