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

Tue Dec 17 23:59:30 PST 2013

What in the world is wrong with law enforcement officers who now are known
as thugs with badges?  Move over Bull Connor, John Day, Oregon's best and
brightest are in the spotlight now.  I did read one report that suggested
the claim of pain compliance techniques was an unsubstantiated complaint
made by the protesters. I wish there were credible sources available, I
haven't been able to find any.   I have real concerns about what will happen
when they drive into South Idaho.

Rose Huskey

From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Saundra Lund
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 10:20 
To: 'Dave'; 'Moscow Vision 2020'
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.

Saundra

Moscow, 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
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 6:14 PM
To: 'Moscow Vision 2020'
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. 

Dave

On 12/17/2013 3:00 PM, Paul Rumelhart wrote:

If I had to guess, it would be: using a taser.

Paul

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From: Rosemary Huskey  <mailto:donaldrose at cpcinternet.com>
<donaldrose at cpcinternet.com>
To: 'Moscow Cares'  <mailto:moscowcares at moscow.com>
<moscowcares at moscow.com>; 'Moscow Vision 2020'
<mailto:vision2020 at moscow.com> <vision2020 at moscow.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 2:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Police arrest 16 as protesters delay tar-sands
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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
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 10:56 AM
To: Moscow Vision 2020
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:

http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2013/12/police_arrest_16_as_pro
testers.html#incart_river

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

Police 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
<http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2010/12/the_sands_of_canada_oi
l_supply.html>  Alberta tar sands," said a news release issued at 1:49 a.m.
Tuesday by  <http://portlandrisingtide.org/> 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  <http://www.omegamorgan.com/> 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
<http://www.oregonlive.com/hillsboro/index.ssf/2013/01/omega_morgan_boosts_c
redential.html> moved the Sellwood Bridge platform and
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bVhC_MnqzE> helped replace the Skagit River
Bridge.

The megaload is hauling  <http://www.gereports.com/gathering-steam/> an
evaporator manufactured in Portland to the Athabasca oil fields north of
Edmonton. Omega Morgan says the shipment is the first of three for
<http://www.gereports.com/mixing-oil-and-water/> General Electric Co., which
owns the equipment.

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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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But first you must learn how to smile as you kill 
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