WISCONSIN: Armed Guards - 'Bulletproof' Arizona security team raises hackles at Gogebic mine site

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The selling of Wisconsin continues. The proposed iron mine would remove mountain tops.

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'Bulletproof' Arizona security team raises hackles at Gogebic mine site
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Two members of the Wisconsin Legislature are asking Gogebic Taconite to remove masked security guards who are toting semi-automatic rifles and wearing camouflaged uniforms from the mining company’s site in the Penokee Hills forest.

Photos of the guards surfaced over the weekend on the websites of mine opponents.

Sen. Bob Jauch, D-Poplar, said Monday the guards are from Bulletproof Securities, an Arizona company that boasts a “no compromises security force.”

“I’m appalled,” Jauch said. “There is no evidence to justify their presence.”

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1. Automatic Weapons & Guards in Camo: Welcome to Mining Country, Wis. by Mary Annette Pember

Automatic Weapons & Guards in Camo: Welcome to Mining Country, Wis.
Mary Annette Pember
July 09, 2013 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/07/09/automatic-weapons-guards-camo-welcome-mining-country-wis-150342

Rob Ganson didn’t realize he was living in a war zone. On July 6, he was making his usual Saturday walk to one of the Gogegic Taconite drilling sites in the Penokee Hills. He hikes up there each week to photograph and document activities by the mining company, which has eight drilling sites in the area.

....Ganson and his friends had walked about three-quarters of a mile from the Penokee Harvest Camp site to take a look at the most recent site where GTAC is conducting exploratory drilling. “We were just a group of middle-aged folks—we weren’t engaged in any activism. We just wanted to see where GTAC was drilling,” he recalls.

Walking slowly because of his emphysema, Ganson, 55, says he was surprised when he and his four friends approached the drill site and encountered a man dressed head to foot in camouflage, and carrying an assault rifle. Ganson was even more surprised when a second man suddenly appeared behind them in a similar outfit, also carrying an assault rifle. “I was kind of concerned for my wife,” he says. “I didn’t much like her walking into the midst of men carrying machine guns.”

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