Filmmaker facing 45 years in prison for filming protest
BeaverFever @ Sun Oct 16, 2016 5:10 pm
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Filmmaker Arrested At Pipeline Protest Facing 45 Years In Felony Charges
“They threw the book at Deia for being a journalist.”
2 days ago
Nick Visser Reporter, The Huffington Post
Emmy-winning filmmaker Deia Schlosberg was arrested in North Dakota and charged with three felonies on Thursday.
A documentarian arrested while filming an oil pipeline protest on Tuesday has been charged with three felony conspiracy charges ― and could face decades in prison if convicted.
Deia Schlosberg, the producer of the upcoming documentary “How to Let Go of the World and Love All Things Climate Can’t Change,” was detained while filming a protest against TransCanada’s Keystone Pipeline in Walhalla, North Dakota. Activists at the event, associated with the group Climate Direct Action, shut down the pipeline, which carries oil from Canadian tar sands to the U.S, for about seven hours.
Two of the protestors, Michael Foster and Samuel Jessup, were also charged and Schlosberg’s equipment and footage from the event was confiscated. Schlosberg said shortly after being released on bond that she couldn’t comment on her arrest until she spoke to a lawyer.
She has been charged with three felonies: conspiracy to theft of property, conspiracy to theft of services and conspiracy to tampering with or damaging a public service. Together, the charges carry 45 years in maximum prison sentences.
Josh Fox, the director of the film and two others related to fossil fuels, including the Academy Award-nominated “Gasland,” said Schlosberg wasn’t participating in the protest herself but acting as filmmaker to document the event. Her arrest appears to reflect a “deliberate” targeting of reporters, he said.
“They have in my view violated the First Amendment,” Fox said, referring to the state’s Pembina County Sheriff’s Department. “It’s fucking scary, it knocks the wind of your sails, it throws you for a loop. They threw the book at Deia for being a journalist.”
Ryan Bialas, state’s attorney for Pembina County, told The Huffington Post there was no such targeting and said the event at the pipeline was “not a protest” but “a criminal action.”
“People are free to come and protest as much as they want in my county, I just ask they don’t damage any property in doing so,” Bialas said in an email. He also noted his office has offered to return Schlosberg’s equipment and footage and he has “no interest” in keeping it.
CREDIT: ROBYN BECK/GETTY IMAGES
Thousands marched against the Dakota Access Pipeline in early September. They were met with guards carrying pepper spray and using attack dogs.
The arrest is the latest in a series of high-profile criminal charges filed in North Dakota. Police arrested actress Shailene Woodley and 27 others this week for trespassing while protesting the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline.
And authorities issued an arrest warrant for criminal trespassing for Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! last month, who filmed a thousands-strong Native American-led protest in September, which was met with guards wielding pepper spray and attack dogs.
Goodman announced this week she will surrender to authorities on Monday “to fight this charge ... a clear violation of the First Amendment.”
Fox said the actions in North Dakota were “mind boggling” and he hasn’t seen “any other state behave this way.”
“Normally you get a warning,” he said, referencing other direct-action protests. “In North Dakota, you don’t. If you were trespassing, you leave and they arrest you anyway.”
He has been circulating a letter calling for the charges against Schlosberg to be dropped. Signatories include actress Daryl Hannah, musician Neil Young, activist Bill McKibben and actor Mark Ruffalo.
Bialas said he was unaware of the criminal action against both Woodley and Goodman and that his office does “not “target activists, journalists or media.”
“They threw the book at Deia for being a journalist.”
2 days ago
Nick Visser Reporter, The Huffington Post
Emmy-winning filmmaker Deia Schlosberg was arrested in North Dakota and charged with three felonies on Thursday.
A documentarian arrested while filming an oil pipeline protest on Tuesday has been charged with three felony conspiracy charges ― and could face decades in prison if convicted.
Deia Schlosberg, the producer of the upcoming documentary “How to Let Go of the World and Love All Things Climate Can’t Change,” was detained while filming a protest against TransCanada’s Keystone Pipeline in Walhalla, North Dakota. Activists at the event, associated with the group Climate Direct Action, shut down the pipeline, which carries oil from Canadian tar sands to the U.S, for about seven hours.
Two of the protestors, Michael Foster and Samuel Jessup, were also charged and Schlosberg’s equipment and footage from the event was confiscated. Schlosberg said shortly after being released on bond that she couldn’t comment on her arrest until she spoke to a lawyer.
She has been charged with three felonies: conspiracy to theft of property, conspiracy to theft of services and conspiracy to tampering with or damaging a public service. Together, the charges carry 45 years in maximum prison sentences.
Josh Fox, the director of the film and two others related to fossil fuels, including the Academy Award-nominated “Gasland,” said Schlosberg wasn’t participating in the protest herself but acting as filmmaker to document the event. Her arrest appears to reflect a “deliberate” targeting of reporters, he said.
“They have in my view violated the First Amendment,” Fox said, referring to the state’s Pembina County Sheriff’s Department. “It’s fucking scary, it knocks the wind of your sails, it throws you for a loop. They threw the book at Deia for being a journalist.”
Ryan Bialas, state’s attorney for Pembina County, told The Huffington Post there was no such targeting and said the event at the pipeline was “not a protest” but “a criminal action.”
“People are free to come and protest as much as they want in my county, I just ask they don’t damage any property in doing so,” Bialas said in an email. He also noted his office has offered to return Schlosberg’s equipment and footage and he has “no interest” in keeping it.
CREDIT: ROBYN BECK/GETTY IMAGES
Thousands marched against the Dakota Access Pipeline in early September. They were met with guards carrying pepper spray and using attack dogs.
The arrest is the latest in a series of high-profile criminal charges filed in North Dakota. Police arrested actress Shailene Woodley and 27 others this week for trespassing while protesting the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline.
And authorities issued an arrest warrant for criminal trespassing for Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! last month, who filmed a thousands-strong Native American-led protest in September, which was met with guards wielding pepper spray and attack dogs.
Goodman announced this week she will surrender to authorities on Monday “to fight this charge ... a clear violation of the First Amendment.”
Fox said the actions in North Dakota were “mind boggling” and he hasn’t seen “any other state behave this way.”
“Normally you get a warning,” he said, referencing other direct-action protests. “In North Dakota, you don’t. If you were trespassing, you leave and they arrest you anyway.”
He has been circulating a letter calling for the charges against Schlosberg to be dropped. Signatories include actress Daryl Hannah, musician Neil Young, activist Bill McKibben and actor Mark Ruffalo.
Bialas said he was unaware of the criminal action against both Woodley and Goodman and that his office does “not “target activists, journalists or media.”
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2Cdo @ Sun Oct 16, 2016 5:17 pm
Gotta admit that's just a wee bit of an extreme sentence.
ShepherdsDog @ Sun Oct 16, 2016 5:24 pm
Is Beaver arguing that the sentence should be stiffer? Fucking nazi 
IGA @ Sun Oct 16, 2016 5:33 pm
Daryl Hannah, Neal Young, Mark Ruffalo, with character references like that she will be lucky to get off with the death penalty
2Cdo @ Sun Oct 16, 2016 5:35 pm
ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:
Is Beaver arguing that the sentence should be stiffer? Fucking nazi
Thanos @ Mon Oct 17, 2016 12:52 pm
Bump. Judge rejects charges:
http://jezebel.com/judge-rejects-propos ... 1787890425
Now she can get back to the important moral imperative of keeping American oilfield workers unemployed so more Saudi tankers can pull up to American docks.
BRAH @ Mon Oct 17, 2016 1:32 pm
ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:
Is Beaver arguing that the sentence should be stiffer? Fucking nazi
N_Fiddledog @ Mon Oct 17, 2016 1:36 pm
Filmmaker facing 45 years in prison for filming protest
What a crock. No, she's not.
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She has been charged with three felonies: conspiracy to theft of property, conspiracy to theft of services and conspiracy to tampering with or damaging a public service. Together, the charges carry 45 years in maximum prison sentences.
And Thanos...Amy Goodman and Deia Schlosberg are 2 different people.
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And authorities issued an arrest warrant for criminal trespassing for Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! last month
But her charge isn't just for "filming" either.
BartSimpson @ Mon Oct 17, 2016 1:38 pm
Thanos Thanos:
Bump. Judge rejects charges:
http://jezebel.com/judge-rejects-propos ... 1787890425
Now she can get back to the important moral imperative of keeping American oilfield workers unemployed so more Saudi tankers can pull up to American docks.
http://jezebel.com/judge-rejects-propos ... 1787890425
Now she can get back to the important moral imperative of keeping American oilfield workers unemployed so more Saudi tankers can pull up to American docks.
Bitch might end up facing Federal charges if the local level lets her go without any meaningful sanction. Can't have people running around fucking with pipelines and then defending it saying they read a manual on the internet so it's all good.
andyt @ Mon Oct 17, 2016 1:50 pm
Thanos Thanos:
BeaverFever @ Tue Oct 18, 2016 3:51 pm
BartSimpson BartSimpson:
Thanos Thanos:
Bump. Judge rejects charges:
http://jezebel.com/judge-rejects-propos ... 1787890425
Now she can get back to the important moral imperative of keeping American oilfield workers unemployed so more Saudi tankers can pull up to American docks.
http://jezebel.com/judge-rejects-propos ... 1787890425
Now she can get back to the important moral imperative of keeping American oilfield workers unemployed so more Saudi tankers can pull up to American docks.
Bitch might end up facing Federal charges if the local level lets her go without any meaningful sanction. Can't have people running around fucking with pipelines and then defending it saying they read a manual on the internet so it's all good.
The "bitch" wasn't "fucking with pipelines" she was a filmmaker making a documentary about pipeline protestors and the arrest was politically motivated in order to stifle dissent and intimidate opponents.
On a separate note if you insist in referring to anyone you disagree with in such an unnecessarily vulgar and sexist way, you shouldn't have such a thin skin when people judge you accordingly. Was it really necessary to call her a bitch?
BartSimpson @ Tue Oct 18, 2016 4:35 pm
BeaverFever BeaverFever:
The "bitch" wasn't "fucking with pipelines" she was a filmmaker making a documentary about pipeline protestors and the arrest was politically motivated in order to stifle dissent and intimidate opponents.
On a separate note if you insist in referring to anyone you disagree with in such an unnecessarily vulgar and sexist way, you shouldn't have such a thin skin when people judge you accordingly. Was it really necessary to call her a bitch?
On a separate note if you insist in referring to anyone you disagree with in such an unnecessarily vulgar and sexist way, you shouldn't have such a thin skin when people judge you accordingly. Was it really necessary to call her a bitch?
And if she and her little buddies have inspired others to muck around with oil pipelines and then they cause a spill and fuck up YOUR drinking water you'll still think it's all in good fun, right?
Sorry, she was an active co-conspirator and not just a reporter who happened along when these people were carrying out an act of terrorism. Hope she likes prison.
By the way, haven't you learned by now that this whole PC 'sensitivity' thing is not in my particular set of social problems? If you want to censor yourself then feel free. Myself, I love the English language and its varied and textured nuances that permit for us to accurately describe a stupid bitch when we see one.
Thanos @ Tue Oct 18, 2016 4:40 pm
Got to drive three teenage girls to a movie the other night. The entire ride was non-stop "fuck you bitch, eat it, biyatch, FUCK. YOU. BITCH", with a delightful use of "nigga" about every third sentence from the one black kid. There's no point rowing upstream against this waterfall anymore. Could be my karmic fault anyway, for listening to all those Richard Pryor records when I was their age. Sigh. 
BartSimpson @ Tue Oct 18, 2016 4:43 pm
Thanos Thanos:
Got to drive three teenage girls to a movie the other night. The entire ride was non-stop "fuck you bitch, eat it, biyatch, FUCK. YOU. BITCH", with a delightful use of "nigga" about every third sentence from the one black kid. There's no point rowing upstream against this waterfall anymore. Could be my karmic fault anyway, for listening to all those Richard Pryor records when I was their age. Sigh.
It's okay. BF is only offended when I use the word.
2Cdo @ Tue Oct 18, 2016 4:51 pm
BartSimpson BartSimpson:
Thanos Thanos:
Got to drive three teenage girls to a movie the other night. The entire ride was non-stop "fuck you bitch, eat it, biyatch, FUCK. YOU. BITCH", with a delightful use of "nigga" about every third sentence from the one black kid. There's no point rowing upstream against this waterfall anymore. Could be my karmic fault anyway, for listening to all those Richard Pryor records when I was their age. Sigh.
It's okay. BF is only offended when I use the word against any liberal social justice warriors. He has no problem with any use of vulgarities towards conservative females
Fixed it for you.