Coal Boss: If You Take Photos, ’You’re Liable to Get Shot’
“If you’re going to start taking pictures of me, you’re liable to get shot,” the chairman of one of the country’s biggest coal mining companies, Don Blankenship of Massey Energy, told an ABC News reporter before grabbing the reporter’s camera.
The incident this week, in the parking lot of a Massey Energy office in Belfry, Ky., is just the latest chapter in the saga of Blankenship’s controversial relationship with the West Virginia Supreme Court, which is hearing appeals that could cost his company hundreds of millions of dollars.
Photographs recently emerged showing Blankenship vacationing on the French Riviera with the state Supreme Court Chief Justice
Elliott “Spike” Maynard.
There is a Mountain Justice Summer being organized to respond to this.
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wow, that's direct.
so who will be doing the shooting? that’s my question. he seems pretty confident that he can order a murder like that. facists can’t help but be themselves, eh?
Liable to get shot
I don’t mean to diss my state, but people have been shot in Kentucky for taking pictures. Reference Stranger with a Camera: http://www.appalshop.org/stranger/ .
Belfry’s in Pike County, right at the edge of the West Virginia border. Pretty deep into the mountains. Coal reigns there.
Recently when the Kentucky legislature was thinking of considering a ban on mountaintop removal mining, the coal companies mustered busloads of miners to come and protest in favor of this disastrous mining technique. Jobs, you see.
mine owners really are
like cartoon villians—but real—it’s weird.