Keystone cops show Eleanor Fairchild big oil's power

78 year old Eleanor Fairchild was arrested on her own property last week in Texas.  The Keystone/TransCanada/tar sands pipeline is going through her farm, end of story.  She did not sell to the oil industry, or sign up for this.  She says she would have if they would have met her simple demands, she understood that construction would destroy some of the woods and some of the hay meadow, so she said if they would replant some of the trees taken out, and replant the grass in the meadow, she was going to agree.  Nope, screw you lady, we are big oil, we own congress and most the states the pipe will pass through, and we're not hiring a tractor and drill to plant $500 of grass seed for no one.

Elanor was grabbed by local cops and security details working for TransCanada when she stood in front of a earth moving machine.  A violent act, plus tresspassing.  See, TransCanada went to court to take the land of all who refused to sell.  Additionally, she may not cross the strip where the pipe is buried, isolating 80 acres of her land from access, no roads connect this section, it's lost land.  So much for property rights.  Earlier in the week a young man and woman who chained themselves to a backhoe were beaten, tazered, and maced off and on for several hours by security details and local cops.  Why?  The TransCanada guys claimed the couple had the keys hid near by and beat the shit out of them trying to get them to say where the key was.  Finally the chains were cut, they face a big fine.   

This is corporate America, this is capitalism unchecked, with the law in it's pocket.  This is for a foreign government and multi-national corporations to profit.  I am OK with imminent domain when it's for the common good, a bridge, library, fire station, but not for corporations and if corporations are people they can I impose imminent domain on the house next door?  This is fossil fuel running the world, right over a 78 year old grandmother.