MAINE DOT BECOMES THE GESTAPO - CONFISCATES ANTI WIND SIGNS IN MOOSEHEAD LAKE REGION
Maine DOT employees removed close to 200 yard signs protesting the Sun Edison and Everpower wind projects proposed for the Moosehead region. These signs, which read SAVE MOOSEHEAD SAY NO TO WIND were removed from private properties, including business properties. These signs were put up by members and supporters of the Moosehead Region Futures Committee. When MDOT employees were asked who ordered this, they said "Augusta". Some of the individuals removing the signs said they were personally against wind projects but were ordered to proceed. And by the way - VOTE NO ON QUESTION 1 signs placed right next to anti- wind signs were not removed - nor were some signs promoting a religious camp. Is this what America has it come to? Have our first amendment rights been taken away? Is free speech and the right to protest gone? Does the wind industry now control all of Augusta?
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Comment by Penny Gray on November 1, 2015 at 11:11am
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I guess I'll fire off an email to the DOT and ask what they know about this.
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Signs are being put back - 200 more coming this week for more coverage. Press is being notified.
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Comment by alice mckay barnett on November 1, 2015 at 10:26am
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No front page news
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PUT SIGNS UP AGAIN!!!
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Comment by Long Islander on October 31, 2015 at 9:29pm
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The following link lists some organizations which may be interested in this censorship.
http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/some-contact-informatio...
Please use.
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Make bigger signs and put them back out there. If you have a game camera, set it up to catch the perpetrator on film.
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Hire Private Investigator(s) at this stage to have a targets in Legal Prosecutions against the loss of First Amendment Rights at this stage. Lawyers are useless in this regard . They can help once the offender is targeted by adequate evidence!
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The only thing these bastards understand is direct confrontational civil disobedience and direct action!
Follow the lead of Friends of Lincoln Lakes and Earth First activists from the 2010 actions, and start the protests....It is effective.
The "Peoples Republic of Maine" and its PL-661 illegal wind law politicians and Wind Mafia from First wind et al are alive and unfortunately active , always remember that...
Get Tough Maine......!!
There are numerous contacts available on how to make civil disobedience work for the Moosehead Groups.
Being Nice will not remove the Wind Law and it impacts in Moosehead, remember that!
The cards are stacked against the affected citizens and wind targeted communities in Maine, but there are ways to be effective.
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Just talked with a couple of Board members from the Moosehead Region Futures Committee in Greenville and Rockwood. They believe that this confiscation was orchestrated by Plum Creek and/or SUNE. Plum Creek granted First Wind an easement for wind development during the final minutes of the settlement negotiations over the Plum Creek real estate development project - groups such as NRCM were very supportive of this rezoning by Plum Creek. Saving Maine has been working with the Moosehead Region Futures Committee for a few months and has provided funding for a number of activities including the signs and other public outreach activities. Tux Turkel from the PPH is visiting the area next week to meet with effected parties as part of a story he's developing about the impact of the proposed SunEdison and EverPower projects on the Moosehead region. Stay tuned next week for more on this blatant act by wind interests to deny our 1st amendment rights, drown local opposition to these projects.
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Comment by Monique Aniel Thurston on October 31, 2015 at 1:00pm
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OWNERS OF AFFECTED PROPERTIES SHOULD ALSO CALL THE MAINE STATE POLICE
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