Will Gore Get Arrested?

[babylonsister]

Will Gore Get Arrested?

Posted by Mark Hertsgaard at 12:00 PM on October 25, 2007.

Mark Hertsgaard: Al Gore is apparently considering an invitation from a prominent environmental group to engage in civil disobedience against the construction of new coal-fired power plants.

This post, written by Mark Hertsgaard, originally appeared on Mark Hertsgaard.com

Fresh from winning the Nobel peace prize for his climate change evangelism, Al Gore is apparently considering an invitation from a prominent environmental group to engage in civil disobedience against the construction of new coal-fired power plants.

Rainforest Action Network issued the invitation to the former U.S. vice president, according to RAN executive director Michael Brune. The San Francisco-based group has a twenty year history of protesting against destructive logging practices and other causes of climate change; it specializes in targeting corporations as much as governments.

"We came across a quote from Gore in an interview with columnist Nicholas Kristoff back in August, saying he didn't understand, quote, 'why there aren't rings of young people blocking bulldozers and preventing them constructing new coal-fired power plants,'" said Brune. "We thought, 'Great idea!' That's the kind of activism we do at RAN. So we decided to invite Gore to join us."

Gore's office confirmed that the former vice president had received RAN's invitation and was considering it, though no decision has been made. "He has not accepted any of their offers to date," Kalee Kreider, a spokeswoman for Gore, said of the RAN offer. Kreider did not deny that this phrasing leaves open the possibility of Gore saying yes down the road.

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[The Wielding Truth]

1. Could he run for office with a record?

[babylonsister]

2. * did. nt

[Milo_Bloom]

3. Bush did...

[DesertRat]

5. and Cheney did too...

[Uncle Joe]

7. I thought Cheney avoided arrest by not allowing the deputy to see him

until the day after he shot his attorney friend in the face, thereby eliminating any chance of checking him for being drunk? Was there another incident?

[DesertRat]

10. I'm talking about his DUI arrests. n/t

[Devlzown]

4. Would Secret Service have to go to jail with him?

If he has Secret Service protection for life, and they have to be with him at all times, wouldn't they have to follow Gore to jail?

[RufusEarl]

6. Gore, does not have SS service is my understanding.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

8. Vice presidents don't get protection after they're out of office

Also, former presidents elected after January 1, 1997 only get it for 10 years now.

[babylonsister]

9. I 'love' that fun fact! nt

[TheWraith]

17. Bush is going to have a rude awakening in 2019, then.

He might actually have to find out what average people think of him.

[superkia]

11. Maybe they will just taze him like average citizens.

[junkiebrewster]

12. or...

pepper spray on a q-tip.

[Kurovski]

13. Hippie-strength, ala Chief Wiggum?

[RestoreGore]

14. Amazing no one said they would stand with him if he did

Considering all the support he has here.

[Kurovski]

15. We just assumed that you'd be by his side.

Who else would he need but you? :hug:

[TheWraith]

16. I doubt that anyone would have the sand to arrest a Nobel Prize winning ex-VP.

The bad PR alone would be catastrophic.

[spanone]

18. rendition?