 papananook says: Way to go, people! A federal lawsuit over the auction remains pending. Meanwhile, DeChristopher is being hailed on the Internet as an environmentalist folk hero on blogs and Web sites. "The federal officials who took me into custody said that I cost the oil companies in the room hundreds of thousands of dollars and prevented 22,500 acres of land from being sold for fossil fuel development," DeChristopher wrote in a Dec. 20 commentary on the blog oneutah.org. "I had a very open conversation with the federal agents about my motives and values. They were friendly, respectful, and somewhat sympathetic." DeChristopher acknowledges he faces the possibility of prison time, but believes what he did was right. "If... Good to see that good 'ol spirit of resistance in this guy. This story typifies what few options there are to resist the "drill-drill-drill" fossil "bidness". The greedy people aren't giving up their gravy train easily, are they? The fact that he actually understands how civil disobedience works (you disobey the law that you believe is wrong, and then you go to prison if you get convicted, you don't whine about how you ought to get away without any consequences because you were making a statement) makes me want to send $20 to the buy-the-land/bail-him-out-of-trouble fund. And I admit, I laughed out loud when I first read the story. Go, guy!  Love it. |
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