'I'd go to jail'
The fame (or infamy, depending on your point of view) of Tim DeChristopher is spreading. The Washington Post offers an in-depth story on Utah's gutsy monkey wrencher who derailed the bidding on gas and oil drilling rights in Utah. DeChristopher told the Post:The University of Utah economics student, West Virginia native and potential owner of $1.8 million in federal drilling leases admits it took him half an hour to work up the guts to jump into the bidding.I've been an environmentalist for pretty much all my life and done all the things that you're supposed to do that are supposed to lead toward change. I've marched and held signs. I've volunteered in national parks. I've written letters and signed petitions. I've sat down with my congressman, Jim Matheson, for a long time.
Ultimately, I felt like those things were only mildly effective. And it was having a very tiny effect on a very large problem.
It came down to, if worse came to worse, I'd go to jail. And I decided, yeah, I could live with that. . . . But seeing all the disastrous effects of climate change in our future, I didn't want to have to live with that.Not everyone thinks DeChristopher is a hero, of course. BLM spokeswoman Mary Wilson says:
If we'd have put it up for a vote in the room that day, the other bidders might have put together a lynching party.They'll be delighted to learn that DeChristopher is featured on the Michael Moore website.
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Well, just for the record, we'd love to see Mary Wilson and other BLM officials fired for selling their souls, and for selling our beautiful land to those who would destroy it.
So Mr. DeChristopher is a economics major, and so someday he might have an interview at a financial institution that might go like this:
Bank: Well, your academic work seems excellent, you have a strong record of supporting community causes, and we think you wuold be a fine employee except for one thing.
Tim: What's that?
Bank: Well, it's this whole jail time thing. While we feel that you would make an excellent employee because of your ethical stands on issues, this whole jail time thing scares away some of our clients and our executives. Unfortunately, we can't hire you as a bank employee with any type of time served. You can however, work with our janitorial staff, where the standards are a litle different. but with your degree, you will be promoted quickly.
Tim: I never understood the economics of what going to jail for a cause I belived in would do the ability to get a job! Darn these evil banks!
-Curtain-
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