DU's H20 Man will begin a hunger strike on Monday to protest fracking.

**SarasotaRepub** · 01-13-2012, 02:25 PM

Fri Jan 13, 2012, 10:20 AM
WilliamPitt

DU's H20 Man will begin a hunger strike on Monday to protest fracking. This is his story.

Natural gas wells owned by Cabot Oil and Gas in Dimock, Pennsylvania, in December 2009. (Photo: Fred R. Conrad / The New York Times)

In the Clearing Stands a Boxer: One Man's Fight Against Fracking
By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed

Friday 13 January 2012

There is a natural prejudice against fasting as part of a political struggle. It is considered a vulgar interpolation in politics by the ordinary politician, though it has always been resorted to by prisoners. My fast should not be considered a political move in any sense of the term. It is obedience to the peremptory call of conscience and duty. It comes out of felt agony.

- Mahatma Gandhi, January 1948

What can the "little person" do?

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I'm not going to post the whole stupid thing, read it if you want.

**Madisonian** · 01-13-2012, 03:02 PM

How fracking er... freaking stupid.

**michaelsean** · 01-13-2012, 03:54 PM

They keep saying they are worried about his health. Isn't bad health and eventually death implied? It's not like you are doing a stunt where injury could result if things go wrong. He is going to starve himself to death if he doesn't get his way. (Theoretically) Dying is one of the worst things there is as far as health goes.

**BadCat** · 01-13-2012, 04:00 PM

No one will miss him.

**Adam Wood** · 01-13-2012, 04:30 PM

Time to update J.D. Salinger's words:

"When an attention whore meets an attention whore, comin' through the rye...."

**SarasotaRepub** · 01-13-2012, 06:08 PM

I wonder if the DUmmie hunger strike will be like Sharptons when he was in PR???

The one where Sharpton ate nothing...but chicken soup.

:D

JB · 01-13-2012, 09:16 PM

The hunger strike is stupid, always is.

However, the water up in Dimock is messed up. Everyone is pointing fingers at everyone else but the fact remains the people in that town no longer have clean water.

**Evil Anti DU Man** · 01-13-2012, 11:29 PM

I wish all liberals would go on a hunger strike.

**Teetop** · 01-14-2012, 10:18 AM

Bobby Sands lasted 66 days.....

:D

**Elspeth** · 01-16-2012, 02:01 AM

Originally Posted by JB

The hunger strike is stupid, always is.

However, the water up in Dimock is messed up. Everyone is pointing fingers at everyone else but the fact remains the people in that town no longer have clean water.

How is a DUer's hunger strike supposed to help fix things? I could see if George Clooney decided on a hunger strike. People would actually notice.