Who Hires 3%ers & Other Gunhumpers? The Same Oil Companies Lying About Climate, Political Donations
Remember Threepers? We ran a story over the summer that they had “‘established a prominent presence’ at a major natural gas processing plant in North Dakota deemed ‘critical infrastructure’ by the Department of Homeland Security.” The reporting from Desmog’s Justin Nobel indicated that Three Percenters were working at ONEOK’s Lonesome Creek gas processing plant, as well as at other oil and gas facilities across the country. “This is what we do: oil and gas,” a well-known Three Percenter told Nobel.
It’s an important quote to keep in mind this week, as the oil industry struggles with the question of whether to stop funding extremist Republican politicians who fueled last week’s violent attack on the Capitol. While many large corporations and tech giants have pledged to permanently pull donations from members of Congress who voted against certifying the presidential election results, no oil company has done the same. Several oil companies have temporarily suspended donations to all politicians. But none have gone as far as to explicitly distance themselves financially from those who provoked the riots.
And why would they? Right-wing extremists are part of the fossil fuel industry’s base. They are essential to the industry’s political power and rapidly declining workforce. They’re the most fervent supporters of fossil fuels, and the loudest deniers of climate change. Like the police officers who let the mob rush the Capitol, oil companies are hesitant to directly attack their own. Either that, or they’re afraid their own will attack back. The idea that Threepers are widely employed at oil and gas facilities is “deeply alarming” to former DHS senior domestic terrorism analyst Daryl Johnson. Back in July, he told Nobel he worried Threepers working at ONEOK’s plant and others could be plotting to “take over or attack when ‘shit hits the fan:’”
When they are working, they are also thinking about what else they would need to do to bring the plant to its knees. They may follow the order of their commander or act on a lone wolf instinct, and their allegiance lies not with their employer but with the militia, although they might think they are doing something righteous and good for the country.
Johnson is the same DHS analyst who caused a media uproar in 2008 for authoring an intelligence report warning of potential increase in right-wing extremist violence. Republicans not only did not take this warning seriously, but were wildly offended by it. Johnson had his unit disbanded. Johnson’s prediction, of course, eventually wound up coming true. And now, as the shit undeniably hits the fan, it appears we’re taking his new warning just as seriously as the first.
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https://heated.world/p/big-oils-extremist-hypocrisy
