Disguising a company picnic as a citizen’s energy rally, private security and police barred interested citizens from entering the “astroturf” event. Even though they advertised the event as a public, grassroots rally, and even had emails sent out encouraging people to attend, not even staunch supporters of the industry’s stance on climate legislation were allowed in. The only people allowed through the doors were those with petroleum company employee badges and yellow “Energy Citizen” t-shirts that were handed out amongst the employees.
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August 30th, 2009 at 4:32 am
If it was a company …
If it was a company picnic, protesters have no business being there. You claim there were emails sent out hyping this…well were they sent to company employees? in which case you have no leg to stand on for non-employees to be let in. What proof do you have, from a news source or from their website that this event was open to the general public, and which of you got emails from them asking you to attend?