[Vision2020] Megaload Monitors Arrested Saturday for Obstruction

Mon Aug 29 08:19:23 PDT 2011

" . . . shall have a safety restraint properly fastened about his body at all times WHEN THE VEHICLE IS IN MOTION." [my emphasis]

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 8:13, "Shirley Ringo" <ringoshirl at moscow.com> wrote:

> 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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