[Vision2020] Megaload Monitors Arrested Saturday for Obstruction

[Tom Hansen]

The Idaho State Police may be onto something here, V-peeps.

If ANY of you know, or even suspect, anyone who may have sat in their vehicle . . . while parked . . . NOT wearing their seat belts . . . contact local authorities IMMEDIATELY . . . Before this becomes a criminal epidemic.

At first these offenders will hide behind the excuse, "But, officer, we were just parked here.". The next thing you hear about them is they are strapped in a gurney . . . with IVs in their arms . . . praying for a call from the governor.

Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
 
"The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change and the Realist adjusts his sails."

- Unknown


On Aug 29, 2011, at 7:35, "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:

> Courtesy of today's (August 29, 2011) Moscow-Pullman Daily News.
> 
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> 
> Megaload monitors arrested Saturday for obstruction outside Coeur d'Alene
> 
> Wild Idaho Rising Tide community organizer, fellow opposition member
> refused to give ID to state trooper
> 
> Two protesters of the Imperial Oil/ExxonMobil megaload that began its trip
> from Lewiston late Thursday were arrested outside Coeur d'Alene on U.S.
> Highway 95 while monitoring the shipment's progress early Saturday
> morning.
> 
> Helen Yost said she and another woman had been part of a group that was
> monitoring the load early Saturday when they were arrested by an Idaho
> State Police trooper.
> 
> They were later charged with obstruction and failure to wear seatbelts.
> 
> Yost is community organizer for Wild Idaho Rising Tide, the environmental
> action group that has been leading the fight against Imperial
> Oil/ExxonMobil's plans to move oil refinery equipment through Idaho on its
> way to the Kearl Oil Sands Project in Alberta, Canada,
> 
> As the shipment made one of its scheduled stops, Yost said the SUV she was
> a passenger in pulled over to the side of the road ahead of the shipment
> to wait to get back behind it.
> 
> An ISP vehicle parked in front of them on the side of the road, Yost said,
> and a trooper approached them. He told them they were not wearing their
> seatbelts and asked for their identification. Yost said she told the
> trooper their seatbelts were off because they were parked at the time and
> refused to give the trooper her license as she was a passenger, while the
> other woman, who goes by Cici, did not have identification to give.
> 
> Yost and Cici were arrested and placed in separate ISP vehicles, Yost
> said, and taken to the Kootenai County Jail.
> 
> Yost said there had been talk of a protest in Coeur d'Alene that never
> picked up momentum.
> 
> The driver of the SUV, Sharon Cousins of Viola, ended monitoring of the
> shipment and went to support the two women at the jail.
> 
> "Nobody continued monitoring at that point that we know of," said Cici.
> 
> Yost said while they spent about 18 hours in jail, supporters came up with
> funds for their bonds, which were set at $300 each.
> 
> "It was an attempt to intimidate people who are here to monitor these
> loads," Yost said of the arrests. "They didn't have any reason to arrest
> us and bring us to jail like they did."
> 
> Cici said they were not read their Miranda rights or allowed to make a
> phone call until they had been incarcerated for about 12 hours at the
> jail, and she only gave her information to police when she was told she
> could be held for an indefinite length of time.
> 
> "Interestingly, they referred to us at the jail as the Highway 95
> protesters," she said.
> 
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> 
> Not wearing seat belts?  The horrors!!
> 
> Book 'em, Dano!
> 
> Obstruction?!?!?  WHAT OBSTRUCTION?
> 
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
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