Rubbery rule of law
The SLTribune's Patty Henetz points out that celebrated/hated monkey wrencher Tim DeChristopher is not the first Utahn to be civilly disobedient on the environment. But he may be the first to suffer the consequences.Six years before DeChristopher ran up the bidding on an oil and gas lease auction with no intention of paying, Kane County Commissioner Mark Habbeshaw and Sheriff Lamont Smith pulled up four-foot-high closure signs the BLM posted on trails in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. They dramatically dumped the signs at the monument's headquarters.
Rep. Mike Noel of Kanab praised them for "protecting our rights of access." U.S. Interior chief Pat Shea called the Kane County rebels "the village-idiot choir." (Shea is now one of DeChristopher's defense attorneys.)
In the end, the feds never prosecuted the Kane County vandals. DeChristopher will be arraigned this week on two felonies.
DeChristopher's supporters will gather Tuesday at Salt Lake City's Library Square at 10:45 a.m. to march with him to the Federal Courthouse for his arraignment.
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I know some people in Kane County and they are all nice folks; so how do they keep electing these right-wing hypocrites like Habbeshaw and Mike Noel? The same question could be asked of all of Utah; they aren't all bigots and racists and mouth-breathers, so why do they keep electing Buttars/Noel/Dayton/Ruzicka...oh wait, she wasn't elected, she just makes the elected reps bow down before her majesty.
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