The chief operating officer of Eagleridge, Inc., is operating straight out of the frack industry playbook, based on a Stratfor document leaked earlier this year which laid out the strategy to label activists as “radicals” and “opportunists.”
Texas Fracking Executive Mark Grawe Threatened To Label Residents "Terrorists"
December 10, 2013

Via Desmogblog:

Sat, 2013-12-07 07:00Guest

This is a guest post by Eric Moll, originally published on Occupy.com

Eagleridge Inc. Chief Operations Officer Mark Grawe brought an armed cop with him to a November 13 Homeowners Association meeting in Mansfield, a suburb of Fort Worth, Tex., and told residents that anyone who protested his company's gas wells — some of which are located less than 200 feet from homes, schools and playgrounds — would find themselves on Department of Homeland Security terrorist watch lists.

Though “terrorism” is understood to mean the use of violence and intimidation for p...

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