Under a new Wyoming law, journalists and documentary filmmakers could be charged under “aids or abets” for any “favorable” coverage of the group organizing the protest.
Under a new Wyoming law, could journalists or documentary filmmakers who might document any future protests be charged under “aids or abets” with any “favorable” coverage of the group protesting, like the Standing Rock Sioux? What about new laws to charge oil companies who contaminate water with “ecoterrorism?”
Source: desmogblog
By Steve Horn
On the heels of Iowa and Ohio, Wyoming has become the third state to introduce a bill criminalizing the type of activities undertaken by past oil and gas pipeline protesters.
One of the Wyoming bill’s co-sponsors even says it was inspired by the protests led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe against the Dakota Access pipeline, and a sheriff involved in policing those protests testified in support of the bill at a recent hearing. Wyoming’s bill is essentially a copy-paste version of template legislation produced by the conservative, corporate-funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
At the organization’s December meeting,
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The Machine of Progress moves on, crushing everything in its path. Oh, Man, when will you wake up from your deep sleep?
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