[Vision2020] Police arrest 16 as protesters delay tar-sands megaload near John Day

[Scott Dredge]

It's been some time since I've seen new clips of pepper spray being applied directly, but you're description is pretty close Dave.  They essentially take cotton swabs and brush it right on the close eyelids of the protesters.  I'm sure it's damn painful. :(

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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 22:20:08 -0800
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Police arrest 16 as protesters	delay	tar-sands	megaload near John Day

Well, it may “usually” be pressure points, but perhaps you aren’t aware that tasers have been used on handcuffed Keystone XL Blockade supporters?  In east Texas about a year ago, IIRC.  I’ve forgotten the details, but if you Google Shannon Bebe and/or Benjamin Franklin, I’m sure you can read the horrific details. Of course, when “we” as a nation are willing to accept torture by our government, is it really any surprise that “culture” has trickled down to local LE?  It’s really too bad “trickle down economics” is pure BS but “trickle down torture” seems to be spreading like wildfire in some parts of the country. Disgusting.   SaundraMoscow, ID Never doubt that a small group of thoughtfully committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.~ Margaret Mead    From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com] On Behalf Of Dave
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Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Police arrest 16 as protesters delay tar-sands megaload near John Day No, usually it is the use of pressure points. Police have also been known to apply pepper spray directly to the eye with a q-tip.

Some lock-downs are structured so that even if the protester wants to, they physically can't unlock. Apparently they didn't go to that extreme. 

DaveOn 12/17/2013 3:00 PM, Paul Rumelhart wrote:If I had to guess, it would be: using a taser.

Paul  From: Rosemary Huskey <donaldrose at cpcinternet.com>
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Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Police arrest 16 as protesters delay tar-sands megaload near John Day I hate to ask but what exactly is “pain compliance”?  Rose Huskey From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com] On Behalf Of Moscow Cares
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Subject: [Vision2020] Police arrest 16 as protesters delay tar-sands megaload near John Day With thanks to Borg Hendrickson for providing this article. Courtesy of the Oregonian at: 
 ---------------------------------Police arrest 16 as protesters delay tar-sands megaload near John DayPolice arrested 16 protesters late Monday as activists locked themselves to disabled vehicles in front of a tar-sands megaload near John Day, delaying the shipment’s passage. “Climate justice groups stopped the movement of a controversial shipment of equipment bound for the Alberta tar sands,” said a news release issued at 1:49 a.m. Tuesday by Portland Rising Tide, an activists’ network. “Police responded and arrested 16 at the two blockade sites, using 'pain compliance' to extract them.”The blockade is the second pulled off by activists slowing the 901,000-pound rig as it heads for Alberta via Oregon and Idaho. The load was first blocked Dec. 1, when two men locked themselves to the truck and had to be extracted by police, which took so long the shipment canceled its nightly move.This time the megaload was able to proceed, said Holly Zander, a spokeswoman for Omega Morgan, the trucking company."After the protesters were removed from the road we proceeded with travel and are about 30 miles east of John Day now," Zander said in a Tuesday morning email. She expects the rig and its convoy to travel about 35 miles Tuesday night.Protesters demonstrated at Omega Morgan’s Hillsboro headquarters last week. They say extraction of petroleum products from Alberta’s tar sands is environmentally destructive, hastening global climate change.Zander says Omega Morgan is just doing its job hauling giant cargo, a routine project for the company that moved the Sellwood Bridge platform and helped replace the Skagit River Bridge.The megaload is hauling an evaporator manufactured in Portland to the Athabasca oil fields north of Edmonton. Omega Morgan says the shipment is the first of three for General Electric Co., which owns the equipment.--------------------Protesters Rod Lyman and Kathy Leathers, both of Bellingham, Wash., hold up signs on Highway 395 on Dec. 2 as the megaload slowly passes by in Hermiston, Oregon.
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