http://www.azstarnet.com/star/today/30824S...LINGARREST.html
Activist charged in office protest
By Eric Swedlund
ARIZONA DAILY STAR
A prominent local environmental activist was arrested Friday on assault, trespassing and disorderly conduct charges stemming from a demonstration Tuesday at a home builders association news conference, police said.
Kieran Suckling, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity, is accused of pushing one Southern Arizona Home Builders Association official as he forced his way into the group's offices and pushing another as he left, according to a Tucson Police Department report compiled from interviews with SAHBA officials.
Suckling said the accusations are false.
The incident began Tuesday afternoon at a SAHBA press conference called to discuss a federal appeals court victory for the group. The decision could reverse the pygmy owl's status as an endangered species.
About 20 members of the Center for Biological Diversity and other environmental groups started a protest against the ruling just before the press conference, at 2840 N. Country Club Road. The demonstrators were dressed in owl costumes and went onto SAHBA property, the police report states.
SAHBA officials told police Suckling was the most vocal protester and that they told him to leave the property.
At one point, Suckling allegedly "pushed past" one official to sit down inside the building. "From S.A.H.B.A. standpoint, Suckling then created a disturbance during the press conference," the police report states.
SAHBA officials told police that Suckling pushed another person out of his way as he left. "Neither victim had visible injuries, but each did complain of soreness" but did not ask for medical treatment, the report states.
Suckling was booked into the Pima County jail Friday on two counts of assault, one count of second-degree criminal trespass and seven counts of disorderly conduct.
In an interview with the Arizona Daily Star after his release Saturday, Suckling said the developers' police report is a "pack of lies from the beginning to the end" and that the center plans to file a civil suit against SAHBA for filing a false report.
"They simply made it up," he said. "This is a political assault engineered by Tucson developers against people who try to protect the desert. SAHBA is so frustrated the media actually presents two sides of the story that they try to bring bogus legal charges against environmentalists to try and shut them up."
Suckling said he went to the press conference to "expose the outright lies of the home builders" regarding the court decision and when he went inside, he was pushed.
The police report did not include interviews with anybody but developers, Suckling said, and police officers arrested him immediately without asking questions when he met with them Friday.
Julie Miller said she went with Suckling to demonstrate Tuesday, did not go inside, and did not see any pushing.
Ed Taczanowsky, SAHBA's executive vice president, declined to comment Saturday.
Contact reporter Eric Swedlund at 629-9412 or swedlund@azstarnet.com.
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Full Version: CBD honcho arrested - update
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OK first of all, if I had a name like that for a GUY I'd be mad at the world too...
Secondly, OF COURSE the whole world is against him/her/it---
"Suckling said the developers' police report is a "pack of lies from the beginning to the end" and that the center plans to file a civil suit against SAHBA for filing a false report."
RIIIIIGHT!!!!
Eff the CBD!
Dressed like owls...that is some funny shiat! I can see them showing up at the BLM meeting's here in Phoenix dressed like a milkvetch, or whatever they are trying to get listed next.... >:<
What a joke!
I'd be mad at the world too...
Secondly, OF COURSE the whole world is against him/her/it---
"Suckling said the developers' police report is a "pack of lies from the beginning to the end" and that the center plans to file a civil suit against SAHBA for filing a false report."
RIIIIIGHT!!!!
Eff the CBD!
Dressed like owls...that is some funny shiat! I can see them showing up at the BLM meeting's here in Phoenix dressed like a milkvetch, or whatever they are trying to get listed next.... >:<
What a joke!
Some good reading on Suckling and his connection with Earth First before starting the CBD:
http://www.hcn.org/servlets/hcn.URLRemappe...Visionarie.html
Good bit of that sounds like the same kind of behaviour they try to pin on OHV users to get us banned from the land....I really like the story about the tequila bottle "that never came down" :roll: after Foreman launched it into the air before passing out.
Or another article where Kieran and a friend are described in their own words as taking part in "paper monkey wrenching" after too many arrests.
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Of course this kind of arrest and lies are nothing to be surprised about given this mans history:
[quote]
linguistics and the deconstruction theory that was ubiquitous in the academy.
His conversation is peppered with references to mainstream philosophers
like Aristotle and Heidegger, but edgier characters like the French-Algerian
philosopher Jacques Derrida, a coyote trickster whose work suggests that
meaning is ever-shifting and relational, clearly have influenced him.
Suckling didn't just study experience. He hurled himself into it. You could say
he transcended ethics in favor of Kierkegaardian intensity. He became an
industrial-strength shoplifter and all-around grifter, not an illogical lifestyle for
a perpetual student from a financially strapped family. Orgies, anarchism
and the occasional arrest were de rigueur in the radical environmental
movement. Suckling navigated the underworld with apparent ease. When he
came back into the mainstream, it would be to fight for the very definition of
wilderness.
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And that's from the LA Weekly no less:
http://www.prescott.edu/news/headlines/11_22_02.pdf
Reading about Suckling and Galvin hanging out with Dave Foreman himself in Catron County is also an interesting read. What a surprise that when they were hired by the FWS to study a certian owl their results showed that it should be listed as endangered....talk about letting the wolf into the henhouse:
http://www.svpvril.com/catron.html
Of course don't forget our good friend from the CBD Patterson also has an impressive arrest record and Earth First ties:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/earthfirstbi...ech/message/145
The more you read about these guys past the more CBD seems like little more than a bunch of Earth First terrorists who got bored of sitting around in jail cells and decided to use lawyers offensively instead of defensively for a change.
http://www.hcn.org/servlets/hcn.URLRemappe...Visionarie.html
Good bit of that sounds like the same kind of behaviour they try to pin on OHV users to get us banned from the land....I really like the story about the tequila bottle "that never came down" :roll: after Foreman launched it into the air before passing out.
Or another article where Kieran and a friend are described in their own words as taking part in "paper monkey wrenching" after too many arrests.
Google highlighted version
Original Article
Of course this kind of arrest and lies are nothing to be surprised about given this mans history:
[quote]
linguistics and the deconstruction theory that was ubiquitous in the academy.
His conversation is peppered with references to mainstream philosophers
like Aristotle and Heidegger, but edgier characters like the French-Algerian
philosopher Jacques Derrida, a coyote trickster whose work suggests that
meaning is ever-shifting and relational, clearly have influenced him.
Suckling didn't just study experience. He hurled himself into it. You could say
he transcended ethics in favor of Kierkegaardian intensity. He became an
industrial-strength shoplifter and all-around grifter, not an illogical lifestyle for
a perpetual student from a financially strapped family. Orgies, anarchism
and the occasional arrest were de rigueur in the radical environmental
movement. Suckling navigated the underworld with apparent ease. When he
came back into the mainstream, it would be to fight for the very definition of
wilderness.
[/quote]
And that's from the LA Weekly no less:
http://www.prescott.edu/news/headlines/11_22_02.pdf
Reading about Suckling and Galvin hanging out with Dave Foreman himself in Catron County is also an interesting read. What a surprise that when they were hired by the FWS to study a certian owl their results showed that it should be listed as endangered....talk about letting the wolf into the henhouse:
http://www.svpvril.com/catron.html
Of course don't forget our good friend from the CBD Patterson also has an impressive arrest record and Earth First ties:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/earthfirstbi...ech/message/145
The more you read about these guys past the more CBD seems like little more than a bunch of Earth First terrorists who got bored of sitting around in jail cells and decided to use lawyers offensively instead of defensively for a change.
Kill them ALL..
EFF the BLM >:<
EFF the BLM >:<
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What?
I thought Glamis dunes riders liked open space. You mean you all would rather see more land turned into strip malls and parking lots?
your hearts are so full of hate you can't recognize when another nature lover is standing up for issues that benefit us all!
You didn't read who they're demonstrating against?--the fricken Southern Arizona Home Builders Association !
get a Clue
What?
I thought Glamis dunes riders liked open space. You mean you all would rather see more land turned into strip malls and parking lots?
your hearts are so full of hate you can't recognize when another nature lover is standing up for issues that benefit us all!
You didn't read who they're demonstrating against?--the fricken Southern Arizona Home Builders Association !
get a Clue
Who is the HATER ?
I dont see anything wrong with building homes.
People gotta live somewhere.
its all about ballance.
there has to be a certain amount of
homes,
malls,
farms,
industrial areas,
protected areas,
recreation areas,
and other areas as well.
why do you hate the home builders ?
I dont see anything wrong with building homes.
People gotta live somewhere.
its all about ballance.
there has to be a certain amount of
homes,
malls,
farms,
industrial areas,
protected areas,
recreation areas,
and other areas as well.
why do you hate the home builders ?
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| Kill them ALL..
EFF the BLM >:< |
UP^^
Let me know blue when you live in a tent and use only nature to survive. Then and only then will I respect your "opinions". To raise a fist to a homebuilder when you live in a home seems pertty stupid. To Raise your fist to a builder when you shop for your cothing in malls seems pretty stupid. To raise your fist to the men who work the highways and roads you drive on seems pretty stupid. :roll: You eco-terrorists are amazing. You truely care for nothing and your so transparant anymore.. why do you think your battles are now lost? People are wise to your ways and your all going down. that is why you now resort to violence.. :roll: Looks like a pretty violent post above as well.. :roll:
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| there has to be a certain amount of homes, malls, farms, industrial areas, protected areas, recreation areas, and other areas as well. |
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| To raise a fist to a homebuilder when you live in a home seems pertty stupid. To Raise your fist to a builder when you shop for your cothing in malls seems pretty stupid |
try a search for "smart growth"..
Of course we need shelter and places to shop. But there's a way to do it that preserves needed open natural areas. I thought as a duner you appreciated open natural areas...
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| Looks like a pretty violent post above as well.. |
what about this:
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| Chummin wrote: Kill them ALL.. EFF the BLM |
Bluesky is an Internet Troll.
http://www.intwg.com/trolls.htm
Please don't feed the troll.
http://www.intwg.com/trolls.htm
| QUOTE |
| The only way to deal with trolls is to limit your reaction to reminding others not to respond to trolls.
When you try to reason with a troll, he wins. When you insult a troll, he wins. When you scream at a troll, he wins. The only thing that trolls can't handle is being ignored. |
Please don't feed the troll.
More news on Suckling the (alleged) criminal --
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breaking/8_28...03suckling.html
Environmentalist Suckling fighting misdemeanor charges
DAVID L. TEIBEL
Tucson Citizen
The executive director of the Tucson-based Center for Biological Diversity is fighting misdemeanor charges filed against him after a demonstration this month at a homebuilders association press conference.
Kieran Suckling's attorney Thursday labeled the arrest "outrageous."
Suckling, 38, was charged with seven counts of disorderly conduct, one of criminal trespassing and two of assault, according to a Tucson Police Department report obtained under a state public records request.
The charges were in connection with a demonstration Aug. 19 at a Southern Arizona Home Builders Association press conference to voice members' pleasure with a Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling regarding the cactus ferruginous pygmy owl.
The reported stated that just before the press conference began at the SAHBA office, 2840 N. Country Club Road, some 20 members of the Center for Biological Diversity came onto builders association property wearing owl costumes and protesting the ruling.
Suckling, who was not wearing an owl costume, went into the association's building to watch the press conference, said his attorney, Jeffrey Rogers.
Suckling said in a telephone interview Thursday that he created no disturbance and did not shove anyone as association members told officers.
"The protest was conducted without incident. Police were not called to the scene," Suckling said in a Center for Biological Diversity press release Thursday.
The police report, however, said the incident occurred at 3:35 p.m. Aug. 19, police were called by a builders association member and an officer arrived at 3:59 p.m.
Three days later, according to another police report, officers arranged to meet with Suckling and arrested him when they met, the report stated.
Suckling said he did not know police ever were called the day of the press conference. He added that he and the other protesters had left before an officer arrived.
Suckling said police relied solely on statements from home builders association members and it was "incredibly shoddy, negligent work by the Tucson Police Department."
In the ruling that prompted the press conference, the Ninth Circuit Court found the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service failed to adequately explain its rationale for listing the bird as endangered under the Endangered Species Act, said Jenny Neeley of Defenders of Wildlife, an intervenor in the lawsuit.
However, the court did not set the endangered species listing aside.
Home builders association members maintain that the 9th Circuit ruling did direct a lower court to order Fish & Wildlife to remove the 6-inch-tall owl from the listing.
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I sure wish they'd arrested this creep the day of the press conference... would love to see the photo spread!
Vicki
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breaking/8_28...03suckling.html
Environmentalist Suckling fighting misdemeanor charges
DAVID L. TEIBEL
Tucson Citizen
The executive director of the Tucson-based Center for Biological Diversity is fighting misdemeanor charges filed against him after a demonstration this month at a homebuilders association press conference.
Kieran Suckling's attorney Thursday labeled the arrest "outrageous."
Suckling, 38, was charged with seven counts of disorderly conduct, one of criminal trespassing and two of assault, according to a Tucson Police Department report obtained under a state public records request.
The charges were in connection with a demonstration Aug. 19 at a Southern Arizona Home Builders Association press conference to voice members' pleasure with a Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling regarding the cactus ferruginous pygmy owl.
The reported stated that just before the press conference began at the SAHBA office, 2840 N. Country Club Road, some 20 members of the Center for Biological Diversity came onto builders association property wearing owl costumes and protesting the ruling.
Suckling, who was not wearing an owl costume, went into the association's building to watch the press conference, said his attorney, Jeffrey Rogers.
Suckling said in a telephone interview Thursday that he created no disturbance and did not shove anyone as association members told officers.
"The protest was conducted without incident. Police were not called to the scene," Suckling said in a Center for Biological Diversity press release Thursday.
The police report, however, said the incident occurred at 3:35 p.m. Aug. 19, police were called by a builders association member and an officer arrived at 3:59 p.m.
Three days later, according to another police report, officers arranged to meet with Suckling and arrested him when they met, the report stated.
Suckling said he did not know police ever were called the day of the press conference. He added that he and the other protesters had left before an officer arrived.
Suckling said police relied solely on statements from home builders association members and it was "incredibly shoddy, negligent work by the Tucson Police Department."
In the ruling that prompted the press conference, the Ninth Circuit Court found the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service failed to adequately explain its rationale for listing the bird as endangered under the Endangered Species Act, said Jenny Neeley of Defenders of Wildlife, an intervenor in the lawsuit.
However, the court did not set the endangered species listing aside.
Home builders association members maintain that the 9th Circuit ruling did direct a lower court to order Fish & Wildlife to remove the 6-inch-tall owl from the listing.
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I sure wish they'd arrested this creep the day of the press conference... would love to see the photo spread!
Vicki
[quote]we need shelter and places to shop[/quote]
Glad to see that you agree pinhead! Talk about suckling!
Glad to see that you agree pinhead! Talk about suckling!
[quote]Bluesky is an Internet Troll. [/quote]
Sorry but I must feed the Troll....
[quote]get a Clue [/quote]
and
[quote]I thought as a duner you appreciated open natural areas[/quote]
Effffff-YOU!
Effffff the granola you ate for lunch.
Effffff the tofu you had for dinner...
Effffff the soy by product you put into your latte...
[quote]as a duner [/quote]
I appreciate SAND.
Anyone that has anything bad to say about my passion is Effffffed up in the head.
You wouldn't understand, it's a SAND Thing.
You come here (GD.com) and ask baiting BS Effffed up questions, and to be a a$$ pain.
Understand this:
Duners care about the dunes and sand more than you'll ever understand.
Quit Effffin with us, Dune users are the most caring people in the world.
If I needed help on my rail I could put out a request here and I'd have 5-10 dune friends over at my house tomorrow.
We (me/my wife and my friends) as a dune users care mightly about the duning life style.
You on the other hand want to end our passions and desires.
Go away Troll :devil:
Do you maybe understand why people like me would have no time for people like you and would wish bad things upon you and your offspring! (Please tell me you are so anti growth and progress that you have rendered yourself unable to breed)
Sorry to my dune friends here at GD.com, I have acted like a duner Efffer here to BS,
the end is near BS, watch out.
Effffffffff-You
Sincerly,
[img]http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/devil/saeek.gif[/img] [img]http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/devil/salookl.gif[/img] [img]http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/devil/salook2.gif[/img] [img]http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/devil/saevilw.gif[/img] [img]http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/devil/firedevil.gif[/img] [img]http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/devil/evil_lol.gif[/img] [img]http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/devil/devil2.gif[/img] [img]http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/devil/evilgrin1.gif[/img] [img]http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/devil/saevil.gif[/img] [img]http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/devil/salook.gif[/img] [img]http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/devil/diablotin.gif[/img]
[img]http://www.glamisdunes.com/photopost/data/500/21gbs.jpg[/img]
SB
Sorry but I must feed the Troll....
[quote]get a Clue [/quote]
and
[quote]I thought as a duner you appreciated open natural areas[/quote]
Effffff-YOU!
Effffff the granola you ate for lunch.
Effffff the tofu you had for dinner...
Effffff the soy by product you put into your latte...
[quote]as a duner [/quote]
I appreciate SAND.
Anyone that has anything bad to say about my passion is Effffffed up in the head.
You wouldn't understand, it's a SAND Thing.
You come here (GD.com) and ask baiting BS Effffed up questions, and to be a a$$ pain.
Understand this:
Duners care about the dunes and sand more than you'll ever understand.
Quit Effffin with us, Dune users are the most caring people in the world.
If I needed help on my rail I could put out a request here and I'd have 5-10 dune friends over at my house tomorrow.
We (me/my wife and my friends) as a dune users care mightly about the duning life style.
You on the other hand want to end our passions and desires.
Go away Troll :devil:
Do you maybe understand why people like me would have no time for people like you and would wish bad things upon you and your offspring! (Please tell me you are so anti growth and progress that you have rendered yourself unable to breed)
Sorry to my dune friends here at GD.com, I have acted like a duner Efffer here to BS,
the end is near BS, watch out.
Effffffffff-You
Sincerly,
[img]http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/devil/saeek.gif[/img] [img]http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/devil/salookl.gif[/img] [img]http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/devil/salook2.gif[/img] [img]http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/devil/saevilw.gif[/img] [img]http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/devil/firedevil.gif[/img] [img]http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/devil/evil_lol.gif[/img] [img]http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/devil/devil2.gif[/img] [img]http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/devil/evilgrin1.gif[/img] [img]http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/devil/saevil.gif[/img] [img]http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/devil/salook.gif[/img] [img]http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/devil/diablotin.gif[/img]
[img]http://www.glamisdunes.com/photopost/data/500/21gbs.jpg[/img]
SB
Don't be bashful Steve, tell us how you really feel about BS. 
I just love how Steve "sugar coats" his statements!
That was truly beautiful.
Keep it up Steve!
Keep it up Steve!
Endangered Duner!!! Now there is a species worth protecting! How about it **** sky! :cheese: :wink:
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