Shameful Displays of Intimidation
Posted on October 14, 2009 | By Matthew Burns | No Comments
The following post is a coalfield resident’s reaction to the shameful conduct of coal supporters at the Nationwide 21 Permit Hearing in Charleston, WV.
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Click below to watch a video of the permit hearing.
Nationwide 21 Permit Hearing, Charleston, WV.
The events that occurred at the EPA hearing in Charleston, WV, on Tuesday, October 13, are a disgrace to humanity. I cannot believe that our Law enforcement was so disengaged from upholding the law!
My God, how did this happen? Do people not have some sort of Voice in America? Do Americans not have a constitutional right to be heard?
What would these coal thugs have done if someone had backed their Mother or Grandmother against the wall like they did that elderly lady in the video? If that poor, little woman would have had a heart attack would these coal thugs have cared? NO! Not one of them would have cared. I am totally blown away by this.
I did not attend this hearing for this very reason. I expected something like this would take place.
I’m just SO absolutely disappointed in our system. In the past, I have tried to believe that we could come to an agreement to disagree and allow the powers that be to decide what needs to be done. But this looks like something from overseas and not something that could happen in the United States of America.
This is total disregard for the Right to Free Speech. I just don’t know how to put my feelings into words for the group of people who disrupted this hearing. My husband is a retired Coal Miner and I am almost ashamed to be associated with the term. The West Virginia Coal Association is almost worse than the Taliban. And the Government has a list of ECO-terrorists? What would you call this group?
I just can’t believe what was allowed to occur in the Charleston Civic Center at an official hearing by the United States government.
No matter what side you are on, respect for human life and even if we disagree with them, people with different opinions should at least be given the chance to voice their opinions. This is what I was taught in school. But then school ain’t what she used to be.
Please watch this video and have someone make a public statement of apology to the people that just wanted their opinions to be heard…and didn’t get to speak due to the total disregard for human rights and the blatant intimidation by the coal industry and its minions.
I was under then impression that the LAW was here to protect all of us. Not just one group of people.
Totally Disgusted by our system,
Maria Lambert
Boone County, WV.
Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation’s character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to destroy them will be to admit that the latter are the only values that interest us. – Aldo Leopold
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