{"id":183057,"date":"2015-03-25T19:18:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T00:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/03\/25\/live-in-obedient-fear-citizen-48\/"},"modified":"2015-03-25T19:18:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T00:18:00","slug":"live-in-obedient-fear-citizen-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/03\/25\/live-in-obedient-fear-citizen-48\/","title":{"rendered":"Live in Obedient Fear, Citizen!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/world\/anti-oil-sands-activists-in-the-us-are-getting-visits-from-the-fbi\/article22851903\/\">acting as the private security firm for TransCanada<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Unexpected visitors have been dropping in on anti-oil activists in the United States \u2014 knocking on doors, calling, texting, contacting family members.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The visitors are federal agents.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Opponents of Canadian oil say they\u2019ve been contacted by FBI investigators in several states following their involvement in protests that delayed northbound shipments of equipment to Canada\u2019s oilsands.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">A lawyer working with the protesters says he\u2019s personally aware of a dozen people having been contacted in the northwestern U.S. and says the actual number is probably higher.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Larry Hildes says it\u2019s been happening the last few months in Washington State, Oregon and Idaho. He says one person got a visit at work, after having already refused to answer questions.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThey appear to be interested in actions around the tarsands and the Keystone XL pipeline,\u201d Hildes said in an interview.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cIt\u2019s always the same line: \u2018We\u2019re not doing criminal investigations, you\u2019re not accused of any crime. But we\u2019re trying to learn more about the movement.\u201c\u2019<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">He\u2019s advised activists not to talk \u2014 and they mostly haven\u2019t. That lack of communication has made it a little complicated to figure out what, exactly, the FBI is looking for.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The bureau hasn\u2019t offered too many clues.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Is anti-oilsands activity an actual focus of the FBI investigation, or is it merely incidental? The bureau won\u2019t say.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">What it will say is that it only investigates potential crimes, not political movements.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThe FBI has the authority to conduct an investigation when it has reasonable grounds to believe that an individual has engaged in criminal activity or is planning to do so,\u201d said FBI spokeswoman Ayn Dietrich.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThis authority is based on the illegal activity, not on the individual\u2019s political views.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">But activists say oil sands opposition appears to be the common thread among people being contacted. Police have been in touch with people from different groups, who in some cases don\u2019t agree on much, but one thing they share is mutual participation in the so-called megaload protests.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why is the FBI acting as TransCanada&#8217;s Pinkertons?<\/p>\n<p>At what level is this being authorized?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the acting as the private security firm for TransCanada: Unexpected visitors have been dropping in on anti-oil activists in the United States \u2014 knocking on doors, calling, texting, contacting family members. The visitors are federal agents. Opponents of Canadian oil say they\u2019ve been contacted by FBI investigators in several states following their &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,970,1135,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-corruption","category-energy","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183057"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}