Colorado Paper Refuses To Retract Letter Calling For Violence Against Frackers

[Bailey Guns]

Common sense apparently isn't something this guy is familiar with.

[Big E3]

He probably went to CU or Berkley where they teach that the best way to get your way in a country of laws, is break the law and use strong arm tactics. Perfectly normal reaction to something being done that’s legal and you don’t like it.

By the way, I think read the Rocky Mountain News every day, I can’t remember.

[sigmanx]

It is boulder so you can expect it to be just as liberal as Denver or any other big college town these days.

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[brutal]

This is the same guy that wants to send people with guns to take your guns?

[JohnnyDrama]

I say good on'im. As I am a fan on Edward Abbey and liked the "Monkey Wrench Gang" book, I think if more green enviroweenies put a little skin in the game (so to speak) we, as a society, would be a lot more cognizant of how we conducted out day-to-day lives. To start with, I reckon we'd be much less inclined to send such letters to a newspaper or be as flippant about violence. I also believe we'd be much more energy efficient. I'm not saying this lightly, much of my work over the last 15 years has been in spent energy extraction/development and I spent close to a year in the Williston Basin. I don't believe the enviros are correct, but I'm pretty sure things could be run a whole lot cleaner.

Flame on.

[Bailey Guns]

I say good on'im. As I am a fan on Edward Abbey and liked the "Monkey Wrench Gang" book, I think if more green enviroweenies put a little skin in the game (so to speak) we, as a society, would be a lot more cognizant of how we conducted out day-to-day lives. To start with, I reckon we'd be much less inclined to send such letters to a newspaper or be as flippant about violence. I also believe we'd be much more energy efficient. I'm not saying this lightly, much of my work over the last 15 years has been in spent energy extraction/development and I spent close to a year in the Williston Basin. I don't believe the enviros are correct, but I'm pretty sure things could be run a whole lot cleaner.

Flame on.

Not gonna flame you, but...

OK...so things "could be run a whole lot cleaner". I don't know enough about the process to really agree or disagree so I don't have a problem with that. I do have a problem with, "I say good on 'im". Because it could be done cleaner that justifies this?

If the oil and gas industry puts fracking wells in our neighborhoods, threatening our lives and our children's lives, then don't we have a moral responsibility to blow up wells and eliminate fracking and workers?

If that's the case, don't we have a moral responsibility to blow up the car that's driven by the chronic speeder thru the neighborhood that threatens our kids? Or the drug dealers...shouldn't we blow up the known drug houses? Or the guy who beats his wife and kids? Shouldn't they all be fair game to be "eliminated" and have their property destroyed?

The problem is, those are all bad analogies because the things those hypothetical people are doing are illegal. Fracking is legal, like it or not. It's not like an oil company sneaks into a "neighborhood" and does this on the sly.

My question is, when can I start to eliminate those that promote taking away our guns or otherwise restricting our Constitutional protections or just generally pissing me off with their progressive, bullshit policies? Cause I'd like to get started on that project right away.

[davsel]

The author of the letter is obviously an enviro-nutjob.
Publishing the letter as written is free speech, however editing the letter (and publishing it for that matter) adds an implied endorsement by the news organization.

"News" organizations are increasingly flirting with 18 U.S. Code § 373 - Solicitation to commit a crime of violence
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/373

(a) Whoever, with intent that another person engage in conduct constituting a felony that has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against property or against the person of another in violation of the laws of the United States, and under circumstances strongly corroborative of that intent, solicits, commands, induces, or otherwise endeavors to persuade such other person to engage in such conduct, shall be imprisoned not more than one-half the maximum term of imprisonment or (notwithstanding section 3571) fined not more than one-half of the maximum fine prescribed for the punishment of the crime solicited, or both; or if the crime solicited is punishable by life imprisonment or death, shall be imprisoned for not more than twenty years.

(b) It is an affirmative defense to a prosecution under this section that, under circumstances manifesting a voluntary and complete renunciation of his criminal intent, the defendant prevented the commission of the crime solicited. A renunciation is not “voluntary and complete” if it is motivated in whole or in part by a decision to postpone the commission of the crime until another time or to substitute another victim or another but similar objective. If the defendant raises the affirmative defense at trial, the defendant has the burden of proving the defense by a preponderance of the evidence.

(c) It is not a defense to a prosecution under this section that the person solicited could not be convicted of the crime because he lacked the state of mind required for its commission, because he was incompetent or irresponsible, or because he is immune from prosecution or is not subject to prosecution.

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"News" organizations are increasingly flirting with 18 U.S. Code § 373 - Solicitation to commit a crime of violence

I was hoping that one of the results of a Trump victory would be to curtail the leftist cultural war by enforcing existing laws of which they already run afoul. But I guess the bureaucracy which actually runs this country is heavily staffed by leftists and Trump being president makes no difference.

[roberth]

I was hoping that one of the results of a Trump victory would be to curtail the leftist cultural war by enforcing existing laws of which they already run afoul. But I guess the bureaucracy which actually runs this country is heavily staffed by leftists and Trump being president makes no difference.

I know what you mean, I guess we're going to have to be patient. Phooey!!

[ACE2GOOD]

Does he not get that blowing up a well would be far more detrimental than the actual drilling/frac process. Oh well, stupid liberal BS as usual.

first thing I thought as well. He is worried about keeping neighborhoods safe and says "blow up wells" ...cause that's better....