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Though the controlled corporate media apparatus is suppressing the story, 40 tons of GMO crops were torched, prompting an FBI investigation. There has been a COMPLETE MEDIA BLACKOUT, outside of local circles has dared to mention it, perhaps because government fears that if the public learns that other people are getting fighting mad (literally), they might join in, and become an actual revolution. It was only reported locally live on KXL Radio and echoed by the Oregonian, where the ONLY web mention exists, hard to find because the headline wording is carefully avoids the most likely keywords for a search.
Heres what happened 40 Tons of GMO Sugar Beets were set ablaze in Eastern Oregon, yesterday. FORTY TONS the entire acreage of two full fields of crops IN THE GROUND were set ablaze over a THREE NIGHT PERIOD OF TIME. That means ARSON.
Evidence is that 6,500 plants were destroyed BY HAND, ONE PLANT AT A TIME. That, in turn, implies A LOT OF PEOPLE were involved: would you want to stick around once a fire was going and wait to be discovered? No, someone (many someones) probably wanted to move as quickly as possible. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT A MOVEMENT, a kind of ORGANIZED REVOLT and this is exactly the kind of retribution that many have warned was coming; when lawmakers and corporations refuse to honor the Constitution and instead engage in legalized criminal acts such as enabled by the Monsanto Protection Act.
http://politicalblindspot.com/eco-revolution-gmo-crops-torched-in-america
Just found out This is true.
http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2013/06/genetically_engineered_sugar_b.html
looks like a lot of someone's are pissed...
PDJane
(10,103 posts)annabanana
(52,791 posts)Whad'ya know. . . .
roody
(10,849 posts)starroute
(12,977 posts)I've thought at times that it might be the only recourse when the government cuts off all legal options. But then I remember how easy it was for the government to round up members of Earth First! twenty years ago, because that sort of action leaves a lot of evidence.
My best guess now is that we're likely to see more of it, that the Monsanto's and TransCanada's of this world are terrified of it -- but also that the people who do it are likely to wind up with 20-year prison terms.
It'll be interesting to see what happens next.
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)Apparently, that will have to be put on the "to do" list.
glinda
(14,807 posts)N.I.B.
(56 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)He's grumpy damn it!
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)She does not suffer fools!
Love this! Love this massive revolt!--especially because it's aimed at the right parties!
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)to adequately fund putting up security cameras on every field of GMO crops,
so as to apprehend these hooligans. hee hee.
Taverner
(55,476 posts)socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)when they equate cops busting heads with a few windows getting broken.
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)a global agriculture corporation based in Basel, Switzerland."
says it all.
GMOs are banned in Switzerland so they come over here where poisoning the populous is a-ok. Screw em.
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)NoPasaran
(17,291 posts)sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)tritsofme
(17,403 posts)Interesting...
We are clearly on the brink of revolution...The rhetoric used here is nothing short of ridiculous.
mbperrin
(7,672 posts)holding back for your own seeds next season, been done for thousands of years?
If their GMO crop cross-pollinates with yours, you have to pay them for your own crop, instead of them being guilty of trespassing on your property.
You know, when you get people in a corner, few will just curl up and die - they're liable to come right out of there.
I really am not too interested in foreign companies who farm in this country anyway.
Ztolkins
(429 posts)For people who are losing everything, and when the government does not listen?
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)marble falls
(57,270 posts)loudsue
(14,087 posts)of a battle that needs to happen to save the planet from Monsanto.
pnwmom
(108,996 posts)How could this be true?
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)In fact, the feds are the ones spreading the news and asking for help solving the crimes.
Genetically engineered sugar beets destroyed in southern Oregon
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023062715
I assume these were seed crops:
Genetically engineered sugar beets destroyed in southern Oregon
http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2013/06/genetically_engineered_sugar_b.html
By Kimberly A.C. Wilson, The Oregonian on June 20, 2013
The crop destruction took place over the course of two separate nights in early June, when an unknown individual or group destroyed about 6,500 sugar beet plants genetically engineered to stand up to the herbicide Roundup on a pair of privately-owned plots of land leased and managed by Syngenta.
The first act of what the FBI considers "economic sabotage and a violation of federal law involving damage to commercial agricultural enterprises," took place during the night of June 8, when about 1,000 sugar beet plants on one property were destroyed. Three nights later, the destruction continued on another property, where another 5,500 plants were ruined.
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I love it when they use terms like: economic sabotage. It has a much more corporatist, authoritarian ring to it.
Harmony Blue
(3,978 posts)Sad but true.
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)flvegan
(64,416 posts)You can't control fire, so don't do it.
I think this is where I'm supposed to hash tag Earth First! and the ELF but I can only extend my hypocrisy so far, lol!
love_katz
(2,584 posts)Seems like the people in our government who are beholden to nasty corporations like Monsanto forgot a few things...like someone said upthread, if you leave people backed into a corner, with no way to fight back, not everyone is going to lie down peacefully and let them trample over them.
I think that our collective welfare is more important than the destruction of property. Food is so very basic, and their are huge problems with not just the GMO food itself, but with corporate control over our food supply. This whole business is a huge issue, including foreign companies coming in, buying up local farm land, and taking over the food supply through patent laws, pollution of the ground water, etc. I have had personal experience with being sickened from exposure to Round-up when I worked on a rhododendron farm back in the early eighties.
I am sure agent Mike is listening, but I applaud people standing up for what we stand on. Planet Earth is our most basic sponsor, anyway, not the corporations.
Arctic Dave
(13,812 posts)Not going to lose sleep over this.