“I can’t give up,” he said. “They’ve already pretty much won. They can do whatever the hell they want, but I’m still alive. I’m still breathing, and so I’m going to cost them as much money as I humanly can while I’m still on this earth. Because I’m right and they’re wrong.”
the amount of industrial sabotage you can do with a drone is astounding, but nobody is willing to do it because it’s illegal and they’d get in trouble.
Well, just a reminder:
It was illegal to harbor escaped slaves and render aid to them in the early 19th century united states, and people got in trouble.
It was illegal to harbor persons of Semitic descent and render aid to them in 1930s germany, and people got in trouble.
What is legal does not define what is morally right.
This might appall some people, but someday I’m going to gain access to a drone, and subsequently the insurance premiums on various Amazon and Walmart properties would be about to experience a drastic rate hike…
What he is doing is not illegal. He just makes coal more expensive, by helping enforce enviromental legislation, by documenting violations with his drone. Given the current economic enviroment, in which coal is more expensive then natural gas and much more expensive the renewables, that is a good strategy.
This might appall some people, but someday I’m going to gain access to a drone, and subsequently the insurance premiums on various Amazon and Walmart properties would be about to experience a drastic rate hike…
The hell? There’s a stark difference between uncovering illegal activities with a camera drone and literal terrorism against retailers you dislike. You should legitimately be put in prison, which you will be, if you were to follow through on your insinuated threats.
I don’t even need to check your comment history to conclude you’d be some sort of radical leftie.
It’s obvious when your response to me critizing literal threats of a drone attack is met with you stalking my profile to post a worthless personal attack. This is about as stupid as it sounds.
You see a lot, Doctor. But can you point that high-powered perception at yourself?
The only one whose mind went to terrorism is the righty, go figure; watching "your neighbors bad" porn all day on every news outlet, and regurgitating it all over social media sites has deluded your poor little mind.
Funny, considering you idiots not only started the pointless personal attacks but you also end your comment in some absurd projection.
“Poor little mind”, mhm. Honestly, go fuck yourself, moron. No one needs you or your kind here. This was a civil discussion until you showed up, thinking I’d take abuse from an idiot like you.
If I worked at a warehouse and saw a drone flying around, 100% my first thought would be oh that’s corporate trying to find shrink. And if anyone told me it was actually a journalist trying to find dirt in the company, my next thought would be they’re lying and it’s really corporate trying to find shrink.
Well, if this wasn’t a threat of terrorism, then do enlighten me what the user meant by getting his hands on a drone to bring up insurance premiums for retailers. I understood it to be arson.
I’m guessing since he uses the drone to see violations with the coal mines that he will use the drone to record violations with retailers which could raise the insurance in some way
Ah, well, that would make sense. I guess it was the weird wording starting with the “this might appall some people” that let me to believe they had something more sinister in mind.
There are hundreds of things that could impact their insurance rates. Really anything that could result in a workers comp claim, on film, would make their insurer pause.
It hasn’t helped Walk’s popularity that he’s seen as transgressive in other ways – he’s an atheist in a deeply religious area and he despises Donald Trump, who won West Virginia by a thumping margin in the 2020 election, to the extent he turned up to a rally of the former president with a “Fuck Trump” sign, prompting a volley of threats.
His iconoclastic campaign against coal has, he said, resulted in his car brakes being cut and even him being shot at.
At one point, as we drove through one slate-grey mining site, Walk saw some company employees ahead and did a swift U-turn, while offering advice on how to shelter behind a car wheel during a gunfight as we retreated. He previously used a four-wheel ATV to conduct the drone work and has sped away from security guards he feared could kill him and dump his body in one of the holding pits containing syrupy mining slurry.
I have no end for the amount of my respect for him.
What an wonderful and inspiring human, I rarely see uplifting stuff like this so I enjoyed reading about him. I hope he can achieve all his dreams and see the end of coal in his lifetime.
I’d be shocked if that was all just by individual people. You just know those coal companies would kill to protect their bottom lines, and you know they’d expect to face virtually no consequences. They certainly wouldn’t face systemic consequences, the best our legal system can do even when it’s coerced into doing the right thing is prosecute a few “bad eggs”.
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