Bidder 70

A while back, Tim DeChristopher from an area familiar with mountain top raping in Appalachia went to Utah to a government bid, to bid fr the rights to tear open the earth for oil or coal whatever you want, and picked up bidder paddle 70. He waved it a few times, which might have drove up the final bids on a few parcels against the Shells, BP's, Kochs and Massey's. Finally the bidding was stopped and he was declared to not have the money to pay for anything, the whole auction was declared null and void. The industry demanded the boy be killed and his arms be used to kill other environmentalist. During the investigation it was found the auction was illegal as not all the parcels offered were suppose to be offered, and there were industry finger prints on some of this. Never the less, Tim was found guilty, and jailed the instant he was found guilty. Tim got the absolute maximum; 2 years, 10K, 3 year supervised parole, the prosecutors and judge both making puffed up speeches as if they had caught public enemy #1.
Well you can decide for yourself, is he a hero, or something needing chased from the wilderness so the fossil fuel millionaires can haul the assets out of it unseen?
You can google the name and read the detail. You can watch the video below, he's a rebel rouser from the Grapes of Wrath school. You can write him at Tim DeChristopher, C/O Davis County Correctional Facility, PO Box 130, Farmington, Utah 840250-0130. I will write him one day, but at the moment I am not sure what I would say, it'll happen though. I write for amnesty international once in a while.