Lancaster Pipeline Protesters ‘Do the Hokey Pokey’ & Get Arrested
Although the anti-fossil fuel group Lancaster Against Pipelines claims "over 1,000 people" have pledged to protest the pipeline in the county, only 26 (or 23, depending on the news source) showed up to get themselves arrested for attempting to stop the pipeline. We've previously written about the hypocritical Catholic nuns who operate a retirement home that uses fracked natural gas to heat it, yet oppose a pipeline to flow the same fracked gas under their property. The nuns, called Adorers of the Blood of Christ, have tried several strategies to derail the Williams Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline project. One of stunts they pulled, in league with the radicals from Lancaster Against Pipelines, is to stick a few wooden park benches in the middle of a corn field that they own (leased to a local farmer), and call it a “chapel”--which is why MDN dubbed them Sisters of the Corn. The sisters sued to stop the pipeline on religious grounds, claiming it violates a core religious belief in preserving Mom Earth. A judge saw through that sham and threw out the case (see Fed Judge Tosses Lancaster Nuns’ Freedom of Religion Lawsuit re ASP). So Lancaster Against Pipelines pledged to show up and attempt to block machinery when it begins construction on the sisters' property. That happened yesterday. As they always do, the antis put on a circus freak show--singing the song "Hokey Pokey" as they were arrested and removed. But it wasn't 1,000 people--it was just 26 (or 23) from the same small, core group of leftists. Everybody sing along: "Put your right wrist in...Put your left wrist in...Put both wrists in as the officer clicks the handcuffs...You do the hokey pokey...And get yourself arrested...That's what it's all about!"...
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