Comments on: The Front Line http://endmtr.com/2008/07/18/the-front-line/ Working to 'Write' a Wrong Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:40:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: mountainsaver http://endmtr.com/2008/07/18/the-front-line/comment-page-1/#comment-335 mountainsaver Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:09:39 +0000 http://endmtr.com/?p=276#comment-335 Larry's a warrior, and an inspiration to all. I'd lay my life on the front line with Larry, as I know many more would also. Larry’s a warrior, and an inspiration to all. I’d lay my life on the front line with Larry, as I know many more would also.

]]> By: Denny http://endmtr.com/2008/07/18/the-front-line/comment-page-1/#comment-328 Denny Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:02:45 +0000 http://endmtr.com/?p=276#comment-328 Public service in West Virginia is best served hot to the coal industry and cold to everyone else. They simply don't care if Larry's property gets destroyed but just imagine how fast I would get arrested for being thirty feet on the other side of the line <i>without</i> destroying anything. Short story here - Before Larry had his mountain celebration a few weeks ago he tried everywhere he could think of to get some kind of law enforcement presence on the mountain during the festival. Even offering $500 a day to off duty police officers. Nobody would do it. He was just trying to make sure trouble didn't arise because the friends of coal also schedule events on the mountain to counteract the Mountain Festival. Larry is not about violence and intimidation but those are the corner stones of the friends of coal. Public service officials didn't care that it was a highly volatile situation. Larry would tell me later with relief in his voice, it was the first time in the five years the festival has been occurring that no violence took place between the opposing sides. Basically he has no one to turn to over the destruction to his property. Public service in West Virginia is best served hot to the coal industry and cold to everyone else. They simply don’t care if Larry’s property gets destroyed but just imagine how fast I would get arrested for being thirty feet on the other side of the line without destroying anything.

Short story here – Before Larry had his mountain celebration a few weeks ago he tried everywhere he could think of to get some kind of law enforcement presence on the mountain during the festival. Even offering $500 a day to off duty police officers. Nobody would do it. He was just trying to make sure trouble didn’t arise because the friends of coal also schedule events on the mountain to counteract the Mountain Festival. Larry is not about violence and intimidation but those are the corner stones of the friends of coal. Public service officials didn’t care that it was a highly volatile situation.

Larry would tell me later with relief in his voice, it was the first time in the five years the festival has been occurring that no violence took place between the opposing sides.

Basically he has no one to turn to over the destruction to his property.

]]> By: Folk Face http://endmtr.com/2008/07/18/the-front-line/comment-page-1/#comment-327 Folk Face Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:00:59 +0000 http://endmtr.com/?p=276#comment-327 larry is a hero and a crusader for sure. how come he has not been able to get the authorities to do anything about this? i'm well aware of the reasons that they may be unwilling, but people are accountable for breaks in the law. how much muck has to be raked before larry can receive justice for this? larry is a hero and a crusader for sure.

how come he has not been able to get the authorities to do anything about this? i’m well aware of the reasons that they may be unwilling, but people are accountable for breaks in the law. how much muck has to be raked before larry can receive justice for this?

]]> By: bluemountainmama http://endmtr.com/2008/07/18/the-front-line/comment-page-1/#comment-326 bluemountainmama Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:59:58 +0000 http://endmtr.com/?p=276#comment-326 larry's property is indeed the frontlines. he is a personal hero of mine... i see him as david against goliath(the coal industry). and we all know the outcome of that story. hopefully it will be the case here, too. larry’s property is indeed the frontlines. he is a personal hero of mine… i see him as david against goliath(the coal industry). and we all know the outcome of that story. hopefully it will be the case here, too.

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