Another Hero, Another Injustice |
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| By: hotdog Wednesday March 28, 2012 2:12 pm | |
Tim DeChristopher, the guy who stood up to illegal auctioning of public lands by posing as one of the criminal class and stalling the looters by placing bids, is apparently suffering some kind of added personal-touch persecution.
Please offer some support in the way of calling your congressperson and help find out what kind of shenanigans are going on here.
http://www.peacefuluprising.org/peaceful-uprisings-call-to-action-20120327
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Tim DeChristopher was sentenced for being a whistleblower on an illegal fossil fuel land grab. Obama gave the fossil fuel criminals that DeChristopher exposed a pass. Now DeChristopher is put in solitary because an unidentified fossil fuel congressman wants to punish him some more. I blame Obots for this as much as the fossil fuel industries. Obama completely controls the Department of Justice which is prosecuting DeChristopher, Manning, and others.
See also http://www.peacefuluprising.org/breaking-tim-dechristopher-placed-in-isolated-confinement-20120327 and Whistleblowers – http://newprogs.org/blog/2011/11/09/whistleblowers-under-democraticrepublican-uni-party
You want a President who cares about whether or not a little guy gets the book thrown at him while the big wigs he went up against get
pats on the back,
more opportunities for public lands,
and more subsidies on top of the largest profits in the world?
UNICORN PONIES!
ABSOLUTELY PURITANICAL expectations have you!
If you think the presididn’t can actually change things by participating and doing anything except providing blabbering lip-service, you’re an idealogue.
Here, take a look at Shakira’s ass and join in some ridicule of some Breitbart followers. That’ll put your mind off this ridiculous notion of any real change.
Recommended by the way.
Too late Hotdog, you have already inspired me with hope with your call to help DeChristopher!
I do not have adequate words for this. Here is the letter for which Tim DeChristopher was placed in solitary confinement. Again, no prosecution or even investigation of those who were having the illegal auction that Tim was a whistleblower on. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tim-DeChristopher/45507651565
We have a limited number of heroes willing to put their asses on the line for what they think is right. The machine has an unlimited number of enforcers and jail cells. I guess that is why they keep doing this shit. Good of you to bring attention to this latest outrage, hotdog, and recommended, but I am so tired of being furious and not being able to vent my fury on the appropriate people.
If Congress were composed of women and men of honor, courage, and humane conviction, then consider how different things, this nation and this world would be.
My thoughts to Tim DeChrsitopher.
My disgust to the entire political class, which includes the media.
It is sometimes said that there are a few “good” people in Congress.
Rather than trying to guess who they might be … let us see who of them stand up to tyranny in ANY one of its many current guises …
Thank you, hotdog.
Recommended to the weary outrage of everyone at FDL who cares …
DW
Thanks for posting this, hotdog. We just got that in an email from Tim’s defense fund; I’d written a diary to raise money for him some time back. Don’t have money, but calls are free.
This is the sort of action that Angela Davis said got her out of prison on bail, and may have influenced the all-white jury (seriously) to find her not guilty on all counts.
Can we help him now, in this age? Let us hope, let us pray, let us send messages of encouragement to him, and messages of human decency to his captors, especially the craven, vengeful Unknown Congressman.
recommended.
see also kevin’s post from 11:30 this morning.
i’d very much like to see fdl run with this like was don for getting bradley manning out of solitary. he never deserved jail and doesn’t deserve this assault to his being.
like was DONE